Name That Episode #25 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Latent Image

A rather tricky one right off the bat! There were many episodes where a standard Federation shuttlecraft was in use following the construction of the first Delta Flyer in "Extreme Risk". However, "Timeless" and "Thirty Days" weren't among those episodes; only the Delta Flyer itself was in use in both episodes--to sync Voyager with the new quantum slipstream velocity and to explore the Monean's underwater planet, respectively.

In "Counterpoint", there WERE standard Federation shuttlecrafts in use, but they were piloted by the telepathic aliens called the Brenari, who were being held in transporter suspension in order to avoid being detected by the alien inspectors called the Devore, when they escaped into a wormhole leading out of Devore space at the end of the episode. So that leaves "Latent Image" as the correct answer.

In the Doctor's memory flashbacks, he is on the away mission with Harry and the female ensign Ahni Jetal in a standard Federation shuttlecraft when the trio are attacked by the energy discharge of the unnamed alien's three-pronged hand-held weapon.

Answer: Prey

Another one that requires a bit of thought! It wasn't often when Voyager was rolling over into an inverted position during the series, but when it did, it was usually as the result of an alien attack or spatial anomaly. In "The Void", during Voyager's first attempt to escape the anomaly that was pulling in ships and keeping them trapped inside, the exit aperture closed prematurely, sending Voyager spiraling backwards and somersaulting in several inverted spins before the emptiness of the starless region surrounded them again.

In "Scorpion, Part 1", following the away mission over to the derelict Borg cube, the Species 8472 bio-ship powers up and begins firing on Voyager, one of its shots sending Voyager spiraling into several inverted rolls (and all of the bridge crew tumbling to the floor) before Paris is able to initiate warp and escape the threat.

In "Elogium", in an attempt to outwit the sexually-attracted space-dwelling creatures, Janeway orders Paris to pilot Voyager into a gradual roll, as the creatures themselves had been exhibiting the same behavior.

The maneuver made Voyager appear like one of the aliens and, thus, less hostile to the alien creatures. So that leaves "Prey" as the correct answer. There is nothing in this episode causing Voyager to roll over into an inverted position--no anomalies, no directions by the captain, and no attacks from neither the Hirogen nor Species 8472.

Answer: Fair Trade

When Neelix and his Talaxian friend, Wixiban, are secretly meeting with the Kolaati in order to help Bahrat, the man in control of the space station, bring the group of alien mercenaries to justice, a canister of false warp plasma has been slowly leaking into the air while the respective parties have been discussing the trade. Against Neelix's warnings, one of the Kolaati men fires his hand-held weapon anyway, but instead of zapping Neelix and Wix, the weapon's discharge ignites the fumes of the false warp plasma, creating a giant green ball of flames that incinerates the one firing the weapon while everyone else safely dodges the explosion by taking cover on the ground.

In "Gravity", the only two people firing a hand-held weapon are Tuvok and the woman named Noss, as they are trying to stave off the attack by the alien mercenaries towards the end.

Although a couple of the mercenaries do get stunned by their weapons fire, nobody gets killed in any kind of explosion as a result of it.

In "The Killing Game, Part 2", even with all of the rifles being shot by both the holographic characters in the Nazi Germany simulation and some of Voyager's crew while under the influence of the Hirogen's neural implants, there are no explosions that result from their gunfire. The explosion from this two-part episode had already occurred at the end of Part 1 when the secret German bunker is bombed by the American allies, Janeway and Seven narrowly escaping unscathed. The same holds true for the earlier fourth-season episode "Nemesis". Although there are many Vori who end up getting killed, there are no explosions resulting from the weapons fire of neither the Vori, nor their sworn enemies, the Kradin, nor the brainwashed Chakotay himself.

Answer: The Voyager Conspiracy

The only thing Voyager encountered in space in this episode was the catapult that the crew eventually ends up using to travel three years closer to home. Although we clearly see energy discharges from the catapult locking on to the ship piloted by the alien man named Tash before he vanishes into space, we never actually see the same thing happen with Voyager; we only learn about it from Janeway's log entry near the end of the episode.

In "Elogium", one of the bigger forms of the space-faring flagellating aliens that are sexually attracted to Voyager smacks the ship around, instigating what the crew understands to be an act of dominance in the aliens' mating ritual.

In response, Janeway orders for Voyager to ram directly into the alien using the forward section of the ship.

In "The Swarm", dozens of the ships piloted by the mysterious aliens end up landing directly on top of Voyager near the end of the episode during their momentary but failed attempt to seize Voyager and her crew. Then in one of the coolest scenes of the whole series, the member of Species 8472 being hunted by the Hirogen in "Prey" is seen walking along Voyager's exterior, apparently able to breathe in outer space (and, presumably, in other inhospitable environments outside of fluidic space) without the necessity of humanoid spacesuits.

Answer: Fair Haven

Janeway's romance with the holodeck character Michael Sullivan featured a friendly game of arm-wrestling at Fair Haven's local Irish pub. The two were all alone at the time, a perfect chance for them to get all nice and cozy. This happened shortly after Harry and another one of the Fair Haven holodeck characters had engaged in an arm-wrestling match earlier; Harry was victorious in that match.

In none of the other three episodes is a member of the crew arm-wrestling with somebody, even though in "Living Witness", the re-created Chakotay, Neelix, Harry, Paris and Tuvok of the Kyrians' imagined 'Warship Voyager' do engage in a fierce brawl in the briefing room while in "Tsunkatse", there is plenty of brawling going on in the arena, but with cheering spectators in attendance.

Answer: Friendship One

This one's a bit tricky! Voyager sends the second incarnation of the rebuilt Delta Flyer down to the nuclear winter-devastated planet in search of the Friendship One probe while Voyager remains in orbit for the duration of the episode. In "Nightingale", we get a rare chance to see Voyager getting repairs to its exterior while it is landed on the surface of an uninhabited planet during daylight.

In "Dragon's Teeth", Voyager initially lands onto the upper layer of the Vaadwaur homeworld in order to escape the onslaught of the Turei.

In a few scenes, we get to see the surrounding surface through Voyager's viewports via the mess hall. "Demon" was the only episode of the fourth season where Voyager lands onto a planet's surface. The sentient 'biomimetic fluid' aliens attempt to trap Voyager there by creating an expanse that pulls Voyager down deeper into its core. Janeway, however, ultimately agrees to allow the aliens to duplicate the entire ship and its crew before Voyager departs.

Answer: Time And Again

When Janeway, Paris and the alien boy named Latika are being escorted to the polaric energy manufacturing plant, one of the men holding the three hostage instructs Janeway to tell the guards that she's there to negotiate a settlement with the company; else, Latika will be the first one to get shot, and another one of the men holding them captive is seen training his weapon on the boy. Janeway, however, tells the guard that she's a hostage, which initiates an exchange of weapons fire between the men and the guards that leaves Paris severely wounded in the crossfire.

In "Child's Play", it's true that Icheb was being used AS a weapon by his Brunali parents to fend off the Borg. His mother simply injects the pathogen into Icheb while his father holds him in place without threatening or warning in any way.

Besides this, nobody else is threatening the usage of a weapon on any children in this episode, whether on the other ex-Borg kids or the other Brunali down on the planet's surface. In "Alliances", the only children featured in this episode were among the group of the Trabe being held captive by the Kazon; nobody was ever threatening to harm them directly with weapons fire.

In "Homestead", the only alien child featured (other than Naomi Wildman) is the Talaxian boy named Brax, and neither the alien miners attempting to seize the asteroid nor anybody within the Talaxian colony threatens Brax with a weapon at any time during the episode.

Answer: Scorpion, Part 1

The third-season cliffhanger featured the powerful Borg and the even more powerful Species 8472, but Voyager was not yet prepared to battle neither the collective nor their new fluidic-space enemies, as much of the episode concentrated on the crew coming up with a way to avoid the Borg altogether via 'the northwest passage'. We only see one Borg cube scanning Voyager before rejoining an armada fleeing in the opposite direction and another Borg cube placing a tractor beam on Voyager before Janeway establishes negotiations to exchange the nanoprobe technology in return for safe passage through their space.

Besides that, we see Species 8472 destroying two Borg cubes in the very beginning of the episode and annihilating an entire Borg planet, plus two more Borg cubes, at the very end as the third season officially draws to a close.

In "Equinox, Part 2", Janeway orders Tuvok to lock a tractor beam onto the Ankari ship, effectively forcing the peaceful aliens to cooperate in summoning the nucleogenic lifeforms so that she can track down the Federation science vessel and bring Captain Ransom to justice.

In "Flesh And Blood", we see Voyager deploying weapons fire on the hologram-controlled Hirogen ship in an attempt to take the holograms offline from a safe distance. In "Basics, Part 1", Voyager is seen deploying phaser fire on several of the Kazon ships, most predominantly during the final showdown with the three Kazon ships when they finally seize control of the Federation ship and send the crew to their new home on the primeval planet, Hanon 4.

Answer: Ex Post Facto

After Tuvok has proven Paris' innocence in the murder of the Banean scientist, Tolan Ren, and proven that Tolan Ren's, wife, Lidell Ren, and the Banean doctor who performed the memory transplant on Paris, to both be responsible instead, the guilty Lidell tries to run out of the room, but she's quickly grabbed by the Banean security guards before her pathetic attempt at escape is successful.

In "Critical Care", with all of the sick alien patients in the 'Code Red' facility, nobody is ever seen running or rushing to escape from anybody; the patients there were basically too sick to even move at all.

In "Fair Trade", there was in fact a bit of running going on during the two separate trade sessions involving Neelix and his Talaxian friend Wix--near the middle of the episode when they're exchanging the narcotics to the blue-faced alien drug dealer, then at the end, when they are plotting to bring the alien criminals called the Kolaati to justice--but in each respective instance, the drug dealer's secret accomplices are rushing to physically attack Neelix and Wix while the Kolaati are trying to flee the scene before getting captured by the space station's controller, Bahrat, and his security detail.

In "Living Witness", there are several angry Kyrians running around vandalizing the museum following the Doctor's recounts of the events towards the end of the episode. The museum's curator named Quarren does try to stop one of the vandals from destroying the museum any further, but that vandal isn't seen trying to run out of the museum at the time. Besides that moment, the Doctor, when he's initially activated by Quarren, does run out of what he perceives to be the re-created engineering; plus, the Kyrians are seen running when they're trying to sabotage engineering in the imagined 'Warship Voyager' simulations, then seen running again in the Doctor's recount of the events when they've taken Seven and another crewmember hostage at gunpoint. In none of these three instances, however, are there people being held back from trying to run out of a room.

Answer: Infinite Regress

A very tricky one to close out Quiz #25! A good strategy in figuring out the correct answer to this question is to think to yourself, "what event from an earlier point in time does a crewmember witness in this episode?". Let's start with the first-season episode "Parallax". Near the end of the episode, in the tense moment when Janeway and B'Elanna are faced with the decision to try to rendezvous with the Voyager moving on the port side versus the Voyager holding position on the starboard side, Janeway reminds the half-Klingon engineer that the Voyager on the port side is a time-delayed reflection of Voyager's initial entry into the singularity. Thus, in seeing the Voyager moving towards the singularity on the port side, the two women are, in essence, witnessing something that had already happened at the beginning of the episode.

In "Death Wish", when the suicidal Q is trying to elude our beloved Q from the "Next Generation" series, he transports Voyager back in time to the formation of the universe itself, represented by a blinding white vortex seen via the main viewscreen on the bridge.

Here, it is explicitly time travel that the entire Voyager crew experiences, and it all happens thanks to Voyager's encounter with the comet at the beginning of the episode. In "The Voyager Conspiracy", it is Seven's assimilation of the ship's data and records, including the crew's encounter with the alien named Tash and his catapult device, that leads her to begin investigating Voyager's first arrival into the Delta Quadrant. While working in astrometrics, she uses Neelix's undamaged ship logs to re-create a visual recording of Voyager destroying the array with the usage of the blue tricobalt devices on the astrometrics viewscreen. The destruction of the array, of course, had been seen by the entire bridge crew in the series pilot, as Janeway wanted to prevent the Kazon from using the array's technology to annihilate the Ocampa. So that leaves "Infinite Regress" as the correct answer. When Seven experiences the Borg equivalent to 'multiple personality disorder', she does adopt the personalities of seven different individuals, which includes a Klingon, a Vulcan, a Ferengi, a child named Meryl and a woman whose husband died at the Wolf 359 attacks on the Federation. But she doesn't actually witness any events while suffering from either one of these personalities, and nor while she's locked in a mind meld with Tuvok while the enigmatic Species 6339 is attempting to take back their Borg vinculum weapon, which Voyager had retrieved prior to the mind meld, by force.