"Star Trek: TNG" (Season 3, Part 1) Quiz

Answer: Neutron/Red giant

The brilliant graphic used to depict the Kavis Alpha system in "Evolution" is reused in the sixth-season episode "Realm of Fear." Our own sun is classified as a yellow dwarf (or G V star), a kind of small, main-sequence star. Over the next five to six billion years, it will evolve into a red giant and end its life as a white dwarf.

The Enterprise's mission in "Evolution" is put at risk after Wesley Crusher accidentally allows sentient "nanites," nanoscale robots, to escape into the main computer.

The crew is eventually able to communicate with these microscopic beings, and Stubbs is allowed to launch his probe on schedule.

Answer: 2255

Among other things, the Treaty of Armens stipulated that the Federation cede several Class H planets to the Sheliak. Due to the priority the Sheliak place on semantics, the Federation had to dispatch 372 legal expects to sign this treaty! In "The Ensigns of Command," Lt. Commander Data, the only member of the crew who can survive the journey down to Tau Cygna V amidst the hyperonic radiation in that planet's atmosphere, is given the charge of convincing the human colonists to evacuate--before the Sheliak "eradicate" them.

Incidentally, season three of "TNG" takes place throughout the year 2366.

Answer: Riker

Despite a last-minute warning from Geordi, Commander Riker finds himself hanging upside-down by the leg! Although the Uxbridges have no hostile intentions towards the Enterprise crew, one of them holds a terrible secret. There was only one survivor of the massacre after all: Kevin Uxbridge, who isn't actually human. Rather, he is a Douwd, a powerful, immortal being, who, at the sight of Rishon's lifeless body, killed every member of the aggressors' species.

The Rishon we see in the episode is merely a recreation of Kevin's deceased wife.

Answer: Yes

Dr. Mary Warren, one of the anthropologists from the Mintaka III observation post, succumbs to injuries sustained in an accidental explosion on the planet. Picard allows Nuria, a local Mintakan leader, to witness Warren's death. Despite the advanced technology of the Enterprise, Picard wants to impress upon Nuria that humans are no less mortal than Mintakans.

While it ultimately takes an arrow to Picard's chest to prove this to the most zealous among Nuria's group, the Enterprise eventually leaves orbit, confident in the knowledge that they have not irreparably compromised the natural social evolution of the Mintakans.

Answer: La Forge

Here's what we know: Captain Picard's mother is deceased by season one ("Where No One Has Gone Before"), while his father is dead by or before season six ("Tapestry"). Commander Riker's father is alive and well as of season two, while his mother died when he was young ("The Icarus Factor"). Both of Dr. Crusher's parents were killed when she was a child ("Sub Rosa"), while Counselor Troi's father, Ian Andrew Troi, was killed in 2343 ("Half a Life"). Data doesn't have biological parents, though his "mother," Juliana Tainer, died shortly after the Crystalline Entity's attack on Omicron Theta and his "father," Dr. Noonien Soong, is presumed dead after the events of "Brothers." Worf was orphaned due to the Romulan incursion at Khitomer, where he and his biological family lived when Worf was a child ("Heart of Glory").

As of the events of "Interface" in season seven, Geordi's mother is presumed dead after the USS Hera, her command, is declared lost; we meet his father, an exobiologist, in the same episode. Wesley, though not technically a member of the senior staff, lost his father, Jack Crusher, while the elder Crusher was under Picard's command ("Encounter at Farpoint").

Answer: Christy

With the "infusion" of confidence Geordi receives from the Zalkonian known as "John Doe" in "Transfigurations," Christy Henshaw ultimately reciprocates the chief engineer's affections, despite originally rejecting him in "Booby Trap." Although the Dr. Leah Brahms seen in "Booby Trap" is merely a hologram of the actual person (whom we meet in "Galaxy's Child"), Geordi seems to get a romantic fix in this episode after all! Indeed, the holographic Dr. Brahms proves instrumental in helping Geordi determine a means of escape from the nearly millennium-old Menthar booby-trap in which the Enterprise becomes ensnared.

Answer: Commander Tomalak

The treacherous Commander Tomalak, portrayed by the late Andreas Katsulas, appears later in season three when Romulan Admiral Jarok defects to the Federation ("The Defector"). Holographic and alternate-timeline versions of him appear in "Future Imperfect" and "All Good Things...", respectively.

The cooperation between La Forge and Bochra ultimately facilitates their rescue by Enterprise and helps avert a battle with Tomalak. Subcommander N'Vek and "Major Rakal" are both Romulan characters featured in the sixth-season "Face of the Enemy" (though the latter is really a disguised Deanna Troi).

Answer: Brussels

By the 24th Century, the former nation-state of Belgium belongs to the "European Alliance." Of his four siblings, Ral was the only one to display empathic abilities, which he surreptitiously uses to his advantage as a negotiator. Devinoni eventually falls out of favor with Troi, who learns of the negotiator's underhanded tactics.

The Barzan wormhole also proves to be unstable, and two Ferengi find themselves trapped in the Delta Quadrant as a result. The fate of these two is finally revealed in the third-season "Voyager" episode "False Profits."

Answer: Penthor-Mul

Although we see Yuta murder the elderly Lornak Volnoth early in the episode, Riker, Data and Dr. Crusher determine that a Lornak clansman named Penthor-Mul died of symptoms identical to Volnoth's 53 years earlier. Moreover, the three Enterprise officers recover a visual record that shows Yuta--who apparently hasn't aged a day over the last half-century--with Penthor-Mul shortly before his death. Commander Riker is reluctantly forced to kill Yuta to prevent her from carrying out an assassination on Chorgan, the last surviving member of the Lornak clan after Volnoth's death.

The boorish Gatherer Brull is not a member of the Lornak clan.

Answer: James Cromwell

Cromwell is probably best known for playing warp-drive pioneer Zephram Cochrane in "Star Trek: First Contact," a role he would reprise for the pilot episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise." In "The Hunted," the Enterprise recovers Roga Danar, an escaped Ambrosian "criminal" and former soldier. Counselor Troi comes to learn that Danar and many of his comrades were psychologically conditioned and chemically altered to enhance their combat performances. Deemed unfit to reenter society after the Tarsian War by the Ambrosian government, Danar and other soldiers were confined to a penal colony on Lunar V.

Answer: The Elway Theorem

The technological implications of the Elway Theorem were explored in the 23rd Century but ultimately deemed untenable. The many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, as elaborated by Data in the episode "Parallels," is an actual paradigm in modern quantum theory.

The Underhill Conjecture and Wang's Second Postulate are referenced in "Clues" and "Good Shepherd" (VOY), respectively. As with the Aldean planetary shield in "When The Bough Breaks," advanced technology comes at a high price for the Ansata: the dimensional shifting is killing them.

Answer: Die

The perfect retort, delivered by the only character who could keep a straight face while saying it! Not to be outwitted by a "microbrain," Q derides the Klingon: "Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?" Q's claims turn out to be true after all, and in a twist of irony, Picard assigns Data to be Q's "professor of the humanities." After nearly sacrificing his life to safeguard the Enterprise in an uncharacteristic act of bravery, Q is granted his powers again by the Continuum.

The again-omnipotent Q, with a mariachi band and "fantasy women" in tow, appears on the Enterprise again and succeeds in annoying the bridge crew. All is well again in the universe.

Answer: La Forge and Riker

La Forge beams back to the Enterprise first. When Riker returns, he is shocked when told by Chief O'Brien that the station had exploded moments before the first officer rematerialized aboard the Enterprise. The Tanugan authorities accuse Commander Riker of engineering the station's destruction and murdering Dr. Apgar, the head scientist on board. Geordi, however, gathers overwhelming evidence that Apgar, jealous over a perceived affair between Riker and Apgar's wife, planned to murder the Enterprise XO; the attempt backfired, destroying the Tanugan station and killing Apgar in the process.

Answer: Tasha Yar

In one of the most popular "Next Generation" episodes, a space-time rift involving the Enterprise-C alters history when the ship travels into the present from the scene of a pivotal battle from 22 years earlier. The result is the formation of an alternate timeline, one in which the Federation is embroiled in a devastating war with the Klingon Empire, the Enterprise-D is a combat vessel, and Lt. Tasha Yar is back at tactical (the events in "Skin of Evil" are presumed either not to have occurred or to have unfolded differently). Guinan is the only member of the crew to notice the shift in reality.

She manages to convince the alternate Picard to send the Enterprise-C back into the rift, in the hope that doing so will restore the original timeline.

The events of this episode set forward of chain of events that culminates with the shocking final scene of the season four finale, "Redemption, Part I."

Answer: A Klingon female

Counselor Troi seems to express her approval with the human female form that Lal makes her own. This episode revisits some of the issues touched upon in the season-two episode "The Measure of a Man," as Starfleet wants Lal transfered to the Daystrom Institute after learning of her existence.

In a tragic case of irony, an overload of emotions contributes to Lal's permanent shutdown at the end of the episode. Data transfers the Lal's memory into his own, ensuring that she will continue to exist in one form or another.

After the events of "Star Trek: Nemesis," it is assumed that these memories persist in B-4.