Name That Episode #39 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Voyager Conspiracy

A very tricky one to start things off, but this one's easier to answer when you concentrate on the dialogue of the guest characters in each episode. In "The Voyager Conspiracy", the only character appearing in this episode who wasn't a Voyager crewmember was the hooded alien man named Tash, who constructed the slingshot device that he wanted to use to get back to his home planet and that Janeway hoped would send herself and her crew light-years closer to Earth. Although the subject of The Caretaker arises quite often in the midst of Seven's conspiracy theories, Tash himself never mentions the Ocampa's mysterious protector at all, not even when he is being confronted by Janeway in Engineering as he is suspected of having Caretaker DNA in his body. The only people to mention The Caretaker are the Doctor, when he scans Tash in Engineering; Chakotay, when Seven privately presents her theory to him in Astrometrics; B'Elanna, when she and Chakotay are discussing the possibility of Janeway's involvement while in Engineering; and, of course, Janeway and Seven themselves.

In the other three episodes, The Caretaker does get mentioned by somebody who isn't a member of Voyager's crew. "Equinox, Part 1" reveals that the Equinox crew encountered the Ocampa's protector and were dragged into the Delta Quadrant just like Voyager was. Captain Ransom is giving his explanation to Janeway, and as he nears the end of his sentence and states 'The Caretaker', an already-knowing Janeway says the same thing at the same time he does, adding further that they'll compare stories later. "Cold Fire" showed the Ocampa man, Tanis, mentioning The Caretaker shortly after the array similar to the one seen in the series pilot is encountered, adding that he and the Ocampa people never thought of The Caretaker's female mate as an actual caretaker. Then as for the series pilot itself, The Caretaker is mentioned by one of the Ocampa doctors in the hospital while giving B'Elanna and Harry a tour of the facility, explaining how the planet got turned into a desert upon the Caretaker's unexpected arrival.

Answer: Q2

Another one to think about, but in general, there were less enemy alien takeover attempts in the latter part of the series than in earlier seasons. In the the third and final Q episode, "Q2", Q Junior summoned the Borg cubes and caused several drones to board the bridge as part of his annoying antics to get Janeway's attention.

Although it was unknown if the Borg really were wanting to take control of Voyager, it has to be assumed that, given the Borg's nature of always wanting to assimilate other species and being presented with the opportunity to seize another Federation ship into their massive collective, that they wanted to do exactly that. "Prophecy" did show the mighty Klingons attempting to fulfill their decades-long mission, boarding the bridge and engaging in not a blood-shedding bat'leth melee, but a Federation-style phaser fight with the crew.

However, "Prophecy" aired a few weeks BEFORE "Q2" and, thus, cannot qualify as the correct answer. "Homestead", also airing in the seventh season, did air much later than "Q2", but neither the aliens of the mining colony nor the Talaxians themselves attempted any sort of takeover of Voyager.

In "Repentance", the prisoners did escape from their cells in the brig at some point, but none ever enter the bridge nor try to take control of Voyager directly. Once again, however, this episode aired BEFORE "Q2" and cannot qualify as the correct answer either.

Answer: Emanations

The Vhnori woman who wakes up in sickbay and mistakes Voyager for her afterlife is given a second chance to be back with her people partway through the episode, once the crew determines that the subspace vacuoles are what have been displacing the bodies on the asteroid.

She is on the Transporter Room pad and prepared to be beamed off the ship, but instead, she re-materializes back on the pad, encased in the same white, spider web-like fibers that the other Vhnori bodes on the asteroid were discovered to be wrapped in at the beginning.

Answer: Sacred Ground

There were many little side-quests in the Nechani ritual that Janeway performed in her attempts to revive a comatose Kes. In one scene, she is directed by her guide to pick up a stone and to relay what she sees. After a longish montage where Janeway is performing other tasks, we still see Janeway standing with the exact same stone, except the stone is now glowing in her hands. Having become weak from the vision, the stone drops, and we then see Voyager's captain laying face up in a stone sarcophagus of some sort, replying "I'm dying", to which her guide responds with "Everyone dies eventually", before closing the sarcophagus on her and trapping her in darkness.

It's all temporary, as Janeway awakens from her stone grave four days later with the instructions to get some rest before continuing the ritual.

Answer: Ashes To Ashes

Another one that requires some extra thought, as each of these four episodes did deal with death in some way or another. Although in "Ashes To Ashes", we only see the revived Kobali crewmember Lindsay Ballard as a potential candidate for death. Except she is seen alive from beginning to finish, whether she was on her ship outrunning the Kobali ships or onboard Voyager as her former Human self or again as a Kobali when she bids Harry farewell and returns to her alien family.

In "The Thaw", after the stasis pods are beamed into the cargo bay, we see Janeway wiping the condensation off of a couple of them, one revealing the skeletal remains of one of the people from the alien planet.

In "Juggernaut", one of the Malon operators of the toxic waste freighter dies while he, his superior, B'Elanna, Neelix and Chakotay are all on board, claiming that the rumored creature called 'The Vihaar' attacked him before he falls silent and lifeless.

Then in "Favorite Son", when Harry makes his escape and enters Taymon's quarters, he finds that the only other man he encountered during his brief stay on the female-dominated Taresia is laying face-up in bed with all of his skin burned off, revealing only the grayish skeletal remains underneath.

Answer: Course: Oblivion

Newborn babies, in fact, were seen quite often in the series, but none were seen in "Course: Oblivion", despite the duplicate Paris and Torres having just gotten married and the duplicate Voyager crew itself seeming to have progressed much faster in terms of relationships than the real Voyager crew, which it cloned back in the fourth-season episode "Demon".

In "Friendship One", Paris and Neelix helped to deliver the dying baby of one of the women on the nuclear winter-devastated planet. After a rough go, the baby is born healthy with no other issues, which earned Voyager's conn officer and morale officer the trust and respect of their captors.

In "Before And After", Paris and Kes are on board a shuttlecraft during one part of the timeline, with Kes standing up and giving birth to a baby girl through her back in the classic Ocampan style.

The joyous moment is short-lived, however, as they realize Voyager is under attack by the Krenim when they move to rendezvous with it. Then in "Collective", although the newborn Borg growing in the maturation chamber isn't technically delivered by anyone, we do see Janeway cradling it in her arms in sickbay, looking at it intently as if she wanted to sever it too from the hive and mold it into a Human as she worked so hard to do with Seven.

Answer: Prime Factors

The pleasure-seeking and pleasure-giving Sikarans offered the Voyager crew a lot in terms of hospitality, and one of those hospitable acts was the woman named Eudana taking Harry on a romantic trip to a faraway planet called Alastria via a folding space transporter pad.

Then later, in her attempts to please the Sikaran magistrate and convince him to share his people's folding space technology, Janeway plays dining host to him back on Voyager, sharing pecan pie and the proposition of giving him a database of Federation stories for him and his people to digest for years to come.

Answer: The Void

The alliance Janeway forges with the various aliens trying to escape the vortex gives her crew the opportunity to share resources and operate as a 'mini Federation', as she and Chakotay joke about at the end of the episode. But before then, there is a moment when Tuvok walks in on a pair of the portly so-called 'spy aliens' working in Astrometrics; the two men are scanning another ship that isn't part of Janeway's alliance and realize there is a certain beverage concoction that is being kept there in plentiful amounts. Meanwhile, the Doctor's mute alien friend, whom he calls 'Fantome', is having difficulty communicating his needs. An observant Seven gets Fantome's attention by playing various tones from a sickbay workstation while holding up different pieces of medical equipment. Fantome accurately matches the tone being played with the medical piece Seven holds up, which indicates that the alien's audio senses are very sharp.

Answer: Course: Oblivion

There were lots of times in the series where ships were blown up due to them being hit by phaser or torpedo blasts from another ship, but there were also times when these ship explosions happened due to an accident or some other unfortunate happenstance.

The answers here are a little tricky, but "Course: Oblivion" is the correct one. The only three ships seen in this episode are the duplicate Voyager, the alien ship of the mining colony the duplicate Voyager encounters when they manage to track down a planet whose conditions are comparable to the Y-class planet they originated from, plus the real Voyager itself. Neither the alien mining ship nor the real Voyager ever explode.

As for the duplicate Voyager, we do see it having disintegrated into the blobs of deuterium when the real Voyager encounters it, but we don't actually see it explode into these blobs; the image of the debris is simply shown on the bridge viewscreen with Janeway and her crew mystified and left wondering how the ship vanished so quickly.

In "Year Of Hell, Part 2", it's true that the combined firepower of the Mawasi and Nihydren ships aided in Voyager's battle against the Krenim time-ship initially, but the time-ship is ultimately destroyed and seen exploding as a direct result of Janeway setting a collision course to ram Voyager right into it. In "Dark Frontier", the Borg ship encountered in the opening teaser is destroyed and explodes when a photon torpedo is beamed over to it while its shields are down. As a result of the tactic, Janeway feels lucky, which then is the starting point for her decision to lead the crew on a mission to steal a transwarp coil from a damaged Borg cube. Then in "Retrospect", the Entharan weapons dealer, Kovin, whom Seven accuses of violating her for her Borg nanoprobes, is on board his ship near the end of the episode when Voyager's scans of the fleeing vessel detect a power overload building up. But rather than to allow himself to be beamed back to Voyager, as he feared he would surely be punished for the crime, Kovin continues trying to deploy weapons fire. Tragically, his final firing attempt leads to his ship exploding with his death leaving the Entharan leader and the Voyager crew in a state of remorse.

Answer: Dreadnought

One more tricky one to close out the quiz! In all four episodes, alien technology was being worked on by the crew, but the key phrase in this question is 'to keep the technology functioning properly'. In "Dreadnought", the only alien technologies encountered are the Cardassian-created missile and the fleet of Rakosan ships that were coming to intercept it.

The latter is a simple matter; the Rakosan ships didn't need any resources or engineers from Voyager to keep their ships operating. As for the Dreadnought missile itself, it was never functioning properly to begin with.

It was originally designed to take out a Maquis base all the way back in the Alpha Quadrant, according to explanations by B'Elanna and Chakotay. Therefore, B'Elanna's attempts at re-programming it again to destroy the Cardassian facility she originally re-programmed it to do must be seen as her actually working to keep the missile functioning IMPROPERLY.

In "Memorial", after Janeway and the rest of the away team encounters the alien monument in the open field, she gives the order to boost its power supply so that the painful war atrocities could be remembered by any and all other ships that enter that sector of space. We see several crewmembers placing devices on the colossal stone structure at the very end of the episode, the sound of energy charging up indicating that the memorial was indeed receiving the power boost as ordered.

In "The Disease", the Voyager crew was helping the Varro with repairs to their uniquely-designed, segmented ship all throughout the episode. We see everything from Janeway getting her hands dirty while speaking with the Varro leader to Harry and Seven scanning for microfractures in Astrometrics. Then in "Rise", the ancient tether device which allowed vertical ascent from the surface of the Nezu's planet was being operated mostly by Neelix, who had the most knowledge about it, while Tuvok and their other Nezu companions assisted with the tether's repairs.