Tough "Trek" Trivia V Trivia Quiz

Answer: Seven

The first one was seen in the "TOS" two-parter "The Menagerie", with a badly-disfigured Fleet Captain Christopher Pike able to only activate a light to indicate "yes" or "no" responses.
In the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", the old lady who regrew a kidney (thanks to a pill from McCoy), expressed her joy at the event while being carted around the hospital ward in a wheelchair.
Fast-forward to the "TNG" episode "Too Short a Season", in which an elderly Starfleet admiral named Mark Jameson (Clayton Rohner) suffered from the crippling Iverson's Disease... That is, until he started a rejuvination therapy so he may face an old adversdary one more time.
Next came "Descent, Part I", in which Professor Stephen Hawking is playing poker with Data in the holodeck. Professor Hawking has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and he has been confined to a wheelchair since the early 1980s.
The "DS9" episode "Melora" centered around a young Starfleet ensign named Melora Pazlar (Daphne Ashbrook), an Elaysian woman whose home planet has a low gravity.
The "Enterprise" episode "Carpenter Street" showed the sedated subjects of the Xindi-Reptilians' bioweapon research being carted to their beds in a wheelchair.
And in the "Enterprise" episode "Daedalus", Dr. Emory Erickson, the inventor of the Transporter, was confined to a wheelchair due to a severe back injury.

Answer: Constitution

The highly-publicized test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise was also in 1976, the year of the U.S. Bicentennial. In keeping with the heightened patriotism, the shuttle's name was originally Constitution. But a letter-writing campaign by "Star Trek" fans petitioned NASA to change the first shuttle's name to Enterprise. Well, since many NASA scientist were (and still are) fans of "Star Trek", the shuttle's name was changed to reflect the spirit of space exploration inspired by "Star Trek".

NOTE - The NASA website erroneously calls 1976 "the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial", as the Constitution was actually presented on September 17, 1787, ratified by nine of the original 13 states by June 1788, and ratified by the remaining four states by 1791.
In truth, 1976 was the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, which was signed by John Hancock and 55 other members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, for presentation to King George III of England. The Declaration of Independence was the cornerstone event of the American Revolution, which had begun a year earlier. King George eventually recognized the United States of America as in independent nation in 1783.
(Okay... I'll put my flag down now...) :)

Answer: One year

Kes (Jennifer Lien) was an Ocampan, a species with a normal life span of only nine years on her home planet. When she came aboard Voyager with Neelix, she was a young adult just one year of age. Her second birthday was celebrated some time between Stardate 49011 and Stardate 49068.5 (the episode with her birthday, "Twisted", has no listed Stardate. Also, according to Kes' character bio on startrek.com, her "third Ocampan birthday" was shortly after Stardate 50460. By doing a little math, it appears that an Ocampan year is just under 1.5 human years (After all, not everyone measures years the same as we do).

She had just turned four when she underwent a radical change that transformed her into a non-corporeal entity. She left Voyager in a shuttle just in time for her metamorphosis, leaving behind a gift for her friends: Voyager was transported over 9,000 light years out of Borg space, and that much closer to home ("Caretaker" and "The Gift" - Some information from startrek.com).

Answer: True

Dr. Crusher's paternal grandmother was Felisa Howard. It was Felisa who had inspired Beverly to become a doctor, as the elder Howard was a healer who had used simple remedies of herbs and roots to care for the survivors of a disaster on Arvada III. She died at the age of 100 on Caldos IV, a Federation colony modeled after the Scottish Highlands (Information from the episode "Sub Rosa" and startrek.com).
FUN FACT - According to startrek.com, Dr. Crusher's middle name is Cheryl, which is Gates McFadden's first name (Gates is her middle name).

Answer: U.S.S. Hood (NCC-42296)

The Hood, which was Commander Riker's previous assignment, was the Excelsior-class ship boarded by Admiral McCoy (DeForest Kelley) at Deneb IV (Farpoint Station) after his inspection tour of the Enterprise-D ("Encounter at Farpoint").

Answer: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

First seen as a medallion worn by Spock in the "TOS" episode "Is There In Truth No Beauty?", the IDIC symbol represents the foundation of Vulcan philosophy. It has since come to represent the Vulcans in general. Spock's quarters in "Star Trek II" and "Star Trek III" was decorated with a large IDIC symbol mural on one wall. Designed by Gene Roddenberry, the real purpose for Spock wearing the IDIC medallion was as a marketing tool to promote "Star Trek" memorabilia sold by his Lincoln Enterprises, which launched in 1968. Today, Lincoln Enterprises is still owned by the Roddenberry family, and a wide variety of "Star Trek" items is available from them via roddenberry.com.

Answer: Six

Here are the quoted Rules of Acquisition in this episode, in order of appearance:
1. Rule 59 - Free advice is seldom cheap.
2. Rule 22 - A wise man can hear profit in the wind.
3. Rule 33 - It never hurts to suck up to the boss.
4. Rule 48 - The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
5. Rule 21 - Never place friendship above profit.
6. Rule 62 - The riskier the road, the greater the profit.

NOTE - Pel did attempt to quote the 103rd Rule of Acquisition, but Quark interrupted him (okay...her) in mid-sentence.

Answer: Nine

There have been several aborted weddings in "Star Trek", dating back to the "TOS" episode "Balance of Terror". Here are the completed wedding ceremonies we have seen performed in "Star Trek":
"TOS" episode "The Paradise Syndrome" - Kirok (James T. Kirk) and Miramanee.
"TOS" episode "For the World Is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky" - Leonard McCoy and Natira.
"TNG" episode "Data's Day" - Miles O'Brien and Keiko Ishikawa.
"DS9" episode "The House of Quark" - Quark and Grilka.
"DS9" episode "The Muse" - Odo and Lwaxana Troi.
"DS9" episode "You Are Cordially Invited..." - Worf and Jadzia Dax.
"DS9" episode "Call to Arms" - Rom and Leeta.
"DS9" episode "'Til Death Do Us Part" - Benjamin Sisko and Kasidy Yates.
"Voyager" episode "Course: Oblivion" - Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres.

NOTE - In the movie "Star Trek: Nemesis", we witnessed the RECEPTION of the Riker/Troi wedding, not the ceremony.

Answer: Charlie X

Dorothy "D.C." Fontana was initially Gene Roddenberry's secretary, but the Great Bird saw her talent and put her on the show's writing staff. She used he moniker "D.C." because their was little opportunity for women to be television writers at the time.

Her writing credits go back to the early 1960s, with "The Tall Man" and "Ben Casey". She has also served as a writer and/or story editor for the animated "Star Trek", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The Six Million Dollar Man", and "Earth: Final Conflict". "Charlie X" is the eighth "Star Trek" episode produced and the second one televised (Some information from imdb.com).

Answer: Mr. Homn

Mr. Homn (Carel Struyken), who is Lwaxana Troi's valet, spoke exactly once out loud, at the end of the "TNG" episode "Haven", when he thanked Captain Picard personally for the copious amount of adult beverages he had consumed during the so-called "rehearsal dinner" for the aborted marriage between Deanna Troi and Wyatt Miller.
Morn was the stoic and silent regular in Quark's on "DS9".

Answer: True

Unlike its decendent, the Enterprise-D, the original Enterprise's saucer separation would be permanant; it was exclusively an emergency maneuver. Captain Kirk had ordered separation exactly one time if Scotty had failed at every attempt to restore the ship's power, while dealing with the computer/god Vaal on Gamma Trianguli VI ("TOS" episode "The Apple").

Answer: False

Sorry, only once. During the show's fourth season, B'Elanna Torres began wearing a smock over her uniform (to conceal Roxann's belly), and she more and more was shot seated at, or standing behind, consoles and other set pieces. Finally, in the two-part episode "The Killing Game", the final stage of Roxann Dawson's pregnancy was cleverly written in, when Torres' holo-character was a World War II-era French woman who was pregnant with a Nazi soldier's baby. But during Season 7, when Torres and Paris were expecting their baby (who was born on the show's final episode), Roxann Dawson was not pregnant; it was prosthetics.

Answer: True

The cadet who asked Admiral Kirk if they were to receive a "hero's welcome" upon returning from Genesis was played by Phil Morris, who was one of the kids (the one in the Army helmet) featured in the episode "Miri". Phil Morris is the son of actor Greg Morris, who co-starred in the original "Mission: Impossible" TV series with Peter Graves. Both "Mission: Impossible" and "Star Trek" were originally Desilu Studios productions. Phil Morris would later co-star in the 1988-90 edition of "Mission: Impossible", again with Peter Graves, playing his father's character's son. Phil Morris' relationship with "Star Trek" continued into the 1990s; he has appeared in two episodes of "DS9" and one of "Voyager". "Star Trek III" was his first motion picture appearance (Some info from imdb.com).

Answer: Lucille Ball

In the 1950s, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz purchased the RKO Radio Pictures studio (for a bargain), named it "Desilu", and produced several shows there, most notably "I Love Lucy" and "Make Room for Daddy". Even after their divorce, they still ran the studio together until she bought Desi out in 1964, making Lucille Ball the first solo female studio head in history. Two years later, she gave the green light to "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible", an exceptionally risky venture that prompted the sale of Desilu to Paramount in 1967.

The rest, you might say, is history (Some information from the series "TV Land Moguls").

Answer: 1991

Gene Roddenberry hired Rick Berman in 1987, while pre-production of "TNG" was underway. Within two years, Roddenberry personally selected Berman as "keeper of the flame". While Rick Berman was really running things toward the end of Gene Roddenberry's life, he did not officialy assume the position of Creator and Executive Producer until after Roddenberry's death (Information from startrek.com).

Answer: True

There have been a few close matches to episode titles, but each has remained unique. Here is a sample of the "close" matches:
"The Naked Time" ("TOS") and "The Naked Now" ("TNG")
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" ("TOS") and "Where No One Has Gone Before" ("TNG")
"Blood Oath" ("DS9") and "Blood Fever" ("Voyager")
"The Emissary" ("TNG") and "Emissary" ("DS9")
"The Trouble With Tribbles" ("TOS") and "More Tribbles, More Troubles" ("TAS")
"The Enterprise Incident" ("TOS") and "The Andorian Incident" ("Enterprise")
"A Matter of Honor", "A Matter of Perspective", and "A Matter of Time" (all "TNG")
"Paradise" and "Paradise Lost" (both "DS9")
"Ship In a Bottle" ("TNG") and "Message In a Bottle" ("Voyager")

Some episodes of "Star Trek" share titles with "Star Trek" books. One that quickly comes to mind is "Masks" (both a "TNG" book and episode, though unrelated). And two movie subtitles are the same as episode titles: "First Contact" ("TNG") and "Nemesis" ("Voyager").

Answer: 12

Q has graced us with his presence once on "DS9", three times on "Voyager", and eight times on "TNG" (including "Encounter at Farpoint" and "All Good Things...").

Answer: There is no actual translation

After researching several Japanese-language websites, I was unable to find a true translation for the term "kobayashi." But what I can say is that Kobayashi is a fairly common surname in Japan (which may or may not translate as "small forest"), and that the word "maru" is used at the end of Japanese ship names, much like "U.S.S." is used at the beginning of American ship names. So, if you really want to translate the name of the Kobayashi Maru, then the answer would be "the ship Kobayashi."

Answer: K'mpec

K'mpec (Charles Cooper) died of slow poisoning from tainted bloodwine. Knowing of his impending demise, he called upon Captain Picard to be the Arbitor of Succession for selection of the new Chancellor ("TNG" episode "Reunion"). Koord (also played by Charles Cooper) was the Klingon delegate to Nimbus III in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson) was Worf's one-time girlfriend, and mother to his son, Alexander ("TNG" episodes "The Emissary" and "Reunion"). Koloth (William Campbell) was the Klingon commander who had requested shore leave on Deep Space Station K-7, and who, along with Kor, Kang, and Dax, fulfilled a blood oath against an albino who had killed Kang's son ("TOS" episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" and the "DS9" episode "Blood Oath").

Answer: Tan Ru

Nomad's original mission was to search for new life-forms, while Tan Ru was sent from a distant system to collect and sterilize soil samples, most likely as a precursor to colonization. When the two probes collided into each other, they somehow merged together, resulting in a new, and deadly, mission objective: Seek out perfect life-forms, and sterilize (kill) imperfect life-forms.