Name That Episode #15 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Power Play

Riker sustains a broken arm when the shuttlecraft transporting him, Counselor Troi and Data crashes on the moon. When all of them, plus Chief O'Brien (who arrives later equipped with transporter enhancers) are temporarily knocked unconscious, we see blue orbs of energy enter into the bodies of everyone, except Riker. Later, Dr. Crusher surmises that, due to a chemical released into Riker's body caused by his broken arm, the neural energies from the dead officers of the U.S.S. Essex could not take possession of the commander's mind as they did with his other three crewmates.

In "Shades Of Gray", Riker did sustain an injury to his leg while down on the planet with Geordi at the beginning of the episode (although we never actually saw the injury take place, only the aftermath) due to the alien microbe that infects him.

However, the infection that's attempting to spread into his brain isn't contagious to anyone else onboard the ship. In "The Survivors". Riker does accompany the away team down onto the planet inhabited by Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge, but he does not sustain an injury; further, there is no mental invasion nor alien possession whose effects he becomes immune to in this episode.

Then in "Phantasms", Riker, nor anybody else on the ship, embarks on any away missions at all.

Answer: Reunion

At the request of the Klingon ambassador, K'Ehleyr, Picard meets with the leader of the Klingon High Council onboard the Klingon cruiser who is dying from prolonged poisoning. Before he takes his last drink of wine and dies in his chair, he tells Picard that he's chosen him to be the arbiter between the two factions vying for control of the empire (led by Gowron and Duras, respectively), due to the captain's positive reputation for strong diplomacy.

Initially, Picard declines, stating that he should've been informed before the decision was made.

But after further consideration, weighing the potential involvement of the Federation in a possible Klingon civil war, Picard eventually accepts, then later proceeds with being in charge of the Rite Of Succession ceremony back onboard the Enterprise.

By the time the fourth-season cliffhanger "Redemption, Part 1" aired, Picard was already in his role as arbiter for the Klingon High Council, and a determined Gowron reminds Picard of that when informing the captain that the Duras Sisters are plotting leadership of the High Council.

In "Sins Of The Father", Picard does accept the role extended by Worf to be a Cha'dich and stand at Worf's side before the High Council, but the Arbiter Of Succession role is never presented to the captain. Then in "A Matter Of Honor", there is no Klingon role that is extended nor bestowed upon him at all.

Answer: Allegiance

The alien impersonating Picard puts the romantic moves on an unsuspecting Dr. Crusher, inviting her to dinner in the captain's quarters. The impostor then invites the doctor to dance with him, turning on some smooth jazz music to further set the romantic mood..

Then in an intimate moment, the pair stops dancing to lock lips. Unfortunately, all of this took place while the REAL Picard is imprisoned inside the aliens' test lab, completely unaware of the impostor's outlandish antics. Despite the REAL Picard sharing moments of closeness to Dr. Crusher in both "The Naked Now" and "Attached" (their flirty behavior as a result of the 'intoxicating virus' and confessing their true feelings for one another when camping at night, respectively), they don't dance together--nor even alone or with another partner altogether, for that matter--in either of these two episodes.

The same holds true for "The Inner Light", as Crusher spent the entire episode trying to revive her captain from his neural shock as a result of the alien probe.

Answer: Transfigurations

After detecting lifesigns down on the planet, an away team consisting of Riker, Data, Geordi and Dr. Crusher beams to the surface where they discover the soon-to-be 'John Doe' barely alive and partially ejected from his spacecraft. Unable to have him beamed directly to sickbay due to his severe condition, Crusher asks one of her crewmates to provide a neural boost to help stabilize the alien man. Geordi volunteers, and Crusher promptly affixes a brain-regulating device to his head and to the alien so that their respective nervous systems can be linked to her medical tricorder.

In "I, Borg", the away team does discover the barely-conscious soon-to-be-called 'Hugh' amongst the wreckage down on the planet, but Geordi's brain energy is never linked to the drone whose life Dr. Crusher is adamant about saving.

In "The Next Phase", there was nobody clinging on to life onboard the Romulan ship nor any special devices affixed to Geordi's head to help in resuscitating anyone. Then in "Night Terrors", although the away team did discover the barely-conscious Betazoid behind closed doors at the beginning of the episode, the crew was onboard the Federation starship, the U.S.S. Brittain, and not onboard an alien vessel.

Answer: First Contact

This one's a little tricky! In "First Contact", despite the tensions that arose due to the Malcorians' discovery of Federation operatives having been on their planet, culminating with the intense physical confrontation during Riker's escape and the phaser blast directed at Krola inside the medical facility, nobody succumbs to death in this episode--not any of the Malcorian scientists or doctors nor anybody from the Enterprise itself.

In "The Chase", Picard's archaeology mentor, Professor Galen, dies in sickbay following the attack onboard his shuttle where he sustained a wound from a Yridian disruptor blast (not seen, but diagnosed by Dr. Crusher).

In "A Matter Of Perspective", the alien scientist working to perfect the Krieger wave technology is proven to have attempted to murder Riker as the commander is transporting off the space station. An energy beam that was meant to target Riker instead reflects in the opposite direction and hits the reactor, causing the station to explode and, consequently, the scientist's unintended suicide.

Then in "Home Soil", it's determined that the blasts from the laser drill, the machine inside one of the rooms within the planet's terraforming facility, are what caused the death of the assisting scientist named Malencon.

Answer: The Emissary

Picard and his crew receives instructions from Starfleet Command that a special emissary will rendezvous with the Enterprise with further instructions for a secret mission. The ship intercepts a probe traveling at warp speed, which is tractored then brought into the transporter room. Emerging from the probe is the beautiful half-Klingon woman, K'Ehleyr, who shows to have familiarity with the Enterprise's resident chief of security, Worf, when the senior officers meet her in the Observation Lounge.

In none of the other three episodes is there a living humanoid exiting from the interior of a launched probe.

Answer: Shades Of Gray

Not knowing the complete nature of Riker's injury to his leg and not wanting to risk immediately beaming him to the ship, Dr. Pulaski agrees to make her medical diagnoses by beaming down to the planet with a medkit herself to examine the ship's first officer in person, despite her utter dislike for using the transporters.

In "Samaritan Snare", we did see Dr. Pulaski away from the Enterprise--at the Federation starbase to perform the cardiac replacement procedure on a reluctant Picard near the end of the episode--but that episode aired a few episodes before the second-season finale; thus, it cannot qualify as the correct answer.

The same holds true for "Up The Long Ladder"--we did see Pulaski at the cloning facility (still a medical crisis, in a way), but again, this is an episode airing much sooner than the second-season finale.

Then in "Pen Pals", Pulaski doesn't leave the Enterprise at all; she remains on the ship and is ordered to perform the procedure on Data's alien friend, Sarjenka, which will wipe the little girl's memory of her ever having been onboard the ship.

Answer: Encounter At Farpoint

Riker enters the forest environment on the holodeck where he finds Data perched atop a branch high in a tree, whistling the chords to the classic English folk song. Data, however, is not quite able to get the notes right to complete the song. That's when the Enterprise's new first officer joins in to whistle the correct notes, the very impressed android marveling at the commander's skill.

In none of the other three episodes is Data whistling a song while in Riker's presence.

Answer: Devil's Due

The alien female who is eventually proven to be a false representation of 'Ardra', a mythical demon according to the literature of the Ventaxians, harasses Picard and his crew in the early parts of this episode. Following the away team's transport back onto the Enterprise after the meeting with Ventaxian officials regarding the Federation hostages, 'Ardra' is seen already seated on the bridge in the captain's chair, much to the distaste of Picard and everyone else.

The captain orders Worf to take the mischievous alien into custody, but when the Klingon chief of security approaches, a forcefield is magically conjured up, knocking him back and raising further alarm amongst the bridge crew. 'Ardra' and her magical powers (which were later proven false) were almost comparable to that of the omnipotent Q, who did put up his signature lattice forcefield to block the path of two security officers attempting to take him into custody at the beginning of the series pilot, "Encounter At Farpoint". Worf, however, was not the victim off the forcefield this time around. "Imaginary Friend" allowed us to see yet another mischievous alien at play--the energy being that manifested itself as Clara's playmate, Isabella.

However, 'Isabella' never attacked Worf by conjuring up any forcefields, and nor is she ever seen sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge. Then in "Tin Man", the only two aliens of interest are the eccentric Betazoid named Tam Elbrum and the space-faring entity nicknamed 'Tin Man' itself; neither are ever seen approached by Worf to be taken into custody, and it wasn't even a remote possibility with the latter.

Answer: Legacy

A fairly tricky one to close out this quiz! First, in answering this question, there are three women to consider: Tasha Yar, her sister Ishara and her half-Romulan daughter, Sela. In "The Mind's Eye", the mysterious figure hiding in the dark shadows onboard the Romulan ship is revealed to be Sela in the fifth-season premiere, "Redemption, Part 2".

She witnesses a bound and restrained Geordi being subjected to the horrific images to his brain by his Romulan captors, the mental suffering conditioning him in preparation for his task to kill the Klingon.

In "Yesterday's Enterprise", when the away team transports over to the past-timeline Enterprise-C, Tasha Yar (still a lieutenant) and Riker together find the severely-injured but alive Lieutenant Castillo amogst the wreckage.

Then in "The Arsenal Of Freedom", after Picard and Crusher have fallen down into the abyss below, Tasha Yar, Data and Riker eventually outsmart the airborne alien weapons and convene at the location of the hole where their crewmates' tumble took place.

The trio is exchanging dialogue while looking down at their fallen captain and severely-injured chief medical officer, trying to figure out a means of rescue while also trying to determine how to shut down the alien program. So that leaves "Legacy" as the correct answer. In this episode, Ishara leads the away team into the underground installations while helping to search for the two crewmembers missing from the Federation ship called the Arcos. Ishara, however, is never actually seen witnessing these two crewmembers, despite her knowledge of their location of captivity; she breaks away from the group to pursue her own hidden agenda when Riker and the others successfully find them on their own, imprisoned behind a closed door. Besides that, there is no other living crewmembers whom Ishara encounters inside the underground installation; the members of the enemy faction called 'The Alliance' who get phasered cannot be considered here, as they were not assigned to any Federation starship.