Name That Episode #34 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Parallels

This happened right from this episode's opening teaser. As Worf is piloting his shuttle back towards its mother ship, he is recording a personal log where he states that he won Champion Standing in a bat'leth tournament on a distant planet. He proudly holds up his trophy, which is a brown marble ball surrounded by curved silver plates and molded into the trademark shape of the Klingon logo.

This scene would play an important role later on in the episode, as when he plays back what he believes is the same personal log, the recording shows him talking about, instead, winning ninth place and holding up a much smaller trophy (the brown marble ball without the curved silver plates), indicating that something isn't quite right within his known universe.

Answer: Heart Of Glory

Near the beginning of the episode, the Enterprise is preparing to investigate the derelict Talarian ship. Picard asks Geordi about using the Visual Acuity Transmitter, which is implemented once Geordi, Worf, Riker and Data have beamed over. When Geordi switches the device on, the bridge crew gets to see everything that Geordi sees, except while he can see things in perfect detail, the bridge crew can only see low-resolution, colored distortions of those same images. Geordi ends up having to switch the device off entirely when he and the rest of the away team explores deeper into the heavily-damaged ship before ultimately finding the Klingon survivors.

Answer: Tapestry

There was a memorable yet gruesome scene that kept replaying every time Picard was given another chance by Q to revisit the past. The captain (in his younger years, of course) and his Starfleet Academy friends are fighting a group of Nausicans, who were cheating at the game of dom-jot, when Picard is suddenly stabbed by one of the aliens through the back with a long, serrated dagger.

After the final stabbing takes place, a laughing Picard is then seen back on the bio-bed in sickbay, having miraculously recovered from the fatal wound sustained from the projectile weapon blast at the beginning of the episode.

Answer: The Emissary

After Worf and Ambassador K'Ehleyr engage in a fierce round of calisthenics, the pair briefly reconcile and reconnect on an intimate level. In traditional Klingon fashion, a snarling and teeth-gritting Worf passionately takes the lovely Ambassador's hands into his, fingernails tearing at her flesh and causing blood to ooze out. Surprisingly, Worf doesn't have any of his own blood shed in return; perhaps K'Ehelyr wasn't quite ready to completely indulge in her voracious sexual appetite by inflicting a few savage, skin-piercing bites to the security chief's neck, eh?

Answer: Q Who

This was a memorable and humorous scene from the episode that marked the Enterprise's first encounter with the mysterious Borg. After Q teleports both himself and Picard off the shuttlecraft and back into Ten Forward, a not-to-happy Guinan emerges from the bar and confronts the omnipotent alien.

As Q begins to make a hand gesture in the air (making like some magician that's about to weave some kind of wicked spell), Guinan makes like a magician herself and counters with a menacing double claw gesture of her own.

Instead of transforming the resident El-Aurian into a bizarre lifeform (as he was so accustomed to doing on occasion), Q opts to engage in dialogue with her, saying that she's not who she appears to be (and I personally found it funny how he addresses her as 'this creature') while Guinan tells the captain that she and Q have 'had some dealings' in the past. We would soon learn that Guinan's race was nearly obliterated by Borg and, of course, get to know them as one of the most destructive alien forces ever encountered by the Federation.

Answer: Suspicions

Dr. Crusher decides to personally investigate the mysterious death of the Ferengi scientist, Dr. Reyga. And that means questioning the other suspects, beginning with the Human husband/Vulcan wife inside crew quarters. Not completely satisfied with what the married couple tells her, Beverly then proceeds to speak to the female Klingon scientist, whom she finds working at a computer station back in the Science Lab. Dr. Crusher presses for information until the Klingon woman, in a fit of rage, shoves Beverly into a wall on the other side of the lab.

Despite the insinuated accusations, no admittance to killing Dr. Reyga nor sabotaging the experimental project is given. Though shaken up, the Chief Medical Officer then leaves the lab without fighting back, and she's still no closer to solving the murder mystery.

Answer: Suddenly Human

The Human boy named Jono had been having difficulty adjusting to living among Humans since being rescued from the Talarian ship. Under the recommendation of Counselor Troi, Picard attempts to be a father figure to the troubled teenager. But despite all of the wisdom and guidance he received, Jono somehow still felt compelled enough to enter Picard's bedroom one night, stabbing the partially-awake captain in the chest (another gruesome scene, though easier to stomach without the visible gore this time).

The murder attempt is forgiven, of course, with Jono explaining, in essence, that the closer he got to the captain, then the further away he'd be removed from the life he knows: being among his Talarian family and fellow brethren.

Answer: Realm Of Fear

Our beloved Reginald Barclay is afraid that he is suffering from a case of temporal psychosis, following his experience after beaming back from the U.S.S. Yosemite. When Counselor Troi's pressure-point therapy doesn't seem to be working for him (nor anything else for that matter), he is then seen rapidly walking through a corridor, admitting to Troi, who had been contacted over the com by Geordi and starts walking with him at the same speed, that he couldn't sleep.

After a brief talk following their accelerated stroll, the half-Betazed determines that Reg is no longer fit mentally and relieves him of his duties.

Answer: Disaster

Needing to restore ship's power (and thus, to regain control of the ship), Riker and Data leave Ten Forward and traverse the Jefferies tubes together. But their progress is halted when they see a blinding white current of electrical energy flashing and flickering in the junction just outside of the exit. With no other options, it's agreed that Data will use his android body, which is made up of non-conductive material, to absorb the electrical charge.

The idea works; the electric current is severed with Data falling face-forward onto the floor, sustaining only burn scars to his chest.

Answer: Encounter At Farpoint

Crewmemebers are seemingly always falling onto the floor of the bridge during a Red Alert combat situation, but the series pilot is one of the rare exceptions. Q only appears in an attempt to get the crew's attention and actually never causes any sustained damage to the ship. Further, the omnipotent alien doesn't cause any crewmembers to become injured nor fall onto the bridge's floor, and the same goes for the alien lifeform that was perceived to be Farpoint Station (and its companion as well).

There were only a couple of times someone did end up on a floor in some manner: when Yar is put on ice by Q and falls into Data's arms, plus when one of Q's gunmen, who had just been karate-kicked and thrown onto the floor by Yar herself, is shot to death by another gun-wielding, trigger-happy goon.

But in both instances, the action takes place inside the courtroom within the Q Continuum. In "The High Ground", when the Ansata terrorists teleport onto the Enterprise, they blast several crewmmebers with projectile weapon blasts, including the unnamed male crewman taken out in Engineering, another unnamed male crewman walking with a female crewman in the corridor, plus Worf and Picard when the terrorists board the bridge. All of the victims are knocked onto the floor, with Picard and Worf surviving and the two unnamed crewman presumed dead.

In "Timescape", when Picard, Data and Counselor Troi transport onto the bridge, they find an unnamed crewman on the floor near the captain's chair and Riker on the floor directly in front of an unarmed Romulan, both frozen in time. But when time does resume, the helmsman is knocked from his conn station by the force of his exploding computer panel while Riker stumbles to the floor, both as a result of the Romulan ship (commandeered by the aliens masquerading as Romulans) attacking the Enterprise. Then in "Clues", the 'wormhole' that the Enterprise flies into turns out to be an energy field, a trap created by the Paxans used to thwart off potential invaders and take control of the ship passing through. The field is specially designed to cause everyone on the bridge (and everywhere else on the ship, simultaneously) to fall onto the floor unconscious (except for Data) so that nobody would ever have knowledge of the Paxans' existence.