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The Hardest Star Trek Quiz You Will Ever Take
Author: Michael Deabenderfer

Question 1

Who was offered the role of Captain Christopher Pike first?

1. 1. James Arness
2. 2. Jeffery Hunter
3. 3. Lloyd Bridges
4. 4. John Vernon
5. 5. Gary Lockwood

Question 2

What reason is given for Klingons having bumpy heads in the movies and later series, and looking more or less human in the old series?

1. 1. Tradition of childhood scarring started after the era of the old series Klingons
2. 2. Klingon fleet suffered mutation after encounter with alien race at edge of galaxy
3. 3. A group of Klingons suffered from viral mutation & genetic engineering
4. 4. Toxic buildup of chemicals on the homeword of Kronos

Question 3

Who starred with Leonard Nimoy on Spocks first and last Star Trek appearances? (Not including 2009 Star Trek revamp)

1. 1. Martin Balsam
2. 2. Michael Forrest
3. 3. Sid Haig
4. 4. William Windom
5. 5. Malachi Throne

Question 4

Who was the first person to perform as a Romulan, a Klingon and a Vulcan.

1. 1. Joanne Linville
2. 2. Roger C. Carmel
3. 3. Michael Dorn
4. 4. Mark Lenard
5. 5. Robert Hansen

Question 5

What was Leonard Nimoy's father's profession?

1. 1. Used Car Dealer
2. 2. Broadway Actor
3. 3. Barber
4. 4. Police Officer
5. 5. Government Employee

Question 6

The 11-foot studio model of the USS Enterprise is on display in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. - What area of the museum is it in?

1. 1. The Museum Gift Shop
2. 2. Moving Beyond Earth Exhibit
3. 3. Explore the Universe Exhibit
4. 4. Exploring the Planets Exhibit
5. 5. Future Space Vehicles Exhibit

Question 7

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who play the odd couple Kirk and Spock, were previously acquainted with each other - how did they know each other?

1. 1. They attended the same high school
2. 2. They both worked on an episode of CSI: Miami
3. 3. They worked out at the same gym
4. 4. Zachary dated Chris's sister Katherine
5. 5. They didn't really know each other - they actually met on the set

Question 8

What kind of particle beams does a Phaser fire?

1. 1. Excimer
2. 2. Xenon Ion
3. 3. Argon
4. 4. Nadion
5. 5. Samarium

Question 9

If you were flying at Warp 4.6 on the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D. How fast would you be going?

1. 1. 721 times the speed of light / 216150362 Kilometers Per Second
2. 2. 162 times the speed of light / 48566378 Kilometers Per Second
3. 3. 8 times the speed of light / 216150362 Kilometers Per Second
4. 4. 392 times the speed of light / 117518644 Kilometers Per Second

Question 10

The planet Vulcan is supposed to be located approximately 16 light years away circling which star?

1. 1. Procyon B
2. 2. Epsilon Aurigae
3. 3. Castor
4. 4. Omicron2 Eridani A
5. 5. Struve 2398 A

Question 11

In the new Star Trek movie - how large is the Romulan ship, the Narada?

1. 1. five miles wide and 15 miles long
2. 2. 1 mile wide and 7 miles long
3. 3. 16 kilometers wide and 72 kilometers long
4. 4. 2000 feet wide and 3 miles long

Question 12

According to the new movie audio commentary J.J. Abrams had a meeting with George Lucas. During the meeting J.J asked George how can he make the film better - what did George suggest adding?

1. 1. Yoda
2. 2. Light Sabers
3. 3. Droids
4. 4. Starcraft Carriers
5. 5. Wookies on the bridge

Question 13

In Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, the crew went to San Francisco circa 1986. What aircraft carrier did they film on?

1. 1. The USS Enterprise (of course)
2. 2. The USS America
3. 3. The USS Ranger
4. 4. The USS Nimitz
5. 5. The USS Midway

Question 14

What kind of computer did Scotty use to show the configuration of Transparent Aluminum in Star Trek IV?

1. 1. Commadore 64
2. 2. IBM 5150
3. 3. Wang 2200
4. 4. Xerox Alto
5. 5. Mac Plus

Question 15

What is the hull registry for the starship Reliant in Star Trek II?

1. 1. NCC-1864
2. 2. NCC-2087
3. 3. NCC-1982
4. 4. NCC-1708
5. 5. ISS-1701

Question 16

A fictional crystalline mineral in the universe of Star Trek that is used to regulate the anti-matter-powered warp drives that allow starships to travel faster than light. Dilithium's chemical symbol is Dt, it is a member of the hypersonic series of elements and its atomic weight is?

1. 1. 214 2. 94
2. 3. 119
3. 4. 175
4. 5. 87

Question 17

How do federation starship in the Star Trek Universe keep track of shipboard time?

1. 1. Based on the correlation of star positions
2. 2. Everyone wears a TIMEX under their uniform
3. 3. The Federation Daily Newsletter always arrives promptly at 0500
4. 4. A time beacon or time-base beacon is a device used by starships to synchronize their internal chrono






Answers

SPOILER:

Question 1

Who was offered the role of Captain Christopher Pike first?

1. 1. James Arness
2. 2. Jeffery Hunter
3. 3. Lloyd Bridges (Correct Answer)
4. 4. John Vernon
5. 5. Gary Lockwood

Question 2

What reason is given for Klingons having bumpy heads in the movies and later series, and looking more or less human in the old series?

1. 1. Tradition of childhood scarring started after the era of the old series Klingons
2. 2. Klingon fleet suffered mutation after encounter with alien race at edge of galaxy
3. 3. A group of Klingons suffered from viral mutation & genetic engineering (Correct Answer)
4. 4. Toxic buildup of chemicals on the homeword of Kronos

Question 3

Who starred with Leonard Nimoy on Spocks first and last Star Trek appearances? (Not including 2009 Star Trek revamp)

1. 1. Martin Balsam
2. 2. Michael Forrest
3. 3. Sid Haig
4. 4. William Windom
5. 5. Malachi Throne (Correct Answer)

Question 4

Who was the first person to perform as a Romulan, a Klingon and a Vulcan.

1. 1. Joanne Linville
2. 2. Roger C. Carmel
3. 3. Michael Dorn
4. 4. Mark Lenard (Correct Answer)
5. 5. Robert Hansen

Question 5

What was Leonard Nimoy's father's profession?

1. 1. Used Car Dealer
2. 2. Broadway Actor
3. 3. Barber (Correct Answer)
4. 4. Police Officer
5. 5. Government Employee

Question 6

The 11-foot studio model of the USS Enterprise is on display in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. - What area of the museum is it in?

1. 1. The Museum Gift Shop (Correct Answer)
2. 2. Moving Beyond Earth Exhibit
3. 3. Explore the Universe Exhibit
4. 4. Exploring the Planets Exhibit
5. 5. Future Space Vehicles Exhibit

Question 7

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who play the odd couple Kirk and Spock, were previously acquainted with each other - how did they know each other?

1. 1. They attended the same high school
2. 2. They both worked on an episode of CSI: Miami
3. 3. They worked out at the same gym (Correct Answer)
4. 4. Zachary dated Chris's sister Katherine
5. 5. They didn't really know each other - they actually met on the set

Question 8

What kind of particle beams does a Phaser fire?

1. 1. Excimer
2. 2. Xenon Ion
3. 3. Argon
4. 4. Nadion (Correct Answer)
5. 5. Samarium

Question 9

If you were flying at Warp 4.6 on the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D. How fast would you
be going?

1. 1. 721 times the speed of light / 216150362 Kilometers Per Second
2. 2. 162 times the speed of light / 48566378 Kilometers Per Second (Correct Answer)
3. 3. 8 times the speed of light / 216150362 Kilometers Per Second
4. 4. 392 times the speed of light / 117518644 Kilometers Per Second

Question 10

The planet Vulcan is supposed to be located approximately 16 light years away
circling which star?

1. 1. Procyon B
2. 2. Epsilon Aurigae
3. 3. Castor
4. 4. Omicron2 Eridani A (Correct Answer)
5. 5. Struve 2398 A

Question 11

In the new Star Trek movie - how large is the Romulan ship, the Narada?

1. 1. five miles wide and 15 miles long (Correct Answer)
2. 2. 1 mile wide and 7 miles long
3. 3. 16 kilometers wide and 72 kilometers long
4. 4. 2000 feet wide and 3 miles long

Question 12

According to the new movie audio commentary J.J. Abrams had a meeting with George Lucas. During the meeting J.J asked George how can he make the film better - what did George suggest adding?

1. 1. Yoda
2. 2. Light Sabers (Correct Answer)
3. 3. Droids
4. 4. Starcraft Carriers
5. 5. Wookies on the bridge

Question 13

In Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, the crew went to San Francisco circa 1986. What aircraft carrier did they film on?

1. 1. The USS Enterprise (of course)
2. 2. The USS America
3. 3. The USS Ranger (Correct Answer)
4. 4. The USS Nimitz
5. 5. The USS Midway

Question 14

What kind of computer did Scotty use to show the configuration of Transparent
Aluminum in Star Trek IV?

1. 1. Commadore 64
2. 2. IBM 5150
3. 3. Wang 2200
4. 4. Xerox Alto
5. 5. Mac Plus (Correct Answer)

Question 15

What is the hull registry for the starship Reliant in Star Trek II?

1. 1. NCC-1864 (Correct Answer)
2. 2. NCC-2087
3. 3. NCC-1982
4. 4. NCC-1708
5. 5. ISS-1701

Question 16

A fictional crystalline mineral in the universe of Star Trek that is used to regulate the anti-matter-powered warp drives that allow starships to travel faster than light. Dilithium's chemical symbol is Dt, it is a member of the hypersonic series of elements and its atomic weight is?

1. 1. 214 2. 94
2. 3. 119
3. 4. 175
4. 5. 87 (Correct Answer)

Question 17

How do federation starship in the Star Trek Universe keep track of shipboard time?

1. 1. Based on the correlation of star positions
2. 2. Everyone wears a TIMEX under their uniform
3. 3. The Federation Daily Newsletter always arrives promptly at 0500
4. 4. A time beacon or time-base beacon is a device used by starships to synchronize their internal chrono (Correct Answer)

[Robot Arm]

10 out of 17. I'm mortified.

[Kamino Neko]

3.

I got 3.

[Zebra]

10 tied for first.

[Bryan Ekers]

I got 7, but I have my serious doubts about several of these questions, i.e. when and where was Warp 4.6 specified in actual units?

[bouv]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

I got 7, but I have my serious doubts about several of these questions, i.e. when and where was Warp 4.6 specified in actual units?

I imagine only in things like technical manuals, or obtained by extrapolating from other given warp values, or estimated times (ie, someone said a planet is X light years away, and it will take Y hours to get there at warp Z.)

IIRC, warp 1 is the speed of light...but I thought it was a logarithmic scale, with Warp 2 being 10C, Warp 3 being 100C, warp 4 being 1000C...but I guess I was wrong.

Actually, I don't know why I thought that was right...if it was, then Warp 9 would be 1000000000C, and the trip home for Voyager from the Delta Quadrant would only have taken, like, half an hour.

But since 70,000 light years takes approx. 70 years at warp 9, that means that warp 9 is only around 1000C.

[bup]

4. Ouch.

[Death of Rats]

12! I rock!



Wait...is that a good thing?

[John DiFool]

When did they change the warp speed cube rule? I read in the original Technical Manual for TOS that if you take said warp speed, and cube it, you get your light speed. Doing so to Warp 4.6 I get 97.336, not the spoilered figure. Yes, the question said, "1701-D", and IIRC the change was instituted in TNG, but still there are arguably two correct answers for that, since the question didn't specifically declare which warp scale it was using.

[Ruby Slippers]

7 -- but most of those were lucky guesses.

How many others got sucker-punched by Question 5?

[YogSosoth]

5/17

Damn!

[Ephemera]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

I got 7, but I have my serious doubts about several of these questions, i.e. when and where was Warp 4.6 specified in actual units?

Memory Alpha disagrees with the quiz, and gives cites.

[Elendil's Heir]

I got 11/17, but some of those were guesses.

[aceplace57]

Anyone can create a test of minutia that will trip you up. I'm not even sure some of these answers were consistent within the entire series. Techno babble was often improvised.

got three correct. <shrug>

I do recall Worf saying "they don't like to talk about it" when some comment was made about the change in Klingon appearance. I guess somewhere they also mentioned the answer given in the quiz.

[Bryan Ekers]

Originally Posted by aceplace57

I do recall Worf saying "they don't like to talk about it" when some comment was made about the change in Klingon appearance. I guess somewhere they also mentioned the answer given in the quiz.

It was one of the later Enterprise episodes. The Klingons tried to experiment with the same kind of genetic augmentation that had gone into Khan and company. I don't think it resolved well with TOS though, which showed smooth-headed Klingons in military positions.

[bouv]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

It was one of the later Enterprise episodes. The Klingons tried to experiment with the same kind of genetic augmentation that had gone into Khan and company. I don't think it resolved well with TOS though, which showed smooth-headed Klingons in military positions.

I thought that was how they resolved it, though?

When Klingons were revealed in the first episode of Enterprise they were bumpy-headed. Some fans got upset, since both TOS and that time-travel episode of DS9 showed that yes, the Klingons were smooth-headed throughout the run of TOS, and at some point before the movie, got bumpy.

In that episode, the Klingons tried some genetic engineering to get "better," and Dr.Phlox found out it didn't make them smarter, or stronger, or live longer, but the retrovirus DID cause their forehead bumps to go away, and mutated and shit so it was super-contagious. He made some offhand remark than in a couple generations, ALL Klingons will be smooth-headed. Which seems odd to me, because couldn't they have just quarantined that one ship that had the retrovirus?

But clearly, at some point after the original series, the Klingons developed a cure and went back to bumpy-heads.

[Bryan Ekers]

Originally Posted by bouv

In that episode, the Klingons tried some genetic engineering to get "better," and Dr.Phlox found out it didn't make them smarter, or stronger, or live longer, but the retrovirus DID cause their forehead bumps to go away, and mutated and shit so it was super-contagious. He made some offhand remark than in a couple generations, ALL Klingons will be smooth-headed. Which seems odd to me, because couldn't they have just quarantined that one ship that had the retrovirus?

I must have forgotten some details, and your objection about quarantining the ship makes sense. Really, the only way that sort of change might work is the transition from bumpy-to-smooth was something Klingon society wanted.

Alternately (and this would have taken some imagination on the part of the writers) just say that there were two distinct Klingon races, bumped and smooth (and while cross-breeding was possible, it was discouraged), with the smoother version having been genocided out of existence sometime between TOS and NextGen (hence Worf's "we do not talk about it") or for that matter, between TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Kang, Koloth and Kor, characters who'd appeared smooth and bumpy, are explained by having had themselves genetically or surgically altered to "pass". Forget all this romantic warrior-society crap - the Klingons as presented are a bunch of fascist thugs, with the NextGen+ group comparable to Nazis who'd managed to keep control of Germany.

Heck, show them both in Enterprise, but add some incidental racist rumblings from the bumpy-headed ones, comparable to pre-WW2 German rhetoric about Jews. Then in one of the later episodes, Floxx or T'Pol could say something like "civil war between the Klingon races is inevitable - one side will not survive."

[BigT]

Originally Posted by John DiFool

When did they change the warp speed cube rule? I read in the original Technical Manual for TOS that if you take said warp speed, and cube it, you get your light speed. Doing so to Warp 4.6 I get 97.336, not the spoilered figure. Yes, the question said, "1701-D", and IIRC the change was instituted in TNG, but still there are arguably two correct answers for that, since the question didn't specifically declare which warp scale it was using.

It was changed to raising to the 10/3 power for speeds less that warp 9, and was done so for the TNG technical manual, to make the new ship seem more powerful. In-universe, seeing as the TNG scale was the only one being used at the time of that ship, the other answer is incorrect. Plus, it's not one of the options, so you would obviously pick the closest.

I'm trying to find this old page that explains exactly when warp speed would have had to change, but it's giving me a hard time. I may have it saved on my hard drive somewhere, though.

[Sam Stone]

I got 9 correct.

Now excuse me while I go and re-tape my glasses.

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

I must have forgotten some details, and your objection about quarantining the ship makes sense. Really, the only way that sort of change might work is the transition from bumpy-to-smooth was something Klingon society wanted.

Alternately (and this would have taken some imagination on the part of the writers) just say that there were two distinct Klingon races, bumped and smooth (and while cross-breeding was possible, it was discouraged), with the smoother version having been genocided out of existence sometime between TOS and NextGen (hence Worf's "we do not talk about it") or for that matter, between TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Kang, Koloth and Kor, characters who'd appeared smooth and bumpy, are explained by having had themselves genetically or surgically altered to "pass". Forget all this romantic warrior-society crap - the Klingons as presented are a bunch of fascist thugs, with the NextGen+ group comparable to Nazis who'd managed to keep control of Germany.

Heck, show them both in Enterprise, but add some incidental racist rumblings from the bumpy-headed ones, comparable to pre-WW2 German rhetoric about Jews. Then in one of the later episodes, Floxx or T'Pol could say something like "civil war between the Klingon races is inevitable - one side will not survive."

Or, skip the civil war, and have S'Lvester M'Monkey M'Bean reduce the Klingon economy to rubble by means of an ingenious machine...

P.S. I got a ZERO.

[Bryan Ekers]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

P.S. I got a ZERO.

Congratulations. You're clearly not of the body.

[Tristan]

8/17.

And I guessed on some.

[John DiFool]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

Congratulations. You're clearly not of the body.

Herbert! Herbert! Herbert!

[Loach]

I got 7 right.

3 I knew.
3 I made an educated guess.
1 was a shot in the dark.

[Cat Whisperer]

Six. I didn't think I'd get any right - I'm a bigger Star Trek geek than I realized!

[Harvey The Heavy]

I got 3 right.

I have to call shennanigans on #3: Malachi Throne was not in The Cage, but the wraparound footage in The Menagerie, and Star Trek VI was released nearly a month after Unification Part 2 aired, although they were filmed at the same time.

[Gagundathar]

I got 12. I am weeping silently now.

The warp calculation seems odd.
And although I guessed correctly on #3, I think the objection upthread by Harvey the Heavy is valid.

At least they didn't ask for Spock's serial number.
Which is (as everyone knows) S179-276SP.

[mlees]

Why is Nimoys' fathers' profession a Star Trek trivia question?

I got 8.