Name That Episode #6 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Business As Usual

The silly little side story in this episode is Chief O'Brien's dilemma in getting his newborn son to stop crying whenever he puts him down. At the beginning of the episode, Jake enters O'Brien's quarters and offers to babysit while the station's chief engineer goes to work.

As soon as O'Brien hands Yoshi off to Jake, the newborn begins crying uncontrollably, which prompts O'Brien to immediately take his son back into his own arms, carrying the baby to work with him instead. But at the end of the episode, when Worf enters O'Brien's quarters to remind Keiko's husband about reporting for a duty shift, O'Brien has the Klingon commander hold Yoshi while fetching a bottle in another room. Miraculously, and to O'Brien's surprise, Yoshi doesn't cry at all in this instance, the humorous irony being that Worf wasn't ever known for being much of a father figure, let alone an infant caregiver.

Answer: Things Past

Following the confrontation with the Cardassian guards in the past-timeline Terok Nor, Garak reveals to Captain Sisko and Odo that he'd secretly pilfered a scanning device from one of the guards that attacked him. He scans Sisko and Odo with the device, then himself, each time explaining that the device registers the one being scanned as a Bajoran, despite their Human, Changeling and Cardassian appearances, respectively.

This provides further evidence that the Cardassian guards and the other Bajoprans do in fact recognize Garak and his comrades as fellow Bajorans.

At that point of the episode, however, the mystery as to why the trio, plus Jadzia Dax, has even gone back in time to appear on the station in the first place remains unsolved.

Answer: Armageddon Game

After Bashir, Chief O'Brien and their colleagues on board the T'Lani ship have successfully disabled the lethal weapons called 'harvesters', they are shocked when a group of armed Kelleruns enter the lab and begin firing on everyone, including their own people. Bashir and O'Brien manage to physically fight off a couple of the attackers, but the T'Lani scientists aren't as fortunate, getting killed in all of the crossfire. Shortly thereafter, when the security fail-safe is activated, which threatens to eradicate all personnel inside the lab with a wave of deadly energy, the two men prepare to transport down to the surface of one of the planets in the T'Lani system, equipping themselves with the hand-held weapons that they retrieved from their fallen attackers.

Answer: Progress

At the beginning of this episode, the occupants of Bajor have been ordered to evacuate so that a large-scale procedure to boost the planet's energy can be conducted. However, there is one elderly Bajoran man who refuses to leave. Kira tries to reason with the man after being kindly taken into his home, but ultimately, she takes action into her own hands to force the issue.

At the end of the episode, she first uses her phaser to blast an outdoor tile structure being used a warming apparatus, then uses a makeshift torch to set fire to the house, the man reacting with angry outbursts while the flames are rapidly spreading.

Answer: Vortex

This first-season episode marked one of the earliest opportunities for Odo to potentially discover the true origin of his people. The alien found guilty of murdering one of the two men secretly meeting with Quark informs the Constable about a 'vortex' in the Gamma Quadrant where other Changelings are believed to have lived.

But upon arriving on the planet inside the vortex, there are no signs of any shape-shifters at all...except for the tiny one affixed to the alien's necklace, which transforms into a key that the alien uses to unlock the door to a stasis chamber in the ground.

The opened door then reveals a young woman inside, and we soon learn that she is actually the alien's daughter and his sole purpose for wanting to enter into the vortex all along. Back on board the shuttle later on, the grateful alien father gives Odo the necklace as a memento, hoping that it will help track down the real origin of the mysterious shape-shifting race someday.

Answer: Indiscretion

One of the more humorous moments of the series shared between off-and-on enemies Gul Dukat and Kira occurs when the two of them are together on the planet, searching for the wrecked Cardassian ship which Kira believes may contain Bajoran survivors. They are walking inside a cave when Dukat sits down to rest on some rocks, but he immediately jumps up and wails in pain when he realizes something has stuck him in his bottom.

A genuinely-concerned Kira comes over to tend to the ailing Cardassian, and what she yanks out of Dukat's bottom is a long, sharp spike, inciting some laughter out of both of them.

Answer: The Abandoned

During the opening teaser, an unnamed alien female approaches Quark inside his bar, making provocative moves on him while persuading him into spending his precious latinum on some parts salvaged from a damaged ship. Later, as Quark is rummaging through the salvaged items in the cargo bay, he begins hearing a baby crying from somewhere within the room.

He follows the sound until he arrives at a closed compartment, reacting with an expression of shock upon opening the lids. In the very next scene, we see Quark speaking with Commander Sisko in the infirmary, the now-silent alien infant resting on a biobed and under the care and observation of Dr. Bashir.

Answer: Dramatis Personae

Once he's established that something strange is going on with the other members of the senior staff on board the station, Odo pays a visit to Commander Sisko, who is in his quarters drawing what he reveals to the shape-shifter as being a clock (and an unusual one at that) on a large square drawing board.

At the end of the episode, once the mind-controlling energy matrix has been removed from the station, we see the actual constructed version of the drawn clock sitting atop the desk inside Sisko's office, the commander admitting to Kira that he has absolutely no memory of making it.

But we lever learn what led the mind-controlled Sisko to draw nor create the clock in the first place, and if there was a special significance tied to the clock itself, we never learn about that either.

Answer: Shakaar

The fun little side story in this episode evolves around O'Brien having won nearly half a century mark in consecutive dart matches at Quark's bar, even defeating Commander Sisko during the opening teaser and Jadzia Dax midway through. But when the station's chief engineer is pitted against a Vulcan science officer for the 47th match (the number '47' popped up so many times on trek episodes that it's almost hard to forget it was the 47th match here!), he is discovered by Dr. Bashir to have a torn rotator cuff when he prepares to throw his first dart, wincing in pain as he grabs his right shoulder.

The good doctor then relays the bad news that the injury will require surgery, thus forcing O'Brien to forfeit the match while in turn forcing a greedy Quark to pay up his share of latinum to the Vulcan science officer whom he bet against.

Answer: The Darkness And The Light

This one's a little tricky! In many of the 'Bajoran-themed' episodes throughout the series, somebody accesses one of the magical Bajoran orbs for a specific purpose; however, that not the case in "The Darkness And The Light". At the very beginning of the episode, what may have looked like one of the ancient Bajoran orbs that the monks inside the cave were circled around was actually a mystical lamp, which projects beams of energy that results in the death of one of those monks.

In "Emissary", when Sisko meets with Kai Opaka in the cave, the Kai accesses an orb that allows the commander to speak with the prophets for the very first times; he will continue to do so periodically for the remainder of the series pilot.

In "Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night", Kira accesses the Orb Of Time to seek the truth about Gul Dukat and her mother, returning back to the point of her life when she was a child and the Bajorans were still enslaved by the Cardassians.

Then in "Prophet Motive", after Grand Nagus Zek is suspected of behaving abnormally, Quark accesses the Orb Of Prophecy that Zek had been intending to sell to the Bajorans, discovering that the prophets had altered Zek's mind so that profit would no longer be the Grand Nagus's only life desire.

But after the station's resident Ferengi bartender reasons with the wormhole aliens, Zek's original mentality is restored, and plans to sell the orb to the Bajoran people proceeds as originally planned.