'Star Trek: The Next Generation' - Episodes Trivia

61. At the start of the 2nd season, which character had just been promoted?

From Quiz 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Year 2

Answer: La Forge

Geordi had just become Chief Engineer. The 6 main characters who were on the series for the full 7 season run were pretty much left in the same roles after this change.

From Quiz 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Year 1

Answer: McCoy

Admiral McCoy was being escorted to his shuttle by Data after having inspected the medical facilities. The other 3 individuals also appeared either on the series or a 'Next Generation' movie, but not in the pilot.

From Quiz 'Next Generation' Episode : 'Parallels'

Answer: 1st

In one reality, he finished 9th due to an opponent's illegal move, and found that in another one he hadn't gotten to compete at all due to issues on the ship. His brother is mentioned as competing instead, but his result is never mentioned.

From Quiz 'Star Trek: TNG -- Yesterday's Enterprise'

Answer: David Carson

Carson directed several episodes of the series, as well as the motion picture 'Star Trek: Generations.'

From Quiz 'Star Trek': 'Best of Both Worlds' Part II

Answer: Data

He gave the job to Commander Shelby.

From Quiz 'Star Trek TNG: Best of Both Worlds'

Answer: Cliff Bole

He directed both episodes.

From Quiz 'Star Trek TNG' - 'Time's Arrow'

Answer: France

When he inquired about the ophidian to the couple on the street, they laughed and said he must be a Frenchman. Data decided to go along with that.

From Quiz Name That Episode #42

Answer: Encounter At Farpoint

In fact, the series pilot was the ONLY episode where O'Brien was seen in the Enterprise's drive section after separation! When the crew first encounters the mysterious Q, O'Brien is manning the conn station. Then once Picard gives the order to separate the ship, fearing that the Q is a powerful force that needs to be reckoned with, a handful of experienced officers are left onboard the saucer section while Picard takes some of the senior officers with him to board the battle bridge of the drive section. O'Brien again is stationed at the conn, which is where he remains when Picard, Data, Troi and Yar are suddenly whisked off into the Q Continuum in a flash of white light.

From Quiz Name That Episode #41

Answer: Redemption, Part 1

One of my favorite scenes from this fourth season cliffhanger is when Picard is meeting with the Duras sisters down on the Klingon homeworld. Lursa and B'Etor are showing the Enterprise's captain an uncanny amount of friendliness and hospitality, all in an attempt to persuade him, in his role as Arbiter Of Succession, to elect Toral as the new leader of the Klingon Empire. The friendliness and hospitality includes Lursa offering Picard some of his favorite Earl grey tea with B'Etor provocatively stroking Picard's bald head while he is seated in a chair. Picard intelligently senses Romulan involvement in their proposal and ultimately rules in favor of Gowron, deciding that Toral hasn't yet proven himself to be a true warrior.

From Quiz Name That Episode #40

Answer: Lonely Among Us

Towards the end of episode, Picard has become united with the energy beings within the cloud that the Enterprise had originally passed through out in space. But as Riker gives the order to turn away and resume a new course, the bridge crew detects that the captain is trying to come back to the ship. On a computer screen near the conn station, Riker sees a blue capital letter 'P' displayed, asking aloud if it signifies 'Picard'. That's when he and the bridge crew conclude that, in much the same way the energy being originally entered through the ship's systems, their captain now exists within the circuitry as well. Data, with a plan in mind to retrieve the captain, has everyone come with him to the Transporter Room, where Picard ultimately re-materializes into his recognizable humanoid self.

From Quiz Name That Episode #39

Answer: The Quality Of Life

Perhaps 'living creatures' was the giveaway clue on this one! After Data and Dr. Crusher have determined that the Exocomp experienced sentience by seeing right through the simulation in the Jefferies tube, a meeting takes place in the Observation Lounge to discuss the revelation. At one moment during the discussion, Dr. Farallon (the creator of the Exocomp devices) and Dr. Crusher are going back and forth, with Beverly pointing out how the Exocomps shouldn't be enslaved for work while Dr. Farallon argues that it compares to the Chief Medical Officer not being able to use her tricorder. When Beverly states that tricorders aren't alive, Farallon counters that the Exocomps, at least in her mind, aren't alive either.

From Quiz Name That Episode #38

Answer: All Good Things...

A memorable moment from the series finale occurs when Picard, who has traveled back into the past, is onboard a shuttlecraft piloted by Tasha Yar. She ferries herself and her future captain to the Federation's flagship, the U.S.S. Enterprise, which is docked at a space station in orbit of Earth. This marked, in fact, the ONLY time in the series where the original Chief Of Security is seen onboard a shuttle at all; in all of the other past episodes in which she appeared, using the Enterprise's transporters was always her means of getting to wherever she needed to go.

From Quiz Name That Episode #37

Answer: Violations

Counselor Troi is the first to have her memory 'violated' by the telepathic Ullian named Jev when she is preparing for bed. We first see a flash of her and Riker together (in presumably her own quarters) sharing a moment of intimacy while poker chips are flying everywhere. As they (and the chips) are falling to the floor, the memory suddenly changes to where Riker is hurting Troi physically. As the half-Betazoid counselor is writhing and wincing in agony, Riker's face is soon replaced with the face of Jev. This scene would play out two additional times in the episode: the second time when Jev is trying to 'help' Deanna recall the painful memory (though he is falsifying the memory by making his father the accused rapist) and the third instance being when Jev reveals himself to have been the culprit all along after giving his goodbyes to her near the end.

From Quiz Name That Episode #36

Answer: Who Watches The Watchers?

The Federation scientist named Palmer, who was part of the planetary survey team observing the Mintakans, was found laying in the rocky cliffs by the pre-warp aliens following the disastrous incident inside of the lab. After Palmer is discovered in the Mintakan encampment a short while later, Riker attempts to carry the unconscious Palmer on foot before anybody notices. Unfortunately, Riker is spotted, and then begins his desperate run through the cliffs with Palmer carried on his back, all while trying to avoid one of the Mintakan men who is armed with a crossbow. The ship's first officer eventually manages to find an enclosure within the cliffs where he can hide and be safely beamed off the planet before the Mintakan archer can find him, all of it to avoid violating the Prime Directive.

From Quiz Name That Episode #35

Answer: Emergence

To ensure that the Enterprise arrives in 'Vertiform City', the location in space where the ship could collect the particles necessary for the creation of the new lifeform, the holodeck characters try to stop Data, Counselor Troi and Worf from getting in the way. The man carrying the brick is followed on the street by Worf and Counselor Troi to a building that is 'under construction'. After placing the brick, the mysterious man disappears down the street, leaving a curious Worf and Troi free to investigate the area. But then suddenly, bricks and other debris from the building begin falling from above, knocking Troi to the ground and scarring the side of her face. Meanwhile, Data is busy trying to access the ship's power grid from a manhole in the middle of a different street. Without warning, a speeding taxi veers from around a corner and races straight towards him. But the resident android is alert and evades the oncoming vehicle just in the nick of time. Of course, in both instances, the holodeck safeties were offline and there were conveniently absolutely no other cars or people walking along the street, despite everything happening in broad daylight. Though since this was all taking place on the holodeck, I suppose one has to always expect the unrealistic, eh?

From Quiz Name That Episode #34

Answer: Heart Of Glory

Near the beginning of the episode, the Enterprise is preparing to investigate the derelict Talarian ship. Picard asks Geordi about using the Visual Acuity Transmitter, which is implemented once Geordi, Worf, Riker and Data have beamed over. When Geordi switches the device on, the bridge crew gets to see everything that Geordi sees, except while he can see things in perfect detail, the bridge crew can only see low-resolution, colored distortions of those same images. Geordi ends up having to switch the device off entirely when he and the rest of the away team explores deeper into the heavily-damaged ship before ultimately finding the Klingon survivors.

From Quiz Name That Episode #33

Answer: The Drumhead

Perhaps the giveaway clue on this one is 'Starfleet medical officer suspected of sabotage', which is the young crewman named Simon Tarses. Although it was concluded that the dilithium chamber incident was, in fact, an accident, Admiral Satie and her staff still believe that Mr. Tarses had something to do with the files and schematics of the Enterprise being handed over to the Romulans. In a scene following some rigorous questioning at the trial, we see Worf seated at the head of the table in the Observation Lounge, telling his fellow security officers to look into Tarses' background and report their findings to him. Picard has entered the room by then, and a discussion regarding the ethics of humanity and criminal justice between the captain and the ship's resident Klingon ensues.

From Quiz Name That Episode #32

Answer: Skin Of Evil

With all of the technical trek terminology frequently being used when situations related to the Enterprise's warp core arose, the actual aligning of the trademark dilithium crystals is an event that was rarely seen in the series. At the beginning of this memorable episode where Tasha Yar meets her untimely demise at the hands of Armus, the Enterprise has just received an emergency distress call from the shuttle carrying Counselor Troi and the rest of her team, who were set to return from a Federation conference. When Picard orders the ship to fly at maximum warp, we see a team of crewmembers down in Engineering pushing a cart with a chunk of the famed dilithium crystals atop it, the chief engineer stating that they have to align the precious minerals and that there would be a slight delay. But there is no time to properly go through the normal procedure; once the crystals are seen being inserted horizontally into the warp core (similar to a disc being fed into a CD-ROM drive), Geordi throws the Federation flagship into high speed in hot pursuit of Troi's shuttle.

From Quiz Name That Episode #31

Answer: Data's Day

One of the main events occurring in this episode about a day in the life of the Enterprise's resident android is the arrival of the Vulcan ambassador T'Pel, who is to negotiate with the Romulans. Data personally escorts her to the Turbolift and visits her later in crew quarters when she attempts to extract tactical information about the Enterprise from him. However, following an initially inexplicable accident where T'Pel supposedly dies during her transport over to the Romulan ship, the ambassador is soon revealed to be a Romulan herself, as seen on the main viewscreen when Picard is speaking to the Romulan captain about the incident moments later. It's determined T'Pel, surgically altered to appear Vulcan, was in fact a spy for one of the Federation's primary enemies.

From Quiz Name That Episode #30

Answer: The Royale

At the very beginning of the episode, the crew detects some spatial debris, which is beamed into the Transporter Room for closer observation. One of the debris fragments has the word 'NASA' inscribed on it, plus an insignia of the American flag. It's later revealed that the original pilot of the spacecraft, Colonel Richey, had attempted to venture beyond Earth's solar system, where he would supposedly encounter lifeforms that re-created The Hotel Royale for his benefit.

From Quiz Name That Episode #29

Answer: Ménage À Troi

After he, Counselor Troi and the outrageous Lwaxana Troi are kidnapped from Betazed and regain consciousness on board the Ferengi ship, Riker passes the time trying to help his two Ferengi captors play their chess game. After a while, one of the Ferengi leaves the room to pursue Lwaxana, whom he had been infatuated with ever since the pair was acquainted during the festivities in Ten Forward at the beginning of the episode. The other Ferengi chooses to stay, engaging in a new chess game with Riker, who is still being confined behind a forcefield. The Enterprise's first officer, however, convinces his alien captor to lower the forcefield so that it would be easier to make his moves instead of having to play from a standing distance. We then see Riker briefly seated at the table opposite the Ferengi guard, who arms himself with a hand-held weapon and ready to fire in case the commander tries anything. But moments later, the Ferengi has somehow been subdued and is laying unconscious on the floor, Riker and Counselor Troi escaping their prison cell and entering a control room where they try to send a subspace message to the Enterprise.

From Quiz Name That Episode #26

Answer: Realm Of Fear

The final scene in this episode is quite a humorous one! The Enterprise's trusty transporter room officer and the eccentric Lieutenant Barclay are having a conversation in Ten Forward following resolution of the events. Having discussed his own previous fears of spiders earlier in the episode, O'Brien presents a glass box that he opens to reveal...a giant living tarantula! Barclay isn't afraid of it initially, but when O'Brien leaves to go fetch the two gentlemen drinks from the bar, O'Brien's pet arachnid has silently crawled out of the box and onto Barclay's arm.

From Quiz Name That Episode #25

Answer: The Best Of Both Worlds, Part 1

Up until the show's third-season finale, Dr. Crusher's son had never participated in a poker game with his fellow superior officers. Besides Wesley, the other poker players this time around include Data, Geordi, Counselor Troi, Riker and Borg-expert Commander Shelby, who ends up calling Riker's bluff and taking the pot. The win is especially crushing (pun intended!) to Wesley, as his three of a kind would have beaten both Shelby's two pair and Riker's incomplete flush.

From Quiz First Duty

Answer: Flying under the hood

Sito tells the board she was flying on sensors which is pilot code for she was flying under the hood. Captain Picard, Admiral Brand, and Captain Satelk tell her this is a lie because in formation flying pilots must use hand signals, radio calls, and paint markings on their aircraft and on the ground to line up to perform a maneuver. Flying under the hood is dangerous and thereby illegal in formation flying, thereby marking Sito's statement as a lie.

From Quiz Name That Episode #24

Answer: Haven

When the young man named Wyatt (yet another doctor!), the one who thought he was destined to be with Counselor Troi, boards the Enterprise via the Transporter Room with his parents, he gives Deanna a chameleon rose, which he says changes color depending upon the mood of the person who is holding it. We see it change from blue and various other colors to white, which is the color that it becomes the most often until the rose itself isn't seen for the remainder of the episode.

From Quiz Name That Episode #23

Answer: Timescape

While still onboard their shuttle, Geordi, Picard, Troi and Data collectively determine that they can avoid the effects of the time fragments permeating the Enterprise by wearing special emergency transport armband devices. Picard, Data and Troi are then equipped with the armbands, and when Geordi uses the shuttle's computer to activate them, bursts of yellow electric energy momentarily flash around his crewmates. The energy burst causes Troi to faint right into Data's arms, having been overcome with dizziness, which Geordi explains may have been triggered by the sudden switch in time frequency.

From Quiz Name That Episode #19

Answer: Time Squared

At the very beginning of the episode, we get to see a rare event unfolding onboard a Federation starship...and within the trek universe altogether: a member of the crew physically preparing a meal! Riker is in his quarters getting breakfast set up when Data, Geordi, Worf and Dr. Pulaski all enter, carrying various cookware and utensils that the commander needs. The fried eggs, unfortunately, aren't to everyone's taste; Worf is the only one who happily indulges without complaint. It seemed that this particular scene was intended to be a prelude to the follow-up episode, as Riker mentions that he learned how to cook from his father, and it is his father who ends up being the guest of honor in "The Icarus Factor". Meanwhile, later on in "Time Squared", Dr. Pulaski (the recent new arrival onboard the Enterprise) is working in sickbay to diagnose the unconscious duplicate Picard from the future. There's a moment when she moves to a computer panel to activate a protective forcefield around the bio-bed where the duplicate Picard is laying, stating that it's for his own protection (presumably, in case he reacts violently to the shock of waking up in an unfamiliar environment, which would eliminate the need for any kind of sedation).

From Quiz Name That Episode #18

Answer: The Inner Light

At the very beginning of this memorable episode, the alien probe floating around in space fires an energy beam directly through the Enterprise's main viewscreen, striking Picard and rendering him unconscious. Later on, while Picard is quickly living out his life on the alien planet in his mind, the crew comes up with a way to break their captain free of the probe's hold on him. The plan fails, however, as Dr. Crusher's scans reveal that Picard's lifesigns will quickly degrade the longer his brain is disconnected from the probe. Data then has no choice but to restore the probe's energy beam. Fortunately, the probe eventually deactivates itself automatically, with the big reveal that the planet's civilization had simply wanted someone in the galaxy to remember the prosperous life they once lived 10,000 years ago.

From Quiz Name That Episode #16

Answer: Skin Of Evil

In the memorable first-season episode where Yar met her untimely demise, the creature named Armus demonstrates that it is in complete control and can do whatever it wants to by toying with each individual member of the away team. In a classic scene, Armus uses his powers to invisibly drag Riker across the ground until the Enterprise's first officer is pulled down into the sticky black pool of tar from which the angry alien emerged.

From Quiz Name That Episode #15

Answer: Reunion

At the request of the Klingon ambassador, K'Ehleyr, Picard meets with the leader of the Klingon High Council onboard the Klingon cruiser who is dying from prolonged poisoning. Before he takes his last drink of wine and dies in his chair, he tells Picard that he's chosen him to be the arbiter between the two factions vying for control of the empire (led by Gowron and Duras, respectively), due to the captain's positive reputation for strong diplomacy. Initially, Picard declines, stating that he should've been informed before the decision was made. But after further consideration, weighing the potential involvement of the Federation in a possible Klingon civil war, Picard eventually accepts, then later proceeds with being in charge of the Rite Of Succession ceremony back onboard the Enterprise. By the time the fourth-season cliffhanger "Redemption, Part 1" aired, Picard was already in his role as arbiter for the Klingon High Council, and a determined Gowron reminds Picard of that when informing the captain that the Duras Sisters are plotting leadership of the High Council. In "Sins Of The Father", Picard does accept the role extended by Worf to be a Cha'dich and stand at Worf's side before the High Council, but the Arbiter Of Succession role is never presented to the captain. Then in "A Matter Of Honor", there is no Klingon role that is extended nor bestowed upon him at all.

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