Name That Episode #5 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Disease

While Tuvok is walking through a corridor, Neelix races from out of nowhere, eagerly informing Tuvok that he suspects someone has been consuming some of Voyager's resources from a secret location within the ship. A reluctant Tuvok follows up on the Talaxian's suspicions, and when the two of them crawl through a Jefferies tube together and open a hatch, they see a male Varro, who appears to have been living there as part of the planned rebellion of his xenophobic race to break away from the main Varro ship (where Voyager was docked) and depart their separate ways in individual ships.

In "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve", Neelix and Tuvok do pair up to crawl through a Jefferies tube again while much of the ship is experiencing power failures, but they don't encounter any humanoid aliens in the process.

In fact, the alien in this episode wasn't even humanoid to begin with. In "Fair Trade", Neelix is in a Jefferies tube with Ensign Vorik (coincidentally, another Vulcan) briefly before Vorik goes away, giving him the freeway to secretly tamper with an internal panel, all part of his plan to help his Talaxian friend Wixiban in his relations with the narcotics dealer in exchange for a map of the Nekrit Expanse. Neelix doesn't crawl into a Jefferies tube at all, however, in "Rise".

Answer: Collective

The first and only time we see crewmembers playing a friendly game of poker occurs during the opening scene in this episode when Neelix, Harry, Chakotay and Paris are all on the Delta Flyer. But their game is interrupted when they encounter a Borg cube, then are subsequently tractored into the cube and gathered up into the cube's assimilation chamber. Later, though, Harry is playing is own card game when he uses individual playing cards to mark his course through the Borg cube in case he loses his direction. Eventually, Harry encounters the Borg girl (whom we find out in later episodes is named Mezoti), who holds up the Queen of Hearts that Harry had placed somewhere in one of the cube's corridors. Surely, the Borg were a lot smarter than Harry thought and were probably watching him placing the cards all along.

In none of the other three episodes is Harry playing cards or even using a deck of cards for any purpose, although he is does play with the electronic puzzle gizmo (the same one that Janeway plays with in her ready room) that Paris had introduced the crew to in "Think Tank".

Answer: The Bride Of Chaotica!

Dr. Chaotica of the Captain Proton program doesn't ever hug Janeway, who is playing the role of Arachnia, queen of the Spider People, but he does kneel down to kiss her hand several times when Janeway/Arachnia first arrives onto the scene. In "Elogium", after an angry Neelix informs Janeway that the Doctor had ordered him out of sickbay, Janeway eventually comes to sickbay herself, where she witnesses a distressed Kes whom we find out later is going through the Ocampan equivalency of pregnancy as a result of Voyager's encounter with the space-dwelling creatures.

In a touching moment, Kes rushes to hug the captain, whose words of comfort put a calm to the tense situation at hand. In the timeline dating back to Voyager still being in dry dock in "Relativity", Janeway beams onto the ship via the transporter room where she's greeted by the admiral who will soon take her on a tour of Starfleet's newest vessel.

But before that happens, the admiral quizzes her on a couple of scientific topics, then embraces the captain in a warm hug.

In "Barge Of The Dead", after B'Elanna emerges from 'Klingon hell' and becomes conscious again while sitting on the bio-bed in sickbay, she hugs a surprised Janeway just as she'd hugged her mother, Miral, moments before while still on the Barge of the Dead. No hugs for B'Elanna's lover, Paris, however, although he does lends a comforting hand while at her side.

Answer: The Swarm

The unnamed aliens dubbed 'the swarm' had teleported onto the shuttle that Tom and B'Elanna were piloting at the very beginning of the episode, firing energy blasts from their weapons that stun both of the lieutenants. Then later towards the end of the episode, the swarm attempts to take over Voyager by teleporting onto the bridge one at a time and attacking members of the crew individually.

When one appears near the conn station, Paris wrestles it down onto the floor before Janeway zaps it with her phaser. Chakotay also manages to knock one down that's near his chair.

In "Ex Post Facto", although Paris's mind was used by the Numiri in a complex plot to murder the Banean scientist, Tolan Ren, which in itself could be seen as a Numiri attack of sorts, Paris never attacks any aliens himself on the bridge--Numiri or Banean.

In "Prophecy", Paris does get attacked by the Klingon during the battle for honor on the holodeck, although the battle is a mutual decision on behalf of both men. And Paris is among the crewmembers engaged in combat again when the Klingons are trying to take control of the bridge later on, but since the combat is done entirely with phasers firing, he's never physically attacking any of the Klingons.

In "Worst Case Scenario", it's the real Tom Paris wearing the yellow Starfleet uniform when it's his turn to play the ensign in Tuvok's "Insurrection Alpha" program. He temporarily foils the Maquis attack on the bridge by wrestling a crewman down to the floor, but the crewman definitely was a hologram created by the simulation and not an alien. The holographic Paris does appear on a shuttle with the holographic Janeway before the real Janeway programs the imagined aliens, the Rukani, to assist them and the booby-trapped real Tom Paris and Tuvok with the seizing of the holographic Voyager, but neither are attacked with phasers or anything while on that shuttle.

Answer: Eye Of The Needle

One of the earliest episodes of the series to feature phenomena that could potentially get the Voyager crew home also featured a bit of time travel as well, plus an old Alpha Quadrant nemesis: the Romulans. Well, actually only one Romulan: a man named Telek R'mor.

After communicating with him via the bridge's viewscreen for much of the episode, plus Janeway's communication with him privately via the com in her quarters in one scene, the Romulan finally appears on Voyager via the transporter room, though he made a very brief stay before the crew realized that they couldn't return back home due to the temporal displacement of the wormhole.

In "Favorite Son", the only two aliens that communicate via a viewscreen are the captain of the Nasari ship that had secretly planned a surprise attack on Voyager, and the female leader of the Taresians who was hoping to hold Harry captive on the planet until he met his demise.

But neither of the aliens ever set foot on Voyager. We did see a couple of the Taresian women, who fell for Harry upon his arrival on the planet, during Harry's dream sequence where he's in bed inside his quarters on Voyager and kissing both of them, but nobody was ever communicating with these women via a computer screen. "Inside Man" showed our beloved Lieutenant Barclay does communicate with the Ferengi who manipulated the Barclay program, but the Ferengi, of course, couldn't have possibly appeared on Voyager, as they (as well as Barclay, our beloved Counselor Deanna Troi, plus the rest of the Pathfinder team and all of Starfleet itself) are on the other side of the galaxy back in the Alpha Quadrant.

In "Sacred Ground", Janeway is in Chakotay's quarters when she speaks to the Nechani magistrate via the computer screen terminal about her desire to partake in the ritual that will revive Kes. But neither the magistrate, nor any of the other members of the Nechani, ever actually appear on Voyager, as much of the episode depicts Janeway on the planet surface, in essence, leading her own destiny with the different obstacles she sets up for herself to complete.

Answer: Drive

A fun favorite of mine from Voyager's final season, "Drive" was primarily about a space race that was designed in an effort to unite and bring peace to several alien species in that sector of space together. To officially signal the beginning of this race, Voyager, which also hosted the pre-race ceremonies in the mess hall, fired a photon torpedo into empty space on the order of Janeway to Tuvok.

In "The Omega Directive", a single torpedo is used again, but it was used to destroy the chamber which contained the threatening omega molecule which could have disrupted space travel forever.

In "Rise", a torpedo is fired at the very beginning to destroy the enormous 'asteroid' (that really wasn't an asteroid, but an ingenious weapon programmed by the Ethanians, the enemy of the Nezu), but the 'asteroid' only breaks into smaller fragments which continue to threaten to impact the Nezu homeworld.

In "Warhead", with all of the dialogue about smart bombs and weapons of mass destruction and such, not a single photon torpedo, surprisingly, was fired at any time in this episode.

Answer: Demon

While the ship is on 'grey mode' status and severely low on deuterium, the ship is running on minimal power and much of the crew is having to relocate to other parts of the ship. Neelix is wanting to take several personal items with him when he's stopped by Tuvok, who orders him to hand over a blanket, a book and another personal care item before Neelix decides it would be better for him to sleep in sickbay.

In "Twisted", Neelix is never carrying anything while walking through the 'twisted' corridors; the only thing he carries in the entire episode is the Jabalian fudge cake that he prepared for Kes's birthday party at Sandrine's on the holodeck.

In "Year Of Hell, Part 2", although Neelix has joined Tuvok's security detail (he's seen in a yellow Starfleet uniform, apparently mirroring his exact same appearance in one of the timelines back in "Before And After"), most likely in order to help out with the crew's dismal and defeated situation at the hands of the Krenim, he's never seen carrying any items that he has to give up possession of.

In "Riddles", Neelix does walk through a corridor en route to sickbay, pushing a cart with several items which he believes will reawaken Tuvok's senses, but none of those items are taken from his possession by anyone, and considering the situation, I doubt anyone would have if they knew it could help Voyager regain its tactical officer.

Answer: The Killing Game, Part 1

A fairly tricky one, I must say. There were quite a few early 20th century vehicles being driven or operated in the entire "Killing Game" two-parter, but surprisingly, the only vehicle operated or occupied by a Voyager crewmember was the bicycle that Neelix rode to carry the bread and the wine bottle containing the encrypted message. And his bike, of course, wasn't motorized, unlike the German motorcycle with the sidecar that was seen on at least one occasion being driven by the holographic Nazis.

In "The 37's", the red farm truck Voyager discovers floating in outer space that was brought there as a result of the Briori's abductions from Earth back in 1937, is both occupied and operated by a curious Tom Paris after it's beamed into the cargo bay for further analysis.

It's the operating, though, which causes the engine to backfire, causing several crewmembers to click into combat mode and grab phasers, surely afraid somebody was firing some kind of weapon. In "Vis À Vis", the Chevy Camaro that Paris is working on at the beginning of the episode is occupied by him and B'Elanna at the very end, where they share a romantic kiss while the groovy music is playing through the speakers.

In "Lifesigns", this time it's the Doctor and a holographic version of the Vidiian scientist, Denara Pel, who are sitting in a parked car and listening to some groovy music before they too engage in a romantic kiss.

Answer: Displaced

B'Elanna and Tom are having a brief lover's quarrel while they and the rest of the crew have been put into one of the habitats created for them by the Nyrians. The Doctor is close by and hearing every word, adding in his own banter during the breaks of dialogue. Our chief engineer apparently gets annoyed from the EMH's added soundtrack to the conversation, because she adjusts something on the Doctor's mobile emitter to render him speechless for the remaining duration of the scene.

In "Bliss", the Doctor's program does get temporarily taken offline by the 'blissful' crew who are doing everything possible to enter what they believe to be the wormhole back home, but this shouldn't be seen as an altering of his program.

When his program does get reactivated by Seven later on, the program is just fine and hadn't been altered in any way.

In "Lifesigns", the Doctor isn't ever muted...nor even turned off for that matter. "Scientific Method" had a lot of weird stuff going on, including the attempt of the Srivani to deactivate the Doctor's program while he and B'Elanna are in the science lab.

But the aliens don't succeed in doing that; the Doctor is quick to transfer himself to the holodeck before they can. The aliens probably would have tried to mute the Doctor's program or find other ways to disable him if they could, but none of the crew in this episode, at least in this situation, had any reasons to itself.

Answer: One Small Step

The malfunctions towards the beginning of the episode caused by Seven's Borg enhancements to the ship's systems included the doors to Chakotay's quarters opening and closing repeatedly. Instead of continuing to play the back-and-forth game of walking up to the doors and away from the doors when they won't stay open, he waits for a chance when the doors remain open long enough and there is sufficient space to jump through, then proceeds through the corridor en route to engineering to get to the bottom of what's going on.

This particular malfunction, nor this particular act of Chakotay's athleticism, occurred in any of the other three episodes, even though he does have to get physical (this suddenly makes me think about the Olivia Newton-John hit from the 80's) a few times in "Shattered" and especially in "The Fight", when he's showing off his boxing skills on the holodeck.