Name That Episode #8 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Peak Performance

Riker recruits Geordi, Wesley and Worf to be among his crew onboard the U.S.S. Hathaway for the war game simulation. After briefly objecting and suggesting that the superior-in-rank Gerodi be Riker's second in command, the Enterprise's first officer insists on the Klingon tactical officer being the second in command instead. Later in the episode, a female crewmember on the engineering team is in need of optic-wire to perform a routing bypass, which was presumably needed to allow Worf to initiate his planned deceitful maneuvers during battle.

As the interior of the rugged Hathaway was already in a state of damaged disarray, Worf simply pulls some of the optic-wire from the ceiling above and thrusts it into the crewmember's hands. In "Conundrum", Worf is more than serving in temporary second in command of the Enterprise after the scan by the alien ship erases the crew's memories and identities.

He's functioning as captain of the entire ship, having the other senior officers report to him in the captain's ready room, plus getting a chance to sit down in the captain's chair on the bridge. "Parallels" saw the Klingon tactical officer shifting from one reality to the next; although he finds himself as Riker's first officer in one of those realities, the Enterprise itself was operating at peak efficiency with no kind of anomaly or sustained battle damage affecting ship systems at all.

Then in "Redemption, Part 1", Worf is never in a command position at all--not during the abbreviated time he's still onboard the Enterprise and nor while he's assuming his new post onboard Gowron's Klingon warbird.

Answer: The Royale

This one's a little tricky! When Data approaches the blackjack table on the Royale's casino floor, he does ask the man in the hat if the game being played is poker, but the man corrects the android, telling Data that the game is actually blackjack. Accessing his internal computer banks, Data determines that blackjack is also called '21', then proceeds to explain in his usual humorously precise detail what the object of the game is to everyone around him.

The only other game at the casino Data plays is craps, upon realizing towards the end of the episode that the away team is the group of 'foreign investors' who ends up buying the hotel in Colonel Richey's novel. Data racks up enough chips to secure the Royale's purchase, which then allows him, Worf and Riker to finally exit from the hotel and, ultimately, off of the Theta VIII planet.

In "Cause And Effect", Data is playing poker with Dr. Crusher, Riker and Worf, a scene that occurs several times during this episode due to the temporal loop that the Enterprise has become trapped inside.

The poker game, interestingly enough, becomes the source of the crew's solution to the problem, the number '3' appearing as a card in everyone's hand at one point of the episode, suggesting that the three pips on Riker's uniform means that it will be the commander's order that will break the Enterprise free from the temporal loop. In "Time's Arrow, Part 1", Data is playing poker again, but this time he's on 19th century Earth, playing against a trio of men at a local saloon who believe Data to be a Frenchman. Although we only see Data shuffle and deal the cards upon joining the game, the next scene shows him having racked up enough cash to get a hotel room and tip the bellboy, who uses the extra cash to purchase the supplies Data needs to construct the device needed to help him detect the alien lifeforms. Then at the beginning of "The Measure Of A Man", Data is once again playing poker--this time with Riker, Geordi, Riker and Dr. Pulaski. After Geordi, O'Brien and Pulaski fold out, Riker ends up winning the hand on a bluff, the android falling victim to the commander's blank expression of a poker face.

Answer: Redemption, Part 1

Worf is already on the holodeck equipped with a phaser, getting in some practice aiming and shooting at different colored dots that light up in a darkened environment all around him, when Guinan steps inside, equipped with a phaser of her own. When he mentions to the El-Aurian that he always starts at Level 14, the Ten Forward bartender responds by mentioning that she can come down a few levels and adjusting her phaser to match, much to the Klingon's shock.

In "Night Terrors", we do see Guinan getting in some target practice, though it's with a rather menacing and elaborate hand-held, non-Starfleet issue alien weapon, which she retrieves from behind the bar in Ten Forward and fires up into the ceiling as a warning when a group of crewmembers, who are experiencing the ill effects of sleeplessness, are getting out of control. Guinan isn't handling a phaser nor any kind of hand-held weapon at all in neither "Ensign Ro" nor "The Offspring".

Answer: Where The Silence Has Lease

The mysterious alien entity resembling a Human's face that communicates to Picard and the rest of the bridge crew while the Enterprise is trapped inside the void shows off some of its malevolence when it first causes Dr. Pulaski to shudder and be thrown up against a panel on the upper level of the bridge, the entity wanting to understand the chief medical officer's female gender.

Then shortly afterwards, the entity attacks the crewman stationed down at the conn, causing him to writhe in agony until he curls up lifelessly on the floor in front of Picard and the other officers.

The entity claims it had wanted to understand what the Human species refers to as death. In "Unnatural Selection", it's on the shuttlecraft carrying the quarantined, genetically-engineered male where Dr. Pulaski experiences the shudders, the first signs of her eventual onset of the geriatric phenomena illness.

Besides that, there are no other crewmembers who experience any kind of physical agony. In "The Dauphin", we firstly do see Pulaski gasping and backing towards a wall in sickaby when the allasomorph appearing as the old woman grows into the grotesque monster that challenges Worf, then later, a frightened Wesley backing against a wall in his quarters when the old woman and the other allasomorph, appearing as the young girl named Salia, both evolve into their respective grotesque, monstrous forms.

Besides that, no similar violent reactions by any crewmembers are seen in this episode. Then in "The Schizoid Man", neither Dr. Pulaski nor anybody else on the ship is seen shuddering or writhing in agony at any time.

Answer: Who Watches The Watchers?

When Picard and the rest of the bridge crew are attempting to beam the Mintakan woman named Nuria onto the Enterprise without the other Mintakans noticing, Data speaks to Troi via the counselor's secret com device that had been implanted into her body when she and Riker first beamed down onto the surface. Equally wanting to avoid detection by the pre-warp alien society, Troi's replies of 'mmm-hmm' and 'hmm-mmm', in response to Data's inquires regarding which of the Mintakan lifesigns he detects in the camp where Troi is being held belongs to Nuria, are only understood by the android when Riker confirms that 'mmm-hmm' means 'yes' and that 'hmm-mmm' means 'no'.

In "Power Play", it's true that a possessed Troi speaks to a possessed Data after they and a possessed Chief O'Brien have left their com badges behind in the turbolift to evade detection by the bridge crew, then speaks to him directly again later while they have several members of the crew held hostage in Ten Forward, but that is the extent of any communication between the Enterprise's counselor and the resident android without the use of their com badges.

In "The Loss", the one scene where Troi communicates to Data is when they are speaking to each other directly in the Observation Lounge, analyzing a theory to prevent both the Enterprise and the two-dimensional lifeform in space from being pulled into the anomaly. Then in "Clues", Troi does communicate to Data directly while she is under the influence of the mysterious aliens called the Paxans, but Data understands her communication perfectly without Riker needing to intervene, as the ship's android had full memory and understanding of the events involving the Paxans before the energy field knocked everyone unconscious.

Answer: Home Soil

When the crew realizes that the inorganic lifeform, which initially resembles a glowing light, is sensitive to darkness, Picard orders Riker to head down to sickbay to reduce the interior lighting, as the lifeform's control of the ship's computers make it impossible for the operation to be performed from the bridge.

The lifeform soon becomes weaker and quickly nears its death, but the diplomatic tongue of Picard reaches resolution, promising not to harm the lifeform further in exchange for the alien ending its thirst for revenge after killing one of the Human scientists on the planet that was planned for terraforming.

In "Violations", although Worf suggests that the telepathic Ullians be quarantined until the mystery of the unexplained comas is solved, the quarantine never actually happens.

Besides that, Riker is never seen entering sickbay to adjust the lighting, and nor is he doing anything to stop any of Jev's predatory telepathic assaults. In "First Contact", Riker is only seen recovering from surgery inside the Marconian medical facility; besides that, a quarantine is never placed around the Enterprise's sickbay, because none of the ship's crew, nor any of the Marconians themselves, have a medical illness of any kind.

Then in "Ensign Ro", although the Cardassians do pose as a threat to the crew's mission to escort the Bajoran settlers to their camp, nobody is having to be quarantined onboard the ship in the process.

Answer: The Schizoid Man

Picard is confronting Data in the upper level of engineering, the android having had the emotions and personality of the Human scientist named Ira Graves transferred into his computer, when an angry outburst and a blow to the head from Data sends the captain spiraling backwards and onto the floor, where an unconscious Geordi is already laying.

When Picard regains consciousness, Dr. Pulaski tends to his aid while Data has since fled engineering, the android being discovered moments later laying outstretched on the floor. Thankfully, Picard's art of the diplomatic tongue was persuasion enough for the mind of Ira Graves to leave his android's body, as Data proves to be back to his normal self with his usual precise remarks of humorous curiosity.

In "Power Play", Picard does get knocked out temporarily from behind when a possessed Troi delivers a blow to the back of his head while in his ready room, but when the captain recovers, Troi, along with a possessed Data and a possessed Chief O'Brien, are en route to the turbolift before eventually establishing a command post in Ten Forward.

In "Clues", Picard does get knocked unconscious, but it happens as a result of the energy field created by the mysterious aliens called the Paxans, and only while he is on the bridge with the rest of the senior officers. Then in "Timescape", Picard does appear in engineering--when he, Counselor Troi and Data enter there in order to get to the bottom of the reason why the Enterprise was experiencing a warp core breach. Although he temporarily hallucinates as a result of the effects of the time fragments, the captain never becomes unconscious and nor is he physically hit in the head either.

Answer: Transfigurations

When Worf confronts 'John Doe' at phaser-point on the upper level terrace of the cargo bay, the alien capable of healing the wounded is unable to control his powers, the orange blinding light emanating from his body knocking the Klingon tactical officer back with such great force. Thankfully, Worf is restored back to life after tumbling over the railing and onto the cargo bay floor below, 'John Doe' demonstrating his powers of miracle healing once again.

In "Parallels", although Worf jumps from one reality to the next as a result of his shuttle's entry into the quantum fissure, he does not come into contact with any kind of energy discharges nor anything else that causes him to fall onto the cargo bay floor.

In "Lonely Among Us", Worf does get knocked onto the floor by the energy discharge that gets transferred into him as a result of the Enterprise's entry through the spatial cloud, but he is in the sensor calibration room with Geordi and not inside the cargo bay when that happens.

Then in "The Nth Degree", when Worf and his security team enter the holodeck in an attempt to disconnect Barclay from the ship's computer, we do see a momentary energy discharge, but the discharge only happens when one of the unnamed security officers walks into the forcefield surrounding Barclay's chair. Besides that, plus the brief moment where he and his security officers try to disconnect Barclay by force using phaser blasts, there is no other instance where Worf is near an energy discharge of any kind.

Answer: Half A Life

When Counselor Troi arrives in the transporter room to witness her hysterical mother, Lwaxana, demanding to be beamed down to the surface of Dr. Timicin's homeworld, Chief O'Brien excuses himself from the room to give the two Betazoid women some privacy, but not before he manually puts the transporter controls on security lockout without stating out loud that he's doing so. O'Brien obviously didn't trust leaving his usual post unattended with the outrageous Daughter Of The Fifth House snooping around, even with a senior officer in the vicinity.

In "Power Play", we do see O'Brien operating the controls in the transporter room when he first beams down to the planet to join the away team with a supply of transporter pattern enhancers, but he never puts the controls on security lockout at any time. Similarly, in "Realm Of Fear", O'Brien never puts the transporter room controls on lockout; he had no reason to, considering that the science officers onboard the U.S.S. Yosemite were trapped in transporter suspension and eventually required rescue by Barclay and other members of the Enterprise crew.

Then in "The Mind's Eye", O'Brien is never seen locking transporter access; both the Klingon ambassador and the Klingon governor--the latter whom the Romulans had conditioned Geordi to kill--transport onto the Enterprise freely.

Answer: Timescape

Romulans, plus one of the individual lifeforms from the alternate time frame posing as a Romulan, are the only two aliens seen in close proximity to Dr. Crusher in this episode when Counselor Troi enters sickbay on two separate occasions to see what has happened there. During Troi's initial visit, she finds Dr. Crusher frozen in time and not firing a phaser while a Romulan man appears to be firing his disruptor at the doctor's body.

Then after Troi leaves and the alien posing as the female Romulan becomes animate, the doctor is still frozen in time. Later, when Troi returns to sickbay as Data prepares to scan the aliens' incubation chamber that is inside the Romulan warbird's engine core, Dr. Crusher again never fires a phaser once time begins moving forward.

After Troi confronts the Romulan man, her phaser trained on him and set to fire, the counselor realizes that it had only appeared that he was firing his disruptor at the doctor when, in fact, he had been aiming for one of the aliens posing as a Romulan instead.

In "Conspiracy", after the alien parasite-controlled Admiral Quinn subdues Worf, Geordi and Riker single-handedly, Dr. Crusher saves the day when she enters the admiral's quarters and zaps him with three phaser blasts, rendering both him and the alien parasite inside of his body unconscious. In "Sub Rosa", after the alien reanimates the body of Dr. Crusher's deceased grandmother and renders both Data and Geordi unconscious, the doctor confronts 'Ronan' in the cemetery and zaps him with a blast from the hand-held phaser that Geordi had been armed with prior to him and Data exhuming her grandmother's grave. Then in "The Best Of Both Worlds, Part 1", Dr. Crusher joins Worf, Data and Commander Shelby for the away mission over to the Borg cube where they each take turns zapping several of the drones who close in on their position. Of course, they are able to render only a few of the drones unconscious before the rest of the collective eventually adapts to their technology,