# "Star Trek" trivia contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948 "2006-05-01T13:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/141 "2006-05-03T15:12:23Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Which starships share names with automobile models? The USS Reliant shares its name with a UK brand best known for sports estates driven by British royalty in the 70s and three wheeler vans drvien by dodgy salesmen in the 80s 😉 > [@kingpengvin](#): > > On the planet Charon there were two “races” of the same Dominent Species. Describe the difference between the two races and what made one “Superior” to the other. Another half answer, the two races were coloured black and white, one race white on their left, black on their right and vice versa. The superiority stems from this, IIRC, the “superior” race was black on their right hand side. For a bonus point, what was the name of the being from the planet Charon who boarded the Enterprise in pursuit of someone from the inferior race, and what did his ship look like on the view screen? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/142 "2006-05-03T15:15:28Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > > [@Khan](#): > > > > Name a few (2+) Cardassian food/drink items that were mentioned in Star Trek. > > Red leaf tea… Raktojino(?) Some sort of warm fish juice, Raktajino (sp?) is a Klingon beverage. There were some also some sorts of eggs that Picard was offered during torture. > [@kingpengvin](#): > > And what was the last thing Scotty replaced on it? The Klingon food rations, they were giving him a bit of a belly ache. ---
**Author:** ![grossmrkup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grossmrkup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grossmrkup)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/143 "2006-05-03T15:20:31Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > Red leaf tea… Raktojino(?) Raktajino (sp?) is Klingon coffee. Yamak sauce is Cardassian and there always seems to be cases and cases of it on DS9. Question: What is the primary function of self seeling stembolts? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/144 "2006-05-03T15:23:23Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > The USS Reliant shares its name with a UK brand best known for sports estates driven by British royalty in the 70s and three wheeler vans drvien by dodgy salesmen in the 80s 😉 > > Another half answer, the two races were coloured black and white, one race white on their left, black on their right and vice versa. The superiority stems from this, IIRC, the “superior” race was black on their right hand side. > > For a bonus point, what was the name of the being from the planet Charon who boarded the Enterprise in pursuit of someone from the inferior race, and what did his ship look like on the view screen? Bele (in pursuit of Lokai), but I can’t remember what the ship looked like. How many brothers did Chekov have? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/145 "2006-05-03T15:24:36Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > How many crew members were on the Woden (freighter destroyed in “The Ultimate Computer”)? > > None, it was a robot ship. > What is the Destruct code for The USS Enterprise (NCC1701) > What is the Destruct code for the USS Enterprise (NCC 1701D) My brain may be fuzzy with it being so early in the morning, but doesn’t it depend on which officers are authorizing the self destruct? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/146 "2006-05-03T15:52:07Z")
> [@grossmrkup](#): > > What is the primary function of self seeling stembolts? I don’t think we ever found out, but they were worth a little bit of land weren’t they? > [@Malacandra](#): > > How many brothers did Chekov have? None, outside a delusion brought on in Day of the Dove. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/147 "2006-05-03T15:56:15Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > The third Cochrane ep is IIRC “Metamorphosis,” in which Cochrane has been kept alive by “The Companion” who bonds with a Federation commissioner to live happily ever after. Correct, with the two mentioned previously by **Tengu**. The trick, of course, is that Cochrane in Metamorphosis was not played by James Cromwell. > [@gonzoron](#): > > They were both in ST VI as members of the conspiracy to disrupt the Khitomer conference. I think Rene Auberjonois’s character was name Colonel West, and I don’t remember Brock Peter’s characters name, or exactly which part of the assassination they were involved in. That counts – all I was looking for was that the two actors both played conspirators in ST: VI. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/148 "2006-05-03T16:07:48Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 1. What recurring characer on TNG changed sex? > Um, no, that’d be TOS. In TNG, it’d be Data, and maybe Spot. Spot was the correct answer I was looking for. Forgot about holo-prostitute Data. I don’t think that counts. > [@Pushkin](#): > > Miles O’Brien, while serving on DS9. Correct, the episode was _Visionary_. **anyrose** in Nemesis, that was B4, a prototype of Data, not Data from the future. > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by sturmhauke > What actors have appeared in both some incarnation of Star Trek and Babylon 5? Chekhov/Bester. Any others? Andreas Katsultas as Tomalok and G’Kar Bill Mumy as some guy in the seige of AR-458(#?) (where Nog lost his leg) and as Lennier > [@](#): > > Name/identify the roles of five actors who have played at least three different characters in Star Trek. Jeffrey Combs as Weyoun/Brunt/Shran, and a few others roles I think. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/149 "2006-05-03T16:10:08Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Bele (in pursuit of Lokai), but I can’t remember what the ship looked like. Assuming this isn’t a whoosh, you can’t remember what the ship looked like because it was invisible and thus never shown on-screen. ---
**Author:** ![grossmrkup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grossmrkup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grossmrkup)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/150 "2006-05-03T16:32:34Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > I don’t think we ever found out, but they were worth a little bit of land weren’t they? Right. Even Chief O’Brien didn’t know what they were for and they were mentioned in more than one episode. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/151 "2006-05-03T16:35:06Z")
Another actor who played three characters is Tim Russ. He played Tuvok, a Klingon henchman when John Glover stole the Dax symbiont, and a human crewmember in either ST:VI or Generations. (Looking it up, IMDB confirms it as Generations.) Ethan Phillips as Neelix on VOY, the Maitre D’ in the '30’s Holo-Nightclub in First Contact, and the Nagus’s son on a DS9 episode. Additional roles for those already mentioned include Lt. M’Ress (TAS, I’m almost sure she was voiced by Majel Barett) and Arik (?) Soong (Brent Spiner on Enterprise playing Noonien Soong’s ancestor). As for characters who appeared on multiple series: Will Riker in TNG, the Voyager episode where a Q decides to kill himself, and the final episode of Enterprise; he must have made an appearance in DS9, but I can’t remember one. Deanna Troi on TNG, one or two Voyager episodes, and the final ep of Enterprise. Quark on DS9, the first ep of Voyager (trying to sell contraband to Harry Kim), and an episode of TNG on the Enterprise-D’s viewscreen where Riker pumps him for information. Geordie LaForge? TNG, an alternate-future version in the Voy episode “Flashback,” and I think he appeared in an early ep of DS9 where Bashir helped him do some examination on Data, although it’s possible that was a TNG episode. Oh, and Worf also commanded the Enterprise temporarily when those cryosleep Klingons woke up in the episode where Alexander was conceived. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/152 "2006-05-03T16:42:19Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Voyager, Intrepid, Yukon, and Defiant spring to mind. There was a Galaxy made by Plymouth I believe. The Aurora from the TOS “hippie” episode was a starship, but it wasn’t a starfleet ship. I think Olds made it. > [@](#): > > What was the name of Kirk’s Bird of Prey? Been done. > [@Otto](#): > > Assuming this isn’t a whoosh, you can’t remember what the ship looked like because it was invisible and thus never shown on-screen. Wasn’t it shown as a moving point of light against the starfield, or am I thinking of something else? > [@Pushkin](#): > > I don’t think we ever found out, but they were worth a little bit of land weren’t they? 7 Tessipates, to be exact. I’m inclined to say this doesn’t count as canon, but I read once that Mike Okuda came up with a purpose at a convention or in an interview. I forget what he said, though. Who’d Jake and Nog sell it to (I don’t remember how much they made)? What species in Trek shares a name with a species in Star Wars (not humans, if they ever referred to themselves that way in the latter)? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/153 "2006-05-03T16:47:51Z")
Lookin’ good, everybody! **Khan** (or should I say “Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!”), if you answer any question, you may post up to five questions at a time, per the OP. If you learn something from your own ST viewing or reading since this thread started, please don’t use that knowledge either to ask or to answer a question - I’d like people to rely on their memories alone. **Anyrose** , Arex’s race was Edoan. There were Kzinti in TAS “Slaver Weapon,” but never any on the _Enterprise_’s crew. To answer an earlier (unnumbered) question, self-sealing stembolts’ function is… unknown. The writers never told us what they actually did (DS9 “The Great Material Continuum,” IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/154 "2006-05-03T17:10:18Z")
This one should be fairly easy (I answered earlier but hadn’t posted a question yet.) By official canon there are 4 founding member planets of the federation, who are they? for bonus points, a number of non-canon items mention a fifth, which is it? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/155 "2006-05-03T17:29:16Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Assuming this isn’t a whoosh, you can’t remember what the ship looked like because it was invisible and thus never shown on-screen. Eh, I remembered an invisible ship in that episode but I was about sixty-forty leaning towards that being the fugitive’s, not the pursuer’s. Is there such a thing as a “Vulcan Death Grip”? Is there such a thing as a Vulcan death grip? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/156 "2006-05-03T17:31:05Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Eh, I remembered an invisible ship in that episode but I was about sixty-forty leaning towards that being the fugitive’s, not the pursuer’s. > Is there such a thing as a “Vulcan Death Grip”? Is there such a thing as a Vulcan death grip? 🆒 No and Yes, but it technically is a nerve pinch which causes unconciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/157 "2006-05-03T17:35:16Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > By official canon there are 4 founding member planets of the federation, who are they? Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, and Telluria? I think the Rigellians are the others mentioned in non-canon materials. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/158 "2006-05-03T17:38:56Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, and Telluria? > > I think the Rigellians are the others mentioned in non-canon materials. > > –Cliffy Correct, (it’s just Andor and Tellar though) They may be mentioned also, but not the 5th I had in mind ---
**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:** [May 3, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/159 "2006-05-03T18:10:15Z")
I just thought of another 3-role actor, who I don’t think has been mentioned yet. Rene Auberjonios played Colonel West in ST VI (as was mentioned), Odo on DS9 (as is obvious), and the leader of one of the alien races that the Enterprise encountered in Enterprise. They were xenophobes, I believe. They wanted Enterprise gone, in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948/160 "2006-05-03T19:02:46Z")
> [@Antinor1](#): > > No and Yes, but it technically is a nerve pinch which causes unconciousness. No, there’s the standard shoulder pinch, and then there’s the “Vulcan Death Grip,” which Spock uses on Kirk in (damn episode titles!) “The Enterprise Incident” I think (the one with the lady Romulan commander and the cloaking device). The “death grip” is, obviously, a fake, and Spock says flat-out that there’s no such thing as the “Vulcan Death Grip.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/354948.md?page=9)