Name That Episode #12 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Basics, Part 1

In an attempted tactical measure against the Kazon ambush, B'Elanna is using a computer workstation in engineering to send three holographic projections of Talaxian ships into space. The first two projections are created without any problems, but when she tries to create the third one, the Doctor's program is accidentally projected into space instead.

Unfortunately, the tactical maneuver is of little help, and the Kazon end up seizing Voyager and relocating its crew onto the primitive planet called Hanon 4 by the end of the episode. B'Elanna doesn't program any such holographic projections in any of the other three episodes.

Answer: Projections

This one's pretty tricky. In "Projections", the Doctor has one final hallucination sequence after he tells the holographic Kes that she's beautiful. After he experiences another tense round with the holographic Ocampan and a holographic Reginald Barclay, a hand-held weapon-wielding holographic Kazon, and a holographic Paris telling the Doctor that there's a wounded patient (a mirror of the real Paris telling him the same thing back in "Caretaker"), the Doctor looks down at an image of Dr. Louis Zimmerman (technically NOT himself) laying on a bio-bed in sickbay.

When Dr. Zimmerman speaks, telling Voyager's EMH that everything's going to be fine, Zimmerman is speaking in Janeway's voice, and ONLY Janeway's voice, before the real Janeway snaps the EMH back into reality, making him realize that he's been on the holodeck.

However, this is the only moment during the episode when Zimmerman is speaking to the Doctor or anyone else. In "Mortal Coil", Neelix sees his sister, Alixia, in 'The Great Forest' during his vision quest in Chakotay's quarters.

At first, Alixia is speaking to Neelix in her own voice, but then suddenly, she begins speaking in the voice of Naomi Wildeman, saying the exact same things Naomi said ("I'm afraid to go to sleep", "Scared you!"...) while Neelix was trying to get Naomi to bed earlier in this episode. In "Cold Fire", when Janeway encounters Suspiria, the 'female Caretaker', in engineering, Suspiria at first begins talking to the captain in a young girl's voice. But then suddenly, as Suspiria rises from the floor, she angrily says to Janeway, "You killed him!", but in an older woman's voice. Suspiria continues speaking in the older woman's voice after Suspiria is temporarily confined behind a forcefield shortly after her attempted telekinetic attack on Janeway is blocked by Kes's telekinetic attack on Tanis in the mess hall. In "Renaissance Man", the Doctor was assuming the identities of several crewmembers in order to covertly carry out the plans of the 'spy aliens'. All throughout the episode, the Doctor is speaking to other crewmembers while in his natural form using his natural voice, but each time he changes into another crewmember, he also changes his voice to match. An example of this includes the Doctor speaking to Chakotay in sickbay, then later, the Doctor, posing as Janeway, talking to Chakotay again in Janeway's ready room when he's confronting his first officer about the captain's strange behavior since arriving back on Voyager. Another example includes the Doctor, in his natural form, being confronted by a suspicious Tuvok in sickbay. Then later, after initially eluding Tuvok's capture, the Doctor is posing as a pregnant B'Elanna when he's confronted by Tuvok again in a corridor, speaking to the chief of security in B'Elanna's voice before eluding capture a second time and shooting him with a phaser.

Answer: Drone

The Borg sphere appears towards the end of the episode when it detects 'One', the 29th century drone created as a result of the Doctor's mobile emitter fusing with Seven's Borg technology. It alters its course to intercept Voyager, but 'One' eventually destroys the sphere by transporting himself onto it and flying it into the nebula. Every episode preceding "Drone" where the Borg appeared, whether imagined or real, encountered by Voyager or encountered by somebody else other than the Voyager crew, only showed Borg CUBES flying in space, not spheres.

In "Hope And Fear", a group of Borg cubes converge on the U.S.S. Dauntless after Janeway and Seven have been beamed back to Voyager and while a vengeful Arturis is still onboard. In "Scorpion, Part 1", all of the Borg ships encountered in this episode were cubes: the pair of ships zapped by Species 8472 in the opening scene; the fifteen-ship armada that flew past Voyager and were later found destroyed; and the ships Voyager encounters at the end of the episode when Janeway makes the deal to share the nanoprobe technology with the collective.

In fact, the only 'sphere' of any kind seen in space in this episode is the Borg planet that Species 8472 destroys (it was so cool seeing all of the bio-ships combining their firepower into a star design before the center ship fired a single beam aimed at the planet) as Voyager is being tractored by one of the Borg cubes. In "Unity", the single Borg ship encountered by Voyager is a cube that's reactivated following Chakotay's departure from the planet where he encountered the ex-Borg drones.

Answer: Once Upon A Time

Partway through the episode, in an effort to keep little Naomi distracted while the crew works on a way to rescue her mother, Tuvok and Paris, who'd all crashed during an ion storm while on board the Delta Flyer earlier, Neelix comes to engineering and locates Harry, who walks over to a replicator and produces a miniature blue doll of Flotter, the character from the "Adventures Of Flotter" holonovel, for Neelix to give to little Naomi. Later in the episode, when Naomi's concern for her mother's whereabouts begin to intensify, she begins sneaking around on the ship, leaving her com badge affixed to the Flotter doll so that she can't be located when Neelix is searching for her later.

In none of the other three episodes does Harry access a replicator.

Answer: Cathexis

Although it could be said that B'Elanna is meditating when she is first using the medicine wheel in an attempt to help Chakotay regain consciousness, her eyes closed as she's placing the stones at various points above Chakotay's head, the fact that she's doing so in Chakotay's presence before the Doctor walks in on her performing the medicine wheel ritual disqualifies this episode as one where a person is meditating alone.

In "Juggernaut", B'Elanna is meditating again when she's found a quiet moment while on the Malon freighter with Neelix and Chakotay.

This time, though, she's alone when Neelix walks in on her, who promises not to tell Tuvok that she's been following the Vulcan commander's guidance. In "Alter Ego", Harry is meditating in his quarters...in a futile attempt to suppress his feelings for the holographic Marayna.

But his buddy and fellow crewmate Tom Paris chimes the doors and enters, surprised that Harry hasn't properly dressed for Neelix's luau on the holodeck. In "Flesh And Blood", Iden, the holographic Bajoran who's the leader of the other holograms created by the Hirogen, is meditating on the bridge of the Hirogen ship where the Doctor and B'Elanna have been kidnapped in one scene during the episode when the Doctor enters, wanting to speak to him about the current situation. Iden cooperates, but not before he asks that the Doctor gives him a brief moment of silence so that he can finish his meditation.

Answer: Shattered

The security officers who've escorted Chakotay off the bridge and into the turbolift in one of the time fragments suddenly disappear when Chakotay enters another time fragment in mid-lift, his short trip ending when the doors open in engineering and an angry Seska (in Cardassian form) surprises him and knocks him out with a blow from a phaser rifle. Seska never actually enters the turbolift, though, so Chakotay is still standing inside alone when the attack occurs.

In "Repression", Chakotay isn't being escorted into a turbolift at any time during the episode; he does, however, escort Janeway into the brig after Teero's influence has led him, Tuvok, B'Elanna and the rest of the former Maquis to take temporary control over Voyager.

In "Worst Case Scenario", a holographic Chakotay does appear inside a turbolift a couple of times when B'Elanna and Paris each are playing the role of the Starfleet ensign in Tuvok's "Insurrection Alpha" program, but he's never escorted there by any members of the crew, and neither is the real Chakotay, for that matter.

In "Waking Moments", Chakotay also doesn't appear inside a turbolift; only Tuvok and Janeway--in the 'waking world'--appear inside a turbolift in this episode.

Answer: Prey

When Paris, Tuvok and Chakotay are on the away mission examining the Hirogen ship, Paris sees what he presumes to be a helmet of some kind and picks it up off the floor. But when he turns the helmet around, he's horrified when he sees a real race, instinctively dropping it down onto the floor. Turns out the 'helmet' was actually the severed head of a decapitated Hirogen hunter, most likely caused in a direct physical confrontation with the Species 8472 creature the Hirogen had been pursuing earlier in the episode.

In "Phage", although the away team does discover various organs and body parts being preserved in containers in the Vidiian lab hidden in the underground chamber, Paris never has any of those organs or body parts in his possession.

In "Dark Frontier", the debris salvaged from the Borg ship that is destroyed in the beginning of the episode does consist of various limbs of dead drones and other Borg components, but Paris is never in possession of any of these severed Borg limbs at any time. Only the Doctor is in possession of a Borg limb--an arm with a special attachment, which he comments is some kind of surgical device and which Paris makes a brief joke about in passing. "Memorial" saw Paris and many other crewmembers hallucinating their participation in the war on Tarakis, walking among numerous dead bodies scattered across the ground before some of them were vaporized.

But Paris is never seen taking possession of any severed limbs from any of the dead bodies--not while on Tarakis nor while he's imagining himself fighting in the war on the television screen in his quarters in the beginning of episode when he and B'Elanna are trying to have a romantic night. The only severed limbs encountered in this episode, in fact, are the three-hundred-year-old skeletal remains that Tuvok and Harry discover in one of the caves on Tarakis, which is where they realize that a monumental fort with brain-altering technology had been constructed to force anybody in vicinity of the planet to remember the horrific battles that once took place there.

Answer: The Cloud

Harry is seen sleeping in his quarters (with a mask over his eyes) for the first time in the series. Paris enters into his bedroom and wakes Harry up, convincing the young ensign to join him on the holodeck where Paris has constructed a bar/pool hall called Sandrine's, the locale of several subsequent leisure holodeck ventures in the show's first two seasons and once more in "Someone To Watch Over Me". Harry protests briefly before obliging, though he doesn't physically fight the scheming lieutenant in the process. We do see Harry sleeping in "Waking Moments" twice--once right after his 'nightmare' of kissing Seven and seeing one of the 'dream aliens', then again when a concerned Janeway and Tuvok enter his quarters.

But in neither of these instances does Harry physically retaliate against anyone...and he couldn't, actually, as the crew didn't know how to combat the aliens while in their 'dream state' until later on in the episode. Harry isn't seen sleeping at all in "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve" nor "Basics, Part 1", although in the latter episode, there are several crewmembers who are seen being physically roughed up and taken from their quarters after the Kazon have seized Voyager and boarded the ship.

Answer: Jetrel

The Haakonian doctor who was responsible for engineering the weapon that killed Neelix's family is attempting to atone for his past transgressions by conducting an experiment that would allow him to re-synthesize deceased Talaxians using Voyager's transporter technology.

At one point in the episode, to prevent Voyager's doctor from being a distraction, Jetrel simply orders Voyager's computer to deactivate the EMH program--a standard command that anyone onboard the ship is capable of using--as he makes some final modifications to his experiment in sickbay, effectively moving to the last stages of his master plan to resurrect all of the Talaxians who had died in the Metreon Cascade.

In "Basics, Part 1", the Kazon don't deactivate the Doctor's program when they've seized Voyager and boarded the ship; the Doctor deactivates HIMSELF using a special time-delayed command, allowing him to secretly re-materialize in sickbay after the rest of the Voyager crew, except ex-Maquis murderer Lon Suder and a shuttlecraft-flying Paris, is taken to and left behind on the primeval planet called Hanon 4.

In "Living Witness", Quarren, the Kyrian man operating the museum, does deactivate the Doctor's program while the two are in dialogue in a recreation of Voyager's sickbay, but he doesn't do it vocally; he simply presses a button on a device to perform the deactivation electronically. In "Displaced", the Nyrians (distant cousins of the Kyrians, the aliens featured in "Living Witness"?-- the two names do rhyme and are almost spelled exactly the same!) don't make it in sickbay in time to deactivate the Doctor's program; Chakotay has already successfully downloaded it into the mobile emitter before he's sent to the habitat (mobile emitter safely in his possession) with the rest of the crew on the Nyrian ship.

Answer: Thirty Days

Just moments after Voyager arrives in orbit of the Monean's water world, a trio of ships emerge from the oceans and attack Voyager without responding to hails. But after Janeway gives the order to disable the ships' weapons, the aliens are a little more cooperative, realizing that Janeway and her crew are explorers and simply curious about their planet. Too bad that we didn't really get to see the crew exploring much of the planet's interior, as much of the episode either took place on Voyager or the Delta Flyer and we only saw exterior views of the planet's structures. Still, it was a fun episode and one of my personal favorites from the series.

In "Prime Factors", the pleasure-seeking aliens called the Sikarians never attacked Voyager in space at any time in the episode; they were surely too excited about the crew's arrival and another opportunity to share their pleasures with a distant alien culture.

In "Unity", although there is a derelict Borg vessel encountered in space near the planet inhabited by the ex-Borg drones where Chakotay's shuttle had crashed, the Borg never attack Voyager once their vessel has been reactivated.

In "Blink Of An Eye" (another fun favorite of mine from the series), Voyager's initial arrival in orbit of the alien planet was not met by any attacking ships...and WOULDN'T have prompted any attack in space, as the civilization was still a pre-warp society and incapable of space travel at the time. It wasn't until later on, when time had advanced on the planet and the aliens had the technology to construct weapons, that they had attacked what they had named "The Sky Ship'. The weapons, however, were being shot from the surface and not from any ships orbiting in space. Even when the aliens do finally manage to launch a mission into space with the shuttle near the end of the episode, Voyager still isn't attacked by any space-faring vessels.