Name That Episode #2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Invasive Procedures

After the group consisting of the Trill, his female alien lover and his two Klingon accomplices board the station, they hold the senior staff hostage at Ops. The Trill sets a example of how serious the situation is by landing a phaser shot to O'Brien's shoulder. Later, when the still-injured O'Brien, Kira and Sisko are discussing Dax's chances of survival, one of the Klingon guards (played by the very-talented Tim Russ, no less!) who's gotten tired of hearing all the talking takes his anger out on O'Brien by kicking the station's chief engineer and knocking him to the floor, re-injuring the phaser-burned shoulder.

In "Tribunal", it's true that O'Brien was shot by a blast from one of the Cardassians' hand-held weapons, but he was onboard the runabout and not onboard the station when that happens.

In "The Way Of The Warrior", even though the Klingons do end up boarding the station and stunning several security personnel with their hand-held weapons, O'Brien is fortunately not one of the targets of the weapons fire.

Then in "By Inferno's Light", there were no Klingons holding anybody hostage; their military presence on the station was agreed upon by Sisko and Gowron.

Answer: Progress

The sub-story in this episode features Commander Sisko's son and Quark's nephew scheming to make profit from some Cardassian sauce that Quark has in excessive quantities. They try to sell it to an alien, but he only offers a set of bolts that are said to be priceless. Upon acquiring the bolts, the boys then try to sell them to a Bajoran, who only offers an exchange for ownership of a piece of land.

They're disappointed up until the very end, when they discover that a new facility being constructed on Bajor requires usage of that very same piece of land. We never see it in this episode, but we're to assume that this land would be eventually sold, giving Jake and Nog the profit that they had been seeking all along. "In The Cards" showed Jake and his alien friend scheming to not sell merchandise, bur rather, obtain a rare Willie Mays baseball card for Captain Sisko. Jake and Nog aren't scheming to sell anything while working alongside Captain Waters and his Red Squad cadets in "Valiant", and Nog doesn't make an appearance at all in "The Muse".

Answer: Equilibrium

Not yet realizing that the Dax symbiont possessed the memories of a violent Trill host, the station's chief science officer believes herself to be hallucinating when a recurring musical score keeps entering into her mind. But before we actually see her being haunted by the music and its accompanying imagery, she's playing that same music on Jake's keyboard-like device at the very beginning of the episode while inside Commander Sisko's quarters. Later on in the episode, while onboard the Defiant (which is en route to the Trill homeworld), Dr. Bashir researches the haunting music on the computer, where he and Commander Sisko eventually make the startling connection between the apparent 'hallucinations' and the plot by Dax's people to cover up the whole joining operation.

Answer: Babel

With the station's replicator system having technical issues, Quark is unable to service his demanding customers at the bar. So he attempts to stay in business by secretly going into empty crew quarters and replicating everything he needs. In one scene, he is pushing what at first appears to be an ordinary cart when he enters through closed doors, but the moment he orders a drink from the replicator, the cart transforms into the familiar orange glob that eventually materializes into the station's head of security.

Answer: The Darkness And The Light

While passing by Bajor en route back to the station, Worf and Dax are preparing to pick up Kira's friend, who fears that she may be the next target of the group that was part of the Shakaar Resistance cell. Complications arise the instant transport is initiated, and when the beam is finally stabilized, the two Starfleet officers are soon looking down helplessly at a dead corpse.

It's revealed later, after a bit of investigation and an autopsy, that technology created by the vengeful Cardassian was the culprit. "In Purgatory's Shadow" did show Worf onboard a runabout, but the passenger riding with him is Garak, and not his Trill wife-to-be.

In "One Little Ship", although we do see Dax onboard a runabout (the one that's shrunken down to the size of a housefly and is the focus of the entire episode, in fact!), Worf himself is not onboard the 'one little ship', nor any other runabouts for that matter.

Then in "The Sound Of Her Voice", there are no alien females that anyone is attempting to transport onboard a runabout at all.

Answer: The Jem Ha'dar

Commander Sisko manages to make the right adjustments to enable Eris, the then-unknown Vorta woman who was being held 'captive' with him and Quark, to use her powers to disable the forcefield ring. As soon as they are free, the group is confronted by a pair of Jem Ha'dar guards. Sisko physically subdues one while an alert Quark blasts the other with the hand-held weapon that Sisko had retrieved from the first guard who was taken down. All of this occurs after what had originally supposed to be a simple getaway for Sisko and Jake to explore the Gamma Quadrant and to have some father-and-son time alone.

This situation does not arise in neither "The Maquis, Part 1" nor "Past Tense, Part 2". Further, in "Little Green Men", Quark, along with his brother and nephew, do not encounter any aliens at all when they go back in time to early twentieth-century Earth.

Answer: The Assignment

The Pah-wraith's possession of Keiko was gradually taking its toll on a very aggravated and helpless Chief O'Brien, who had made his way onto the Promenade in hopes of speaking with Captain Sisko. Keiko, however, is standing at the railing on the walkway above him, worriedly calling out to O'Brien before she falls face first flat onto the floor below. Presumably, the Pah-wraith forced her to fall, serving as a threatening reminder that it was still in control and that it would indeed kill her should O'Brien not follow its instructions.

This incident does not occur in any of the three other episodes.

Answer: Far Beyond The Stars

This was an interesting and unique episode in that, instead of one of the main characters from the twenty-fourth century timeline imagining a fictitious character in another place and time (such as on the holosuite, for instance), it's the fictitious character from another place and time that imagines the main characters in a futuristic setting.

When the episode shifts to the New York City setting of the 1960's, we meet Benny, the lone black writer at a critically-acclaimed magazine (played by Avery Brooks).

The office receives several hand-made drawings, one of which instantly captivates Benny and fuels an idea for his writings about a Captain Benjamin Sisko in outer space. The drawing clearly depicts what we the viewers already know and recognize to be the structural exterior of Deep Space Nine.

But with the racial prejudice of the times, Benny's works would ultimately be denied publishing, and thus, the fulfillment of his dream.

Answer: Crossover

The young doctor and the Bajoran first officer venture through the wormhole and arrive at the alternate-universe but familiar space station. While Kira tries to negotiate passage back to the other side with the alternate Kira, Bashir is taken to meet the alternate Odo.

But this particular Odo is stern, mean and arrogant, and whenever Bashir says something that his temporary slave master perceives as a bad joke, he gets slapped across the face. Ultimately, the doctor is forced to work as a miner alongside the alternate Miles O'Brien before they, Kira, and the other renegades on the station mount a valiant escape. "In Purgatory's Shadow" saw the real Bashir being held captive with Garak, General Martok and Worf in the Jem Ha'dar prison while the Bashir impostor was the actual one roaming around on Deep Space Nine.

The real Bashir does get knocked in the face once by one of the Jem Ha'dar guards, but that is the extent of the physical assault that happens to him during the whole two-part adventure. Further, the young doctor is not being slapped by anybody in neither "You Are Cordially Invited" nor "Rejoined".

Answer: In The Cards

This one's rather tricky! At the beginning of "In The Cards", we did see Sisko gripping and tossing his trademark baseball around inside his office...but it's the ONLY time that anybody does so during the entire episode. The primary story did, in a way, focus on baseball, as Jake and Nog are attempting to obtain a rare Willie Mays baseball card for Jake's dad.

But at no time during their roundabout efforts to obtain the card did either of them, or any of the other characters (the senior staff, the auction participants, the Dominion visitors, Kai Winn or the 'crazed scientist' whom they were trying to obtain it from himself), physically hold a baseball in their hands as Captain Sisko did.

In the series pilot, during a couple of scenes where Sisko is communicating with the wormhole aliens, he finds himself standing on a baseball field, dressed in a white baseball uniform. We do see him holding a baseball as he's explaining to the aliens (represented by the batter and Jake, in the catcher's position) how the game is played.

However, we also see several other players (presumably further representations of the non-corporeal aliens) wearing the same uniform as Sisko, throwing and caching baseballs in the background. In "The Visitor" (my #1 favorite episode of the fourth season because it was so touching), the elder Jake is seen gripping and lightly tossing the baseball on his desk both at the beginning (before Melanie, his 'visitor', arrives) and at the end (after Melanie leaves with his unpublished notes and before he drifts off to sleep). Then at the very end of the series finale, after Sisko has parted ways his comrades, there's a brief scene where the newly-promoted Kira is sitting down in the chair inside Sisko's former office, triumphantly gripping her former captain's trademark baseball and tossing it into the air for old time's sake. Sisko's baseball--something that truly was left behind indeed.