Fractured "Star Trek" Characters Quiz

Answer: Captain Kirk

"Star Trek", the original series was introduced to viewers in 1966, and ultimately proved incredibly successful, spawning several more follow up series over the years, set in different times and with different characters - and with fascinating, absorbing story lines.

Captain James Tiberius Kirk from the original "Star Trek" series is the dashing and daring leader of the Enterprise, that wonderful, very large spaceship that took its viewers into futuristic breathtaking adventures. Kirk is a bit of a ladies man (he could, in fact, be likened to a tomcat), and is prone to breaking the rules whenever he thinks best, but he is also brave, brilliant, and always willing to try a new way of achieving escapes from, or solutions to, whatever challenging twists and turns fall to the lot of the Enterprise crew. He is also very handsome, which most definitely adds to his appeal. In fact, in its early days, Kirk IS the Enterprise.

Answer: Doctor McCoy

Doctor Leonard McCoy is the Chief Medical Officer aboard the original Enterprise. He's brilliant, but cantankerous, and possesses a dry wit that he often employs against Spock, the crew's half Vulcan First Officer and Science expert. Both McCoy and Kirk are good friends, with a relationship that verges on brotherly, although the same doesn't exactly describe the relationship between Spock and McCoy. Spock's relentless logic tends to get under McCoy's skin at times, and if Vulcans could be described as having a sense of humour, the thought sometimes occurs that Spock is deliberately pulling McCoy's suspicious leg.

Answer: Captain Picard

Captain Picard is the Commanding Officer of the Enterprise in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". He is completely different from Captain Kirk - in looks, character and behaviour - but just as impressive. Calm, incisive, highly intelligent and with a crew utterly loyal to him in every way, Picard, who comes to us with hardly a hair left on the top of his head, is brilliantly portrayed - and, because he takes himself rather seriously, often provides unexpected moments of humour. I love Captain Picard.

He puts the sexy back into bald.

Answer: Beverly Crusher

Beverly Crusher is the Chief Medical Officer in "The Next Generation". A completely different character to that of Bones (Doctor McCoy) in the original series, Beverly is a tall, beautiful redhead, but don't let her looks fool you for one moment. She is an exceptional doctor, cool, analytical, never afraid to try something new, passionate at times (she and Jean-Luc have an ongoing will-they-or-won't-they relationship right through the series) and the mother of the brilliant young ensign, Wesley Crusher.

Answer: Constable Odo

Constable Odo is the Chief of Security on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and takes his job VERY seriously. He is lacking a sense of humour in almost every way except for the times he locks horns with the station's lovable would-be criminal, Quark. You'll occasionally then hear a rusty chuckle from the cynical Odo whenever he foils another of Quark's get-rich-quick schemes. Odo is a changeling, able to take on any shape he wishes in his rigid pursuit of justice, but he chooses to maintain an almost human shape for the sake of convenience.

The one thing that tends to make Odo more human than any form he assumes, is his deep abiding love for the space station's First Officer, Kira Nerys. This is finally rewarded in the latter part of the series.

Answer: Jadzia Dax

Jadzia Dax is the Chief Science Officer aboard Deep Space Nine. She is a Trill who shares a symbiotic relationship with a previous symbiont, but although she retains many of his abilities and knowledge, she is also her own person. Extremely intelligent, she contains, within her psyche, several lifetimes of accumulated knowledge of the other symbionts her previous host has absorbed. Jadzia, who presents as cool and unflappable, has rather a wicked streak to her nature, and doesn't mind mixing at all with some of the station's shadier characters - including that perpetual lovable rascal, Quark.

Answer: Morale Officer Neelix

Possibly the most lovable character of all the Star Trek faces who have flitted across our screens for so many wonderful years, Neelix is not only the Morale Officer on "Star Trek: Voyager", but also its cook and Ambassador. How's that for multi-talented? Neelix is a Talaxian and one of the very few remaining members of that race left after their home was destroyed by the Haakonians. Wandering around the galaxy as a space trader, we meet Neelix, when, assisted by the Voyager crew, he rescues his true love, Kes, from the hands of future long term enemies, the Kazon. Neelix and Kes then decide to stay on with Voyager as it makes its long, long way back to the Alpha Quadrant. And Neelix is endlessly, wonderfully entertaining.

Answer: Chief Engineer Torres

B'Elanna Torres is the very feisty half human, half Klingon, very brilliant chief engineer aboard "Star Trek: Voyager". She butts heads with everyone around her, but underneath her aggressive outer covering, she constantly struggles with her Klingon side, bitterly resenting it for a long time, until she finally accepts that it is an integral part of her nature.

A wonderful ongoing storyline through this series is the attraction between B'Elanna and Voyager's helmsman, Tom Paris (he controls her temper beautifully), their eventual wedding, and B'Elanna giving birth to their own interracially mixed child.

Answer: Jonathan Archer

Although "Star Trek: Enterprise" is the sixth of the Star Trek series, it is set 100 years before the original first series. That takes a little getting used to at first, actually a lot of getting used to, but, as with all the Star Trek series, it eventually wins the heart. Jonathan Archer is the captain of this brave new series as he takes his crew off into space in the very first Enterprise starship with its less than state of the art fittings we had grown to love.

He's brave, strong, very easy on the eye, willing to risk all, and rather resentful of the fact that the Vulcans withheld so much information from humans as to what's out there - until they decided humans were ready for it. Who could not resent that!

Answer: Chief Medical Officer Phlox

Doctor Phlox is the Chief Medical Officer aboard the very "first" (6th) Enterprise. He is a Denobulan member of the Interspecies Medical Exchange Program and volunteers to stay on with the Enterprise crew after his initial task is complete. Phlox is fascinated by humans, is endlessly amused by their behaviour, cheerfully tries out his new medical experiments on them, and embarrasses them continually by his frank comments on their sexuality. Like all members of his race, he hardly sleeps at all, except for a type of hibernation of several days once a year, he has three wives who each have three husbands, and when alarmed, his head puffs up like a beach ball.

He also has a very, very wide smile which evokes a reaction hovering between alarm and amusement from all who experience it.