# "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:** 13
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/241 "2006-12-13T12:05:47Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 40.) What is the combination to Kirk’s safe? (The correct answer can be expressed in three words) [/QUOTE] I swore it was the same as our office combination and looked it up in Memory Alpha. There would appear to be at least two different combinations from [this trivia](http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php?title=What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_Of%3F&printable=yes#Background_Information). ---
**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 13, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/242 "2006-12-13T12:38:06Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] What name ties-in both the Star Trek and Knight Rider universes? [/QUOTE] Miles? ---
**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, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/243 "2006-12-13T14:06:00Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 156.) Henry V 157.) NX-02, Columbia 158.) Merrimack and Monitor [/QUOTE] All three correct (and need not have been spoilered). ---
**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, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/244 "2006-12-13T14:07:11Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] [160.] What name ties-in both the Star Trek and Knight Rider universes? [161.] What is Chekov’s phaser firing rate? [/QUOTE] Question numbers added. **Enola** , please read the OP. Thanks! ---
**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, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/245 "2006-12-13T16:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Question numbers added. **Enola** , please read the OP. Thanks! [/QUOTE] 'kay. “Miles” is not the name I’m looking for. ---
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[QUOTE=Tengu] Same actor (Robert Duncan McNeil) and very similar back-stories. In fact, Paris was supposedly based on Locarno. I believe the chief difference is that Paris was considered redeemable, whereas Locarno wasn’t - which is why they created a new character instead of just using Locarno. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] You aced it. Well done. [/QUOTE] That’s not what I heard. I’d heard if they’d used the name Locarno, they would have had to pay residuals to the author of the original TNG episode. ---
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[QUOTE=Khan] 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_? [/QUOTE] 153: Self preservation circuit? 154: ‘Take a leak’ 162.) (From the novelization) In The Wrath of Khan, how much space did the game take up that the Lab guys were writing in their spare time? What planet did it ‘swallow’? ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/248 "2006-12-13T22:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] That’s not what I heard. I’d heard if they’d used the name Locarno, they would have had to pay residuals to the author of the original TNG episode. [/QUOTE] You’re right; that was certainly a factor. But Locarno also came off as a much bigger jerk than Paris, so even besides the name change, they were pretty different characters. Plus Locarno had more hair. 😃 ---
**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 15, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/249 "2006-12-15T04:07:09Z")
Some as-yet unanswered questions, and their answers: _131. Near what nebula is the Enterprise-D to meet the USS Kearsarge in TNG “Firstborn”?_ The Vodrey Nebula. _146. What four Constitution-class starships take on the Enterprise in war games in TOS “The Ultimate Computer”?.._ The USS _Lexington_ (Commodore Wesley’s flagship), the USS _Potemkin_, the USS _Hood_ and the particularly ill-fated USS _Excalibur_. _155. In TOS “Dagger of the Mind,” Kirk saves the day with the help of what lovely Enterprise doctor?_ The totally babelicious Dr. Helen Noel. ---
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1. Roykirk? (I think Jackson is the first name.) I know I read about this bit of cross-over-ness on the website that explains how almost every show ever broadcast is really the dream of the autistic kid on St Elsewhere. Knight Rider had (or mentioned) a character who had been mentioned (but had not appeared) in an episode of TOS. They included enough detail in KR to be sure that it was the same character, even if no one was meant to notice. Roykirk was the creator of Nomad, whom it mistook Kirk for. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/251 "2006-12-15T09:12:04Z")
Google Roykirk and the first hit is for “Roykirk Enterprises” 😛 ---
**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 15, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/252 "2006-12-15T16:20:39Z")
Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/253 "2006-12-15T16:29:54Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] 162.) (From the novelization) In The Wrath of Khan, how much space did the game take up that the Lab guys were writing in their spare time? What planet did it ‘swallow’? [/QUOTE] I’ll answer my own question as, it probably only stood out in my mind: The game program consumed ‘Fifty Megs! Christ on a crutch! That program just swallowed Saturn!’ I guess it registerd in my fledgling geek mind when I read it. ---
**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 15, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/254 "2006-12-15T17:14:15Z")
1. The “megs” reference from STII:TWOK reminds me… what nonexistent unit of computer capacity/efficiency was used in TNG (so as not to eventually become obsolescent)? 2. Riker finds a long-dead NASA astronaut from what spacecraft in TNG “The Royale”? 3. Garak once worked at the Cardassian embassy on what planet? 4. Balok offers Kirk and his party what alien drink in TOS “The Corbomite Manuever”? 5. Picard’s first starship command was the USS…? ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Balok offers Kirk and his party what alien drink in TOS “The Corbomite Manuever”? 2. Picard’s first starship command was the USS…? [/QUOTE] Tranya, he hopes you relish it as much as he does The Stargazer ‘always on the verge of shaking itself apart’ ---
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163: Kiloquads…wonder how many Library of Congresses there are in a kiloquad? ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/257 "2006-12-15T17:59:42Z")
1. Garak was a gardener at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus. ---
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[QUOTE=DocCathode] [166.] Tranya, he hopes you relish it as much as he does [167.] The Stargazer ‘always on the verge of shaking itself apart’ [/QUOTE] Both correct. ---
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[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] 163: Kiloquads…wonder how many Library of Congresses there are in a kiloquad? [/QUOTE] Correct answer. In context, I’d say there could be thousands of LoCs in a kiloquad. Given the computing power of the Federation’s technology, a kiloquad must be huuuuuuuuuuuuuge. ---
**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 15, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/260 "2006-12-15T20:04:58Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 165. Garak was a gardener at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus. [/QUOTE] Hmmm. I believe that’s incorrect. Or am I wrong? I recalled that he’d worked at a Cardassian embassy on a different planet than that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=14)