Name That Episode #5 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hide And Q

In the beginning of the episode, the omnipotent alien has transported Riker, Yar, Data, Geordi and Worf to an unknown planet to commence the 'game' he has in store for them. To celebrate the 'occasion', he magically puts a glass of their respective favorite drinks in their hands, which a disgusted Worf turns upside down and pours to the ground. Later, after Riker has been granted the omnipotent powers of the Q Continuum, he bestows a gift upon each individual crewmember on the bridge, giving them what they most desire. For Wesley, it's his wish to become a grown man, so with a nod of the head, he transforms the teenage acting ensign to exactly that.

But when everyone realizes that the source of their gifts is the powers of the Q Continuum, they ask for those very same gifts to be taken away and restored back to normal.

In "The Child", it's true that the alien lifeform that impregnates Troi ages by a span of years (from an infant to a young boy) throughout the episode, but Worf pouring a drink onto the ground does not happen at all.

In "Parallels", even with all of the changes Worf experiences in his jumps back and forth to and from the alternate universes, there are no children seen in any of them. Besides that, he's never served a drink; he only replicates champagne for himself and Counselor Troi to celebrate his birthday at the very end of the episode. "Yesterday's Enterprise" offers up a little bit of trickiness, as the only 'child' who could be seen as somebody aging by a span of years is Wesley who, as a result of the encounter with the anomaly, becomes a lieutenant on the alternate Enterprise and, presumably, older. However, Worf is never served a favorite drink that he disposes of, even though there was in fact a scene where Guinan serves Worf a glass of prune juice she wants him to sample at the very beginning.

Answer: Datalore

Towards the end of this episode, Dr. Crusher, Wesley and Data are in the cargo bay confronting Data's maniacal android brother, who is targeting all of them with a phaser. Lore threatens to zap the Enterprise's chief medical officer, and after he initiates a five-second countdown, his phaser blast sets one of her arms on fire as she runs out into the corridor. Data and Wesley eventually team up to outmaneuver the scheming android, after which Dr. Crusher and several other senior officers come charging back into the cargo bay, all of them armed with phasers and ready to open fire.

In "Disaster", although there were a series of individual dangers being presented to crewmembes trapped in various places around the ship, being set on fire isn't among the dangers that Dr. Crusher endures while being trapped in the cargo bay with Geordi.

In "Sub Rosa", the only kind of fire that Crusher encounters is the candle that was a traditional family heirloom. She lit it many times in order to summon Ronin's ghostly presence, but she never gets set on fire while the candle was in her possession.

Then in "The High Ground", Dr. Crusher's arm is never set on fire, and nor is she in the presence of any kind of fire at all.

Answer: The Mind's Eye

At the very beginning of the episode, Geordi is enjoying some leisure time alone while onboard a shuttlecraft, listening to some festive Latin-inspired music when he looks out the shuttle's viewport and sees a Romulan ship. Before he can get away, he's captured, then is mentally tortured with disturbing imagery being fed into his mind while his Romulan captors verbally taunt and brainwash him.

In "The Price", it's true Geordi was on a shuttle, but he was accompanied by Data as the pair went to investigate the stability of the Barzan Wormhole along with a Ferengi ship. No time for rest and relaxation for the chief engineer at all. Geordi is never seen onboard a shuttlecraft in neither "Booby Trap" nor "Identity Crisis".

Answer: Skin Of Evil

The alien named Armus that is encountered on the deserted planet of Vagra II assumes a liquid form and envelops the crashed shuttlecraft that Troi and other crewmembers of her away team were on whenever it wants to communicate to the Enterprise's counselor.

However, being the evil entity that it truly was, it never offers to rescue Troi and her Enterprise comrades from the wreckage; that instead happens as a result of Picard provoking Armus, which in turn lowers the alien's defenses and allows for Troi and everyone else on the planet to be beamed safely back up into outer space.

In "Night Terrors", Troi does communicate with the Betazoid man rescued from the derelict U.S.S. Brittain during the away team's initial arrival, but the sister Federation ship was completely intact and undamaged; it was only the crew onboard who were damaged---both mentally as well as physically--as they went insane and killed each other. Troi also communicates to the alien beings living in the binary star system while back onboad the Enterprise, but the Enterprise itself was never wrecked or physically damaged in this episode either.

In "Ménage Á Troi", Troi is never onboard any kind of ship that's wrecked--Federation or otherwise--and the same holds true for "Timescape"; the shuttle that she's on with Geordi, Data and Picard remains intact for the duration of the episode.

Answer: Déjà Q

At the very beginning of the episode, shortly after the Enterprise crew establishes contact with the aliens on the Bre'el homeworld, a high-pitched noise is heard by everyone on the bridge. Moments later, a completely nude Q materializes onto the bridge, floating in mid-air before the omnipotent alien suddenly drops onto the floor to the disgust of Captain Picard.

In all of the other episodes, Q remains fully dressed...at least in the crew's perceptions of him.

Answer: A Fistful Of Datas

Lore does not make an appearance in this episode at all; we only see Data--multiple versions of him--playing the various roles of the holodeck characters in Alexander's cowboy simulation set in the old American West. "Datalore" was the episode where Data meets Lore for the very first time, and the two androids reunite in the fourth season episode, "Brothers", where Dr. Noonian Soong is discovered to be alive, then again in the "Descent" two-parter, where Lore is discovered to be influencing his rule and dominion over the Borg collective.

Answer: The Nth Degree

In the aftermath of his spectacular experience with having become the super-intelligent being, Barclay and Counselor Troi are recounting that experience while in Ten Forward at the end of the episode. As the pair are walking out, Barclay stops at a table where two people are engaged in a 3D chess match and moves one of the pieces to another tier on the board, even though Barclay relays to the counselor that he has absolutely no knowledge about playing chess whatsoever. Presumably, there was some lingering intelligence flowing inside his brain after all! In "Genesis", although Barclay displays heightened intelligence, drive and acuity as a result of much of the crew having devolved, he does not play chess at any moment during this episode. Nor does Barclay play chess during any of the moments he's joined Geordi in Ten Forward in "Hollow Pursuits" nor at any moment when Moriarty has trapped him, Data and Picard inside the holodeck in "Ship In A Bottle".

Answer: Descent, Part 2

Picard and much of the Enterprise crew is down on the surface on the planet, having embarked on a search and rescue mission of their missing android crewmate, Data. As she's the only senior officer left onboard the ship, Picard leaves Dr. Crusher in command of his Enterprise, the doctor eventually working together with a newly-assigned ensign and a lieutenant to destroy a Borg ship patrolling in orbit of a nearby sun.

In "Remember Me", even with everyone vanishing from the ship one by one right in front of her very eyes until she's left all alone, Dr. Crusher never officially has command of the Enterprise.

Besides that, she's never giving orders to any crewmembers when she steps foot onto the bridge. Riker assumes command of the Enterprise while Picard is vacationing on Risa in "Captain's Holiday", and is in command again during the brief period that Q has transported Picard off the Enterprise and onto a shuttlecraft at the beginning of "Q Who".

Answer: Brothers

This one's a bit tricky! In "Brothers", Data is discovered to have been summoned by his creator, Dr. Noonian Soong, via a homing beacon that had been built into his circuitry. Before departing the Enterprise and reuniting with the aging cyberneticist, Data initiates several security lockouts, including the removal of life supprt on the bridge, so that he could gain temporary control of the ship. All of this delays the Enterprise's arrival at a starbase, the crew's original destination after a boy named Willie contracted a deadly disease accidentally caused by a prank set in motion by his brother named Jake.

In "Unnatural Selection", it's true that one of the children from the genetic research facility is beamed onboard the Enterprise, encased in special quarantine material around his body, to be studied and analyzed by Dr. Pulaski.

Although she does eventually take a shuttlecraft to the research facility (along with Data) to assist with eradicating the disease that infected the U.S.S. Lantree, neither she nor Data schemes to force the evacuation of their own ship in order to do so.

In "Too Short A Season", it's true that Admiral Jameson was aging at the beginning of the episode, but not true that there were children being quarantined aboard the Enterprise. Then in "The Child", although the alien lifeform that impregnates Counselor Troi and grows up to be a young boy does serve as a threat to the ship when radiation from his body reacts with some dangerous substances being analyzed in one of the cargo bays, the boy never has to be quarantined in this episode before he (and the lifeform) dies in bed.

Answer: Silicon Avatar

Riker is getting all cozy and friendly with the colonist named Carmen Davila on the planet at the very beginning of the episode, eventually inviting the young lady on a evening dinner date. Suddenly, the dreaded 'Crystalline Entity' makes its return, descending from the sky and vaporizing everything in sight, including Carmen and an unnamed older man, as Riker, Data, Dr. Crusher, the rest of the Enterprise away team and all of the colonists are attempting to flee from the mysterious giant snowflake-looking alien on foot.

In "The Vengeance Factor", the only death Riker witnesses is the death of Yuta, the young woman who had been seeking revenge on the Gatherers, when he kills her in order to prevent her from killing another Gatherer at the end of the episode. Previous to that, he and Dr. Crusher do see the dead corpse of another Gatherer laying on the ground that had also been killed by Yuta following the weapons fire exchange between Riker's away team and the other group of Gatherers, but Riker did not witness Yuta's actual killing. Riker doesn't witness anybody getting killed at all during the entire "Encounter At Farpoint" pilot, not even when the energy discharges of the second jellyfish-resembling space-faring alien are blasting the planet's surface at the end of the episode.

Then in "Future Imperfect", nobody dies at all; it was all an illusion programmed and created by the single alien on the planet who had become attached to Riker and wanted a companion after being left behind by its mother.