Name That Episode #36 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Worst Case Scenario

A tricky one right off the bat! There were only a handful of episodes where we got to see any of the former Maquis, in some form or another, wearing their original uniforms, and even fewer for B'Elanna. In "Pathfinder", our beloved Lieutenant Barclay has re-created a holo-simulation of the Voyager crew back on Earth. Among the little nuances he didn't forget was the fact that Janeway wore her hairstyle in a bun (for much of the first two seasons, in fact) and that both Chakotay and B'Elanna wore their trademark Maquis clothes prior to Voyager being swept to the other side of the galaxy.

In "Repression", all of the former Maquis are being influenced by Teero's mind control, thanks to Tuvok's forced mind melds. When Chakotay, Tuvok and the rest of the former Maquis temporarily take control of Voyager, they have all stripped out of their Starfleet uniforms and are all wearing their familiar Maquis uniforms.

Then in "Shattered", Chakotay wanders into one of the time fractures where he finds B'Elanna in the transporter room, wearing her original Maquis uniform as she did in "Caretaker", when she hadn't yet become a member of the Voyager crew. So that leaves "Worst Case Scenario" as the correct answer.

In this episode, the only former Maquis we recognize and are seen wearing their original Maquis uniforms in Tuvok's 'Insurrection Alpha' program is Chakotay, Seska and Ensign Ayala. B'Elanna only plays the role of the Starfleet ensign--while dressed in her familiar yellow Starfleet uniform--at the beginning of the episode long before the program's booby trap is discovered.

Answer: Mortal Coil

The first time the ship's morale officer sees a copy of himself is when he is on the holoideck with Chakotay, running a simulation of the original protomatter nebula accident that had resulted in the Talaxian's death at the beginning of the episode. Holographic versions of Paris and Neelix are created when Chakotay initiates the program.

When the lightning blast from the nebula zaps the holographic Neelix, the real Neelix kneels down to observe the lifeless photonic version of himself, prompting him to confess his feelings about death to Voyager's first officer.

The second time occurs during Neelix's vision quest into the Talaxian afterlife, as he is wandering through The Great Forest. There, Neelix not only is reunited with his sister, Alixia, but he also sees an exact duplicate of himself hiding under a sheet when he goes to uncover it.

Answer: Night

This one becomes easier to answer once you eliminate the two episodes where there was a large gathering of people in one place, but it's still a bit tricky. In "Survival Instinct", Voyager has docked at an alien trading post, and numerous different species have filled up the interior corridors and nearly every room on the ship, including the three ex-Borg drones that are searching for Seven.

In "Fair Trade", Voyager has arrived at another space station where Neelix is hoping to find a map to help navigate the ship through the vast Nekrit Expanse region.

The different alien species represented here are the station's manager, Bahrat (he kinda looks like the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizard Of Oz" to me!), the blue-faced narcotics dealer that Neelix and Wix secretly met with partway through the episode, then the thugs called the Kolaati that the two Talaxian friends meet up with at the very end.

Besides them, there is an assortment of other unnamed aliens milling around in the background while Paris and Chakotay are searching for a substance to refuel Voyager's engines. "Critical Care" is the tricky one; in this episode, we first have the Human-looking aliens at the hospital that the Doctor was secretly treating and the clown-looking merchant who ends up confined in Voyager's brig.

But we also see a series of individual aliens who appear one at a time on the bridge's main viewscreen when Janeway is trying to get information on the Doctor's present whereabouts. So that leaves "Night" as the correct answer. The only alien species encountered here are the Malon, who are contaminating space with their toxic waste, and the 'nocturnal aliens' who are hiding in the darkness of 'The Void' near the vortex.

Answer: Drone

The fourth-season episodes following "Living Witness" were "Demon", "One" and the finale, "Hope And Fear"; the Doctor never leaves the ship in any of these episodes, so that eliminates "Hope And Fear" as one of the correct answers. In the fifth-season premiere, "Night", the Doctor doesn't ever leave the ship either, but he does in the second fifth-season episode, "Drone", when he, Seven, B'Elanna and the rest of the away team are on the planet shortly before the 'transporter accident' gives birth to the 29th-century Borg that the crew calls 'One'. Both "Timeless" and "Gravity" aired later than "Drone", so neither one of those can qualify as a correct answer, even though the Doctor's program was activated while Voyager was still buried beneath the ice on the arctic L-class planet and while Tuvok and Paris were on the barren wasteland of a planet with the alien lady named Noss in those respective episodes.

Answer: Displaced

Traversing caves--one of the most common recurring themes in the trek universe presented itself many times on Voyager as well. In "Parturition", Paris and Neelix, along with the alien dinosaur-looking baby, end up taking shelter inside a dark cave upon landing their shuttlecraft on 'Planet Hell'. "Emanations" saw Chakotay, B'Elanna and Harry inside a massive cavern where they discover the dead bodies of numerous Vhnori wrapped in their traditional white clothing--the 'afterlife', as the aliens believed, but in reality, just a location within an asteroid belt.

Then in "Waking Moments", we see Chakotay in yet another cave when he and the Doctor have finally located the physical place where the 'dream aliens' are sleeping in the waking world.

In "Displaced", however, the crew was never on a planet; crewmembers instead ended up inside of a sophisticated habitat, which was comparable to a Federation holodeck, on board the Nyrian ship.

Answer: Scorpion, Part 1

The two episodes following "Displaced" were "Worst Case Scenario" and "Scorpion, Part 1". There was nobody being transported to alien locales at all in "Worst Case Scenario"; most of the action took place on the holodeck. However, four crewmembers did get the opportunity to transport to an alien location in the season-three cliffhanger. Chakotay, Tuvok and Harry were the away team that went over to investigate the derelict Borg cube for signs of what happened after the attack by the then-unknown Species 8472; they beam over to the cube under direct orders by Janeway.

But at the end of the episode, while Janeway is beginning to negotiate with The Collective while standing on the bridge, the Borg cube, without warning, transports her off of Voyager and onto the cube, where she continues making her proposal: safe passage through Borg space in exchange for the Doctor's nanoprobe technology.

There are no crewmembers being transported involuntarily to alien locations in neither "Revulsion" nor "Nemesis". And although Chakotay and Paris do get transported off Voyager and onto the Krenim time-ship at the end of "Year Of Hell, Part 1", it happened in the fourth season and much later after the events of "Scorpion, Part 1" in the previous season.

Answer: The 37's

The episodes following Season One's "Prime Factors" were "State Of Flux", "Heroes And Demons", "Cathexis", "Faces", "Jetrel" and "Learning Curve"; in none of those subsequent episodes did Voyager have an opportunity to get back home, and nor was there anyone disappointed about any missed opportunities to get back home.

But as soon as Season 2 started with "The 37's", Janeway and her crew learn from the Human ancestors that the technology used by the aliens called the Briori, who had abducted various people from Earth in 1937, had long been destroyed by the time of Voyager's arrival.

Despite Janeway's disappointment, she considers the invitation to settle down on the planet with the Human ancestors, but by the end of the episode, every crewmember has decided to remain on Voyager for the long journey back towards the real place they call home.

Answer: Random Thoughts

"Resistance", in fact, was the only episode of the second season that featured an outdoor alien marketplace (we should discount "Non Sequitur", as we are to assume that the 'time-stream alien' represented by Cosimo was the only thing alien in this episode while everything else in present-day San Francisco was just an alternate reality of Earth).

In "Alliances", the only alien environments seen are the bar where Neelix is meeting with his Kazon contact, the caves where Neelix meets the Trabe, then the meeting room where Neelix, Tuvok and Janeway are sitting down to negotiate with Culluh and the other Majes; thus, this episode is not the correct answer.

The next episode to feature an outdoor alien marketplace aired early into the third season: "False Profits".

However, only Chakotay, Neelix and Paris venture to the planet where the townspeople are being deceived by the two Ferengi while Janeway remains on board Voyager for the episode's entire duration. The next episode to feature a marketplace of some kind is "Fair Trade", but this episode took place entirely on Voyager and the alien space station in orbit of the Nekrit Expanse with no outdoor environments seen at all.

After that, the next time we'd see an outdoor alien marketplace is all the way in Season 4's "Random Thoughts". Janeway, B'Elanna and Neelix are in the plaza on the Mari homeworld purchasing some items for the ship when the man named Frane accidentally bumps into B'Elanna, who responds with an angry outburst. This sets off a chain of violent attacks, with the first being Frane's attack on another Mari man. Janeway rushes to the scene of the attack, grabbing hold of Frane and asking why he was beating the victim. Frane is unable to give an answer, but we learn later that B'Elanna's violent thoughts about retaliating against Frane earlier is what gave Frane the idea of doing the brutal crime in the first place.

Answer: Equinox, Part 1

It wasn't very often when Janeway and her crew broke out the formal attire, but a few special occasions during the series called for them. In "Ashes To Ashes", Janeway is wearing the familiar red command dress uniform in her quarters when she has invited the Kobali-raised Lindsay Ballard, who is wearing her yellow engineer's dress uniform, to dinner.

The meal is a very short one--they never get to enjoy the pot roast, and when Lindsay blames the captain for her 'death', she leaves before either of the ladies can enjoy the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as well.

At the end of "One Small Step", Janeway, Neelix, Seven and the rest of the senior officers are on the bridge, honoring the late John Kelly of the Ares shuttle. All of the Starfleet officers are wearing their respective dress uniforms while the captain delivers her heartwarming speech, John's body resting peacefully in the pod down in front of her.

Then in "Someone To Watch Over Me", Janeway and Chakotay are wearing their dress uniforms for the visit to Voyager by the Kadi ambassador, whom Neelix must serve as a chaperone to for the duration of the diplomatic mission. So that leaves "Equinox, Part 1" to be considered.

Despite the unprecedented happenstance of the two Starfleet crews meeting at the same place and time in the Delta Quadrant, there is never a moment in the fifth-season cliffhanger where anybody is suited up in their dress uniforms to commemorate the occasion, not even during Janeway's moving speech in the mess hall shortly after the Equinox crewmembers have come aboard Voyager.

Answer: Timeless

A question about filming and production--something a little different thrown at you to close out this quiz, and on top of that, it's a fairly tricky one! In many of Voyager's episodes, especially the important ones related to the show's theme of getting home or ones where there is a ship-wide crisis, Janeway is often present in the final scene shortly after resolution has been reached, in some form of another.

At the end of "Deadlock", the Janeway of the heavily-damaged Voyager is walking down a disaster area of a corridor with the Harry of the undamaged Voyager, who entered then exited the rift with Ensign Wildman's baby.

They briefly talk about Harry's experience of being on board the identical ships, but he feels weird to be talking to a captain whom he feel isn't really his captain.

The last camera shot is of them still walking together with various engineering crewmembers making repairs as the show's credits begin to appear on the screen. The final scene of "Basics, Part 1" is a classic one: the stranded crew watching Voyager lift off and fly up into the atmosphere.

In the very last shot, we see Janeway stepping forward into the sunlight with a grim expression on her face while B'Elanna and another crewmember stand behind their captain in the background. The screen then fades to black with the end credits appearing in its place. Then at the end of "Relativity", Janeway and the future Seven are still on board the U.S.S. Relativity when they prepare to transport back to Voyager in the present timeline. In the final shot, Seven makes a stab at light humor with a remark about looking forward to being back on their own ship again, correcting herself by asking if she should say 'backwards' instead to which Janeway playfully responds by ordering the ex-Borg drone to not to get started again (with the whole temporal paradox thing, of course). They then de-materialize from view with the Relativity's transporter technology, and the end credits appear shortly afterwards. So that leaves "Timeless" to be considered. At the end of Voyager's 100th episode, Harry is alone in the darkened mess hall, trying to make sense of his miscalculations with the experimental quantum slipstream technology. Janeway does enter briefly to chat with him about the experience, informing Harry about some data retrieved from the Delta Flyer that contains a temporal signature. When the brief conversation is over, she gives Harry a data node and exits the room, leaving Harry alone once again with the troubled ensign spending the episode's final minute playing the video log that the futuristic Harry recorded to himself years after the tragic accident.