Name That Episode #27 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dreadnought

A tricky one right off the bat! It's true that the 'Dreadnought' missile featured in the second-season episode by the same name originally had the voice of a Cardassian male before it was reprogrammed by B'Elanna, using her own voice instead. However, no Cardassians are actually ever seen in the episode; instead, we only see the aliens called the Rakosans, whose home world is in danger of being destroyed unless B'Elanna and the Voyager crew can stop it from detonating its incorrect target.

In the series pilot, Chakotay and the rest of his Maquis crew are fleeing the Cardassians by heading into the Badlands. Upon establishing communications with the Cardassian ship, an image of Gul Evek appears on Chakotay's viewscreen, but no agreement between the two men is reached before the Caretaker's displacement wave sends the Maquis ship 70,000 light-years to the other side of the galaxy.

In "Flesh And Blood", we see the holographic Cardassian woman named Kejal, who was one of the many holograms programmed to be prey by the Hirogen and now serving as the engineer under the command of the holographic Bajoran man named Iden.

Then in "Basics, Part 2", we see the scheming Seska in her true Cardassian form (as revealed back in "State Of Flux"), having seized Voyager along with her demented Kazon lover, Maje Culluh.

Answer: Repentance

After the Nygean prisoners are beamed onto Voyager, there are several instances where the Nygean guards and some of Voyager's crew are threatened with weapons, plus one instance where Tuvok stuns a prisoner with a phaser, but nobody is seen actually getting killed, not even the prisoner who truly repents for his past deeds after connecting with Seven, nor the prisoner whom Neelix befriends in the brig.

In "Basics, Part 1", the Kazon named Teirna, while in the privacy of his quarters, activates a secret remote control device in his fingernail that blows up not only himself, but several decks in his vicinity, resulting in Voyager being heavily crippled and unable to withstand the final tactical confrontation with the three Kazon ships before Voyager is finally seized by Seska and Maje Culluh.

In "State Of Flux", the murder of a Kazon happens again when, after Maje Culluh and his accomplice enter sickbay to see the two injured Kazon, which happened as a result of the replicator technology given to them by a scheming Seska, he injects a secret needle into one of the injured men, killing him instantly and prompting Janeway to order Culluh off of Voyager. "In The Flesh" would be another episode where an alien committed suicide on Voyager.

After meeting the Species 8472 posing as Ensign Gentry down in the recreated Starfleet Academy, Tuvok uses the 'Vulcan neck pinch' maneuver to render the alien unconscious, allowing for them to have it beamed onto the Delta Flyer. Later, after 'Gentry' is awakened by the Doctor, the masquerading alien reacts violently to being captured, killing himself instantly with a self-induced, internal toxin.

Answer: Living Witness

Here's another one that requires a bit of concentration! In "Living Witness", the Kyrians' imagined 'Warship Voyager' simulations did feature Borg drones in the 'engine room' as well as a Kazon ensign on the bridge, but never were there Klingons seen--not even B'Elanna herself, who I felt missed out on potentially being seen in full Klingon form again like she did when the Vidiians surgically separated her all the way back in the first-season episode "Faces".

In "Real Life", the Doctor's perfect, bright and sunny holographic family was reprogrammed by B'Elanna with new realistic subroutines, which causes Jeffrey, the Doctor's son, to become rebellious. Jeffrey soon introduces his 'Dad' to his two new teenage Klingon friends, whom the Doctor ends up personally confronting when he discovers that Jeffrey is wanting to perform a dangerous Klingon blood ritual without consent.

In "The Killing Game, Part 1", the very first scene features a neurally-impaired Janeway posing as a Klingon, battling several other Klingon men with a bat'leth in an outdoor mountainous environment on the holodeck, the first of many 'games' being played upon the crew by the Hirogen hunters before the Nazi/World War II simulations commence.

Then in "Endgame", the futuristic Admiral Janeway's plan to resurrect a deceased Chakotay and bring the present-timeline Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant involves her first meeting with Paris' and B'Elanna's futuristic grown-up daughter, Ensign Paris, then stealing a temporal device from a Klingon ship after briefly negotiating with the Klingon captain, all before the Borg Queen back in the Delta Quadrant becomes aware of the admiral's presence.

Answer: Resolutions

Voyager's earliest villains are sought after when Janeway and Chakotay are quarantined on a planet whose environment protects them from a virus they both had contracted on an off-screen, unseen away mission. However, the only Vidiian actually seen in this episode is Dr. Denara Pel, the woman whom the Doctor had fallen in love with a few episodes prior back in "Lifesigns", via the bridge viewscreen and, later, via the computer screen in the Doctor's office in sickbay. Denara ends up rendezvousing with Voyager and agreeing to transport the serum that would eventually cure the captain and the first officer.

In "Phage", a Vidiian surgeon does initially cause harm to a Voyager crewmember when extracting Neelix's lungs at the very beginning of the episode, but it occurred while Voyager's resident Talaxian was on the away mission inside the cavern.

Then when the two Vidiian surgeons named Dereth and Motura come aboard Voyager near the end of episode, they only take medical scans of the crew in sickbay without doing any harm to anyone on the ship.

In "Lifesigns", the true real-life Phage-infected form of Dr. Denara Pel does not harm a Voyager crewmember after being brought aboard Voyager; in fact, she has a brief romance with the Doctor, who experiences love for the first time in the series. Then in "Fury", after a vengeful Kes has transported back in time to send Voyager into Vidiian space, we do see a phaser-carrying Janeway and a couple of phaser-rifle-carrying security officers encountering some of the organ-harvesting villains briefly in one of the ship's corridors. However, despite the weapons fire exchanged between both groups, nobody is ever seen being shot, and we further do not see any other Vidiians onboard the ship attacking members of the crew beyond the brief encounter.

Answer: Hunters

After being first introduced via the astrometrics screen in "Message In A Bottle", the Hirogen are encountered in the very next episode when Tuvok and Seven are captured while on a shuttle mission and brought onboard one of the Hirogen ships, where we meet the very tall Hirogen hunters close up and in person.

The masks that disguise their true voices are still being worn over their mouths. "Prey", however, marks the first episode where a Hirogen is seen unmasked. The hunter surviving the 'hunt' for the injured Species 8472 creature in the cave gets rescued by Voyager and brought into sickbay, which is where we then get our first full view of the hunting aliens' rather grotesque spotted flesh and lumpy heads. "Tsunkatse" allowed us to see a rather friendly side to the Hirogen, as the unmasked hunter participating in the alien blood sport nurses Seven back to health after her match against the Pendari (played by none other than 'The Rock', no less!) and instructs the ex-Borg drone on honing and perfecting her hand-to-hand combat skills.

Then in "Flesh And Blood", we get several chances to see the alien hunters unmasked, most prominently when several Hirogen survivors from the attacks of the hologram-controlled ship have been taken into the mess hall for treatment (with sickbay having reached maximum capacity) and when the hunters have been transported by the holograms down onto the surface of the hostile, toxic gas-filled 'demon-class' planet, where a reversal of fortune now sees the Hirogen hunters becoming the hunted.

Answer: Collective

After navigating the Borg cube and encountering the drone of the little girl, who later becomes known to us as Mezoti, Harry is found unconscious and leaned up against a panel on the floor, revealed to Seven when Mezoti and the rest of the Borg children grouped together separate.

Although it wasn't shown exactly how Harry became unconscious, it's safe to assume that something the drones did was the cause. Furthermore, after the Delta Flyer has been tractored into the cube and the men onboard brought into the assimilation chamber, Paris is blasted by a forcefield when he first tries to approach the innocent-looking Borg children.

The forcefield is created by a quick nod of the head by one of the immature drones, demonstrating that the Borg children were still in complete control of the ship, as Seven had cautioned them.

In "Unity", the derelict Borg cube didn't become a threat until it was reactivated with the help of a linked Chakotay. Even at that point, the now-animate drones failed to bring harm to any of the away team crewmembers, as they are successfully phasered down before adapting.

The only harm caused to any crewmember at all is the linked Chakotay phasering Tuvok, who clearly wasn't a Borg drone even if he was operating as one. In "Drone", the only crewmember who steps foot onto a Borg ship is the newly-created twenty-ninth century product of Seven and the Doctor named 'One'. When the Borg sphere alters its course to intercept Voyager upon its detection of 'One', the futuristic drone transports himself onboard the sphere, totally unaffected by any of of the Collective's attempts to assimilate him, before entering an alcove and piloting the sphere directly into the protonebula. Then in "Dark Frontier", the only crewmembers boarding a Borg ship are the members of the 'Fort Knox' operation to steal the transwarp coil: Seven, Harry, Tuvok and Janeway herself. The only one in the group who is physically harmed is Seven, but the cut on her forehead, which is promptly healed by a drone's built-in dermal regenerator, is as the result of the Borg's battle with the Species 10026 aliens that the Borg Queen recruits Seven for helping to assimilate.

Answer: Someone To Watch Over Me

During the Doctor's holographic slideshow to Seven near the beginning of episode, the EMH's presentation about alien mating rituals consists of a rather humorous shot of two Species 8472 creatures standing together in what could be deciphered as them sharing a romantic moment.

Interestingly enough, in all of the other instances that Species 8472 was encountered in the series up close and personal in their true and natural form, the fluidic-space aliens were always seen depicted alone and never together in a group, unlike many of Voyager's other signature alien races--the Ocampa, the Vidiians, the Hirogen, the Kazon, the Talaxians and especially their arch-enemies, the Borg collective itself.

Answer: Caretaker

This one's rather tricky! There were three total ships seen in Voyager's pilot where a view of the actual interior was shown: the shuttlecraft being piloted by Voyager's original conn officer, Lieutenant Stadi, when she and Paris are en route to rendezvous with Voyager, which is docked at Deep Space 9; the Maquis ship piloted by Chakotay with B'Elanna and Tuvok onboard and being chased into the Badlands; then Voyager itself.

The Kazon are not seen on any of these ships at any point during the pilot, and besides that, Voyager's eventual villains aren't seen attacking a single Voyager crewmember either while inside any ship altogether, whether it be Neelix's ship or the two Kazon ships engaging Voyager in battle in proximity to the Caretaker's array towards the end of the episode.

In "Maneuvers", a captured Chakotay is strapped to a chair while the menacing Maje Culluh, eager for Voyager's command codes and its technology, beats the first officer with several blows to the head while one of his accomplices injects Chakotay with a truth serum. "Investigations" allowed us to see another crewmember onboard a Kazon ship.

After a disgruntled Paris leaves Voyager to join a Talaxian convoy, which was revealed to be a strategy imposed by Janeway and Tuvok to flush out Voyager's spy, he is eventually captured by the Kazon and taken prisoner. But not before he discovers that ex-Maquis Michael Jonas was the guilty perpetrator. When Seska and her henchmen enter into the chamber where Paris is being held, an explosion generated by a device in Paris' possession distracts everyone long enough for him to run away, though not before one last-minute struggle ensues between him and one other Kazon henchman in a corridor. After Paris is knocked onto the floor, he and the henchman soon engage in a wrestling match over possession of a hand-held weapon, with Paris becoming the victor and blasting the Kazon unconscious before successfully mounting his escape. Then in "Basics, Part 2", the reformed ex-Maquis murderer, Lon Suder, heads to engineering to overload the backup phaser couplings, a plan thought of by Paris in his efforts to regain control of Voyager with the help of the Talaxians. Upon arriving in engineering and equipped with a phaser rifle, Suder single-handedly blasts all of the Kazon men in the room before proceeding to the controls on a computer panel. But just before Suder can successfully press the button to overload the backup phaser couplings, a barely-conscious Kazon on the floor manages to fire off one last deadly shot from his weapon to kill the Betazoid murderer--poetic justice served indeed.

Answer: Deadlock

Once it becomes apparent that the two Voyagers cannot split apart from nor merge into the spatial rift that connects the two ships together, we are then presented with a scene showing the interior of the Vidiian ship and a discussion between the Vidiian captain and his subordinate where they conclude that the two Voyagers are adrift and trapped in a state of spatial flux.

The Phage-infected aliens then prepare to harvest the crew's organs, though unaware that there are actually duplicate crews and twice the amount of available bodies to gut and dissect at their disposal.

In "Faces", we never see the interior of any of the Vidiians' ships; we only see the underground mining colony where the away team is being imprisoned and forced to work as slaves, plus the secret laboratory where the surgeon named Dr. Sulan is conducting his experiments of Klingon DNA extraction on B'Elanna.

In "Fury", we do see the vengeful Kes in the past timeline secretly communicating to one of the Vidiians via her computer screen from the privacy of her own quarters, but we never see the Vidiians themselves communicating to each other from within one of their own ships.

Then in "Lifesigns", the only Vidiian seen in the whole episode is Dr. Denara Pel; there are no other Vidiians that she communicates with, whether on her own ship or while she's on Voyager.

Answer: Basics, Part 2

Quite a tricky one to close out this quiz! In the conclusion to the second season cliffhanger, we see Janeway and most of her crew stranded with the alien inhabitants of the primeval Hanon IV. Whether the primitive humanoids and the menacing dinosaur creature were really both native to that planet remained in question, but their existence on Hanon IV means that they can at least collectively be called the 'Hanonians'.

Besides them, there was the Kazon, and with Seska's true identity having already been unveiled back in the first-season episode "State of Flux", we have Cardassian as the third alien species NOT represented by a member of Voyager's crew.

In "Year Of Hell, Part 1", we see the return of the time-shifting aliens called the Krenim, whom Kes warned the crew about back in "Before And After". Additionally, a friendly representative of a race called the Zahl, which was one of the early targets of temporal eradication by Annorax's time-ship, steps foot on Voyager to negotiate Voyager's passage through their territory.

In "Equinox, Part 1", the primary aliens featured are the nucelogenic lifeforms from the alternate realm that Captain Ransom and his crew were killing in order to increase the velocity of their Nova-class Federation starship. Then the aliens whose technology was used to summon those nucleogenic lifeforms--the Ankari--are seen in Ransom's flashbacks when recounting the history of his crew's deeds to an extremely disappointed Janeway in the briefing room. "Flesh And Blood" largely featured the Hirogen, who need Voyager's help in outsmarting the Hirogen's intelligent, holographic creations of prey-turned-hunters. Besides the Hirogen, however, we also briefly see a new alien race called the Nuu'bari via the viewscreen of the Hirogen ship under control of Iden and the rest of his holographic crew. When Iden detects holograms onboard the Nuu'bari ship, he orders for the Nuu'bari holograms to be downloaded onto his own ship, then orders for the Nuu'bari ship to be destroyed with torpedoes when the alien captain refuses to cooperate.