Name That Episode #15 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Threshold

Paris is running a shuttle simulation of his attempt at breaking the warp 10 barrier at the beginning of the episode. He experiences a few technical and mechanical problems during the simulation to the point that the shuttle reaches critical stress levels.

Instead of the shuttle exploding, as the holodeck safeties were presumably enabled, the simulation simply comes to a screeching halt with Paris seated on the holodeck's floor, a clearly-disappointed Harry and B'Elanna standing over him at a holodeck control panel.

In "The Fight", none of Chakotay's boxing simulations end with him sitting on the holodeck floor; in fact, Chakotay isn't sitting down at all during any of his simulations. The only time Chakotay is sitting in this episode is during his vision quests when he's seated next to his grandfather in the forest, and when he's sitting up on the bio-bed in sickbay while the Doctor's treating him.

In "Real Life", the only times any crewmembers are sitting down on the holodeck is when the Doctor, Kes and B'Elanna are seated at the table having dinner with the Doctor's holographic family; when the Doctor is confronting Jeffrey's Klingon friends while sitting on the sofa in the living room; and when the Doctor is sitting down in the chair in the hospital at Belle's bedside. Nobody is sitting on the holodeck floor itself at any point during this episode. And the only time anybody is sitting down on the holodeck in "Human Error" is when Seven and a holographic Chakotay are sitting down on the bench at the piano while Seven is trying her hand at playing a few musical selections.

The Doctor does kneel down to scan an unconscious Seven after the holographic Chakotay calls the EMH to the holodeck, and the Doctor does find Seven laying on the floor, but neither of them is actually SITTING on the floor.

Answer: Juggernaut

Neelix has joined B'Elanna and Chakotay on the away mission on-board the Malon freighter. While the chief engineer and the first officer are wearing their usual gold operations and red command uniforms, respectively, Neelix is wearing a reddish-brown jumpsuit of a variety previously seen in the third-season episode "Rise". If this jumpsuit had been Starfleet issue, B'Elanna and Chakotay surely would've been wearing the same thing, as Starfleet crewmembers on away missions are normally dressed in the same attire.

It's never explained exactly why Neelix was wearing this particular jumpsuit; he very well could have slipped into a gold operations uniform similar to the one he'd been seen wearing in such previous episodes as "Before And After", "Year Of Hell, Part 1" and "Living Witness" for the same purpose.

In "Friendship One", Neelix is on another away mission--this time, with Chakotay, Harry, Paris and Lieutenant Carey--to the arctic planet in search of the Friendship One probe. All of the men are wearing the Starfleet environmental spacesuits while walking on the surface outdoors.

Then later, when Paris, Neelix and Carey have been captured by the aliens and held hostage in the underground chamber, the three men are seen wearing the gray Starfleet field uniforms with the thin stripes that are often used for away missions in harsh climates and conditions. In "Author, Author", Neelix is among the participants of the Doctor's holonovel, 'The Life Of An EMH', appearing in the chapter where the holographic Janeway confronts him at gunpoint in her ready room. Each participant in the holonovel is wearing a blue Starfleet science uniform much like the Doctor's (in addition to a bulky backpack representing the Doctor's mobile emitter), so this allows Neelix to be seen for the very first time in the series wearing this particular uniform after having previously been seen wearing the gold Starfleet operations uniform in several instances before this episode. In "Blood Fever", Neelix is on yet another away mission--this time with B'Elanna and Paris--when they're traversing the underground caverns on the Sakari homeworld. All three crewmembers are wearing the gray Starfleet field uniforms with the thin stripes, and so are Chakotay and Tuvok, who arrive on the planet later as spectators to the 'pon farr' battle between B'Elanna and Ensign Vorik. By this time, Neelix is back on Voyager, having sustained an injury during his descent into the caverns upon his initial arrival onto the planet.

Answer: Elogium

Love and sex was surely the theme being pushed in this episode: Kes' premature Ocampan pregnancy, the space-faring aliens being sexually attracted to Voyager and, later, Ensign Wildman's revelation that she's pregnant. Additionally, at the very beginning of the episode, Chakotay walks into a turbolift and discovers two unnamed crewmembers kissing. Upon being startled by their first officer's presence, the happy couple walks out together while holding hands.

This couple would never be seen together again for the rest of the series.

In "Someone To Watch Over Me", love is the theme again as Seven tries her hand at dating. Although she does dance with Crewman Chapman and, later, the Doctor, while on the holodeck, she's never seen affectionately holding their hands while walking out of a turbolift, and neither is anyone else in this episode.

In "Displaced", Chakotay does move about the ship as a lot of crewmembers are vanishing and being replaced by the invading Nyrians, but he doesn't ever catch any crewmembers holding hands--or even locked up in a romantic kiss--at any time before the Nyrians completely seize Voyager and relocate the entire crew into the habitat created on their ship.

In "The Disease", there are many instances where Harry and the xenophobic woman named Tal are holding hands or wrapped up in a romantic moment, but the couple is never caught together in a turbolift by Voyager's first officer in this episode.

Answer: Bliss

After much of the crew has been rendered unconscious at the hands of the 'wormhole alien', Seven, the Doctor, the alien pilot and Naomi Wildman are all in sickbay at one point, attempting to figure out a way to maneuver themselves out of the alien's digestive chamber and back into normal space.

There's an instance where little Naomi is sleeping on one of the bio-beds in sickbay before being rudely awakened by the ominous noise and spatial turbulence being created by the alien. In "Latent Image", Naomi's only purpose for appearing in sickbay is to get photographically scanned by the Doctor's holo-imager, just like the rest of the crew.

But she's never taking a nap in the process, nor before or after the Doctor scans her. Naomi does appear in her quarters with Neelix in "Dragon's Teeth", and appears in both astrometrics and the mess hall with Seven in "Survival Instinct", but the half-Ktarian girl doesn't appear in sickbay in either one of these two episodes.

Answer: Favorite Son

When Harry instinctively transfers tactical control to his operations station to fire upon the Nasari ship without authorization, the result of his then-unknown Taresian genes, it initiates a battle that causes Voyager to sustain heavy damage, B'Elanna to get seriously injured while down in engineering and himself to get cut on the head. Janeway relieves Harry of duty and orders him to get treated in sickbay, an unnamed security officer escorting the troubled ensign into the turbolift.

In "Ex Post Facto", Voyager does get attacked by the Numiri after Paris is transported from the Banean homeworld back to Voyager for medical treatment, but the attack happens while B'Elanna is on the bridge, and doesn't render any of the crew injured.

In "Counterpoint", the Devore only make routine inspections of Voyager; they never attack Voyager directly.

The Brenari, the telepathic aliens who are being held in transporter suspension, never attack Voyager either, and the same holds true for the alien scientist who clues Janeway and the Devore inspector, Kashyk, about the randomly-forming wormhole which the Brenari eventually use to escape Devore space undetected.

In "Shattered", Chakotay does get escorted off the bridge by a couple of unnamed security officers when he enters the time fracture before Voyager leaves the Alpha Quadrant, but B'Elanna isn't sustaining an injury of any kind and couldn't have, as in this particular time fracture, Voyager hadn't even tracked the Maquis ship into the Badlands yet.

Answer: The 37's

Kes wasn't seen outside of Voyager very often during the series. Her very first episode where she's away from Voyager, of course, was in the "Caretaker", when she's helping B'Elanna and Harry escape from the underground chambers and up to the desert surface.

The second episode where she's away from Voyager is in "Time And Again", when she joins the away team to rescue Paris and Janeway from the polaric energy-doomed planet. Kes wouldn't be seen spending time off the ship again until "The 37's", when she joins another away team to investigate the stasis chambers that house Amelia Earheart and all of the other humans abducted by the Briori.

Her specific purpose on that mission was for Janeway to show the 37's that Kes, with her strangely-shaped Ocampan ears, was an alien and that she and her crew were from an intergalactic starship in the future.

This marked the third episode where Kes was away from Voyager, but by no means was it her last. The Ocampan would also leave Voyager during the "Basics" 2-parter, when the Kazon have seized Voyager and stranded the entire crew on the primeval Hanon 4; "Displaced", when the Nyrians have taken over Voyager and transported the entire crew into a habitat on a sophisticated ship; and briefly in "Before And After", when she's giving birth to her and Paris's baby while on-board a shuttle in one of her alternate time jumps backward.

Answer: Hope And Fear

At the beginning and at the end of this episode, Janeway and Seven are showing off some athleticism, playing a game called 'velocity', where the object is to fire phasers at an airborne disc without letting the disc make physical contact with their bodies. Seven loses in their first two matches together, and the winner of their third and final match is never seen, as the end credits appear when Seven fires the last phaser shot.

This is the only time in the series that this game is seen being played by any of Voyager's crew.

In none of the other three episodes is Seven firing a phaser at any time.

Answer: Scientific Method

The final stop in her deck-by-deck walkthrough of Voyager, after searching for signs of the Srivani, the aliens who are out of phase and invisible to the rest of the crew, is engineering. Seven is realigning some chips near a computer station when her actions alert Tuvok on the bridge.

As Seven can't explain the reasons behind her actions without risking detection by the aliens, Tuvok accepts her actions as a security violation, eventually confronting the ex-Borg drone with a phaser in hand. But when Seven sees that a couple of the aliens are watching what she's been doing, Seven reacts quickly, pushing Tuvok aside and activating the hand-held gun the Doctor had given her, firing an energy beam to render one of the aliens visible.

In "Cold Fire", Tuvok does arrive in engineering when Suspiria arrives on Voyager with a phaser in hand. And later, Janeway does fire the anti-sporocystian weapon specifically designed to render Suspiria powerless.

But Tuvok never arms his phaser and aims it at any crewmembers in response to a crewmember's acts of violation, and Janeway never pushes anyone aside in order to fire the anti-sporocystian weapon.

A phaser is in Tuvok's possession when he boards the derelict Borg ship in "Unity", eventually aiming it at Chakotay, who's being mentally influenced by the ex-Borg drones on the planet to reactivate the cube, but Tuvok never makes an appearance in engineering in this episode. Neither does the Vulcan chief of security appear in engineering nor arm himself with a phaser at all any time during "The Fight".

Answer: Child's Play

This one's a bit tricky! After being reunited with his parents on the Brunali homeworld following his disconnection from the Borg back in "Collective", Icheb spends some time with them aboard Voyager. His mother had hand-prepared a Brunali delicacy especially for Icheb, which the young ex-Borg drone reluctantly consumes in the mess hall after some encouragement by his father.

In "Prime Factors", the Sikaran magistrate Gathorel Labin does bring with him a wide assortment of meals upon his initial arrival on Voyager, but the meals were intended for several members of the crew to indulge in and not just a single crewmember, generously handing out plates to Kes and Janeway and leaving others on the kitchen's counter.

In "Unforgettable", Chakotay does consume a meal with the Ramuran tracer, Kellin, as well as a cup of tea in the mess hall, but both were prepared by Neelix, who played the part of serving as Chakotay's counsel in helping the first officer sort out his romantic feelings for the alien woman whom he eventually fell in love with.

In "Rise", Neelix does discover a half-eaten meal on-board the orbital tether, evidence of previous occupancy by the Nezu woman whom he befriends. He also serves the woman a cup of tea in the mess hall at the end of the episode. But there are never any food items being brought onto Voyager from an outside source for a crewmember to consume.

Answer: Relativity

Captain Braxton and Lieutenant Ducane are the only two Starfleet members who communicate to Seven, hoping that the ex-Borg drone will find the temporal weapon responsible for destroying Voyager and fix the contaminated timeline in the process. However, both Braxon and Ducane do physically appear on Voyager. Braxon arrives to implant the temporal weapon inside one of the Jefferies tubes while Ducene arrives with another Starfleet crewman from the U.S.S. Relativity to locate Seven and transport her back into the future with him earlier in the episode.

In "Non Sequitir", Harry finds himself back on Earth in the present but in an alternate reality, now an engineer who has been working on a prototype for a new Federation runabout. His friend Lieutenant Laska, as well as one of the admirals, are present during the briefing at Starfleet Headquarters regarding the new runabout, and they're the only ones who communicate to Harry directly.

But neither Laska nor the admiral ever set on Voyager.

In fact, Voyager and its crew aren't even seen until the very end after the alternate-reality Paris has helped Harry re-enter the alien time stream through which he accidentally entered from the beginning. In "Pathfinder", both our beloved Reginald Barclay and Admiral Paris never step foot on Voyager, but they do speak to Janeway and the bridge crew at the end of the episode over the open com channel made possible by Barclay's work in using the Midas array at Starfleet Headquarters. In "Life Line", both our beloved Counselor Deanna Troi and the Doctor's creator, Louis Zimmerman, speak to Voyager's EMH when he transfers to Jupiter Station, but neither Troi nor Zimmerman ever step foot on Voyager, which is too bad, because I totally wanted Troi to have had the chance to meet the rest of Voyager's crew in person somehow!