# More Trek Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531 "2009-02-26T17:44:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/21 "2009-02-26T21:38:20Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’m probably wrong, but wasn’t his eye condition fixable with something that he was allergic to? Which begs the question, why haven’t they cured allergies? Because then they would not have had a plot device for William Shatner to use his cheaters. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/22 "2009-02-26T22:05:55Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’m probably wrong, but wasn’t his eye condition fixable with something that he was allergic to? Which begs the question, why haven’t they cured allergies? That was just the 23th Century. They hadn’t cured the cold yet then, either. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/23 "2009-02-26T22:49:08Z")
Plus, didn’t Crusher cure a bunch of 12st century lethal illnesses in that episode where they resuscitated Leon Rippy, the rich guy and that housewife from their cryogenically frozen ship? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/24 "2009-02-26T23:21:53Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Plus, didn’t Crusher cure a bunch of 12st century lethal illnesses in that episode where they resuscitated Leon Rippy, the rich guy and that housewife from their cryogenically frozen ship? You just reminded me of another entry for the “single lines that still make you giggle” thread. > [@](#): > > Hooey? ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/25 "2009-02-27T00:20:32Z")
> [@EdwardMartinIII](#): > > It would be easier to ask which _can’t_. Star Trek is a very promiscuous universe and most anyone can comingle with anyone else. Offhand, I can’t recall seeing an Andorian/whatever hybrid, or a Horta/whatever hybrid, but I blame Bad Attitude for the former and, well, the latter, too. Plus, you never know what might happen to a Horta in the middle of orgasm, but I can’t imagine anyone wanting their private parts near it. I seem to remember a mention of Andorian’s having three genders, so it might be difficult or impossible for them to breed with aliens with two genders. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/26 "2009-02-27T01:08:21Z")
> [@cainxinth](#): > > What’s the greatest mass that can be teleported from the surface of a planet like Earth into high orbit? They weren’t high as such (just hovering over the ocean, as I recall) but Scotty beams two humbpack whales and (as I recall) 400 tons of seawater in the fourth movie. He suggested it would a tricky business, but not an unprecendented one. More impressively, the dino-people beamed the entire _Voyager_ into one of their own mind-blowingly-huge ships. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/27 "2009-02-27T02:03:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I can’t remember a canon Klingon-Romulan mix, but since Humans and Vulcans can interbreed (Spock), and Romulans and Vulcans are fundamentally the same race, it seems likely. In the two part TNG episode Birthright, there was a colony of Klingons and Romulans who began working together after Khitomer. There is at least one child of a Romulan and a Klingon, named [Ba’el](http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ba%27el), there. As to Andorian half-breeds, [Shran](http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Thy%27lek_Shran)’s daughter is half Aenar, but since Aenar are an offshoot of the Andorians, that may not count. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/28 "2009-02-27T02:18:30Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > I seem to remember a mention of Andorian’s having three genders, so it might be difficult or impossible for them to breed with aliens with two genders. No, Andorians only have two sexes, though their marriages require four individuals. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/29 "2009-02-27T02:48:54Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > No, Andorians only have two sexes, though their marriages require four individuals. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/30 "2009-02-27T03:00:30Z")
Randomly, does anybody know if it was ever established just how the Vulcans ended up as full members of the Empire in the mirror universe? In Enterprise’s MU episode, the Vulcans, like all other non-humans in the Empire, are slaves. In the TOS episode, they’re clearly full members, as Spock’s able to rise to Emperor, and thus accidentally screw them over by leaving them defenceless when the Klingons and Cardasians ally, ending up with Vulcans back to being slaves. Silly Spock. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531/31 "2009-02-27T03:32:16Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Plus, didn’t Crusher cure a bunch of 12st century lethal illnesses in that episode where they resuscitated Leon Rippy, the rich guy and that housewife from their cryogenically frozen ship? And Dr McCoy cured kidney failure. “Dialysis ?! Barbarians ! Here, take this.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-trek-trivia/487531.md?page=1)