"Star Trek" Regular Cast Actors - Multiple Roles Quiz

Answer: William Shatner - James T. Kirk

George Samuel Kirk, brother of Captain James Kirk, was a civilian research biologist living on Deneva with his wife Aurelan and his son Peter. While there, the planet was infiltrated by flying parasitic beings, which attacked the population. The parasites infected the people with a growth that attacked the nervous system of its victims, forcing them to help them with transportation to another world. Resisting this compulsion caused extreme pain, and in many cases death.

George's wife Aurelan managed to get a brief distress call out, which brought the USS Enterprise. By the time the Enterprise arrived, George was dead and his wife and son were infected. ("Star Trek", episode "Operation -- Annihilate!")

George was said to be called Sam by his younger brother Jim. But in the prequel series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", La'an Noonien-Singh said, "Absolutely no one calls him George."

For his portrayal of George Kirk (the body thereof), William Shatner donned an orange jumpsuit and wore a mustache. He was only seen as the landing party was in the Kirks' home on Deneva, as he was rolled over to reveal his face.

George Kirk was later portrayed by Dan Jeannotte on nine episodes of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".

Answer: Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel

Number One was the first officer of the USS Enterprise in the 2250s. She took over command of the Enterprise when the ship was supposedly rescuing survivors of the SS Columbia, when Captain Pike was kidnapped by the underground dwellers of Talos IV, the Keepers. (The survivors ended up being illusions that the Keepers projected into their minds.) Finding phasers couldn't cut into the entrance where the Keepers took Pike, Number One ordered that a laser channeling the ship's power be used. It apparently was also ineffective. She observed the resilient entrance, saying that half the hilltop should've been blasted away. The ship's doctor Dr. Boyce remarked that it probably was, but the Talosians illusions were probably keeping them from seeing the truth. ("Star Trek", pilot episode "The Cage")

Footage from this pilot episode were incorporated into "Star Trek", episodes "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II".

Number One's given name was revealed in the prequel series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds": Una Chin-Riley. It's speculated that her first name, Una, was a play on the Spanish word "uno", meaning "one". She is played mainly on this series by Rebecca Romijn, and in a flashback by Anna Claire Beitel.

Several other characters in the "Star Trek" universe are referred to as Number One when they are first officers: William Riker, Michael Burnham, Saru, La'an Noonian-Singh, and Marissa Flores.

Answer: Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel

Majel Barrett supplied the voice of the USS Enterprises' computers and USS Voyager's computer on most of the episodes of "Star Trek", "Star Trek: The Animated Series", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and "Star Trek: Voyager". Her emotionless portrayal and literalness were sometimes played for humor.

One episode of "Star Trek", "Tomorrow is Yesterday", had the computers replying with a flirty voice instead of their normal emotionlessness. (It kept calling Kirk "dear".) This is because the female technicians on Cygnet XIV felt the computer needed a personality, so they gave it one: a female one. Kirk "fixed" it by recording a maintenance note on the computer: "Maintenance note. My recording computer has a serious malfunction. Recommend it either be corrected, or scrapped. Compute." The computer replied sadly, "Computed..."

Answer: Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel

Lwaxana Troi, the mother of Counselor Deanna Troi, is one of the more colorful characters in the "Star Trek" universe. She is a native of the planet Betazed, whose inhabitants are telepathic (with notable exceptions). She is a Federation ambassador, who often calls on the USS Enterprise-D to ferry to her destination. Her titles include being a daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, the holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed. She would state this ceremoniously any time her authority or importance was questioned. (Her daughter Deanna once reminded her after one of her declarations that The Sacred Chalice of Rixx was "an old clay pot with mold growing inside it".)

She often jokes with non-telepaths, pretending that they are thinking erotic thoughts about her when they're not. (Captain Picard, in particular, doesn't think this joke is funny at all.)

Though she acts very gregarious, she has a tragic history. Her first daughter died during a family picnic, and her Starfleet husband died during an away mission.

Lwaxana appeared in six episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and three episodes of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". Lwaxana was played by Majel Barrett, wife of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. Barrett said about her casting, "Gene came home one day and said to me, 'Majel, I have a great part for you, and guess what - you don't have to act!'"

Answer: Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel

Lt. M'Ress was an operations division officer who served under Captain Kirk during the latter part of USS Enterprise's five-year mission. She is a Caitian, a feline humanoid species. She served as a relief communications officer on the bridge. (Four episodes of "Star Trek: The Animated Series")

In "Star Trek: Lower Decks", another Caitian officer was introduced: Dr. T'ana (voiced by Gillian Vigman.). While M'Ress was very calm and practically purred her speech, T'ana has a very forceful voice and swears quite a lot.

Answer: Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel

Lt. Bryce was a member of the survey ship USS Ariel. As they were surveying the planet Lactra VII, she and her crewmates were captured by the Lactrans and put in a zoo. They were rescued six weeks later by a landing party from the USS Enterprise. ("Star Trek: The Animated Series", episode "The Eye of the Beholder")

Answer: James Doohan - Montgomery Scott

Lt. Arex was a command division officer who served under Captain Kirk during the latter part of USS Enterprise's five-year mission. He is an Edosian, a six-limbed species, with three legs and three arms. He served mainly as the navigator, though he manned the Science station on the bridge in the absence of Science Officer Spock. (Nine episodes of "Star Trek: The Animated Series")

In "Star Trek: Lower Decks", other Edosians are seen. The first speaking role was the Division 14 medical specialist (voiced by Fred Tatasciore, in episode "Much Ado About Boimler"). The second was Toz, a female commanding the Dove, a health spa ship for Starfleet officers (voiced by Mary Holland, in episode "Room for Growth").

Answer: James Doohan - Montgomery Scott

Robert April was the first captain of the USS Enterprise, preceding Christopher Pike. His wife, Sarah April, served as his chief medical officer. During a voyage to Babel on the USS Enterprise, where the Aprils were to attend a retirement party, they were onboard when the ship was pulled by a ship Kirk was trying to rescue from flying into a supernova. The ship was transported to an anti-matter universe, where time flowed backward. The crew began to age backward, turning into adolescents, then children, then babies. The Aprils, being in their seventies, were the only two people still old enough to operate the ship well enough to journey back to the matter universe. ("Star Trek: The Animated Series", episode "The Counter-Clock Incident")

Adrian Holmes portrayed Robert April in the prequel series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".

Due to budget constraints, "Star Trek: The Animated Series" rarely had guest voice actors. Over the course of its 22 episodes, only eleven guest actors were hired for parts. (Most notable were Mark Lenard (Sarek), Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones), and Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd), for they were voicing characters that they played in the original "Star Trek".) For most male guest characters, James Doohan provided their voice. He was well-known for his mastery of accents (Scottish is not his native accent), so providing unique voices came easily for him.

Answer: James Doohan - Montgomery Scott

Sargon was a disembodied being found on planet Arret. His race had destroyed itself thousands of years ago. He and the remaining members of his race transferred their consciousnesses into receptacles and placed in a protected vault on Arret. In the 23rd century, he sensed the Enterprise and summoned it to Arret. Only three of the Arretians were still alive. Sargon proposed a body swap; he, his wife Thalassa, and Henoch the leader of the opposing faction to Sargon would trade bodies with Kirk, Dr. Mulhall, and Spock respectively for the purpose of building android bodies that they could occupy. However, Henoch found he much preferred Spock's body. He tempted Thalassa into keeping Dr. Mulhall's body. He also adulterated the medicine that allowed Sargon to safely occupy Kirk's body. Even though Kirk's body died, Sargon did some creative switching around and saved the three Enterprise crews' consciousnesses; also, he transferred himself into the Enterprise itself. He then tricked Henoch into leaving Spock's body. He and Thalassa realized that their powers were too much to return to the galaxy, and decided to consign themselves to oblivion. ("Star Trek", episode "Return to Tomorrow")

William Shatner naturally portrayed Sargon as he occupied Kirk's body, with his voice modulated with echo effects (as were Nimoy's and Muldaur's). But when Sargon was either in his receptacle or in the Enterprise, he was voiced by James Doohan.

Answer: Diana Muldaur - Katherine Pulaski

Dr. Miranda Jones was a telepath, trained as a psychologist. She was assigned to communicate with Ambassador Kollos, a Medusan. Medusans are non-corporeal, and the sight of one by a corporeal being induces madness. (Whether Medusans are too ugly or too beautiful is up for debate.) A special visor allows beings like Vulcans to view Medusans, but humans still cannot. Dr. Jones, being human, can still view Kollos with the visor.

She purports that this is because she spent four years on Vulcan learning mind control techniques.

However, the real reason is that she is blind. She manages to cope in society by wearing a sensor web, which looks like a lacy shawl. ("Star Trek", episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?")

Answer: Diana Muldaur - Katherine Pulaski

Dr. Ann Mulhall was one of three Enterprise crew members selected by the Arretians to be hosts of their consciousnesses while they built android bodies. But because of mechanizations by her husband's enemy Henoch, they realized that they should not return to the galaxy. She and her husband Sargon had one last kiss, then consigned themselves to oblivion.
("Star Trek", episode "Return to Tomorrow")

Answer: Ethan Phillips - Neelix

Dr. Farek was a Ferengi physician onboard the Krayton, commanded by DaiMon Tog. Farek was serving on the Krayton when Tog met Lwaxana Troi and fell in love with her, not only for her beauty, but also the fact she was a mind-reading telepath, whom he thought he could seduce into being his business partner. Tog therefore kidnapped her, along with William Riker and Deanna Troi.

Farek disliked Lwaxana. After he revealed that she was just playing Tog to get a hold of his command codes, Farek instead proposed using his mind scanner to learn why Betazoids are telepathic and see if he could recreate the power in Ferengi. He was stopped by Riker and Troi before he'd done lasting damage to Lwaxana. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", episode "Ménage à Troi")

Answer: Ethan Phillips - Neelix

The maitre d' worked at an unnamed nightclub in the Dixon Hill holodeck program. He was activated along with the Dixon Hill simulation when Picard and Lily Sloane were trying to hide from Borg invading the Enterprise-E. When Borg entered the holodeck, the maitre d' greeted them, but advised them that they were not dressed well for the establishment.

They tried to scan him, and his image was disrupted by their scanning beams. They then threw him across the room as they continued looking for Picard and Sloane. ("Star Trek: First Contact")

Answer: Ethan Phillips - Neelix

Ulis was a 22nd-century Ferengi pirate who once captured the NX-01 Enterprise by planting a Trojan horse device that released a sleeping gas into the air system. He and his crew - Muk, Grish, and his cousin Krem - then boarded the Enterprise and began stripping it of everything they thought was of value.

But efforts by Tucker (who avoided the gas by being in decontamination), Archer (awoken to direct the Ferengi to his treasure vault), and T'Pol (awoken by Tucker with the Ferengis' medicine) thwarted the Ferengi and sent them on their way with Krem in command of their ship and the others bound. ("Star Trek: Enterprise", episode "Acquisition")

Answer: Armin Shimerman - Quark

Letek was a member of DaiMon Tarr's crew, who stole a T-9 energy converter from a Federation outpost on Gamma Tauri IV. He led the Ferengi half of a landing party (the other half from the Enterprise-D) to investigate a force field emanating from Delphi Ardu IV which had stopped both of their ships. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", episode "The Last Outpost")

Answer: Armin Shimerman - Quark

DaiMon Bractor was the commander of the Kreechta, who happened upon the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Hathaway performing war games. He erroneously thought the Hathaway must hold some worth, being attacked by a Galaxy-class starship. The Starfleet ships had their weapons set to minimal levels, which they were stuck in after Bractor attacked them. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", episode "Peak Performance")

Answer: Armin Shimerman - Quark

The Betazoid Gift Box was an artifact designed to present bonding gifts to betrothed brides. It had a face that could talk upon being activated, delivering a message to the recipient. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", episode "Haven")

Answer: Armin Shimerman - Quark

Herbert Rossoff was a writer who worked a 1950s-era science fiction magazine, "Incredible Tales", within a Wormhole Prophets'-induced hallucination in Captain Sisko's mind. He was the staff member of the magazine who was most incensed because his editor Douglas Pabst (René Auberjonois) rejected Benny Russell's latest story because the main character was black. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Far Beyond the Stars")

Answer: James Doohan - Montgomery Scott

Ari bn Bem was a Pandronian who was assigned to the USS Enterprise with the rank of honorary commander. His mission was to observe the missions of the Enterprise as they worked on a series of exploratory and contact missions. He spent the first six missions in his quarters, observing nothing. But when the Enterprise was to investigate a planet of pre-civilization beings, he chose to be on this landing party. He altered the transport coordinates slightly so that Kirk and Spock dropped into a body of water. Bem jumped in to assist them, and with his then-unknown abilities as a colony creature, he replaced Kirk and Spock's communicators and phasers with fakes so that he could observe how the Starfleet officers would handle their encounter with the primitive beings without their technology. ("Star Trek: The Animated Series", episode "Bem")

Another Pandronian, Shari yn Yem (voiced by Lennon Parham), was a Starfleet drill administrator. She would put Starfleet ships' crews through various drills enacted in holographic pods. She was in danger of losing her position because the crews she tested would pass her drills with no problems. So she rigged the drills that the Cerritos crew would experience, making them fail and thus justifying her position. She hadn't counted on Ensign Boimler actually doing well in "Borg Encounter"; he was still in the simulation trying to get a perfect score when Yem's true purpose was discovered. ("Star Trek: Lower Decks", episode "I, Excretus")

Answer: Ethan Phillips - Neelix

The Grand Proxy was a high-ranking official working for the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. He would act as the Nagus's representative in situations where the Nagus either couldn't or didn't want to attend.

Two Ferengi - Arridor and Kol - were trapped in the Delta Quadrant after they traversed the Barzan Wormhole, but then didn't re-enter it in time to get back to Barzan. (The wormhole ended up being erratic, with its exit outside of the Alpha Quadrant exiting at random places.) They land on planet Takar and take advantage of the natives' mythology to assert themselves as Holy Sages.

When Voyager detects their replicator technology operating, they investigate and find out what the two Ferengi are doing. Janeway has them beamed up. But the Ferengi argued that their appearance jibed with the Takarians' legend of the Holy Sages, so forcibly taking them would cause chaos on Takar. Janeway reluctantly agreed and sent them back.

During a staff meeting, they discuss what they can do to get the Ferengi to leave on their own. Asserting that since the Barzan Wormhold auction was hosted by the Federation, it was Voyager's responsibility to retrieve the Ferengi.

They perform cosmetic surgery on Neelix to pass him off as the Grand Proxy. (Grand Proxy Proxy?) He goes down, telling Arridor and Kol that Voyager has stabilized the wormhole which enabled him to come to the Delta Quadrant and recall them to Ferenginar. He also seizes their assets and starts handing out coins to the Takarians in the courtyard. While Neelix is doing this, the Ferengi frantically search their records for how to handle the Grand Proxy. Since all of their research says that there are no loopholes to use, they'll use the "unwritten rule": if no rules apply, make one up. The one they make up is: "If you don't like the message, kill the messenger." ("Star Trek: Voyager", episode "False Profits")

Ethan Phillips did so well playing a false Ferengi, probably because he had previously played Dr. Farek on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". He later played Ferengi pirate Ulis on "Star Trek: Enterprise".