Which Star Trek Species Am I? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Vulcan

Sarek, who is Spock's father, is a Vulcan astrophysicist and that planet's Ambassador to the United Federation of Planets. His grandfather was the captain of the Vulcan ship who made first contact with humans (as portrayed in the 1996 "Star Trek: First Contact" movie) after the Vulcans picked up the trail of Zepfram Cochrane's historic first warp drive flight into space. Sarek's human wife, Amanda, was Spock's mother.

In spite of Sarek's logical unemotional self presented to the public on his many diplomatic encounters, he has a deep fondness (concealed) for members of the human race. One of his best lines is spoken to the adult Spock when he says, "You once asked me why I married your mother...I married her because I loved her".

In this simple statement, he reveals the fascinating duality of the Vulcan nature and the strength of the deep emotions they normally hide under their cold emotionless exteriors.

Answer: Betazoid

Lwaxana Troi is Counsellor Deanna Troi's Betazoid mother. Deanna is only half Betazoid as her father was human, so Lwaxana has more competent telepathic abilities than Deanna. Or, that is, they would be more competent if she wasn't going through a time in a Betazoid woman's life when her hormones are all out of whack, leading her to incorrectly interpret the way - usually men - are thinking.

This is particularly the case with Captain Jean Luc Picard, when she persists in believing that the captain desires her - to his horror, and our great amusement. Also the Betazoid ambassador to the Federation, Lwaxana's character of a mix between dignity, elegance and lustiness is hilarious.

She also appears several times in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" as well, where she amusingly develops a crush on the alarmed Chief of Security, Odo.

Answer: Kazon

First Maje, Jal Culluh, is a leader of a Kazon tribe, one of the belligerent, continually fighting clans in the Delta Quadrant. This is an area of space where the starship Voyager found itself stranded, after being snatched there by a powerful energy wave, while carrying out a pursuit of criminals on the other side of the galaxy. Once the Kazon, who do have the ability to travel through space, but are very backward in most other technological skills apart from war, find out that Voyager has the ability to create water out of thin air, they pursue them relentlessly through many light years of space in various attempts to take over the ship. Maje Culluh is contacted by the treacherous Seska from Voyager in order to betray the Voyager crew, and eventually ends up with her as his mate - to his great exasperation, for, although he loves her, he realises he can't control her at all.

Answer: Bajoran

Kira Nerys was born on the planet Bajor, during a time when the cold-blooded and merciless Cardassians were occupying her homeland. She grew up having to work in a concentration camp, but, when she turned twelve, joined the Bajoran resistance movement to attempt, by any means possible, to rid her planet of the hated invaders.

When we first meet Nerys, it is shortly after Cardassia has reluctantly abandoned Bajor and the space station, Deep Space Nine, leaving it in a dreadful state of disarray. Bajor has invited the United Federation of Planets to establish a temporary joint administration role over the space station and the recently discovered nearby wormhole. Nerys has been appointed Bajor's liaison officer there, and, in that role, is second in command to the Federation's Captain Benjamin Sisko, who has been put in charge of the station.

Initially resentful of the Federation's presence, she evolves over time into one of the driving forces behind Bajor's ultimate decision to join the Federation.

Answer: Trill

Jadzia looks like a beautiful young woman and indeed she is that externally, but, because she is conjoined with the trill Dax, she is over 300 years old and has lived, through Dax, as five other women and four men, whose memories, skills and experiences have become inextricably interwoven with her own.

When a trill's host is near death, the trill is removed and placed into the body of a new host. The highly skilled Jadzia Dax, who is the science officer on the space station Deep Space Nine, eventually falls in love and marries the irresistible Klingon, Lieutenant Worf, but is ultimately lethally wounded by the Cardassian, Gul Dukat. Before she dies, Dax, carrying Jadzia's memories, is transplanted into a new host.

Answer: Changeling

Chief of Security, Odo, springs from a race of beings known as the Changelings, who possess an amazing ability to transform themselves into any shape they desire. Over the entire course of the DS9 series, Odo treats us to a fascinating array of different creatures and shapes that he becomes as he begins to shimmer and then transform before our eyes. The only thing he can't perfect is the human face. His natural state is a jelly-like substance a little like half formed jelly. Every eighteen hours, because Odo chooses to present himself in humanoid form while at work, he has to return to his quarters to rest, or he begins to more or less fall apart. From the beginning of the series, it is revealed that he has been secretly in love with Kira Nerys for years, and eventually, to our delight, Nerys finally returns his feelings.

(I'd like to pause here to seriously complain about the writers of all the Star Trek series and the way they chose to end most of them. "The Next Generation" had a bittersweet ending, "Deep Space Nine" was positively heartbreaking, "Voyager" closed happily in that they finally made it back to earth, but yet somehow there was a sense of a large family about to be split up forever, and the closure of "Enterprise" made me actually cry. How could they do that to us all?)

Answer: Talaxian

Neelix is one of the most lovable characters to ever grace the Star Trek screen. Just looking at him makes me laugh. He's short, tubby, good-tempered, easy going Talaxian, with spots and ridges on his face and a shock of hair on his head a little in the style of Kramer from the series "Seinfeld".

He's also a little vain about his side whiskers. When we first meet Neelix, he is attempting to come up with schemes to rescue his Ocampan partner, Kes, from the fiendish hands of the Kazon - and drags the crew of "Voyager" along with him.

When he and Kes decide to stay on Voyager after the rescue, Neelix initially becomes the ship's cook because replicator rations are in short supply, but his concoctions tend to make the crew periodically grimace. Over time he retains that role, but, in addition to describing himself as Chief Morale Officer, and because of his knowledge of the huge area of space through which they all travel, Captain Janeway promotes him to unofficial ship's ambassador as well.

A comical thread that winds itself through the entire length of his stay on Voyager is Neelix's insistence on trying to befriend the unresponsive and unappreciative security officer, Tuvok, a Vulcan. Neelix, to my sorrow, eventually leaves the ship in the final season to live with a group of exiled Talaxians discovered living in a remote outpost, but keeps in daily touch, via inter-space communication channels, with his friends back on board Voyager.

Answer: Ferengi

Quark is one of my favourite characters in the entire Star Trek series. He is a member of the Ferengi race, a people who are infamous for their unending pursuit of money and profit. This trait often sees Quark, who owns a bar on Deep Space Nine, in hot water, particularly as everything he does is monitored closely by Chief of Security, Odo. Those two are perpetually involved in a battle of wits, where Quark is constantly mixed up in dubious and illegal schemes, and Odo is just as determined to see he stays on the right side of the law. Quark unfortunately also has a pretty firm set of moral values, which, to his disgust, are quite at odds with his drive to acquire wealth, and which, more often than not, see him poorer than he began in his many endeavours. You have to love Quark.

He's irrepressible - and the scrapes in which he always finds himself are absolutely hilarious.

Answer: Cardassian

Seska is a delightful villain. A member of the Cardassian race, she has had surgery to change her appearance to that of a Bajoran when we first meet her. That was so she could infiltrate the underground Maquis terrorist group which had been established to protect their citizens against the aggression of the Cardassians in a demilitarised zone between the Federation and Cardassia.

The ship on which Seska is working undercover as a spy is unfortunately, along with Voyager, sucked into the Delta Quadrant by that powerful energy wave (see question three), leaving them all stranded 70,000 light years away from home.

After the crews of both ships merge on Voyager, and Seska's true identity has been revealed (she'd been busy betraying Voyager to the Kazon by then), she flees to join the Kazon, and proves a beautifully troublesome thorn in the side for the Voyager crew for several follow up episodes. Seska is somewhat akin to the character of JR on the first television series "Dallas".

It's a shame they killed her off.

She was so spicy.

Answer: Denobulan

Another character you have to love is Chief Medical Officer, Phlox, who has been working on earth in its early days of space travel, as part of an Intergalactic Medical Exchange. From there he is called to up to work on Enterprise as it begins its tentative steps in deep space exploration. Phlox is a Denobulan, a race that quite happily believes in its members possessing several wives and husbands at the same time.

He is quite open-minded to mingling with other species and quite cheerfully discusses all their romantic and sexual inclinations as a matter of course - and much to the discomfit of those involved. Phlox needs little sleep, but has to go into a state of hibernation every so often, during which time he's completely useless as far as his medical skills go.

He's very moral, curious, is amused by humans, is highly skilled at what he does, has an impossibly wide grin (part of his physiology) and is able to suddenly inflate his head when alarmed in order to scare off threats, an ability which rather embarrasses him.