Name That Episode #20 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Datalore

'The Crystalline Entity'--the giant snowflake-looking, space-faring lifeform made its debut in this episode and was the alien that is depicted in the hand-made drawings (presumably from a child's point-of-view) found by the away team on the walls inside the secret laboratory where Data and Lore were originally manufactured. That lab was discovered to be hidden behind an artificial rock face (according to the sensor readings from Geordi's VISOR) down on the current wasteland of a planet where Data was originally retrieved by the Human colonists.

Answer: Parallels

Towards the end of the episode, the Enterprise crew of a future timeline--where Riker is now captain--attempts to recreate the conditions that led to Worf jumping back and forth from universe to universe. But a rift in space causes all of the other alternate universes to merge into the current universe, which generates the appearances of an infinite number of Enterprises.

After determining the exact point and time of the initial accident, Worf is sent back on his shuttle, but not without interference from one of the Enterprises, which begins deploying weapons fire upon him in an attempt to keep him in the present universe.

When the future-timeline Riker establishes a com link with the attacking Enterprise, he sees a distressed and crazed duplicate of himself on the bridge, the duplicate Riker explaining that he and his crew are under attack by the Borg and have no desire to be sent back to their present universe. Worf's shuttle ultimately reaches the original point of the accident safely and, like all classic time-travel trek episodes, everything is restored back to normal.

Answer: Booby Trap

After his disappointing romantic date at the beginning of the episode, Geordi sits at the bar in Ten Forward and seeks Guinan for advice on getting a lady to fall for him. When Geordi asks his El-Aurian friend the first thing she notices in a man, she tells him the head, explaining further that she's attracted to bald men (presumably because of something in the past that Picard did for her as, at the time, we knew Picard and Guinan shared a past and Picard was the only prominent bald man known to viewers within the series).

Answer: Allegiance

While the real Picard has been kidnapped and taken to an unknown alien location, the fake Picard is arousing suspicion among the crew, doing things that the real Picard would never do. In one scene, the fake Picard arrives in Ten Forward, announcing that he's ordering ales for everyone in the room before leading everyone in an old drinking song.

A concerned Riker and Troi, however, don't participate; they only watch as the unusual scene around them unfolds. Then near the end of the episode, the unnamed aliens that abducted the real Picard materialize with the Enterprise's captain back onto the bridge.

While the aliens are busy explaining the reasons for their actions, a series of eye signals and gestures between the real Picard, Riker and Worf comprises the silent communication that leads to the activation of a forcefield that is erected around the unsuspecting kidnappers.

The confinement is only temporary, however, as the real Picard explains that he simply wanted his captors to experience what it's like being held in captivity and how he was able to give the order to erect the forcefield without giving verbal commands.

Answer: Cost Of Living

The 'trek' portion of this two-story episode involves the Enterprise inadvertently encountering a space-faring, metallic lifeform shortly after the destruction of an asteroid. As the lifeform gradually begins worming its way through the ship, it leaves behind a reddish-orange secretion wherever it goes.

In one scene, Data and Picard are in the turbolift en route to the bridge when the secretion is seen (and heard!) dripping onto the turbolift's hand rail. Shortly after, the ship begins experiencing power drains everywhere, and Data must physically pry open the doors to the stalled turbolift in order for him and his captain to escape from the sticky blob.

Answer: Manhunt

When the outrageous Lwaxana Troi and her trusty companion, Mr. Homn, arrive on the Enterprise via the transporter room, Riker happily agrees to carry the Betazoid's suitcase all the way to her quarters. But he quickly realizes how heavy the overstuffed bag is when he tries to pick it up with one arm. Riker then has to resort to using both arms to barely lift it off the floor, struggling even to walk through the corridor with it en route to Lwaxana's quarters.

He--and the suitcase--manage to arrive there in one piece, and after setting the heavy luggage inside, Mr. Homn, miraculously exhibiting superior strength, casually clutches the very same luggage and silently moves it into another room without any problems at all. Definitely one of the funniest scenes from this episode!

Answer: Encounter At Farpoint

Very rarely was the Enterprise's primary Transporter Room officer seen working elsewhere on the ship. Right from the beginning in the series pilot, however, Chief O'Brien is one of the crewmembers posted in the drive section following the ship's separation, which was ordered by Picard as a preventative safety measure against the powers of the mysterious and omnipotent Q. O'Brien, in fact, is never seen again for the remainder of the two-hour adventure after his brief scenes onboard the battle bridge.

In "Transfigurations", it's true that O'Brien only appeared during the brief scenes in sickbay to receive treatment for his arm injury, but as this episode aired late in the third season and much later than the series pilot, it cannot qualify as the correct answer.

Then in both "The Bonding" and "Contagion", we do see O'Brien working at his usual post in the Transporter Room--beaming the away team off the surface of the planet where the young boy's mother dies under Worf's command and beaming Picard and the away team down to the Iconian lab, respectively.

Answer: Where Silence Has Lease

Presumably as part of the experiment being conducted by the strange lifeform named Nagilum, a Federation starship called the U.S.S. Yamato mysteriously appears inside the same void that the Enterprise is trapped in. Wanting to investigate, Picard has Riker and Worf beam over to the sister ship, but instead of arriving directly on the bridge as planned, they somehow materialize in separate corridors. Nevertheless, the commander and the security chief eventually rendezvous, but a new problem surfaces when, upon stepping onto the bridge, a duplicate Riker and Worf are seen stepping in another doorway, and they are also about to step foot onto the bridge.

A panicked and paranoid Worf, who can't understand the paradox of what he's seeing, then has to be calmed by Riker before he loses it completely.

Answer: Genesis

At the very beginning of the episode, Dr. Crusher is performing an analysis on Spot in sickbay, informing Data that his cat will be having some kittens soon. When Nurse Ogawa joins them after working on another patient, she informs both the ship's chief medical officer and operations officer that she is expecting as well, which garners warm congratulations. Later in the episode, once the intron virus has begun spreading through the ship, a de-evolved primate-looking Nurse Ogawa is seen in sickbay a second time, though she's lying on a biobed while Data is attempting to extract healthy antibodies from her unborn fetus. Data had determined that, after realizing Spot's kittens hadn't devolved along with everyone else--including Spot herself--the protective coating in his cat's womb must've shielded the kittens from the intron virus. By applying his theory to the pregnant Nurse Ogawa, Data eventually is able to reverse the mutating effects and restore the crew back to normal.

Answer: Realm Of Fear

Quite often, episodes that focused heavily on Chief O'Brien also featured his lovely wife in some manner or another, but that was not the case in "Realm Of Fear". While much of the episode dealt with Barclay and his paranoia about transporter psychosis, which meant sharing numerous scenes with the Enterprise's primary Transporter Room officer, Keiko was never seen at all.

In "Rascals", Keiko--along with Picard, Guinan and Ensign Ro--is seen as a kid right after the transporter accident when they all appear on the Transporter Room pad at the very beginning of the episode; Keiko is further seen later running around the corridors with the rest of the kids injecting hyposprays into the Ferengi that have taken control of the ship.

In "Power Play", Keiko is among the civilians being held hostage in Ten Forward by the possessed Counselor Troi, Data and her own husband; she's also later seen in the cargo bay when she, Worf and Picard have been taken as individual hostages towards the end of the episode.

Then "In Theory" allowed us to see Keiko again in Ten Forward and again with her husband, though this time, Chief O'Brien isn't possessed; the happy couple is passing the time with Data and the young female officer who has romantic interest in him, Jenna D'Sora.