"Star Trek: TNG" (Season 4, Part 1) Quiz

Answer: Saturn

The Enterprise is also seen passing Saturn in pursuit of the cube. Mars is also briefly seen immediately before the three interceptors from the Mars Defense Perimeter are easily destroyed by the cube. Jupiter Outpost 92 also reports visual contact with the Borg.

After the Enterprise recovers Picard/Locutus, Lt. Commander Data, Chief O'Brien, Counselor Troi and Dr. Crusher are successful in using the former captain to plant a regeneration command into the Borg collective consciousness, thereby halting a devastating attack on the Enterprise and preventing a terrestrial Borg assault.

The cube self-destructs shortly thereafter. Picard is reinstated as the Enterprise's commanding officer, though a thoughtful stare out the window of his ready room at the end of the episode seems to indicate that the captain expects to encounter the Borg again. Nearly two years later, he does, in the fifth-season "I, Borg."

Answer: observation lounge

The very first scene in "Family" consists of a conversation between Worf and Riker in the observation lounge, which, like the bridge, is located on Deck 1. Also on Deck 1, the ready room is not seen in this episode. "Family" additionally holds the distinction of being the only episode of the series not to feature Brent Spiner's Lt. Commander Data.

Answer: An imminent breach or failure of life support

As a first step in gaining control of command functions aboard the Enterprise, Data terminates life support on Deck 1. This forces the bridge crew to evacuate and reconvene in engineering, where they determine that Data has gained full control of command functions.

After reuniting with his creator on Terlina III, Data and Dr. Soong are joined by an unexpected guest. Data's "brother" Lore had been rescued by a Pakled vessel nearly two years after the events in "Datalore" and was summoned by the same beacon that brought Data to Soong's home. Soong intends to install an emotion chip in the younger android, but the cyberneticist mistakenly installs it in Lore (who was posing as his brother). Lore is seen again in "Descent, Parts I and II." On Intrepid-class vessels, a Blue Alert is called in preparation of a planetary landing (as established in the "Voyager" episode "The 37's").

Answer: Talarians

Confusing with all these similar names, isn't it? During the Galen border conflicts, Endar, a Talarian captain, led an attack on Galen IV that resulted in the death of Jeremiah Rossa's immediate family. The Talarian captain, who had lost his own son at Castal I, decided to take four-year old Jeremiah as his own son.

This is the boy who would become Jono. The nearly incomprehensible Children of Tama, or Tamarians, are introduced in "Darmok." We meet the Tarellians in the first-season episode "Haven," while the irrepressible Lwaxana Troi annuls her marriage to the Tavnian Jeyal in "The Muse" ("DS9").

Answer: "The Wizard of Oz"

"Click my heals together three times, and I'm back in Kansas," the doctor wonders to herself on a completely deserted Enterprise. "Remember Me" represents some of "Star Trek's" most engrossing science fiction. The "universe" in which Dr. Crusher finds herself trapped is actually a warp bubble created by Wesley, in which the doctor inadvertently becomes trapped. Dr. Crusher's own thoughts determine the nature of this separate reality, one in which people, places and eventually the universe itself begin to disappear. With the help of the Traveler, last seen in "Where No One Has Gone Before," Wesley and Lt. Commander La Forge are able to create a stable vortex, enabling Dr. Crusher to return to the normal universe.

Answer: Riker

The younger Yar, a member of the "Coalition" on Turkana IV, works with the Enterprise to recover the hostages being held by the rival "Alliance" faction. After Ishara is shot by a member of the Alliance, Riker abandons the rest of the away team to recover her.

As he explains to Picard later aboard the Enterprise, Riker had already lost one Yar on an away mission (in "Skin of Evil") and had no intention of losing another. Ishara's motives in helping the Enterprise ultimately prove duplicitous, as she betrays the crew on their final away mission to the planet in an effort to facilitate a Coalition offensive against the Alliance.

Although bereft of emotions, Lt. Commander Data is particularly affected by Ishara's betrayal.

Answer: His wrist

Dr. Crusher determines that the explosive was a triceron-based molecular decay detonator; only Romulans are known to use such a device. The history of the Duras family's collaboration with Romulans is well-known to Picard, Worf and others among the Enterprise crew, but K'Ehlyr, Worf's romantic interest last seen in "The Emissary," uncovers this for herself during the protracted Rite of Succession (the traditional contest for the chancellorship). Unaware of the political repercussions that would ensue from exposing Duras' treachery, K'Ehlyr boldly confronts him about his father's betrayal, and Duras kills her in cold blood.

In retribution, Worf slaughters Duras in armed combat. This leaves Gowron to be installed as Chancellor of the High Council, an event witnessed in "Redemption, Part I." Ironically, Worf goes on to kill Gowron in armed combat nearly a decade later, as seen in "Tacking Into the Wind" ("DS9").

Answer: Ferengi

The scenario Riker experiences turns out to be an elaborate but innocent ruse concocted by a lonely alien boy named Barash. The "future" Enterprise also houses at least one additional Klingon Starfleet officer. A Cardassian is indeed seen at conn in one of the alternate universes visited by Worf in "Parallels," while Nog, son of Rom and nephew of Quark, becomes the first Ferengi in Starfleet on "Deep Space Nine." As of "Voyager's" conclusion, no Cardassians were known to be serving in Stafleet, although Elim Garak proved instrumental in assisting the Federation during the Dominion War.

Answer: Janet Brooks

Despite the loss of her empathic abilities, Troi is nevertheless effective in helping Ensign Brooks cope with the recent loss of her husband. The half-Betazoid counselor also elucidates the behavior of the two-dimensional organisms, allowing Data to devise a strategy that allows the Enterprise to escape from the cosmic string.

After the ship breaks free and moves away from the lifeforms, Troi regains her empathic faculties. Sonya Gomez is an engineer seen in the second season ("Q Who?" and "Samaritan Snare"), while Robin Lefler, another engineer, plays a pivotal role in thwarting the Ktarian mind control plot in "The Game" (she is also seen in "Darmok"). Sito Jaxa ("The First Duty" and "Lower Decks") was a Bajoran officer killed during a covert operation to assist a Cardassian dissident.

Answer: True

Spot has an interesting history. The feline began as a male Somali in "Data's Day" but is later seen as an orange tabby. By the seventh-season "Force of Nature," however, Spot is presented as a female, perhaps in anticipation of the cat's pregnancy in "Genesis" (in which Spot also "de-evolves" into what looks like an iguana).

Although Spot's fate following Data's death is not revealed, a deleted scene from "Star Trek: Nemesis" reveals that Worf was to become the cat's new caretaker.

Answer: "The Minstrel Boy"

In defiance of the uneasy Federation-Cardassian peace treaty, Captain Maxwell has been attacking Cardassian targets along the Cardassian border. O'Brien exploits his knowledge of the Phoenix's shields to beam over to Maxwell's ship at the climax of "The Wounded." Maxwell and the chief discuss the present situation, and the two reminisce about their time together aboard the USS Rutledge during the Cardassian Wars of the mid-24th Century. Sharing an old war song seems to give Maxwell pause, as he realizes that he has instigated a conflict he cannot possibly win.

The vigilante captain surrenders himself to Captain Picard at the end of the episode. "Amhrán na bhFiann" is the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland, while "Danny Boy" and "The Rising of the Mood" are both popular Irish ballads.

Answer: "A Christmas Carol"

Under Picard's supervision, Data portrays the penurious Ebenezer Scrooge from Dickens' classic novel. Data and Picard share similar time together in the holodeck exploring Shakespeare's "Henry V" and "The Tempest" in "The Defector" and "Emergence," respectively. Lt. Barclay and Dr. Crusher act out a scene of Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" in "The Nth Degree." In "Devil's Due," "Ardra" intends to exploit the Ventaxians by appealing to an agreement supposedly brokered by the real Ardra and the Ventaxian authorities a millennium prior to the episode's events. Lt. Commander La Forge is eventually able to locate the ship from which the faux-Ardra is operating, and Picard (rather dramatically, no less) reveals her to be an impostor.

Answer: No

Note that while a full day had passed between the events of the teaser and the first act, the crew had only remained unconscious for 30 seconds after being exposed to the "wormhole," revealed to be an energy field manufactured by the Paxans, a xenophobic non-corporeal species. Whereas the energy field would usually place the entire crew of an intrusive vessel in biochemical stasis, Data, immune to the field's effects, was able to awaken the crew with ADTH approximately 30 seconds after exposure to the field.

The events of the ensuing 24 hours nearly culminated with the Enterprise's destruction, as the crew had become aware of the Paxans' existence (and the Paxans were obviously none too happy). Picard was able to convince the elusive species to wipe the short-term memories of the Enterprise crew (as they would have barring Data's interference).

The captain then ordered Data to conceal the Paxans' existence, understanding that the android was insusceptible to the Paxans' techniques. Data's subsequent subterfuge was thus based on a direct order from Picard, and the android's failure to assuage the crew's skepticism after the initial Paxan encounter ultimately prompted the Enterprise to return to Paxan space. Fortunately, Picard explained his way out of a second potential catastrophe, justifying to the Paxans the insatiable human desire to explore "clues," like those left over from the first encounter.

Answer: Rivas Jakara

Larel, a Malcorian nurse played by Bebe Neuwirth of the "Cheers" fame, assists Riker in an escape attempt, for a price (watch the episode)! Meanwhile, Captain Picard and Counselor Troi decide to make contact with Mirasta Yale and Avel Durken, respectively the Space Administrator and Chancellor of the Malkorians, in an urgent attempt to recover the Enterprise's first officer.

The Malkorian authorities ultimately decide against publicizing their contact with extraterrestrials (i.e. the Enterprise crew) in fear of an isolationist backlash, but the two parties nevertheless part on amicable terms. Jayden is the name given to an amnesiac Data in "Thine Own Self," Amal Kotay is Commander Chakotay's alter ego in the "Workforce" two-parter on "Voyager," and Captain Sisko, in an effort to uncover Dominion infiltration of the Klingon Empire, is surgically altered to become the Klingon warrior Jodmos in the "DS9" fifth-season opener, "Apocalypse Rising."

Answer: guitar

Geordi seems to like classical guitar: he's seen listening to it again on board a shuttlecraft in "The Mind's Eye." Other encounters between La Forge and string instruments include the holographic gypsy violinist Geordi summons on his date with Christy Henshaw in "Booby Trap" and the famously ill-fated mandolin that "Alan-a-Dale" is seen strumming in "Qpid." Much to the chief engineer's embarrassment, Dr. Brahms is revealed to be a married woman.

She is later enraged to discover the holographic likeness of her that La Forge had created during the "Booby Trap" crisis.

Incidentally, the hypothetical future seen in "All Good Things..." seems to suggest that La Forge and Brahms could eventually wed. The pair is successful in "weaning" a newborn spacefaring organism from the energy of the Enterprise in "Galaxy's Child." Geordi fondly recounts this story to Scotty in "Relics."