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visor. It was in reality a hair clip spray painted gold. LeVar Burton could barely see when wearing it. Conversely, when he played Geordi as blind and not wearing the visor, he could see perfectly. 8-)
dilithium. Dilithium crystals, that is. The other choices: latinum - Ferengi {money;} corbomite - fictional omnidefensive substance-device invented by {Kirk;} trimethylxanthine - caffeine
| The Voyager's EMH can move outside of Sickbay thanks to a device using technology from what century? | 'Star Trek' Technology
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29. He got it when they went back to 20th Century Earth, but it was designed based on 29th Century technology found by Henry Starling (Ed Begley, Jr.).
| "Star Trek" ep 'City on the Edge of Forever': What difficult task must Kirk do in the 1930's to restore history back to normal, fixing what McCoy would've done? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Allow a woman to die that he could've saved. Kirk falls in love with his landlady, Edith Keeler, before Spock determines that she must die, or else the US will enter WWII too late to prevent Germany's takeover of Earth.
| "Star Trek" ep 'All Our Yesterdays': Why can't McCoy return from planet Sarpeidon's ice age without Spock, who wants to remain with Zarabeth? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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They went through the atavachron simultaneously when they tried to follow Kirk. Spock thrusts McCoy towards the portal, but McCoy just hits the cliff face. Both must attempt to enter or neither can go.
| "Star Trek: Deep Space 9" ep 'Trials and Tribble-ations': Who makes the Defiant time-travel to stardate 4523.3? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Arne Darvin. Arne Darvin (Charlie Brill), a former Klingon spy altered to look human, gets passage back from Cardassia on the Defiant when he uses the recently-returned Orb of Time to go back in time and kill Kirk before Kirk can uncover Darvin's plan to infect Sherman's Planet with poisoned grain. (Brill reprises his role as Darvin from the TOS ep 'The Trouble with Tribbles'.)
Their new temporal shields are throwing his time calculations off for restoring his race. Initially, a Krenim ship attacks Voyager. Voyager is damaged. Seven makes a new type of shield to protect them from the Krenim's chronoton-based weapons. This temporal anomoly is something that Annorax cannot calculate around, so he needs to eliminate Voyager.
| "Star Trek: Voyager" ep 'Future's End': Who is the Starfleet captain from the 29th century who erroniously decides that Voyager must be destroyed? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Braxton. By attacking Voyager, Braxton is thrown back to the 1960's, where his ship's technology is found and exploited by Henry Starling (Ed Begley, Jr.), actually creating the events that will endanger the 29th century.
First faster-than-light flight. They attack Zephram Cochran's launch site of his FTL ship the 'Phoenix'. Its use of warp speed will attract a passing Vulcan ship, which will then form the basis of the United Federation of Planets.
| 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home': why did Scotty give 23rd-Century technology to a 20th-Century industrialist? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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To pay for materials to build a whale tank. He gave the formula for transparent aluminum to Dr. Nichols in exchange for plexiglass to make the whale tank. It was Chekov and Uhura that got photons from the USS Enterprise's (CVN-65) reactors to recharge the dilithium. Sulu chummed up to the helicopter pilot to use his craft. Scotty never did get the jist of using a mouse, though.
| "Star Trek" (the animated series) ep 'Yesteryear': what change in the 'present' required Spock to return to his past and fix what another time-traveling research team had corrupted? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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He no longer existed, being killed when he was 7. His replacement was an Andorian officer, Thelen.
| "Star Trek: Voyager" ep 'Time and Again': What caused the disaster that destroyed the planet they found devastated? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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A rescue attempt from Voyager itself. The crew find a nearby planet devestated by an explosion that very day. This explosion created sub-space fissures, one of which transport Janeway and Paris to the day before on the planet, when it was still alive. Eventually, the crew in the future use a polaric beam to try to contact Janeway and Paris. When Janeway sees its effect in the past and that it's about to disrupt a power system conduit, she nullifies it with a phaser blast. Since the explosion is averted in the past, time reverts to before they noticed the planet, which is still teeming with life.
Mr. Atoz . Atoz = 'A to Z', librarian... get it?
| "Star Trek" ep 'Assignment: Earth': who was the alien-backed secret agent trying to save the Earth from its own technological foolishness that the Enterprise accidentally intercepted? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Gary Seven. This episode was to be the launch of a spin-off series starring Robert Lansing as Gary Seven and Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln.
| "Star Trek" ep 'Tomorrow is Yesterday': How does Kirk take care of the two 20th Century people that eventually get transported to the Enterprise? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Travels a little back in time and transports them into themselves just before their initial transport.
| "Star Trek" ep 'City of the Edge of Forever': How are Spock's ears explained to a cop who sees them? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Farming accident. Kirk explains that Spock is obviously Oriental, and that his ears were damaged by an automated rice-picking machine.
| "Star Trek" (the animated series) ep 'Yesteryear': what event happened in the past after Spock fixed the timeline that was different from his original past? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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His pet sehlat died. His sehlat saved him during a wilderness excursion. He had to be put down because his injuries were too severe.
Star Trek: First Contact. After Riker explains to Zephram Cochrane where he and Troi are really from, he exclaims, 'You're all astronauts, on some kind of star trek.'
| "Star Trek" ep 'All Our Yesterdays': what time period (age) of Sarpeidon's past does Kirk travel to? | 'Star Trek' Time Travel
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Medieval. Kirk runs through the atavachron's portal when he hears a woman's scream. He travels to the time and place he was viewing. Spock and McCoy follow, but instead go back to Sarpeidon's Ice age, because that's what McCoy was watching.
Leader of first manned Saturn mission. "Star Trek" ep 'Tomorrow is Yesterday': Capt John Christopher was not going to be returned until Spock discovered that his son was so important in history.
Data. Played fantastically well by Brent Spiner. He also plays Data's brother Lore and their creator, Dr. Noonian Soong.
| TOS ep 'The Apple': what is the name of the lizard-headed computer that enslaves a tribal race to feed it, in return for making the planet a paradise? | 'Star Trek' Artificial Intelligence
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Vaal. In this episode, look for David Soul (Starsky and Hutch) as one of the villagers. (He's the one that experimentally kisses a girl.)
Landru. Landru was the scientist that programmed the computer 6,000 years before to lead the populace to a peaceful existence. Unfortunately, the computer ends up forbidding independent thought, making the citizens as robotic as the computer.
| TOS ep 'The Changeling': what is the name of the errant space probe from Earth's past that's prime directive has been accidentally altered to basically kill all biological life? | 'Star Trek' Artificial Intelligence
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Nomad. It's original programming was to find new life and report back to Earth. A damaged Nomad met an alien probe, Tan Ru, who was to sterilize soil samples. The two fixed each other, combining their programming to find life and sterilize it. Capt. Kirk's name being similar to Nomad's creator, Jackson Roykirk, gave them the edge to destroy Nomad before he made it back to Earth.
| VOY: The Doctor is a holographic computer program designed to replace a ship's doctor on a temporary basis only. What is the 3-letter acronym used to refer to him? | 'Star Trek' Artificial Intelligence
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EMH. It stands for Emergency Medical Hologram. There is a duplicate one installed on the USS Enterprise-E. It was first used to slow down the invading Borg so the sick bay personnel and patients could escape. He protested, 'I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!'
moriarty. Played by Daniel Davis (Niles on The Nanny). He reprised the role in ep 'Ship in a Bottle'.
| VOY ep 'Message in a Bottle': The doctor is transmitted to a Starfleet vessel in the Alpha Quadrant, the Prometheus. There he meets his 'replacement', the Mark II version of his program. What actor plays this new doctor? | 'Star Trek' Artificial Intelligence
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Andy Dick. He also played Matthew on 'Newsradio'.
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