Name That Episode #31 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Friendship One

A tricky one right off the bat! At the very end of "Friendship One", Janeway and Chakotay are in Carey's quarters, discussing how they've lost a valuable member of the crew. While seated at a desk, Janeway mentions that Carey had been designing a miniature model of Voyager, but hadn't yet finished it before being killed at the hands of the radiation-suffering aliens down on the nuclear winter-devastated planet; the model was missing exactly one nacelle.

In "Living Witness", it's true that the Kyrian museum housed all sorts of artifacts from the 700-year-old Voyager, but none of the displays were actual desks where someone could sit down in front of them.

The aliens down on the time-advancing planet in "Blink Of An Eye" were surely obsessed with Voyager, calling it 'The Sky Ship' and building much of their culture around its discovery. Yet no miniature models of their idolized 'Sky Ship' are seen anywhere or at any time in their civilization. And our beloved Lieutenant Barclay was surely obsessed with Voyager in "Pathfinder", having created an entire simulation of the lost Delta Quadrant ship and its crew, but no miniature models of his obsession are ever seen, whether inside the lab of the Pathfinder Project or at Starfleet Headquarters.

Answer: Persistence Of Vision

Among the haunting images from Janeway's holonovel is the plate of cucumber sandwiches that she sees upon entering the mess hall; the sandwiches, ironically, never get eaten in this episode. Just cucumber slices between triangular slices of plain bread--perhaps not so appetizing? Even the holographic character Beatrice herself commented that she didn't like the way the cook made them.

However, the second time Janeway enters the mess hall to ask about the lunch menu, Neelix doesn't remember the cucumber sandwiches at all, confirming later that everything she saw from the holonovel was nothing more than a hallucination. Cucumber sandwiches are not being served in any of the other three episodes.

Answer: The Void

Even with Voyager's resources depleting after Janeway has forged the alliance with some of the other aliens trapped inside the anomaly, the ship's conn officer and chief engineer are still treated to a romantic dinner in the mess hall. Neelix first lays out the tablecloth and other dining utensils, then places a plate of what visually looks like eyeballs (creepy!) in front of a confused Paris.

But upon biting into one of the eyeballs, he realizes that it tastes a lot like chicken, rather than like some fancy Talaxian dish, as he probably expected.

In "Repentance", we do see Paris and B'Elanna together in the mess hall, expecting a dinner prepared by Neelix to be ready, but we never actually see them sitting down together for a private romantic occasion.

In "Drive", the only romantic moment that could be seen remotely related to dining is their champagne celebration on the Delta Flyer, having become Voyager's first newlyweds. Then in "Barge Of The Dead", there is no kind of romantic dining taking place in the mess hall at all; only the Klingon festivities are seen there, shortly before B'Elanna is thrust into the depths of Klingon Hell.

Answer: Drive

Before joining Paris in the shuttle race, B'Elanna pays a visit to sickbay to ask the Doctor about giving up some of his holodeck time. She finds Voyager's EMH attempting to putt a brilliantly blinking ball into a cup on the floor. Shortly after B'Elanna leaves, Paris enters sickbay himself, having totally forgotten about his romantic time with B'Elanna on the holodeck while the Doctor is still practicing his golf strokes. "Inside Man" did show the Doctor suited up for a round of golf with the Barclay hologram, but we never see Voyager's EMH nor the corrupted Barclay play any rounds of golf at all. "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" showed the Doctor playing ladies man, Emergency Command Hologram and many other fantasy roles, but he's never playing a single round of golf anywhere on the ship.

The same holds true for "Renaissance Man"; the only thing the EMH is 'playing' in this episode is, in essence, a holographic shapeshifter, assuming the identities of the other senior officers while being instructed by the portly 'spy aliens' to eject the warp core.

Answer: Critical Care

Partway through the episode, we see Voyager's conn officer and operations officer suited up in hockey uniforms and equipped with sticks and ice skates, walking together in a corridor and discussing the game they just took part in. Unfortunately for us viewers, that hockey game is never actually shown, but the scene did reinforce the fact that Paris was Voyager's expert on Earth culture from the 20th century. Presumably, the holodeck safeties were offline, as they are visibly bruised and end up entering sickbay to seek treatment from the Doctor.

In none of the other three episodes are Paris and Harry suited up and equipped with hockey gear.

Answer: Tsunkatse

Chakotay, B'Elanna, Paris and Harry are all in the mess hall, discussing the results of a previous match that took place in the alien arena. After some playful dialogue exchanged between all of them, both Paris and Harry make like the Tsunkatse fighters themselves, teasingly duking it out face to face with air parries without either one of them actually making physical contact and dealing damaging blows.

In "The Chute", there were never any instances of 'play fighting'; all of the physical combat in this episode was all quite serious and intentional, but it all took place from inside the Akritiri prison, thanks to the 'clamp' devices fixed to the heads of all the inmates.

In "The Fight", Chakotay is the only crewmember seen putting up his dukes, and he's never doing so while in the mess hall.

Then in "Prophecy", although we do see some physical hand-to-hand combat going on during the bat'leth battle on the holodeck, nothing of the sort--not even in a playful mock sense--ever develops between the two best of buddies in this episode.

Answer: Survival Instinct

Having extended shore leave to everyone on the ship while docked at the space station, Janeway has allowed the crew to mix and mingle with the various species that have come onboard the ship. In a scene later in the episode, Paris and Harry have shown up in the captain's ready room, visibly bruised from an apparent fight they both got into with a race called the Kinbori.

In their story, they reveal wanting to broaden their cultural horizons by partaking in a game the aliens were playing (we never actually see this game in action).

But disagreements during the match led to verbal conflict, which then led to physical combat. Despite being reprimanded, the conn officer and operations officer happily tell their captain that they emerged victorious when it was all said and done.

In "Ex Post Facto", it's true that both Paris and Harry suffered bodily pain of some kind. The effects of the Banean's eternal sentencing and the Benean's questioning about Tolan Ren's murder caused Paris's mental terrors and Kim's exhaustion and fatigue, respectively, but nothing in the way of visible bruises on either's faces. Neither Paris nor Harry is bruised or injured at all in "Someone To Watch Over Me" and "Drive".

Answer: The Fight

After the opening teaser to this episode reveals that Voyager is trapped in 'chaotic space', we see the events that beforehand lead up to the incident, highlighted by Chakotay's boxing simulation on the holodeck. He is sparring with a holographic Terrelian, under the guidance of a holographic Boothby, when the area behind the Terrelian visually begins to undergo a 'shattered glass' effect until it appears to look exactly like the 'chaotic space' region.

The Terrelian never says a single word--not during the fight, nor when 'chaotic space' begins to intersect the holodeck--and simply stands still a few steps away from Chakotay on the other side in the ring.

In "Flesh And Blood", we do see the holographic prey involved in combat with the Hirogen, and one could say that the Hirogen's hunting of them was, in essence, a sport.

However, there are no spatial anomalies nor distortions that occur when any kind of combat between both groups is taking place, whether in the elaborate holographic facility or on the demon-class planet that the holograms are eyeing as a permanent home. "The Bride Of Chaotica" did feature dimensional portals from which the photonic beings came, but neither the photonics nor any of the Chaotica characters themselves are ever seen partaking in a combat sport. And in "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", aside from the Borg drones in the Doctor's daydreams, there are no holographic aliens to be seen here.

Answer: 11:59

Janeway's ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, is as close as we see to anybody in this episode who resembles any member of the crew at a different stage in his or her life. But neither Janeway nor any other crewmeber is ever depicted as a teenager or a child in any way.

In "Tattoo", we do see Chakotay--in his flashbacks--as a teenage boy while walking through the jungle with his father and the rest of his Native American tribe. "Before And After" allowed us to see Kes as a young girl and as a newborn during her time jumps before her time onboard Voyager.

Then in "The Thaw", we see the 'Fear Clown' use one of his many 'fear tactics' to transform Harry into a newborn, dressed in a baby yellow Starfleet uniform and all! Baby Harry didn't like the Fear Clown nor the big-toothed brown monster playing with him too much, did he?

Answer: Year Of Hell, Part 2

This final question of the quiz takes some thought, but it helps to recall the different ways in which time is handled in each of the four episodes. In "Relativity", the future Seven-Of-Nine instructed by Captain Braxton travels to the point when Voyager was still at Utopia Planitia as well as to the present Voyager timeline in an attempt to locate the temporal weapon; for her, both instances were traveling BACKWARDS into the past.

Then each time the future Seven returns back to the U.S.S. Relativity, she is traveling FORWARD into the future.

The present Voyager timeline Janeway experiences the same thing when she is recruited towards the end of the episode: she's brought into the future (traveling FORWARD) to be instructed on how to apprehend the vengeful Braxton, travels BACKWARDS to the time the Kazon are attacking to apprehend Braxton, then returns to the U.S.S. Relativity (traveling FORWARD into the future once again) to be reunited with the future Seven.

In "Before And After", Kes is at first only traveling BACKWARDS in time, starting off as an old woman in Voyager's future and being reduced all the way down to being born on Ocampa and, ultimately, down to an unborn fetus.

But due to the Doctor's temporal chamber, Kes returns from that fetus state and back all the way to Voyager's present timeline, having traveled FORWARD in this instance, albeit briefly. In "Time And Again", when the away team first arrives on the polaric energy-doomed planet, Paris accidentally falls through one of the time fractures, getting to peek at the alien society in the past before the polaric detonation; that instance would be him traveling BACKWARDS into the past. After the first two times this happens, he is able to move out of the time fractures and back into the present timeline; hence, he's now traveled FORWARD in time. However, in the third instance of slipping into the time fractures, Janeway is with him, and the two end up being trapped on the planet until the captain stops her own rescue attempt and restores life back to normal. So that leaves "Year Of Hell, Part 2" to be considered as the correct answer. Although this episode did have time as its primary theme--Annorax and his time-ship trying to erase Voyager from history--we would only see time RESET back to Voyager's present when the heavily-damaged Voyager collides with the time-ship at the very end. Nobody onboard Voyager was actually traveling forwards and backwards through time, and neither were any of the various aliens (the Zahl, the Mawasi, the Nihydren and the Krenim Imperium itself) throughout the entire two-part adventure, despite the number of calendar days that had passed.