Test Your 'Star Trek' Knowledge Quiz

Answer: John Colicos

Although it was presented as a Saturday morning children's animated series, "Star Trek: The Animated Series" was regarded by creator Gene Roddenberry as a continuation of the original series, which had been cancelled in 1969. As a result, almost the entire cast returned to voice their characters, the only exception being Walter Koenig, as the series budget would not extend to him to be included. The majority of guest characters were voiced by regulars James Doohan and Majel Barrett Roddenberry, but a handful, in certain episodes that had been produced as direct sequels to episodes from the original series, saw the return of the original actors. Roger C. Carmel made his third appearance as Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion", while Stanley Adams appeared for a second time as the trader Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles".

Mark Lenard made his second appearance as Sarek, the father of Spock, in the episode "Yesteryear" - initially, the actor was not going to appear in the episode, with the character's lines recorded by James Doohan. Lenard subsequently became available, and recorded the part to be looped over the completed footage. Lenard subsequently appeared five more times as Sarek in various "Star Trek" productions.

Answer: USS Defiant

"In a Mirror, Darkly" was developed by "Star Trek: Enterprise" showrunner Manny Coto, who was looking to do a story set in the mirror universe first seen in the "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "Mirror, Mirror". The task of writing the story was given to regular writer Mike Sussman, who had often considered the fate of the starship Defiant, a sister ship of the Enterprise, which disappeared in a spatial anomaly in another "Star Trek" episode, "The Tholian Web". This led to his devising the storyline that had the Defiant fall through a hole between universes into the mirror universe, which also turned out to be a tunnel through time, as it ended up over a century in the past.

The presence of the Defiant in the story causes "In a Mirror, Darkly" to form the middle two episodes of a four episode arc across the two different series, as it forms a sequel to "The Tholian Web", and a prequel to "Mirror, Mirror".

Answer: Space Seed

The character of Khan, a genetically engineered human born in the late 20th century who ruled a sizeable portion of Earth prior to the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s, originally came about from a story submitted to the producers of "Star Trek" by writer Carey Wilber. Initially intended as a criminal, who, alongside his supporters was put in suspended animation and launched into space as a punishment, the character evolved into a "genetically engineered superman" who once ruled part of Earth. Initially intended as a Nordic character called Ericson, the background of the character was changed following the casting of Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban. "Space Seed" was originally broadcast on February 17 1967, and remains as one of the most highly regarded episodes of "Star Trek: The Original Series".

In 1981, Paramount executive Harve Bennett was tasked with coming up with a sequel to "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Having never seen the television series, he sat down to watch every episode in a search for ideas, and fixed on the character of Khan as one with potential. Linking with director Nicholas Meyer, the pair devised the second "Star Trek" movie as a direct sequel to "Space Seed", with Montalban returning as Khan. Having refreshed his memory over his previous performance, Montalban found that he enjoyed the process so much, he did it for less money than he had originally been offered. "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is often regarded as the best of all the "Star Trek" feature films.

Answer: Copper

The first confirmation that Vulcan blood was different from that of Humans came in the episode "The Man Trap", when Spock is attacked by the M-113 'salt vampire', but survives, theorizing that it is his copper-based haemoglobin that stopped the creature from consuming the salt in his bloodstream. In "The Naked Time", following a medical examination, Doctor McCoy informs Spock that his blood pressure "is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood". Over a number of episodes across the entire "Star Trek" franchise, Vulcan blood is seen as being green when oxygenated in the arteries, and copper or rust-coloured when de-oxygenated in the veins.

The idea of Spock's blood being green came from the director of both episodes, Marc Daniels, although series creator Gene Roddenberry was not in favour of it. In "Journey to Babel", Spock's father, Sarek, requires a heart operation, part of which will mean a need for blood transfusions. This episode shows that, despite the differences with Human blood, Vulcans also use a blood grouping system based on antigens in the blood cells, as both Spock and his father are group T-negative.

Answer: Rene Auberjonois

Rene Auberjonois's connection with "Star Trek" came about when his friend Nicholas Meyer called him to see if he'd like a small part in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". A year after his brief appearance in the film (which was cut from the theatrical release, but restored to the VHS version), the actor was cast in the role of curmudgeonly Security Chief Odo in the new series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", a role he played for seven years and 168 episodes. In addition, Auberjonois also directed eight episodes of the series prior to it coming to an end in 1999.

Three years after "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" ended, Auberjonois returned to the "Star Trek" universe when he appeared in "Oasis", the 20th broadcast episode of Season 1 of "Star Trek: Enterprise" (then simply called "Enterprise"). Although other regular cast members from "Star Trek" had made guest appearances in other series before, these were usually crossovers of their own character; Auberjonois became the first former regular to appear in another "Star Trek" series in a different role. This was repeated by actor Brent Spiner, who played Lt Commander Data in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", subsequently playing Dr Arik Soong in three episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise".

Answer: K'mpec

K'mpec first appears in the episode "Sins of the Father", where he is introduced as the longest serving leader of the Klingon High Council (the episode was produced prior to the first use of the word "chancellor" to describe the Klingon leader, which came in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). In the episode, as a means to avoid a civil war within the Klingon Empire, K'mpec initiates a plan to accuse the dead father of Worf, a Klingon officer stationed aboard the starship Enterprise, of betraying a Klingon outpost that was subsequently destroyed by the Romulans. During the events, K'mpec comes to realise that Picard, who serves as Worf's 'Cha'Dich', or second, during the challenge to the charge against his family honour, is someone to be trusted.

In the episode "Reunion", when K'mpec realises he is being slowly poisoned, he decides that Picard, as an outsider, is the only one he trusts to both choose a successor, and also find out who has committed the dishonourable act of murder by poison. In both episodes, K'mpec was played by actor Charles Cooper, who had previously played another Klingon, General Korrd, in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier".

Answer: Jonathan Frakes

Although he had been a working actor for over a decade when he was cast as Commander Riker in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Jonathan Frakes had always had a desire to direct. During the first two seasons in his role as Riker, he was allowed by the producers to sit in on many different areas of the production process, including editing, cinematography and music, as a way of learning the process of helming a television show. Frakes undertook in the region of 300 hours of training in various aspects of the process before he was permitted the opportunity to direct his own episode, which became "The Offspring".

The success of the episode eventually saw Frakes direct another seven episodes, and allowed other members of the cast the opportunity to direct. Frakes subsequently directed three episodes each of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager", as well as the films "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Star Trek: Insurrection".

Answer: Ferengi

Jeffrey Combs made his first appearance in the "Star Trek" universe in the minor role of Tiron in "Meridian", an episode from season 3 of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". Later in the same season, he appeared for the first time as Brunt, a representative of the Ferengi Commerce Authority, a role he returned to a total of seven times up to the end of the series. The following year, he introduced the role of Weyoun, the Vorta in command of a ship of Jem'Hadar warriors, in the episode "To The Death". At the end of the episode, the character is killed, which led Combs to believe that he would be a one-off. But, he returned as Weyoun in "Ties of Blood and Water", with the explanation that Vorta are clones; ultimately, Combs made 22 appearances as five different versions of Weyoun in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".

Following the end of "Deep Space Nine", he appeared in the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Tsunkatse" before making the first of nine appearances as the Andorian Shran in "Star Trek: Enterprise", in addition to which he also appeared in the episode "Acquisition" as a Ferengi named Krem. Jeffrey Combs has played seven different roles in the "Star Trek" universe across 45 episodes.

Answer: Constellation-class

The season 1 episode "The Battle" was written incorporating Captain Picard's previous command, the starship Stargazer. As originally envisaged, the Stargazer was to have been a Constitution-class ship, allowing the use of the Enterprise model from the "Star Trek" films. However, following the completion of principal photography on the episode, the producers decided to create a new ship instead. The effects team elected to utilise a starship model that had been built as a piece of set decoration as the basis for the new ship, building a brand new filming model.

To avoid costly reshoots, as cast members LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton had both used the phrase "Constitution-class" on camera, the new ship was designated as a Constellation-class vessel, as this closely matched the actors' lip movements and could be easily redubbed. The Constellation-class model was eventually used in three further episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

Answer: Judson Scott

Judson Scott had been a jobbing actor for a decade when he won the role of Joachim, the right-hand man of Khan Noonien Singh, in "Star Trek II". However, and against their client's wishes, Scott's agents attempted to obtain a higher billing for him in the film, which eventually resulted in him going uncredited, despite the size of the role.

Scott returned to the "Star Trek" universe in Season 1 of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", when he appeared as the nefarious Sobi, alongside his co-star from "Star Trek II", Merritt Butrick, in the episode "Symbiosis" - the episode was one of Butrick's last performances before his death in 1989. Scott's third appearance came in 1997, when he appeared as the Romulan Commander Rekar in the Season 4 "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Message in a Bottle". Judson Scott is one of a number of actors that have appeared in both the "Star Trek" universe and in "Babylon 5".