Name That Episode #12 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Game

Under control of the game devices that Riker brought back from his excursion with the Ktarian woman on Risa, Dr. Crusher contacts Data over the com and asks him to come to sickbay. She quickly diverts the android's attention to something else in the room upon his arrival, and while his back is turned, a simple flip of the switch equipped to the ship's operations officer stops him from functioning, causing him to fall flat onto his face. Wesley eventually figures out later that Data must've been deliberately disabled as a preventative means of subduing the one person on the ship who is immune to the effects of the game devices.

In "Datalore", we do see Data 'deactivated' at the hands of his maniacal brother, but it happened as a result of a poison slipped into his drink and not as the result of the switch in his back being pulled.

In "The Offspring", it's not Data this time who gets deactivated by the flip of a switch, but instead, his newly-created android daughter, Lal, during a scene in his quarters when she is posing a series of too many unanswerable questions to her troubled creator.

Then in "Unification, Part 1", the good doctor doesn't disable Data nor has any need to; she only prepares him--and Picard--for cosmetic alteration of their appearance to pose as Romulans before their joint search for Spock.

Answer: Haven

At the very beginning of the episode, Yar and Riker are in the transporter room when a silver treasure chest with a man's face on the front of it is beamed up from the surface of the planet and onto the transporter pad. As Yar steps closer to examine the chest in detail, the face animates without any warning, causing the lieutenant to shriek as it announces the arrival of Lwaxana Troi and the Miller Family.

Then moments afterward, when a worried Counselor Troi enters the room, the treasure chest suddenly opens and spews forth a river of colorful jewels to everyone's astonishment, Yar picking up a few of the jewels in awe while the counselor explains that the jewels are actually wedding gifts.

In "The Arsenal Of Freedom", one could say that the holographic projections created by first the airborne weapons, then the main computer discovered by Picard and Dr. Crusher later on, were 'speaking', considering the projections took the forms of a Human Starfleet officer and the original creator of the weapons, respectively.

However, there are no priceless gems ever generated or made aware of by the alien technology. The same holds true for "Hide And Q", despite the omnipotent John de Lancie character magically producing the away team's favorite drinks and other exquisite items to show off his powers of the Q Continuum, and "When The Bough Breaks", even though the computer terminal called 'The Custodian', which Wesley interacts with while being held prisoner with the other children on Aldea, does in fact speak.

Answer: Suddenly Human

The Human boy named Jono, who was rescued along with the Talarian boys from the radiation-filled ship, is escorted by Worf to crew quarters after losing control while recovering in sickbay. After a brief conversation with the Klingon chief of security, Jono closes his eyes and begins singing a song in a monotone, high-pitched voice, which he explains is called 'the mourning' and what he confesses he will continue to do until he is reunited with the aliens who raised him and whom he considers to be his brothers.

Despite Worf's demands for him to stop, Jono continues to sing anyways, and a frustrated Worf simply leaves Jono's quarters without further incident. In "Heart Of Glory", the only passengers transported onto the Enterprise are the three Klingon survivors rescued from the damaged Talarian ship, and the only distinctive noise they make is the signature Klingon howling when the badly-injured Klingon dies on the operating table in sickbay.

However, as Worf is Klingon himself, the howling doesn't irritate him--nor anybody else present in the room--in the slightest.

In the beginning of "Loud As A Whisper", it's revealed that Worf did have some misgivings about Riva because of past relations concerning his Klingon race, but neither Riva nor any of the other aliens featured in this episode make any kind of distinctive noises that irritate him. Then in "Manhunt", it's true that the two Antedean 'delegates' (who turned out not to be delegates at all) wailed for food in their garbled, underwater fish-like voices when they have finally awakened from stasis in sickbay, but this fish-like noise doesn't irritate Worf either while he's assisting Dr. Pulaski in feeding the aliens their native delicacy swimming around in the barrels of liquid.

Answer: Phantasms

Geordi and Picard are on the holodeck traversing inside of Data's nightmares, arriving in the android's perception of Ten Forward when the same telephone that had been constantly ringing throughout the episode begins ringing again. Geordi soon realizes that the ringing is actually coming from within Data's body, so he opens up the cover to Data's chest where he does indeed discover a phone.

He picks up the receiver and answers (we the viewers do not hear any voices talking back to him on the other end), then tells the captain that the phone call is instead for him.

It turns out to be the holographic representation of Dr. Sigmund Freud speaking, ordering Picard to kill the lifeforms that had infected the Enterprise's new warp core. In "Elementary, Dear Data", despite much of the episode taking place in fictional London, England for the Sherlock Holmes mysteries on the holodeck, there is nobody seen making phone calls or answering a telephone.

The same holds true for the episode in which Professor Moriarty returns--"Ship In A Bottle"--as well as "Time's Arrow, Part 2" (nobody is seen using the telephone in 19th century San Francisco while Riker and the others are searching for Data).

Answer: Tin Man

This one's a little tricky! The alien entity called 'Tin Man', which was a space-faring creature in orbit of a star that was about to go supernova, only APPEARS to look like an underground cavern on the inside. When Data and the Betazoid telepath named Tam Elbrum have beamed over to the creature and are traversing its body, we see that the interior walls have distinctive ridges and a spongy surface which, to the naked eye, could be mistaken for being cave formations, but are actually the alien creature's living tissue.

In "Silicon Avatar", after Riker, Data, Dr. Crusher and the remaining colonists have fled the 'Crystalline Entity' and taken refuge inside of the nearby caves, they are then eventually rescued by the second away team consisting of Geordi, Worf and a group of medical officers.

In "The High Ground", Riker and Worf, along with the Rutian chief of security and two of her officers, beam down inside the underground caverns to rescue Picard and Dr. Crusher after the crew has been able to pinpoint the source of the device that enables the Ansata terrorists to use their dimensional shift technology.

Then in the fifth season finale, an away team ends up in a cavern on three separate occasions: first in San Francisco on Earth, when Data's severed head from the past is discovered; second, when the away team first beams down to the surface of Devidia II after pinpointing the source of the microscopic organism discovered with Data's severed head; then finally, when the away team returns to Devidia II to search for Data, which is when they also witness the blinding portal of light opening into the alien realm.

Answer: Pen Pals

When the Enterprise enters the system of volcanically unstable planets, the senior officers convene in the Observation Lounge to disucss the prospect of Wesley leading a team of officers to study the phenomenon. Riker, who had been designated to be in charge of Wesley's continuing education onboard the ship, eventually goes through with appointing Wesley to lead the planetary survey team, which ultimately works together in successfully reversing all volcanic activitiy throughout the system, including the planet where Data's new alien friend, Sarjenka, makes her home.

In "Hollow Pursuits", Wesley is never in command of any crewmembers; he only works alongside Geordi, Barclay and the rest of Geordi's engineering detail in order to solve the mystery of the antigrav unit problem and the various other 'minor' malfunctions happening onboard the ship.

In "Coming Of Age", although Wesley is part of the group of four candidates testing to gain entrance into Starfleet Academy, he isn't commanding this group nor anyone else in this episode.

Then in "Final Mission", it could be said that Wesley is put in charge of Captain Dirgo and the whole dismal situation down on the desert planet after the mining shuttle crashes and Picard is unable to advance on with the group, but the three men had not been part of any kind of scientific survey team. Picard was en route to mediate a dispute between the alien miners while Wesley was to simply accompany him with Captain Dirgo serving as his pilot.

Answer: The Schizoid Man

Early in the episode, Data is in the laboratory down on Gravesworld while in the company of Dr. Ira Graves when the cybernetic scientist beings whistling the chords to "If I Only Had A Heart" (it's the same song performed by the 'Tin Man' character from the classic Judy Garland film, "The Wizard Of Oz"), a song that Data had never hear of before.

Then later in the episode, after Dr. Graves has died and his conscious has been transferred into Data's body, the Enterprise's resident android is whistling the same chords from the "If I Had A Heart" song while he's on the bridge.

In "The Ensigns Of Command", the only songs of interest are the orchestral scores heard during Data's concert in Ten Forward at the very beginning of the episode, then the snippet of the recording of that concert heard in Picard's ready room at the very end.

There are no other songs or music of any interest, and certainly nothing composed or performed by any Federation or Starfleet officers down on the Tau Cygna V planet being targeted for colonization by the Sheliak.

In "The Quality Of Life", the Tyran scientist and the designer of the Exocomps named Dr. Farallon is never performing a song of any kind, and the same holds true for Dr. Kila Marr, the expert on the 'Crystalline Entity' whom Data is introduced to in "Silicon Avatar".

Answer: Half A Life

Always on a quest for love, the outrageous Lwaxana wastes no time in getting friendly with the alien scientist that comes to the Enterprise named Dr. Timicin. During one point after the alien's arrival, he, Geordi and Data are all working on a problem down in engineering when the meddling Betazoid interrupts, insisting that they all take a break to enjoy some pâté that she specially prepared.

Despite Geordi's objection, Lwaxana knocks all of the PADDs off the table at the station the men are working at, then orders her loyal valet, Mr. Homn, to lay out the silk tablecloth for the occasion.

In "Haven", Lwaxana does take part in the feast in the Conference Room commemorating the wedding between her half-Betazoid daughter and the man named Wyatt, but she doesn't knock anything onto the floor to make space for the exotic dishes laid out on the table.

In "Ménage À Troi", Lwaxana entertains the notion of fine dining again when she and Mr. Homn join Riker and Troi for a picnic, but they are all down on Betazed in an open garden when for the occasion. And the only other instance where we see her dining with other people is during the festivities in Ten Forward at the beginning of the episode; however, she's not knocking any equipment onto the floor here either. Finally, "Manhunt" showed the outrageous 'Daughter Of The Fifth House' scheming to have a romantic dinner with Picard in her quarters, but once again, she isn't knocking anything onto the floor in order to set the table for herself and the captain.

Answer: Attached

Worf is at the transporter room station when Picard and Dr. Crusher enter, the captain and the doctor expecting to meet with Ambassador Mauric of the aliens called the Kes. After a Kes representative informs Worf via a com channel that neither Picard nor Crusher have been received, we then see the captain and the doctor regaining consciousness from within a darkened prison cell. Moments later, a group of Prytt security guards enter inside, informing their Human captives that they are now prisoners, charged with conspiring against their planetary enemies, the Kes. Onboard the Enterprise, it's determined that the Prytt had used some kind of tractor beam technology to divert the transport away from its original destination inside Kes territory and directly into the prison cell.

In the first season episode, "The Battle", one could say that Picard was somewhat 'imprisoned' in the mind by the Ferengi brain-altering device, but he was never confined within any true physical prison walls--not onboard his former starship, the Stargazer, and certainly not onboard his own Enterprise.

In "First Contact", Picard does beam down with Troi to initiate dialogue with the Malcorian scientist in her laboratory, but he never ends up behind prison walls as a result of that transport. Then in "Unification, Part 1", Picard DOES successfully meet with an alien ambassador--the famous Vulcan we know and love who served under Captain Kirk named Spock--at the end of the episode, and he never ends up being confined within prison walls in his determined mission to do so.

Answer: Redemption, Part 1

This one's very tricky! First, keep in mind when answering this question that Worf himself is a full-blooded Klingon. That fact comes into play when thinking about the third-season episode, "The High Ground". Here, we see Worf--along with Riker--physically subduing a couple of the Ansata terrorists while they are en route to rescuing Picard and Dr. Crusher, and an Ansata definitely qualifies as someone outside of Worf's race.

In "A Matter Of Honor", we see Riker beating up the Klingon lieutenant shortly after being transported over to the Klingon ship, proving his worth as an honorable and loyal first officer.

Then the favor is returned--in a way--at the end, when the Klingon captain delivers a smacking blow to Riker for violating honor, knocking the Enterprise's first officer onto the floor.

In "Sins Of The Father", after visiting with Kahlest, the nurse who took care of Worf during the attacks on Khitomer, down on Q'onoS, Picard is accosted by two Klingon assassins, with whom he then proceeds to engage in physical combat.

The captain successfully stabs one of them with his concealed dagger while Kahlest herself stabs the other in the back from behind. So that leaves the fourth season cliffhanger, "Redemption, Part 1", as the correct answer. The only physical hand-to-hand conflict we see here is when Lursa slaps Toral across the face for making the blatant suggestion that Picard gets killed before the captain rules in their favor before the High Council; even that was a Klingon-versus-Klingon conflict. Besides that, there is actually zero physical hand-to-hand combat in this episode; there is no fighting at all between any Klingons and Federation crewmembers, nor between the Klingons supporting the Duras Sisters and their Romulan allies.