# "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:** 18
**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 31, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/341 "2006-12-31T05:37:57Z")
I don’t know the answer to 222, but I’m gonna one-up **AWB** with: 1. What Star Trek guest actress was an actual previous winner of the Miss America crown? Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/342 "2006-12-31T12:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] It’s a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting. [/QUOTE] Heh, I love hearing Worf say that line. Not sure why, but it sounds good coming from him 🙂 [QUOTE=Khan] 220.) Mark Lenard: Romulan Commander in Balance of Terror, Klingon captain in TMP, and Sarek. [/QUOTE] Guest star who died most often perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/343 "2006-12-31T12:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 214.) What was unique about how the Delta Flyer was controlled, given what we’d come to expect for such things since TNG? [/QUOTE] Not completely unique, the Enterprise E had an emergency control that was, IIRC, basically a Thrustmaster PC joystick 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/344 "2006-12-31T13:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] 217) Spock 218) Uhura? Don’t think we saw Sulu in TNG either, though he did appear in Voyager. 219) Jonathan Frakes 220) ? 221) Copper 222) ? [/QUOTE] 218 - You’re right, but I messed this one up. I took it from a multiple-choice trivia quiz I wrote years ago. It doesn’t make too much sense unless I give the choices: Spock, McCoy, Kirk, Scott. 219 - Once again, another multiple choice that would’ve made the answer clearer. You’re correct in that Q gave his powers to Riker in a 1st-season episode. I meant a character who was always a Q. The answer’s been given: Corbin Bernsen. 220 - Mark Lenard has died three times, as Romulan Commander in a 1st season TOS episode, a Klingon commander in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”, and as Sarek in the TNG episode “Unification” Pt. 1. 221 - Copper is correct. 222 - No answers correctly guessed for this yet. 223 - The winner of the Miss America pageant that guest starred on ST:TOS was Lee Meriwether as Losira. ---
**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 31, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/345 "2006-12-31T19:08:03Z")
1. Grace Lee Whitney? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/346 "2006-12-31T19:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=AWB] 218 - You’re right, but I messed this one up. I took it from a multiple-choice trivia quiz I wrote years ago. It doesn’t make too much sense unless I give the choices: Spock, McCoy, Kirk, Scott. [/QUOTE] I was going to say, Majel Barrett played Number One in The Cage, but then came back as a nurse. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/347 "2007-01-02T14:56:17Z")
1. The soul or spiritual essence of a Vulcan is called what? 2. This type of radiation is presumed to have killed all of the colonists in TOS “This Side of Paradise.” 3. According to a charming Klingon proverb, what may be cut in one night by a running man? 4. What position does Odo play, or what does he do, during the baseball game between the DS9 staff and the senior officers of the USS _T’Kumbra_? 5. The highest-ranked Section 31 officer known to the DS9 staff is who? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/348 "2007-01-04T08:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 224. The soul or spiritual essence of a Vulcan is called what? [/QUOTE] Katra IIRC. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 225. This type of radiation is presumed to have killed all of the colonists in TOS “This Side of Paradise.” [/QUOTE] Bergstrom rays? [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 226. According to a charming Klingon proverb, what may be cut in one night by a running man? [/QUOTE] A hundred throats 😃 [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 227. What position does Odo play, or what does he do, during the baseball game between the DS9 staff and the senior officers of the USS _T’Kumbra_? [/QUOTE] No idea, but with his stretching powers, he’d make a pretty decent fielder 😉 ---
**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:** [January 4, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/349 "2007-01-04T09:33:12Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 227. What position does Odo play, or what does he do, during the baseball game between the DS9 staff and the senior officers of the USS _T’Kumbra_? [/QUOTE] IIRC, he was the ump. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/350 "2007-01-04T14:11:45Z")
My dear **Pushkin** : 1. Correct 2. Incorrect 3. Incorrect 4. Good point, but wrong answer And **Tengu** : 1. Correct! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/351 "2007-01-04T15:52:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 225. Incorrect [/QUOTE] Ah, Googling proves I underestimated the average Klingon, something I do at my own risk 😃 ---
**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:** [January 5, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/352 "2007-01-05T02:22:08Z")
225: Berthold rays New questions: 1. In the first draft script of a certain episode, Spock “rains kisses on every square inch above the shoulder” of what character? Needless to say, Nimoy (and the actress) thought it out of character and it was changed to good old passionate Vulcan finger-rubbing. 2. What episode began life under the title _The Paleface_? 3. Who is Julian Picard? 4. William Campbell, who played Koloth and Trelane, auditioned for which TNG lead role? 5. Mark Lenard played the Romulan Commander in _Balance of Terror_ and Sarek on TOS, TAS, the TOS movies and TNG. What character, known for his honesty, was Lenard to have played on TOS until scheduling conflicts caused him to have to decline? Sir Rhosis ---
**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:** [January 5, 2007, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/353 "2007-01-05T06:20:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] 225: Berthold rays… Sir Rhosis [/QUOTE] 1. Correct! 2. The unnamed female Romulan Commander, TOS “The _Enterprise_ Incident” 3. TOS “The Paradise Syndrome” 4. I believe that was the first-draft name for the character who eventually became Jean-Luc Picard, mais oui? 5. Abraham Lincoln, in TOS “The Savage Curtain” ---
**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:** [January 5, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/354 "2007-01-05T23:03:54Z")
Elendil, correct. Surely it is not hard to guess who Campbell, about age 61 in 1987, would have auditioned for… Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/355 "2007-01-05T23:41:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] Surely it is not hard to guess who Campbell, about age 61 in 1987, would have auditioned for… [/QUOTE] Jean Luc himself? 😕 ---
**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:** [January 5, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/356 "2007-01-05T23:45:29Z")
Yep, Campbell auditioned for Picard. May have just been a courtesy nod from old friends Justman and Roddenberry. Don’t know. Sir Rhosis ---
**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:** [January 8, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/357 "2007-01-08T15:02:09Z")
I’d never heard that Campbell auditioned for the role of Picard. Interesting! He certainly would have brought a… different approach to the role. 😉 Since no one’s answered it yet (although **Pushkin** was on the right track): 1. The charming Klingon proverb from TOS “Day of the Dove” is, “A thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.” And some more questions: 1. Other than in TOS “The Cage,” Spock spends the entire run of TOS as either of two Starfleet ranks. What are they? 2. The Chancellor Gorkon’s makeup and hair in “The Undiscovered Country” was intended to evoke what historical leader? 3. What young woman’s parents were killed by the Q? 4. Kirk was tormented at Starfleet Academy by what upperclassman? 5. We only know the first name of this apple-cheeked blonde ex-girlfriend of Kirk’s, also shown in TOS “Shore Leave.” What is it? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/358 "2007-01-08T15:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 234. Other than in TOS “The Cage,” Spock spends the entire run of TOS as either of two Starfleet ranks. What are they? [/QUOTE] Commander when 1st officer, did he become acting Captain in “Amok Time”. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 235. The Chancellor Gorkon’s makeup and hair in “The Undiscovered Country” was intended to evoke what historical leader? [/QUOTE] I’d go with Abraham Lincoln, solely on looks (i.e. the beard) but if its supposed to be a parallel with the US and USSR in the 1980s, I suddenly think of Stalin as the only bearded Soviet leader. Given how conciliatory Gorkon is, I’ll stick with Lincoln. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 236. What young woman’s parents were killed by the Q? [/QUOTE] Can’t remember the surname, but they were killed on Earth by a tornado that managed to evade the weather controls on Earth. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 237. Kirk was tormented at Starfleet Academy by what upperclassman? [/QUOTE] That irish man we see in “Shore Leave” isn’t it? Finney? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/359 "2007-01-08T17:14:28Z")
My dear **Pushkin** : 1. Not quite. Note that I said “ranks,” not titles. 2. Yes, it was Lincoln. 3. Right as to the circumstances. Perhaps someone else remembers her name…? 4. Right episode, wrong character name. Finney was the guy Kirk was thought to have killed in TOS “Court Martial.” ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807/360 "2007-01-08T20:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Other than in TOS “The Cage,” Spock spends the entire run of TOS as either of two Starfleet ranks. What are they? [/QUOTE] If you know this, **EH** , you’re awfully close to getting my long-forgotten question: 172. Vulcans seem to have difficulty remembering their rank (or everyone else does). How do we know this? Speaking of which, I’m going to give _Ivylass_ credit for this: > [@](#): > > 1. When Nog served as a cadet on the Defiant, what would have happened if everybody but him had been killed? > He would have been captain The correct answer is that he would have been _called_ “Captain.” I don’t know what I was thinking being so picky–sorry **Ivylass**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-trivia-contest/382807.md?page=19)