10 Star Trek Questions That Always Confused You

10. Why Didn't Voyager Fly Home In A Straight Line?

One of the most common questions that are posed about Star Trek: Voyager, and the crew's journey home, is why didn't the ship simply fly home in a straight line? Losing all of the detours along the way, couldn't the ship have saved itself a lot of time and effort?

In the Star Trek canon, the centre of the Galaxy is a bit of an oddity. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier shows the Enterprise-A simply nipping over there and back, no problem. Despite this, the film still takes the time to say that all ships that attempt to traverse the great barrier end up destroyed.

The Enterprise promptly flies through it without so much as a bump.

However, by the time Voyager began airing, this element of Trek history had been quietly swept under the rug. The galactic centre became a far larger and far more distant destination, which scratches that from Voyager's path. Could the ship not have then set course for the Gamma Quadrant and used the Bajoran Wormhole to get home?

Now that question has yet to receive a satisfying answer, but there is most probably a case of not wanting to cross the streams going on there!