# Trivia game for Trek Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818 "2003-03-07T23:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/81 "2003-03-10T22:43:01Z")
**Which recurring or main characters have had a (non-cosmetic) body part removed and replaced (with either the original or a new one). (I count 7, but I may be off.)** 1 Worf - spine 2 Picard - heart 3 Nog - leg 4 Geordi - eyes 5 ? 6 ? 7 ? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/82 "2003-03-10T22:53:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > I’m back!! Mwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!!! 🙂 > > **What was the name of the book that Jack Crusher gave to Beverly Crusher while she was in medical school?** > > **In which year did the Enterprise discover the Kataan probe?** > > **What is the Tamarian metaphorical phrase referring to achieving sudden insight or understanding?** 1)_How To Advance Your Career Through Marriage_ 2)2368 3) **gonzoron** already got it ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/83 "2003-03-10T22:59:01Z")
New TOS question: Who presided at Spock’s court martial? ---
**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:** [March 10, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/84 "2003-03-10T23:34:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Balance \* > \*\*New TOS question: > > Who presided at Spock’s court martial? \*\* Kirk, Spock, Pike, and the Talosians. Commodore Mendez’s presence was an illusion. I’ll be back with questions that I couldn’t find the answers to using Google. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/85 "2003-03-11T00:02:35Z")
Well done, **Dooku**. Tangentially, this would have invalidated the proceedings, as three command officers were not present. So I suppose that, technically, Spock wasn’t court-martialed at all. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/86 "2003-03-11T00:28:37Z")
Everything in _Menagerie_ involving Mendez was an illusion by the Talosians at Spock’s behest. And since Spock expunged the computer database, no record incriminates anyone. All StarFleet knows is Pike went missing, presumed dead, at near the same time Enterprise visited Starbase 6. The same kind of CYA was used by the conspirators in _STIII-TSFS_, though without Spock on the computer, they were found out in due course. Of course, the _Excelsior_ sabatage, the Klingon interaction, and the mutineers appearance on Vulcan were all hard to hide, too… Since StarFleet has a general order against contact with Talos, _that_ charade remains. Yes, I am a geek. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/87 "2003-03-11T02:22:01Z")
I give up. There exists no single factoid in the entire Star Trek Encyclopedia that cannot be found on line. Incredible. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/88 "2003-03-11T02:40:06Z")
Even the originally intended maximum velocity of _S.S. Yorktown_’s space-warp drive as stated in the series guide dated March 11, 1964? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/89 "2003-03-11T02:54:18Z")
Well, that isn’t in my encyclopedia. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/90 "2003-03-11T03:06:28Z")
Yeah, my pre-Trek Roddenberry stuff seems a little too obscure. if no one answers them tonight, I’ll post the answers and go back to actual series stuff. But, there is always stuff _related_ to Trek we could play with. Like, \*\*who has compiled a list of Star Trek nits including several books, a web site, and hundreds of newsletters? \*\* Naw, that would get out of hand. People would be asking **what role did Jeffrey Hunter (Christopher Pike) play in the 1961 M-G-M version of _King of Kings_?** Couldn’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/91 "2003-03-11T03:11:51Z")
In addition to the unanswerable question I posed, I have two more: In “The Cage,” who supplied the voice of “The Keeper?” In “The Menagerie,” who supplied the voice of “The Keeper?” In “The Cage/The Menagerie,” what was “The Keeper” called by the other Talosian? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/92 "2003-03-11T03:23:51Z")
**Mjollnir** ’s 1st two: Malachai Throne AKA Commodore Mendez ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/93 "2003-03-11T03:34:24Z")
Roddenberry had his people cast women in the roles of Talosians, and dubbed in male voices. This added to the alien effect as it played with the viewer’s mind. In Febuary of 1965, anyways. Now, we viewrs are much more sophisticated. And somewhat older. If even alive in 1965. ---
**Author:** ![Pantology](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Pantology](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantology)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/94 "2003-03-11T03:37:18Z")
Riker had an arm removed and reattached in the funky dentist chair episode, and Wesley Crusher had an arm blown off during an acrobatic flying maneuver gone horribly, horribly wrong. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\***Which recurring or main characters have had a (non-cosmetic) body part removed and replaced (with either the original or a new one). (I count 7, but I may be off.)** > > 1 Worf - spine > 2 Picard - heart > 3 Nog - leg > 4 Geordi - eyes > 5 ? > 6 ? > 7 ? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/95 "2003-03-11T03:39:07Z")
Someone has to know the Isis question. I mean, it’s not like it was a secret in 1968. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/96 "2003-03-11T03:51:42Z")
I thought of one. What is the Intrepid class starship’s maximum rated warp speed as stated in Caretaker? It’s sad that I remember this a whole eight or nine years later without aid of the Encyclopedia and after having seen the episode only once. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/97 "2003-03-11T07:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*SNIP > > People would be asking **what role did Jeffrey Hunter (Christopher Pike) play in the 1961 M-G-M version of _King of Kings_?** > > Couldn’t have that. \*\* * * * Jesus. (I’m not swearing.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/98 "2003-03-11T13:05:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Mjollnir’s 1st two: Malachai Throne AKA Commodore Mendez Are you sure about that? I don’t think that’s Malachi Throne I hear in “The Menagerie.” If so, they’ve done something to disquise it. Two possible reasons: a) They had to had a few lines of conversation from The Keeper that were not in “The Cage,” or b) Since Throne was already in the episode, they didn’t want people to recognize the similarities in the voices. (I also don’t know the answer to this one.) ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/99 "2003-03-11T13:29:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought of one. What is the Intrepid class starship’s maximum rated warp speed as stated in Caretaker? Warp 9.975 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818/100 "2003-03-11T13:46:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*Are you sure about that? I don’t think that’s Malachi Throne I hear in “The Menagerie.” If so, they’ve done something to disquise it. \*\* It’s what my book says. I don’t think either show had extensive enough credits to list it. **iva** , you are right about Jesus.;j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-game-for-trek-dopers/159818.md?page=6)