"Star Trek" TOS - Mix & Match Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Romulans

We first come across the Romulans in the first series episode "The Balance of Terror" in which the Enterprise comes up against the first Romulan ship to have crossed over the Neutral Zone in a hundred years. Their resemblance to Spock causes the science officer a few problems onboard the Enterprise! The Neutral Zone is also a central element in the episode "The Enterprise Incident" in series 3, where Kirk and Spock deliberately enter it in order to steal the cloaking device that makes the Romulans so difficult to defeat.

Answer: they eliminate the crew's sense of fear by injecting them with tranquillisers

The alien feeds off people's fear, usually women's (because women are more afraid of men, of course...). When the alien tries to terrify the Enterprise crew by threatening to kill them, our team come up with the idea of injecting everyone with a tranquilliser to kill their fear. Kirk comments: "Well, Mr. Spock for the next five or six hours we're going to have the happiest crew in space... of course, we won't get much work done." Unfortunately, it also means he will have no-one to beam back down to the brothel with. Life is hard sometimes.

Answer: he is having a medical check-up

Whilst red flashing lights are going off right left and centre on the Enterprise, Kirk is on his back, topless (of course), kicking a machine whilst McCoy presumably measures his blood pressure. One might wonder why you can't hear red alert when you're in the sickbay...

The medical substory continues in this episode as Kirk is made to eat salad leaves for dinner (he's put on a couple of pounds apparently) and his yeoman tries to take away his nightcap.

Answer: because if she does not die, the Nazis will rule the world

The basic storyline of this episode goes: McCoy accidentally injects himself with hallucinogenic drug (those hypos can be a right liability), beams himself down to a planet and jumps through a time portal, thereby changing history. The Enterprise disappears from above the crew's heads. Kirk and Spock have to jump in after McCoy to find him and stop him changing the course of history.

While they're waiting for him to arrive, Kirk falls in love with Edith Keeler, the owner of the charity café where the two men first take cover from a police officer (2 minutes on the street and they're already been chased down it, true to form!).

After some very convincing machinations, Spock manages to see two alternative histories: one in which Edith Keeler is killed, and the other where she lives to meet the president of the United States. Spock works out that McCoy somehow prevented Edith from dying.

She founded a peace movement that delayed the USA's entry into WW2, gave the Nazis time to develop the H-bomb and the rest... is history.

Answer: Kevin Riley

In possibly the most extraordinary display of overacting in the entire series, Lieutenant Kevin Riley takes over engineering in a fit of madness induced by an alien virus, locks the doors, switches off the engines and starts singing down the intercom to drive the few remaining sane crewmen round the bend.

His efforts result in a situation in which the over-emotional Spock and enraged Kirk have 8 minutes to attempt something which A) has never been done before and B) has a one in ten thousand chance of working. So of course, it all ends well.

Answer: they've just accidentally beamed aboard another person

The Enterprise has been thrown backwards into the past and is now orbiting Earth in the 1960s. Problem: the ship gets spotted by an army plane, and they have to lock the plane into their tractor beam to stop it shooting at them. The plane starts to break up, they have to beam the pilot aboard.

They are now faced with a conundrum: do they beam him back down to Earth and risk him telling everyone what he has seen, or do they keep him on the Enterprise? Spock clinches it by saying Captain Christopher has to go home because his unborn son will one day become a prominent person in Starfleet. Kirk and Sulu beam down to erase any other traces of themselves before getting Christopher home.

While they are searching for the tapes in the army base on the ground, they are discovered by a security guard.

The guard accidentally presses the emergency button on Kirk's communicator and gets himself beamed aboard the Enterprise. And it's back to square one.

Answer: he isolated the person's heartbeat by eliminating all the other heartbeats onboard

The person Kirk is meant to have killed in this episode is actually trying to frame him for murder. He wants revenge over Kirk ratting on him years ago, and costing him his promotion. Kirk proves his innocence by getting everyone other than the court members off the ship and having the computer tune in to the heartbeats of everyone on board. Once McCoy has gone round eliminating all the heartbeats of the people officially onboard, the fact that a heartbeat can still be heard suggests there is someone else on the ship.

There follows a confrontation between Kirk and his nemesis in the engineering room, and all's well that ends well.

Answer: T'Pring

This is the lady for which Spock and Kirk fought to the death in possibly the most famous scene in all of Star Trek. The Vulcans have a mating ritual by which the parties who were betrothed in childhood meet up again in the presence of... well, a congregation of sorts.

In this ceremony, the female either accepts the male or challenges him to fight another male of her choice. In this case, T'Pring challenges Spock to fight Kirk, as she logically assumes that neither of the men would want her once the fight was over, and she could go ahead and marry the guy she actually liked.

She is right, and the broken-hearted Spock, convinced he has killed his captain and his friend, lets her off the hook before handing himself over to Starfleet command to stand court martial. Except Kirk's not dead. Sorry to give the ending away.

Answer: they had beamed down to a planet which was then destroyed

This is from the episode "The Doomsday Machine" in Season Two. A giant robot-like machine is drifting through space "eating" everything it finds, be it planets or spaceships. In his concern for his crew, Commodore Decker beamed them down to "Planet 4" as the monster approached.

When he tells Kirk this and Kirk points out to him that there is no planet 4, Decker replies: "You think I don't know that?"

Answer: he was infected by an alien life form which took over his body, resulting in madness and then death

This happens in the episode "Operation Annihilate" from season one. In this episode, the Federation records a spread of insanity across a series of planets. The crew of the Enterprise work out that this is due to an alien life form that attaches itself to a person, injects seeds of itself into the host and these grow into tendrils and filaments that grow through the person's entire body and control that body through pain.

The alien is overcome by Spock's ability to control the pain, and his return to study the alien on the surface of the planet.

Unfortunately, before they are able to defeat it, the alien takes with it Kirk's brother Sam and his wife, leaving Jim's nephew orphaned and very ill.