Name That Episode #39 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Descent, Part 2

Right away, I've presented you with a rather tricky one! In the seventh season premiere, we do see Geordi without his VISOR while he is laid out and restrained on a mechanical stretcher in a laboratory room. However, Geordi remains without his eyesight throughout the entire ordeal and is unable to see again until he and the rest of the crew are safely back onboard the Enterprise.

In "Identity Crisis", Geordi is indeed able to see without his VISOR...once he has transformed into one of the lifeforms indigenous to Tarchannen III.

After Commander Leitjen convinces her long-time friend to leave the other lifeforms behind, Geordi is then seen recovering in sickbay, where Dr. Crusher hands him his VISOR to put back over his eyes. During "Interface", Geordi is seen several times traversing the interior of the disabled ship and seeing clearly with his own eyes without the use of his VISOR every time he is linked up with the sophisticated apparatus in the science lab.

Then in "Future Imperfect", the NOT-so-perfect holographic future (created by the lonely alien) has Riker believing that Geordi has his eyesight back. We get to see Geordi without his VISOR and seeing with his own eyes yet again, but it lasts only briefly as Riker eventually figures out that everything was just a big charade.

Answer: The Quality Of Life

Perhaps 'living creatures' was the giveaway clue on this one! After Data and Dr. Crusher have determined that the Exocomp experienced sentience by seeing right through the simulation in the Jefferies tube, a meeting takes place in the Observation Lounge to discuss the revelation.

At one moment during the discussion, Dr. Farallon (the creator of the Exocomp devices) and Dr. Crusher are going back and forth, with Beverly pointing out how the Exocomps shouldn't be enslaved for work while Dr. Farallon argues that it compares to the Chief Medical Officer not being able to use her tricorder.

When Beverly states that tricorders aren't alive, Farallon counters that the Exocomps, at least in her mind, aren't alive either.

Answer: The Child

Picard and Dr. Pulaski enter Counselor Troi's quarters to check on the mysterious newborn baby who has miraculously grown into a young boy. They see that Deanna has just finished replicating dinner for Ian; that's the name she chose for her new child shortly after giving birth to him.

When Ian reaches for the food and yelps in pain, Pulaski rushes over and heals the burned finger with her medical tricorder. Afterwards, Picard and Pulaski, in private, determine the act was done intentionally. This would come into play towards the end of the episode when the mysterious alien entity departs from Troi's quarters. Deanna explains to everyone present that the lifeform was simply curious and wanted to experience being born, then living, then dying. So it could be surmised that the earlier intentional act of burning himself was also part of the alien's experience, wanting to know what it was like to actually feel physical pain.

Answer: Hero Worship

The young boy named Timothy, who was rescued from the damaged ship at the beginning of the episode, is busy trying to build a miniature ceramic temple while he is class. Despite the teacher's objections while mythology is being read to the rest of his classmates, Timothy proceeds to continue building anyway, insisting that the temple isn't finished. Later, we see Timothy in his quarters, still trying to complete the same model of the temple we saw in his mythology class. Data comes to visit, and the two have a brief conversation about how to properly align the individual pieces. Data then starts to walk out, but he turns back to the model on the table and adds all of the missing pieces in the correct order to finish building the model for Timothy...in typical rapid android fashion, no less. :-)

Answer: Aquiel

Geordi is gradually becoming more and more infatuated with Aquiel Uhnari, the Haliian woman suspected of murder onboard the relay station. After a moment of intimacy while in her quarters on the station, Aquiel presents Geordi with a way in which the two of them can become even more intimate. Off a shelf, she picks up the ornamental glass sculpture that Geordi had seen earlier, explaining that her people are partially telepathic.

She moves over to her bed with Geordi following her, the glass sculpture placed between the two of them. Geordi, with hands on hers, then shows how to properly remove his VISOR.

When they both place their hands on the glass sculpture, Aquiel tells Geordi to think of her, the alien device in front of them starting to glow and emit different colors. An aroused Geordi responds by saying that he can see her as well as feel her.

But the link of intimacy only lasts for a few minutes, as Riker and a security team eventually storm inside the room with phasers drawn, warning Geordi to stay away from Lieutenant Uhnari with the presumption that she might be the shape-shifting alien lifeform that killed Lieutenant Keith Rocha.

Answer: Masks

After unsuccessfully trying to modify a weapon to destroy the alien archive floating in space, Worf and Geordi begin heading out of Engineering. But as they enter into a corridor together, a blazing fire materializes to block their path, forcing them to go in the other direction.

The fire, among other oddities happening on the ship, was presumably created by the ruler named Masaka, one of the many personalities that Data had adopted. One personality in particular relays to Picard that Masaka was angry and out to get anyone and everyone who crossed her path.

Answer: Unnatural Selection

Chief O'Brien and the Enterprise crew are trying to beam the aged Dr. Pulaski back to the Enterprise using her own original DNA patten. Their hope is that it would reverse the aging effects due to the antibodies created by the genetically engineered youngsters being kept under quarantine down on the science station.

After a few moments of technical difficulty, which sees Pulaski fading in and out of view on the transporter pad, the good doctor finally materializes as her regular healthy self. Relieved that the transport is a success, she then rushes to embrace Picard while also shaking the hands of Geordi and Data.

Answer: The Perfect Mate

Midway through the episode, the elder alien ambassador named Briam is in his quarters when the two Ferengi, who were 'rescued' by the Enterprise in the opening teaser, come to visit him. The lobed schemers try to bribe the ambassador with latinum in hopes of obtaining Kamala, the woman released too soon from stasis whose sole purpose was to become whatever that the man whom she bonded with desired.

But things go awry when Briam declines the offer; when he attempts to shove the latinum back into the Ferengi's possession, he stumbles backwards onto a glass table and is knocked out cold. Ultimately, the ambassador does survive the fall while the scheming Ferengi themselves are never seen again for the remainder of the ambassador's trek onboard the ship.

Answer: Unnatural Selection

When Dr. Pulaski and Data are visiting with Dr. Kinsley down on Darwin Station, they're being shown the genetically engineered children who were supposed to be the saviors of the debilitating aging disease. One of the children featured in particular is a young teenage girl who is sitting in front of a three-dimensional chess game, using her mental powers to move one of the pieces on the board. Shortly afterwards, Pulaski and Data soon learn that the antibodies created by the children are actually responsible for the change in the DNA patterns that is causing everyone to age and which, thus, lead to the deaths of the crew onboard the U.S.S. Lantree.

Answer: Suddenly Human

The final question of this quiz is somewhat tricky! "Suddenly Human" featured the alien species called the Talarians, which were represented by BOTH the group of teenage boys rescued from the ship at the beginning of the episode AND by the man who claimed Jono to be his son; Jono himself, meanwhile, was the lone Human among the group.

In "The Host", we are introduced to Trills, which were represented by BOTH the man whom Dr. Crusher believed she was having a romance with AND the woman at the end of the episode.

But we are further introduced to the symbiont lifeform named Odan, which first lived inside the male Trill, then lived inside of Riker temporarily before ultimately living inside the female Trill. We see the actual symbiont only once: in sickbay, when it is saved by Dr. Crusher after the shuttle incident and being surgically transplanted into Riker's body.

In "Final Mission", there are actually three different alien species whom were represented exactly once: the captain of the mining vessel named Dirgo; Songi, the leader of the planet that was being threatened by the radiation-filled garbage scow hovering in orbit; and the non-humanoid sentry that was guarding the water fountain inside the cave.

Then in "Where The Silence Has Lease", the entity named Nagilum represented its race by appearing to look humanoid via the main viewscreen on the bridge and on the computer in Picard's ready room. Further, there were the two monsters featured during the holodeck simulation at the beginning of the episode: the skull-faced warrior and the reptile-faced warrior. As to which respective races those two monsters belonged is unknown, but I presume Worf created them in the images of actual lifeforms he encountered either on his home planet or elsewhere in Federation space.