Name That Episode #30 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Death Wish

When the two Q's are engaged in their little hide-and-seek game, the crew of Voyager is caught in the middle, the ship being bounced around to various points in the space-time continuum. In one instance, Voyager's sensors detect that the ship is attached to something...and that something turns out to be the branch of a Christmas tree, as seen when both the image of the tree and Q (the one we know and love played by John De Lancie) both appear on the bridge's main viewscreen.

In essence, Voyager had been turned into a giant Christmas ornament, which was one of the second Q's attempts at finding a permanent hiding place from the rest of the omnipotent aliens.

In "11:59", the campy town of Canton, Indiana is shown to be snow-covered, taking place after the Christmas holiday season and before the new year. Yet we do not see any Christmas trees there, and nor is any of the town's imagery ever seen anywhere on Voyager itself. We further would not see Christmas trees of any variety in neither "One Small Step" nor "Friendship One".

Answer: Homestead

At the very beginning of Neelix's farewell-to-Voyager episode, we see the merry Talaxian dancing to some groovy music that is playing from a jukebox, as there is a festive celebration taking place in the mess hall. Neelix tries to get Tuvok to join in and dance with him, but the always-logical Vulcan declines the friendly invitation.

In "Course: Oblivion", we do see (and hear) some nice jazz music being played by the duplicate Harry and his duplicate bandmates in the duplicate Voyager mess hall at the very beginning of the episode, but there is no jukebox present.

In "Vis À Vis", we get to hear some groovy music again, but it only comes courtesy of Paris's Chevy Camaro, the 20th century vehicle he's servicing on the holodeck and what allows us a peek at his hobby as an auto mechanic.

There is no special music for us to enjoy at all in "The Bride Of Chaotica!"...except for the 1960's-themed orchestral instrumentals of this wacky episode's production itself.

Answer: Distant Origin

The Voth scientist named Gegen had abducted Chakotay shortly before the city-ship had seized Voyager. However, Gegen is unable to convince his superiors onboard the city-ship of his distant origin theory, and is forced to end his career as a scientist.

Despite his failed attempts, a sympathetic Chakotay gives Gegen a small orb containing a holographic image of Earth before the first officer is beamed off of the alien's research vessel. In "Friendship One", we do see the crudely-designed musical toy that is discovered by the away team upon landing on the surface of the nuclear winter-devastated planet.

It's pocketed by Neelix, then later, offered to the little alien girl after Neelix, Carey and Paris are kept prisoner at gunpoint in the underground chamber.

However, there are no replicas of Earth given to the girl nor to any of the other aliens. The same holds true for "Lifesigns" (nothing is given to the Doctor's Vidiian lover, Denara Pel) and "Virtuoso" (only the miniature holograms of the Doctor singing are given away as keepsakes to the Qomar).

Answer: Life Line

Upon arriving at Jupiter Station, at the request of Barclay, the Enterprise's counselor attempts to persuade Dr. Zimmerman to get treated by Voygaer's EMH. Unfortunately, it doesn't go very well, as Zimmerman's stubborn attitude and the EMH's unyielding persistence keeps everything at a deadlock.

A frustrated Troi accuses the two men of being jerks, and as she leaves the room, Zimmerman's holographic pet iguana laying on a table politely replies with a more gentlemanly "jerks". This was a hilarious scene that I will NEVER forget! In "Pathfinder", as Troi is sitting in Barclay's apartment for the episode's duration, the only non-humanoid in her presence is Barclay's cat, Neelix.

But other than eating some of her replicated chocolate ice cream, the cat says nothing at all. Troi is in the presence of humanoid-only characters during "Inside Man", and Troi makes no appearance during the Doctor's struggle for literary rights in "Author, Author".

Answer: Pathfinder

After Barclay has been released from the Pathfinder Project, he pays a visit to Admiral Paris, hoping to persuade Tom Paris's father to take his research about sending Voyager a message through the micro-wormhole into serious consideration. As the admiral is contemplating, we clearly see a photograph of Voyager's uniformed conn officer sitting atop his desk to the left.

Although we did see the admiral make appearances in "Author, Author", "Inside Man" and the series finale, "Pathfinder" was the only episode of this bunch where we would see Tom Paris's dad seated at a desk at Starfleet Headquarters, glancing at a photo of his son.

Answer: Message In A Bottle

Here's yet another tricky one! Seven does use the Astrometrics sensors to detect the Romulan-controlled U.S.S. Prometheus at the very beginning of the episode, which prompted Janeway to send the Doctor over to it via the Hirogen's relay network. Nobody from Starfleet actually alerts Voyager that the Prometheus is positioned near the alien relay; further, nor does anyone from Starfleet communicate any other pertinent information to Voyager and its crew via the Astrometrics lab.

The only communication from Starfleet that Voyages does receive is the news from the Doctor himself, but it happens once the EMH has been safely transferred back to sickbay at the very end of the episode. Doc tells Janeway that Starfleet has been informed of Voyager's situation and will be readily searching for its lost Federation vessel.

In "Life Line", Seven is in Astrometrics at the very beginning of the episode when she receives the compressed data stream from Starfleet, various images of Earth and other Federation communique being splashed about the viewscreen.

In "Author, Author", Barclay and Admiral Paris speak to Janeway at the beginning of the episode via Astrometrics; the communication includes Starfleet establishing the two-way link with Voyager, as well as Barclay showing Janeway a current satellite view of Earth. Additionally, the Doctor receives information about his rights as a holonovel writer from the Bolian publisher. Ultimately, Janeway and Tuvok join the Doctor for the formal hearing with the arbiter, all of which takes place via the Astrometrics viewscreen as well. Then in "Hope And Fear", communication from Starfleet is received again when Janeway has successfully decoded the real message from Admiral Hayes down in Astrometrics, shortly after her debate with Seven regarding the former drone's reservations about returning back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Answer: Elogium

Voyager's encounter with the Hirogen's relay station gave them the opportunity to transfer the Doctor back to the Alpha Quadrant--an exciting moment for the crew indeed! But even with the expectation that they would get a message to Starfleet, nobody is actually discussing family nor other loved ones back home. That would not happen until the next episode, "Hunters", when individual crewmembers begin receiving letters from home.

In "Alter Ego", after Tuvok has been transported onto Marayna's ship concealed within the nebula, he explains to the lonely alien that he has a wife and children back home whom he has a responsibility for, the one reason why he will not willingly stay with her and have a relationship.

In "Thirty Days", Paris mentions his father, Admiral Paris, on many occasions while locked up in the brig (most notably while he's composing his letter on the PADD) and while discussing his interest in naval ships and 19th century history with Janeway in the captain's ready room.

Then in "Prime Factors", B'Elanna is persuaded to proceed with the plan to retrieve the Sikarans' trajector technology when Seska mentions a brother's birthday she doesn't want to miss while Carey mentions two sons that he doesn't want to grow up without a father.

Answer: Thirty Days

Here's another fairly trick one! In a scene after Voyager's discovery of the 'water world' in "Thirty Days", we do see Paris revealing his interest in 19th century history and naval ships to Janeway while in her ready room. At no time, however, does he--nor anyone else on Voyager--mention any specific geographical locations on Earth, not even any of the four oceans.

In "Cathexis", Janeway explicitly mentions 'England' when introducing us to the ancient setting of her holonovel where she is playing the governess, Lucy Davenport. "The 37's" showed Janeway mentioning 'Japan' while engaged in dialogue with Amelia Earheart. Shortly after the famed pilot and the rest of the Humans have been freed from their stasis chambers, Janeway confronts Earheart regarding the supposed mysterious disappearance of the plane (and its pilot) that had intrigued historians on Earth for decades.

Then in "Non Sequitur", Harry mentions 'France' when reviewing logs on the computer in his apartment, then ends up actually going to France--Marseilles, to be exact--to get help from the alternate-timeline Tom Paris.

Answer: Author, Author

This one's a little tricky as well! The only people that Barclay communicates or interacts with in "Author, Author" are the people at the Pathfinder Project lab back in the Alpha Quadrant and the Voyager crew via the Astrometrics viewscreen. There are no holographic characters for him to interact with at the lab at all, and the Doctor is the only holographic character from Voyager that he communicates to.

In "Life Line", Barclay does interact with the Doctor, but he also interacts with Haley, Dr. Zimmerman's female holographic assistant at the Jupiter Station lab, who keeps trying to get the ailing creator of the EMH Mark-Ones to eat healthy throughout the episode. "Inside Man" saw Barclay interacting with the Doctor again, but he also interacts with his own holographic Barclay program at the end of the episode when trying to diagnose if the Ferengi may have tampered with it before being sent over to Voyager.

Then all the way back in "Projections", the holographic projection of Barclay interacts with the holographic Janeway (when confronting her before the Caretaker transports her and the rest of the crew in engineering off the ship) and the holographic projection of Chakotay, who tries to convince the Doctor not to blow up the holomatrix, which would have then caused his program to be permanently erased.

Answer: Unimatrix Zero, Part 2

The voice of the Collective is already assembled at the start of the seventh-season premiere and does remain in one piece for the whole duration of the episode, even as the 'Unimatrix Zero' environment is being destroyed and Borg drones are being liberated left and right.

In contrast, we do see the Queen being put together at the very beginning of the sixth-season finale, when a drone with the 'Unimatrix Zero' defect is being escorted from his alcove to be confronted by her. In "Dark Frontier", the Queen is being put together again when Seven is getting her chance to meet the voice of the Collective up close and personal for the very first time. "Endgame" showed the Queen already assembled when she first becomes aware of Admiral Janeway's arrival at Voyager's coordinates.

However, after the admiral is captured by the Queen and the virus begins rapidly spreading throughout the Collective, the Queen begins to literally break apart, limb by limb.