# "Star TreK" trivia contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807 "2006-12-04T14:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/221 "2006-12-10T22:39:29Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] In the series (apart from the technical manuals, I thought canon only included what was on screen?) [/QUOTE] Sorry, I meant in chronological order of series broadcast or chonological order by canon (i.e. as broadcast TOS came first but ENT as a prequel came first in canon chronology) ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/222 "2006-12-10T23:22:46Z")
It turns out I wasn’t in a position to answer your question, **Pushkin**. When I responded I actually had in mind a question that I decided not to ask. **tdn** asked about separating the middle and ring fingers, so I don’t know if he meant within the series chronology or in real time. The list I put together further back is just what hasn’t been answered so far from the previous pages. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/223 "2006-12-11T03:16:58Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] That’s a very big hint. _A piece of the action_ [/QUOTE] Correct. The story that Ronald D. Moore pitched was this. Sisko and crew return to Iotia to discover that the communicator which Doctor McCoy accidentally left behind a century earlier has caused an upheaval in the imitative Iotian society. They figured out how to use the communicator to tie into Federation databases (or something like that). They then proceeded to download all the logs of the various adventures that Kirk and his Enterprise were involved in. They became such devotees of Kirk and his crew that they have patterned their entire society on them. They dress like the various Star Fleet officers on that ship, gather together in huge convention halls and act out the many adventures. In short, they have become rabid Trekkies… Sir Rhosis I’ll go ahead and answer one of my more obscure ones. A character (Lindstrom) is beaned by the rock while running away during Festival in the episode “The Return of The Archons.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/224 "2006-12-11T03:39:03Z")
1. Which regular actor appears in a prominent role in a movie closely connected to a Star Trek episode? ( I actually watched the movie today, btw.) ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/225 "2006-12-11T05:44:05Z")
**Khan** , thank you VERY much for compiling the as-yet unanswered questions. That was on my weekend to-do list but I wasn’t able to do it. Well done! I think you’re missing, though, this question: 1. Near what nebula is the _Enterprise_-D to meet the USS _Kearsarge_ in TNG “Firstborn”? All of the answers you suggest are accurate, I believe (I’d posted questions 82, 84, 85 and 117, and you got those right). As for… 1. I wasn’t thinking of _habeas corpus_ (is that even mentioned in an episode? Which one, or in what context? I don’t remember that at all). Care to guess again? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/226 "2006-12-11T05:51:31Z")
Here are some more: 1. When he’s acting as a mouthpiece for the Borg, how is Picard referred to? 2. What four _Constitution_-class starships take on the _Enterprise_ in war games in TOS “The Ultimate Computer”? Which of them has its entire crew killed? 3. Portraits of which two historic leaders hang in the _Enterprise_-A’s wardroom when Kirk hosts a dinner with the Klingon Chancellor and his party? 4. What Vulcan notable later provided the name of a one-hit-wonder rock band? 5. What Federation starship is destroyed by the Klingons at the Genesis Planet, thus stranding Lt. Saavik and Dr. David Marcus? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/227 "2006-12-11T05:55:48Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Here are some more: 1. When he’s acting as a mouthpiece for the Borg, how is Picard referred to? 2. What Vulcan notable later provided the name of a one-hit-wonder rock band? [/QUOTE] 14 ) Locutus of Borg 1. T’Pau ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/228 "2006-12-11T06:24:45Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 141.) What recently discovered phenomenon was the Voyager’s warp drive designed to accommodate? [/QUOTE] It’s that, umm, warp drive pollution of subspace thing, isn’t it? (Please don’t ask me to quote the exact technobabble … ) The Voyager’s variable-configuration warp nacelles allow it to travel faster than Warp 5 without tearing holes in the space-time continuum, or whatever all that was about. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/229 "2006-12-11T07:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 131. Near what nebula is the _Enterprise_-D to meet the USS _Kearsarge_ in TNG “Firstborn”? 1. I wasn’t thinking of _habeas corpus_ (is that even mentioned in an episode? Which one, or in what context? I don’t remember that at all). Care to guess again? [/QUOTE] You’re welcome. Sorry about 131. I came up with Habeas Corpus through some half-assed mixing of the anti-changeling hysteria on Earth leading up to the Dominion War, the Bashir/Romulus/Section 31 conspiracy episode (even though that has nothing to do with Habeas Corpus), and various questionable activities in the war on terror. Guess I didn’t really think that one through, huh? 138.) for **Pushkin** 140.) for **Pushkin** and **Peter Morris** 141.) for **Steve Wright** 145.) They named him Locutus, as **Peter Morris** said, but until then any self-reference by the Borg involved “we.” Locutus was the first Borg to use first-person singular. 149.) USS Grissom 150.) The actor who played the Captain of the Enterprise-B in _Generations_ is famous for his role in a 1980’s comedy. Who is the actor, and what was the movie? 151.) What seemingly anachronistic ornament did Dr. Crusher wear in an early TNG episode? 152.) Within the timeline of the Star Trek universe, what members of the TOS Enterprise senior staff have we not heard from since the end of the 23rd century? (flashbacks don’t count) 153.) What part of Data’s positronic net got damaged, leading to his blowing the cover of the observation post on the Baku planet in _Insurrection_? 154.) What present-day slang/metaphor did Geordi learn from Zefram Cochrane that he found particularly funny in _First Contact_? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/230 "2006-12-11T12:22:41Z")
146.) The M5 computer used the Enterprise to take out the USS Excalibre or Excalibur, I can’t remember the spelling. 152.) I think the big three and Scotty made it through to TNG and the movies. The only ones who didn’t IIRC, were Sulu, Chekov and Uhura. Sulu appears in a Voyager flashback so we’re not to count him right? Dammit why didn’t we see more of him as captain :mad: McCoy appears in the TNG pilot, Kirk appears in Generations and is mentioned in the Naked Now, Spock appears in Reunification and Scotty manages to hide himself in suspended animation till TNG times. 154.) Geordi found it amusing to refer to urination as needing a leak. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/231 "2006-12-11T13:04:17Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 150.) The actor who played the Captain of the Enterprise-B in _Generations_ is famous for his role in a 1980’s comedy. Who is the actor, and what was the movie? [/QUOTE] Alan Ruck, who played Cameron in _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/232 "2006-12-11T14:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] [145]) Locutus of Borg [148]) T’Pau [/QUOTE] Both correct (numbers corrected above). ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/233 "2006-12-11T14:08:39Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] 146.) The M5 computer used the Enterprise to take out the USS Excalibre or Excalibur, I can’t remember the spelling. [/QUOTE] USS _Excalibur_ is correct. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/234 "2006-12-11T14:25:58Z")
No one’s answered it yet, so… 1. In which episode does Kirk wear all three kinds of Starfleet shirt? TOS “Court-Martial.” He’s got on his green captain’s-choice shirt when he reports to Commodore Stone on Finney’s supposed death, his dress-uniform shirt during the court-martial, and his regular Command-gold shirt in several other scenes, including when he fights Finney in Engineering (and gets his shirt torn, of course). [QUOTE=Khan] [116.] I came up with Habeas Corpus through some half-assed mixing of the anti-changeling hysteria on Earth leading up to the Dominion War, the Bashir/Romulus/Section 31 conspiracy episode (even though that has nothing to do with Habeas Corpus), and various questionable activities in the war on terror. Guess I didn’t really think that one through, huh?.. [/QUOTE] No prob. I don’t believe habeas corpus has ever been mentioned in ST (although that episode would be a natural place to do it). I was actually thinking of grand juries, which have become less common in both the American (state) and British legal systems in recent years. Odo is escorting/guarding Quark on the way to testify before a Federation grand jury in a DS9 episode; they get stuck on a forested world and have to work together to survive after a bomb destroys their Runabout. I’ll also answer this one, since no one else has: 1. When discussing a knotty time-travel conundrum, Janeway tells Kim that if he doesn’t believe her, he should ask…who? Answer: Himself! Kim recorded a message to himself in his own past, which Janeway suggests he watch. [QUOTE=Khan] 149.) USS Grissom [/QUOTE] Correct. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/235 "2006-12-12T17:16:58Z")
1. In TOS “Dagger of the Mind,” Kirk saves the day with the help of what lovely _Enterprise_ doctor? 2. In TNG “The Defector,” Picard watches as Data plays what Shakespearean role on the Holodeck? (Incidentally, Patrick Stewart plays another role in the same scene). 3. The second ship of the _Enterprise_, NX-01, class is named the…? 4. The names of these two noteworthy American Civil War ships were given to TNG-era _Nebula_-class starships. 5. The Cardassian equivalent of the CIA was called what? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/236 "2006-12-12T21:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. In TNG “The Defector,” Picard watches as Data plays what Shakespearean role on the Holodeck? (Incidentally, Patrick Stewart plays another role in the same scene). 2. The Cardassian equivalent of the CIA was called what? [/QUOTE] Henry the fifth the Obsidian Order ---
**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:** [December 13, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/237 "2006-12-13T03:00:28Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] [156.] Henry the [F]ifth [159.] the Obsidian Order [/QUOTE] Correctamundo on both. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/238 "2006-12-13T03:53:52Z")
156.) Henry V 157.) NX-02, Columbia 158.) Merrimack and Monitor ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/239 "2006-12-13T04:38:58Z")
What name ties-in both the Star Trek and Knight Rider universes? What is Chekov’s phaser firing rate? ---
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> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > 1. The second ship of the Enterprise, NX-01, class is named the…? Columbia? > [@Khan](#): > > 142.) Under what circumstances are Starfleet captains no longer bound by the prime directive (at least as far as regulations are concerned)? The Omega Directive. Can I play now? 1. Name B’Elanna Torres’ mother and daughter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=13)