"Star Trek" 2009 Part I Trivia Quiz

Answer: in a shuttlecraft

Kirk's father and mother are onboard the USS Kelvin while it is under attack, by an enormous Romulan ship. Recently appointed Captain, George Kirk orders the evacuation of the Kelvin, including his wife, who is in labour with their child. Unable to abandon the helm, Kirk talks to his wife over the intercom, while she delivers their son, moments before the Kelvin, with George onboard, is destroyed. George Kirk is played by Chris Hemsworth.

Answer: travelling down the road at a very high speed

A very young Kirk 'borrows' a car and, although barely able to see over the dash, is tearing down the road in it, at high speed. Neither being hailed over the radio by his stepfather, owner of the car, nor being chased by a police officer slows him down one little bit. Pursued to the edge of a cliff, Kirk sends the car over the edge of the cliff, bailing out at the last moment. Jimmy Bennett plays the young Kirk.

Answer: They tell him that his father is a traitor.

When we first see Spock, he is being drilled by a computer on various topics, as are the rest of the Vulcan children. Afterwards he is approached by a group of children who, we infer from comments made by Spock, spend their time thinking up new taunts for him. He seems resigned to the situation until one boy calls his father a traitor for marrying a human, a lie that he cannot tolerate. This causes Spock to lose his control and fly at the other boys, spoiling for a fight.
The young Spock is played by Jacob Kogan.

Answer: her first name

Although Kirk asks Uhura for her first name on a few occasions, she refuses to tell him what it is. Later in the film, when Kirk and Spock are about to beam down to the Romulan craft, Uhura arrives to bid Spock a tearful farewell (revealing the fact that they are involved in a relationship) Spock uses her first name at this point. After she leaves, Kirk says "Nyota", with a definite question in his tone, but Spock says that he has nothing to say about the matter.
Kirk is played by Chris Pine, Spock by Zachary Quinto and Uhura is played by Zoe Saldana.

Answer: a comment McCoy makes about his ex-wife taking everything but his bones

As they become acquainted on the shuttle, McCoy complains bitterly about the dangers of space travel. Kirk points out that McCoy is signing up with Starfleet, which conducts all its business in space. McCoy replies by saying, " Yeah. Well, I've got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones."
It is after this that Kirk starts calling him Bones, so presumably this is where the nickname begins. Historically, naval surgeons have been given the nickname of 'sawbones', which is presumably where the nickname came from in the original series.
McCoy is played by Karl Urban.

Answer: green

Kirk and the roommate are locked in a passionate embrace on the roommate's bed, talking about how long they have alone before her roommate returns. Her skin is a bright, unmistakable green, although we never find out what race she is. Her roommate, who turns out to be Uhura, returns earlier than expected and Kirk hides under the bed, until Uhura figures out that someone is there.

In the television series, Kirk was very much a ladies man, and although this is often alluded to in the film, this is the only romantic encounter we actually see him in.

Answer: Dr. McCoy makes him ill and takes him to sick bay.

Citing regulations that allow him to bring Kirk onboard as his patient, McCoy shoots Kirk with a vaccine that will give him symptoms of a disease, allowing him to take his patient into sick bay. While in sick bay, Kirk hears reports of the lightning storm, and remembers reports of a similar odd lightning storm before the USS Kelvin was attacked.

He runs to the bridge to inform the Captain. This serious message is delivered while Bones is running around after him, giving him different injections to control his different symptoms, which include swollen hands and an inability to speak because of a numb tongue.

Answer: fencing

Pike accepts Sulu's assertion that he has had hand to hand combat training at face value. When Kirk asks Sulu what kind of training he has had, Sulu answers with "Fencing". Kirk looks a little sceptical, and we have to wonder at just how useful that would be in a fight, but Sulu does engage in some 'swordplay' with one of the Romulans, so it turns out to be of value after all.
Sulu is played by John Cho and Pike is played by Canadian Bruce Greenwood.

Answer: Chekov

After succeeding in their mission to disable the drill, thereby re-establishing communications, Sulu falls off the deck. Kirk leaps after him, intending to catch him and deploy his parachute, but that manoeuvre fails and the two are left hurtling towards Vulcan. The cadet in charge of the transporter is unable to lock onto the falling bodies, to bring them safely back onboard the Enterprise. Chekov announces that he can do it and runs to the transporter room where he does manage to lock onto them and bring them back onboard.
Chekov is played by Anton Yelchin.

Answer: He beams down to rescue the elders.

Even though he has been made acting Captain of the Enterprise (because Captain Pike was summoned aboard the Romulan ship), Spock beams to the crumbling surface of his planet, to rescue the elders. He feels that their survival is necessary to the continuance of the Vulcan culture.

His parents are among the elders and he manages to rescue his father. However while waiting to be beamed back onboard the Enterprise, the ground beneath his mother's feet crumbles, and she is lost.