Name That Episode #28 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Day Of Honor

Partway through the episode, B'Elanna and Seven are working together in engineering when the hot-tempered half-Klingon confronts Voyager's newly-severed-from-the-Collective ex-drone about being part of the alien race who wiped out the desperate and destitute Cataati.

When B'Elanna asks Seven if there are feelings of remorse for those past acts, Seven replies with a simple 'no', which only riles up a bad-day-having B'Elanna even more than she already was. Then at the end of the episode, when Voyager is suddenly now at the mercy of the Cataati armada, Seven is on the bridge when she offers to give herself up to the vengeful Cataati in exchange for Voyager's safe passage. Fortunately, the deal never comes to pass, as resolution and understanding are eventually reached.

In "Think Tank", although Seven does get tempted with the thought of joining Kurros's special group of intelligent minds, she's never in a position where she's willingly sacrificing herself over to Kurros nor to the Hazari, the aliens whom eventually realize that there's no real bounty to be earned and target the think tank's cloaked facility with weapons fire from their ships at the end.

In "Tsunkatse", it's true that Seven did, in a way, willingly sacrifice herself by electing to partake in the alien fighting tournament in exchange for her and Tuvok's freedom. But she never expresses any remorse or even mentions anything about having assimilated the race of her alien captors, nor any of the other races represented in the tournament. Then in "Dragon's Teeth", while it's true that Seven's feelings of wanting the Vaadwaur to enjoy individuality and free will led her to release the aliens from their stasis pods, she is never offering herself as a sacrifice to prevent Voyager from being destroyed by the Vaadwaur, nor by the Vaadwaur's centuries-old enemies hovering above in orbit called the Turei.

Answer: Random Thoughts

At no point during the investigation to find out which of the telepathic Mari citizens triggered the violence in the marketplace does Tuvok ever grin or laugh, not even when he is exchanging the disturbing images with the man responsible named Guill. At the most, we only see him wincing and struggling to maintain control of his emotions.

In "Meld", following his transferring of thoughts to the murderer, Lon Suder, Tuvok is being held behind a forcefield in sickbay while the Doctor and Kes are running tests on his brain.

But the now-emotional Vulcan is suddenly no longer himself, and when he offers to kill Suder on behalf of Crewman Darwin's family, an uncharacteristically sinister grin spreads across his face while letting out an evil chuckle at the same time. Tuvok shows emotions again in the sixth-season episode "Riddles", when he suffers brain damage as a result of the Ba'neth attack onboard the Delta Flyer.

While in the company of a guilt-stricken Neelix, he's all smiles and full of humor...that is, until it's time for him to recall the Ba'neth's cloaking frequency and reverse the damage that was inflicted upon him.

Then in "Workforce, Part 1", a brainwashed Tuvok is all smiles and full of humor again, even cracking jokes to an equally-brainwashed Janeway and her newfound alien lover, Jaffen.

Answer: Eye Of The Needle

After the Romulan named Telek R'mor has been successfully beamed from his ship (which is located in the Alpha Quadrant at the other end of the wormhole) onto Voyager, then beamed back again, an analytical Tuvok reports that their alien guest was actually from the past and will eventually die before the message detailing Voyager's situation in the Delta Quadrant would ever reach Starfleet Command. Realizing that it was a lost opportunity to get home, a saddened Harry slumps down at the transporter control station with B'Elanna briefly lending a comforting hand.

In none of the other three episodes is Harry slumped over the transporter room control station; in fact, he doesn't appear in the transporter room in any of those episodes at all.

Answer: Basics, Part 1

The Kazon man named Teirna is recovering in sickbay while engaging in a conversation with Chakotay about the previous attacks on Voyager. Believing it to be suspicious that the exact same area of Voyager is constantly being targeted by weapons fire, Chakotay offers his fear of the situation, to which Teirna responds that Voyager's first officer must be easily frightened. Eventually, Chakotay grows impatient with his scheming Kazon guest, rushing at him and slamming him into a wall, to which a disappointed Doctor replies that he wants no fighting of that sort to take place in his sickbay.

In "Unforgettable", it's true that Chakotay gets physical with an alien--the Ramuran chaser named Curneth sent to recover Kellin--but this happens in the brig after Chakotay has lowered the forcefield to personally confront the alien.

In "Displaced", Chakotay isn't getting physical with any of the Nyrians that are mysteriously transporting onto Voyager and sending his crewmates one by one to the sophisticated habitat.

Then in "Shattered", Chakotay does get physical--albeit briefly--with some of Seska's henchmen during the time fracture dating to the Kazon's takeover of Voyager, but everything related to the Kazon occurs only in engineering and never in sickbay.

Answer: Parturition

This one requires a little extra thought! "Twisted" marked Kes's first venture onto the holodeck, as the crew was celebrating her second birthday in Paris's cozy, French-themed "Sandrine's" bar. Immediately following "Twisted" was the episode in which an enraged Neelix and a helplessly-romantic Paris are sent on an away mission together down to 'Planet Hell'. Prior to that mission, more fuel to the emotional fire (which was the love triangle of jealousy between Voyager's conn officer, the resident Talaxian and Voyager's only resident Ocampan) had been added when Neelix observes Paris and Kes walking together in a corridor after Kes's flight simulation with the lieutenant on the holodeck. Kes did appear on the holodeck in "The Swarm", as she's running the program of Jupiter Station and interacting with the holographic Dr. Zimmerman in order to get to the bottom of Voyager's malfunctioning EMH, but this episode aired in the show's third season and much later than "Parturition". We would see crewmembers featured on the holodeck in both "Meld" and "Lifesigns", but Kes herself did not appear on the holodeck in either episode.

Answer: One

Quite literally, the fourth-season episode "One" is 'the one' that is correct here. As a result of Voyager's month-long trek through the radiation-filled Mutara Nebula, all of the ship's technology is experiencing glitches and malfunctions, including Seven's cybernetic implants and the Doctor's holographic matrix.

While confronting Seven near the warp core in engineering about the hallucinations she's been having, the Doctor's matrix begins destabilizing until he eventually degrades and vanishes from view altogether, leaving a panicked Seven all alone on the ship.

However, in the process of the Doctor disappearing, his com badge DOESN'T drop onto the floor, even though it should have. Turns out that this was actually a production blooper! In "Scientific Method", the Doctor's com badge did drop onto the floor this time.

When he and B'Elanna are studying Neelix's and Chakotay's mutated cells in the science lab, the out-of-phase aliens first try to shut down the Doctor's program, then attack B'lanna to prevent her from stopping the shutdown attempt. B'Elanna is invisibly attacked, and shortly after she drops onto the floor unconscious, the Doctor transfers his program out of the science lab to the holodeck, his com badge dropping right next to the chief engineer's sprawled-out body.

In "Caretaker", after Neelix has rescued Kes from the Kazon and beamed back onto Voyager with the rest of the away team, Janeway is having a brief meeting in sickbay while the crew's new Ocampan companion is recovering. Annoyed that there is too much commotion going on, the Doctor, while wielding a medical instrument in his hand, angrily demands that everyone leaves the room. But Janeway, who appears to be equally annoyed at the Doctor's annoyance, orders the computer to delete the Doctor's program, causing the EMH to vanish from view and, consequently, the medical instrument that he was holding to drop onto the floor in front of her. Then in "Deadlock", a similar thing happens when the Doctor is attempting to deliver Ensign Wildman's baby while Voyager is being heavily damaged by the mysterious proton bursts. At one moment, the damage becomes so severe that his holomatrix briefly degrades, the short instance of de-materialization causing his medical tricorder to fall onto the floor.

Answer: Equinox, Part 1

This one's a little tough! It wasn't often that Neelix was part of an away team rescue effort, but at the beginning of the fifth-season cliffhanger, he finds himself joining Chakotay, Harry and a few other Voyager crewmembers to retrieve their injured fellow Starfleet officers from the heavily-damaged Equinox.

When Neelix and an unnamed male crewmember (who is wearing the signature yellow Starfleet security uniform) enter a darkened area, a terrified, unnamed male Equinox crewmember (who is wearing the signature blue Starfleet science uniform) pops up from behind a console and madly begins firing his phaser, presumably in a state of shock after having been attacked by the nucleogenic aliens. Neelix and his crewmate manage to dodge the phaser blasts, but as Neelix tries to plead with the phaser-firing madman, it's his unnamed crewmate who ends up firing a return phaser blast of his own to stun the madman, thus neutralizing the panicked threat. Considering that Neelix is the main character in this situation, I personally found it a bit backwards that he wouldn't be the one who got to fire the phaser; perhaps the writers felt it would be out of character for the friendly Talaxian to inflict bodily harm? In "Fair Trade", Neelix is never equipped with a phaser; it's his Talaxian criminal friend Wixiban who is armed with a phaser when the two secretly meet with the narcotics dealer in the dark corridor.

The only other things Neelix is equipped with in this episode are a device to remove a portion of Voyager's warp plasma, plus the false warp plasma that he uses to negotiate with the alien criminals called the Kolaati. Neelix is further never equipped with a phaser in neither "Juggernaut", when he, B'Elanna and Chakotay are investigating the crisis onboard the Malon freighter, nor "Collective", when he, Harry, Chakotay and Paris have been captured by the Borg children and held captive inside the assimilation chamber.

Answer: Eye Of The Needle

This one's a bit tricky! Way back in the first-season episode, "Eye Of The Needle", B'Elanna and Harry are in engineering analyzing the micro-wormhole that astoundingly leads back to the Alpha Quadrant while discussing their respective families and the prospect of returning back to Earth. Sadly, B'Elanna explicitly tells Harry during their dialogue that her father left her when she was only five years old, that the Maquis is the only family that she has and that there isn't anybody back home who would care one way or the other if she was dead or alive.

Many seasons later in "Lineage", B'Elanna does reiterate that her father left her when she was a kid (through her flashbacks, and a heart-to-heart conversation with her new hubby, Tom Paris), but the difference here is that she DOESN'T mention anything about there being anyone back home who didn't care about her.

In "Future's End, Part 2", B'Elanna and Chakotay do engage in a conversation about the idea of settling back on Earth in 1996 while they're in the shuttlecraft together, but the talk is about much happier topics--such as their humor in having to seek employment-- instead of about feelings of sadness, anger and remorse related to B'Elanna's father having abandoned her and the Maquis being her only family. Nor is B'Elanna speaking about her father and her 'Maquis family' in "Hope And Fear"; the only time she talks about home is when, while onboard Arturis's booby-trapped U.S.S. Dauntless, she is confronting Seven about the ex-drone needing to have a true sense of humor when they return back to Earth.

Answer: Distant Origin

After Voyager has been seized and rendered disabled by the massive Voth city-ship, Janeway and her crew attempts to mount a resistance anyhow, albeit a futile one. Paris manages to elude the Voth intruders that are walking in the corridors by first escaping into a Jefferies tube, then rigging a site-to-site transport directly into engineering. Upon arriving there, he physically knocks out one of the aliens manning a computer station before taking over at the station himself, programming a way to blow up the city-ship from the inside out.

Unfortunately, due to the Voth's dampening field having crippled Voyager, Paris's plan fails, and only Chakotay's negotiations with the Voth council members towards the end of the episode release Voyager from captivity and certain destruction. Paris doesn't rig a site-to-site transport in any of the other three episodes, and nor does anybody else on the ship for that matter.

Answer: Scorpion, Part 1

This one also requires a bit of extra thought! In the third-season cliffhanger, none of Janeway's commands--whether given on the bridge or elsewhere--initially are being questioned, as the crew is on one accord in its preparation for its inevitable encounter with the then-known most powerful hostile alien species. Tuvok does inform Janeway that there are faint Borg lifesigns on the cube when she is ordering Chakotay to take an away team over to investigate, but he is hardly objecting her direct command. We do eventually witness one objection to the captain's orders later on in the episode--when Chakotay confronts Janeway about her decision to forge an alliance with the Borg--but that occurs during the final conference in the briefing room, and NOT on the bridge. Even after that heated debate, there are no further objections once everyone has returned to the bridge...all the way up until when Voyager is tractored by the Borg cube, Janeway having been transported onboard where she attempts to negotiate with the Collective using the Doctor's nanoprobe technology.

In "Equinox, Part 2", as an enraged Janeway is determined to apprehend Captain Ransom and bring him to justice, one glaring objection in particular comes courtesy of her chief of security, when Tuvok questions her orders to lock a tractor beam onto the peaceful Ankari ship. In "Year Of Hell, Part 2", Janeway's desire to be injected with a chemical called trioxin while working with B'Elanna on a heavily-damaged bridge is protested by the Doctor, who believes the chemical should only be used as a temporary measure and not as permanent treatment. But once Janeway puts her foot down and reminds Voyager's EMH who she is, he ends up administering the trioxin to her anyhow. Then in the series pilot, the classic decision to destroy the Caretaker's array and, consequently, destroy the crew's way to get back home, prompts an angry outburst by B'Elanna, a more calmed and peaceful Chakotay standing in his Maquis friend's way and reminding her that Janeway is the captain.