Name That Episode #16 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lineage

A tricky one right off the bat! After he and B'Elanna have another one of their lover's quarrels, Paris decides to sleep over in Harry's quarters for the night. In order to accommodate his unexpected guest, Harry transforms one of his couches into a bed, complete with pillows and sheets. Harry, of course, is the one from Starfleet while his buddy Paris is an ex-Maquis-turned-convicted criminal-turned-Federation conn officer.

In "Flashback", Tuvok does spend a moment in his shared quarters with U.S.S. Excelsior crewmate Dmitri Valtane during one instance while he's mind-melded with Janeway, attempting to sleep before the Excelsior crew is summoned to their battle stations.

However, none of the furniture inside these quarters is arranged specifically for neither Tuvok nor Valtane--nor even an observing Janeway.

In "Pathfinder", our beloved Reginald Barclay has invited our beloved Counselor Troi over to his San Francisco apartment to talk about his obsession with Voyager, but Barclay doesn't have to arrange any furniture in order to accommodate her.

He does, however, offer the Betazoid some ice cream from the replicator at the beginning of the episode, and shares a glass of champagne with her at the very end. In "Non Sequitur", Harry finds himself back on Earth and living in his San Francisco loft with his girlfriend Libby. There's no furniture rearranging that occurs at any time that Harry is inside the loft with her...and the bit of movement of their bodies while they're sleeping and kissing in bed together doesn't count here either ;-)

Answer: Flashback

There were only two Federation vessels featured in this episode: the U.S.S. Excelsior and Voyager itself. No Federation vessels ever fire upon the Excelsior and vice versa; only a group of Klingon warbirds get into a tactical conflict with Captain Sulu and his crew. Likewise, Voyager never fires upon any other Federation vessels and, again, vice versa, as there were no other Federation crews that appeared in the Delta Quadrant anywhere near Voyager's position in this episode.

In "Non Sequitur", after the alternate-timeline Paris agrees to help Harry return back to his present reality on Voyager, they steal the runabout prototype called the U.S.S. Yellowstone, which Harry had been designing, from Starfleet Headquarters and venture out into space, hoping to recreate the same conditions that Harry experienced before falling into the alien time stream. Compounding the situation is the arrival of a nebula-class Federation ship that fires upon the runabout, determined to apprehend the two men and bring them to justice. Fortunately, Harry's mission is successful just as the runabout explodes due to systems failures as a result of the attacking nebula-class ship.

In "Timeless", the U.S.S. Challenger, commanded by a futuristic Captain Geordi LaForge (how odd is it to address him by that rank?), intercepts Chakotay, his girlfriend Tessa Omond, Harry and the Doctor while they're all on-board the Delta Flyer. The Challenger fires upon the Delta Flyer, attempting to apprehend the fugitives and bring them to justice as Harry and company are attempting to complete their epic mission. Unfortunately, Harry is only successful in sending a message back in time to Seven to prevent Voyager from remaining at quantum slipstream velocity, but at least he does so a millisecond before Captain LaForge and his U.S.S. Challenger destroy the Delta Flyer. In "Message In A Bottle", the U.S.S. Prometheus is first fired upon by cloaked Romulan ships once they realize that the Doctor and the EMH of the Prometheus have assumed control of the ship, thanks to the Prometheus EMH having released an airborne toxin to render the Romulans on-board unconscious. Soon after, a small fleet of Federation ships enters the fray, firing upon the Prometheus upon the assumption that the ship is still under control by the Romulans. But both the Doctor and the Prometheus's EMH successfully disable the Romulan ships using the Prometheus's experimental multi-vector assault mode, putting an end to the tense conflict.

Answer: Tuvix

With Neelix having merged with Tuvok as a result of the transporter accident at the beginning of the episode, the Talaxian morale officer initially is not present in the mess hall's kitchen when several crewmembers are attempting to prepare breakfast, but with no success.

However, when the merged Tuvix arrives in the mess hall, he orders everybody out of the kitchen, stating that he has the right to on the account of being both chief of security and head chef. In "Day Of Honor", B'Elanna does order everyone out of engineering before she has to dump Voyager's warp core, but there was no specific task that any group of engineering crewmembers were trying to accomplish together at that moment that was normally handled by a single person. Keeping the warp core functioning on Federation starships, after all, takes a total team effort.

In "Counterpoint", the Devore does order the Voyager crew to stand aside so that they can perform their routine inspections for telepaths on the ship while Kashyk, the inspector who falls in love with Janeway, orders the captain to her ready room a couple of times, but in none of their inspections is any crewmembers ordered out of a specific room on the ship. Furthermore, there is an instance where Neelix does tell the Brenari children, whom he had been telling stories to in the mess hall to pass the time, to get up and head back to the cargo bay so that they could be put back into transporter suspension, but the Brenari, of course, aren't a part of Voyager's crew.

In "Spirit Folk", the situation with the Fair Haven characters on the holodeck does escalate into a state of confusion and chaos, but it's as a result of the characters believing the Voyager crew to be mythical beings and not as a result of the crew participating in the program itself trying to perform a certain task. Further, although some of the characters want the Voyager crewmembers to get out of town, none of the characters actually order any crewmembers off the holodeck itself, despite Michael's knowledge later in the episode that he's actually a hologram on an interstellar starship.

Answer: The Disease

Janeway is discussing Harry's formal reprimand, which she issued as a result of him having had sexual relations with the xenophobic woman named Tal, with Chakotay while they're having dinner in her quarters, a formal table setting between the two of them.

The captain and the first officer did NOT dine together at any point during "The Fight". They do, however, dine together twice in "The Voyager Conspiracy"--at the very beginning, then at the very end (when Janeway makes the joke about poisoning the coffee any more than she normally does).

But "The Voyager Conspiracy" aired during the show's sixth season and much later than "The Disease", which aired in the fifth season, so "The Voyager Conspiracy" cannot be the very next episode after "Timeless" where the two dined together.

In "The Void", Janeway and Chakotay technically do not dine together alone at all. At the very beginning of the episode, Seven is in her new (albeit temporary) role as head chef, taking a stab at preparing meals in the mess hall kitchen under Neelix's supervision.

The newly-married Paris and B'Elanna are present and dining with the captain and the first officer at the same elegantly-arranged table. Besides that fact, since "The Void" aired in Voyager's seventh season, also much later than "The Disease", this further eliminates this episode as a valid answer to this quiz question.

Answer: Alliances

After Neelix and the Trabe armada rendezvous with Voyager, Neelix explains that everything that the Kazon owned really used to belong to the Trabe. He then proposes to discuss it all more thoroughly over dinner. In the next scene, Janeway, Tuvok, Neelix and the Trabe leader, Mabus, are all dining together in Janeway's quarters, a formal table setting having been decked out for the four of them, while they discuss the history between the Trabe and the Kazon.

This would be one of the few times during the entire series that Tuvok is seen dining somewhere outside of the mess hall.

At the end of "Ex Post Facto", Tuvok is indeed dining, but he's in the mess hall, enjoying a meal alone until Paris joins him briefly to thank the Vulcan chief of security for proving his innocence in the Tolan Ren murder case.

The crewmembers who ARE dining somewhere other than in the mess hall in this episode are Harry and Paris, who are having dinner with Tolan Ren and his wife, Lidell Ren, before the murder takes place.

Although Tuvok does have a drink at the bar down on Quarra in "Workforce, Part 1", he does not have a drink at the bar nor dine anywhere else on Quarra in the episode's second part. And Tuvok isn't seen dining at all in "Barge Of The Dead"; he's only sitting in a chair when Paris and B'Elanna enter the mess hall, which is where the crew had gathered for the Klingon festivities.

Answer: Blink Of An Eye

Voyager's presence in orbit of the planet in this episode was causing the alien civilization inhabiting it to advance technologically, socially and agriculturally by a span of years with every few seconds that passed in Voyager's time frame. The Doctor is beamed down onto the planet, a solo away mission where he would need to gather information about the alien society. To Janeway and B'Elanna, who are in the transporter room when the Doctor beams down to the surface, it's only been a minute or two that he's gone.

But to the Doctor, it has been years, and after a minor glitch delays his beaming back into the transporter room, the EMH rushes to hug Janeway when he finally re-materializes, believing that he would never see his captain again after being away from Voyager for so long.

In none of the other three episodes does the Doctor hug Janeway, although in "Coda", a false, imaginary version of Chakotay clutches a dead Janeway in his arms when he's unable to revive her following their shuttle crash, which was all really an elaborate illusion created by the alien to make the captain think she was dying.

Answer: Future's End, Part 1

Yet another tricky one! Upon Voyager entering the temporal rift that takes them back to 1996, an aerial view of Earth does appear on the bridge's viewscreen. However, this is the only time any images of Earth can be seen from the interior of Voyager in Part One of this two-parter. Harry does have Neelix and Kes watch a series of television broadcasts from Earth to gain knowledge of what's happening on his home planet, but no images of Earth ever appear on any of the computer monitors.

In "Bliss", an image of Earth does first appear on the bridge's main viewscreen, as the 'wormhole alien' has deceived the crew into believing they are heading back home in the beginning of the episode.

But then later, another image of Earth is seen on the viewscreen down in Astrometrics, as Naomi Wildman had been studying the planet at the instruction of her mother.

In "One Small Step", an image of Earth is seen again on Voyager's Astrometircs viewscreen when the logs from Lieutenant John Kelly's shuttle, the Ares IV, are being analyzed.

It's the only time in this episode where an image of Earth is seen from within Voyager. Along the same lines, images of Earth's sister planet, Mars, is seen several times, including once in the beginning of the episode while John Kelly is on-board the Ares IV in orbit of Mars, then again in Astrometrics while Kelly's shuttle logs are being analyzed. In "Death Wish", Q attempts to bribe Janeway regarding the trial for asylum for the other Q, who would eventually be named 'Quinn', before he dies at the end of the episode. Q uses his omnipotent powers to produce an image of Earth outside the viewport in Janeway's ready room, then uses those same omnipotent powers to make that image of Earth vanish as quickly as it appeared.

Answer: Coda

Harry takes his turn to speak during Janeway's memorial service in the mess hall (even though Janeway really isn't dead), and partway through his speech, he's so overcome with emotion that Paris has to take his friend and shipmate off the floor. In the episode "Memorial", we do see an instance when Harry has to be calmed down and taken aside by Paris as a result of the memories of the war on Tarakis having caused him (and the rest of the crew) to hallucinate, but this happens while Harry is in the briefing room when he, Paris, Neelix and Chakotay are confessing their horrific experiences from the war to the captain.

In "Ex Post Facto", Harry does speak to the captain and Tuvok while being questioned in regards to Tolan Ren's murder and with Paris still on the Banean homeworld, and it's true he is unable to keep speaking due to him being extremely exhausted from the interrogations on the planet.

But this is happening when he's in sickbay recovering, the Doctor recommending to discontinue Janeway and Tuvok's questioning so that the EMH can treat the young ensign.

In "Timeless", there is no point in this episode where Harry is unable to continue speaking and has to be taken aside by Paris. In fact, the only time when he's unable to finish speaking at all, perhaps, is when he's successfully sent the message back in time to Seven to enter the phase corrections that would disengage Voyager safely out of the quantum slipstream velocity...an instant before the Delta Flyer explodes, no less.

Answer: Imperfection

This was actually one of the few episodes where B'Elanna and Seven DON'T have a disagreement that causes B'Elanna to erupt in an angry outburst. The two women are having a heart-to-heart conversation in the upper level of engineering regarding their respective views on the afterlife, B'Elanna sharing her thoughts about her Klingon beliefs in Sto'Vo'Kor.

In "Day Of Honor", a newly-severed-from-the-collective Seven is working in engineering when B'Elanna steps over to the ex-drone, asking if Seven feels any remorse as a result of all of the people she's helped the Borg to assimilate in her lifetime.

When B'Elanna doesn't get the answers she wants to hear, the chief engineer's temper flares up, and the two proceed to have a back-and-forth exchange until Seven walks away to go regenerate in her cargo bay.

In "Message In A Bottle", B'Elanna is working down in Astrometrics when Seven enters, ordering B'Elanna to explain the reasons behind a few computer subroutines that B'Elanna had conducted in the ex-drone's absence. An offended B'Elanna confronts Seven, stating that the ex-drone is rude and doesn't know how to speak to people in a proper manner.

In "Scientific Method", when B'Elanna heads into a Jefferies tube to work, she opens a hatch and finds Seven already there, but working on a different project. It's then revealed that the ex-drone's attempts to increase ship's efficiency has interrupted progress on something B'Elanna's engineering team had been working on for hours, which causes the half-Klingon to erupt in anger yet again.

Answer: Displaced

There's actually two different instances where Paris and B'Elanna have an argument or disagreement that leads to B'Elanna becoming angry in this episode, but only one of those instances validates this episode as the correct answer. At the very beginning of the episode, Paris and B'Elanna are walking in the corridor, having a heated back-and-forth spat about a Klingon holodeck program before the first Nyrian transports onto the ship right in front of their eyes. Neither of the lieutenants walks away from the other; B'Elanna, in fact, escorts the Nyrian through the corridor en route to sickbay with Paris trailing close behind.

Then later, after the invading Nyrians have transported the entire crew one by one onto the artificial habitat on their ship, B'Elanna is working to prevent the Doctor's program from being disconnected from the ship when Paris approaches her, the two lieutenants apologizing to each other about that previous argument in the corridor.

But this time, thanks to some instigation by the Doctor, the arguing starts up again, with Paris eventually walking away to another area inside the habitat, leaving B'Elanna and the Doctor alone.

In "Friendship One", Paris is in sickbay with Neelix, Lieutenant Carey and Chakotay, preparing to leave for the away mission to retrieve the Friendship One probe on the arctic planet when B'Elanna enters sickbay, wanting to go on the away mission with them. The newly-married couple briefly have a disagreement about this, Paris suggesting that his wife not go on the away mission since she's carrying their unborn daughter. But B'Elanna mellows down and agrees to stay on the ship, then shares a romantic kiss with her husband. In "Night", the 'cabin fever' that has plagued the entire crew as a result of them not having encountered anybody or anything while navigating through 'the void' has noticeably taken its toll on Paris and B'Elanna, as the couple have another disagreement over a board game they're playing together in the mess hall. Neelix's attempts to play peacemaker fail when the two lieutenants continue playing the arguing game. But when the Talaxian begins hyperventilating, Paris and B'Elanna finally stop and turn their attention to their alien crewmate, who ends up having to be treated in sickbay. In "Someone To Watch Over Me", Paris and B'Elanna are having a romantic dinner together in the mess hall when they realize they are being watched by Seven. An annoyed B'Elanna gets up to confront the ex-Borg drone, who admits to having been studying their routines of intimacy. B'Elanna erupts in anger, verbally threatening to break Seven's nose before Paris takes hold of his hot-tempered lover and heads out of the mess hall with her to continue their romantic evening in private. That whole scene made me wonder: why didn't they just have dinner inside the comforts of one of their own quarters in the first place?