A town in the American state of Indiana, established in Voyager as the place where Captain Kathryn Janeway was born and raised.
Bloomington is a town in Indiana, on Earth's North American continent. In Star Trek it is the birthplace and childhood home of Kathryn Janeway, captain of USS Voyager.
The Voyager episode Imperfection makes the link explicit. Trying to encourage Seven of Nine, whose cortical node is failing, Janeway talks about the town and promises to take her there once the ship reaches home. Bloomington is also mentioned in 11:59, in which Henry Janeway travels there for supplies in 2000 because the shops of Portage Creek are boycotting him.
The choice honours Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor, who was born in Evansville, Indiana, and studied at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 2020 the real town unveiled a statue of Janeway as its future famous daughter, and Kate Mulgrew later visited it.