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1. In the series' first aired episode, "The Man Trap", although the crew only ever refers to this monster as "the creature" in the episode itself, fans generally call it by the name of the substance which it craved: The ______ Monster.
2. Dr. Richard Daystrom invented the "monster" of this episode: the M-5 Multitronic Unit. The high drama of the episode is provided by the thing eventually running completely amok and using the weapons of the Enterprise to attack other starships and kill their crewmembers. What is the moniker given this machine in the episode title, "The ___________ Computer"?
3. A shuttlecraft and crew are involuntarily diverted off course and onto a planet's surface where they discover one Zefram Cochrane, a man, creator of the warp drive, thought to have been dead 150 years. What does Cochrane call the amorphous entity that has both kept him alive all these years and also brought the shuttlecraft crew to him in the episode "Metamorphosis"? "The __________".
4. In "The Changeling", the Enterprise and crew come across an incredibly powerful space probe which almost destroys them. Once they beam it aboard, they discover that it started out as an Earth probe called "Nomad" but has somehow "combined" in space with a second alien probe with which it collided. What was the name of the second probe?
5. In "Court Martial", Kirk is facing charges for the death of one of his crew, Ben, whom he jettisoned into space while he was in the "ion pod" when the "ion storm" which he was monitoring became severe. Who turns out to be the "monster" of this episode?
6. In the episode "Elaan of Troyius", the title character is our alien Monster of the Week with her atrocious personality and her special biochemical trap (aphrodisiac tears). But what was her official title?
7. In "The Corbomite Maneuver", our Monster of the Week is of course Balok, whose initial terrifying visage is later found to be a mere puppet. The actual Balok turns out to be a friendly childlike creature (played by a young Clint Howard). But which actor voiced the first menacing "puppet" version of Balok?
8. We can't end a monster quiz without invoking the most traditionally "monsterish" monster of the series, the reptilian "Gorn" captain. The episode is "Arena". The outpost planet was "Cestus III". The arena planet filming location was "Vasquez Rocks", an LA county park. But what weapon or substance was the proximate cause of the Gorn captain's defeat?
9. Sometimes the whole planet itself seems to be an episode's "Monster of the Week".
"Shore Leave" is the quintessential example. But "The Apple" starts off that way also, although Vaal turns out to be the real monster. Which of these is NOT a way in which a crewmember is killed in "The Apple" on Gamma Trianguli VI?
10. Another "real monster" type monster, the Horta, starts off the episode ("The Devil in the Dark") by killing two miners and then a crewmember (redshirt, of course). It's even referred to repeatedly as "monster" in the early part of the episode. McCoy is eventually called down to treat the creature. Which catchphrase does McCoy responds with? "I'm a doctor, not a _________."
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