"Star Trek: TNG" Scenes from Season 3 Quiz

Answer: "The Enemy"

While exploring the wreck of a Romulan vessel on a harsh planet inside Federation space, Geordi gets lost and falls into a deep pit. Due to the inhospitable conditions, the away team must abandon him there for a while - but he unfortunately runs into one of the Romulan survivors while trying to get back to the transport site.

Answer: "Allegiance"

Picard was being held captive in an experiment performed by alien creatures, where he was forced to interact with a few very different people to try to get them all to cooperate. After finally returning to the Enterprise, he then turns the tables on his captors by giving subtle signals to his bridge crew. This teaches the aliens a lesson about being in captivity.

Answer: "The Most Toys"

Data is on board a shuttle that delivers some dangerous materials, when the shuttle suddenly explodes. The crew spend a large part of the episode mourning Data's destruction, unaware that Data had in fact survived and is being kept prisoner as part of a collection of rare items.

Answer: "Yesterday's Enterprise"

In what is arguably the best episode of the series, the Enterprise C (predecessor to the ship we saw every week on the show) fails to rescue a Klingon outpost and ends up flying forwards in time. This event alters the future (the show's "present" time) into one where the Klingons had declared war on the Federation and have been fighting it ever since. Guinan is the only one who can sense that things have changed (quite radically), and visits the Bridge for the first time to talk to Picard about it.

Answer: "Booby Trap"

The title of this episode can be taken as a somewhat sly double entendre, because in this episode Geordi falls in love with a holographic recreation of a female Starfleet engineering expert, Dr. Leah Brahms. He creates her to help him solve a serious problem the Enterprise has run into, but once he gives the hologram some personality, he quickly finds her to be more than just a helpful program.

Answer: "Hollow Pursuits"

This strange occurrence is resulting from a series of malfunctions in the ship, caused by an exotic substance currently being transported by the Enterprise. The person who discovers this is Reg Barclay, a bumbling engineer with severe social incompetence who is nonetheless quite a brilliant thinker - if only he could get rid of his dependence on Holodeck fantasies. Reg made several more appearances throughout the show (this was his first), and rapidly became a fan-favorite minor character.

Answer: "The Ensigns of Command"

In this episode, Data must carry out an away mission all on his own, to try and convince the reluctant population of a lost Federation colony to evacuate before aliens come and kill them all. He finds this task quite difficult at first, but slowly manages to learn some nifty psychological tricks that would work on humans.

He does so with the help of a local lady who is... quite taken with him. The destruction of the local aqueduct is part of his final solution to the problem.

Answer: "Captain's Holiday"

Picard is his usual grouchy self, refusing to go on shore leave, so his officers do everything they can to persuade him otherwise - up to and including threatening him with a visit from Lwaxana. Picard relents and goes to Risa, the "Pleasure Planet", to have wacky hijinks with a rogue treasure hunter and a small-time Ferengi criminal, as well as a couple of time-traveling aliens.

It is exactly as silly as it sounds, and makes for one of the lowest-rated episodes of the show.

Answer: "The Best of Both Worlds, Pt. I"

Commonly considered the best episode of the entire series, "The Best of Both Worlds" is the award-winning piece that turned the Borg threat (brought up in an earlier episode) into a pivotal factor which would change the very style of the show and its later spin-offs. The relentless Borg, the most dangerous adversaries in the galaxy, have now reached Federation space to carry out their unthinkable plans. To complicate matters, a brash young Commander (an expert on Borg matters) comes aboard to help the Enterprise prepare a new anti-Borg weapon, making Will Riker feel threatened in his position as First Officer. By the end of the episode however, this becomes a moot point for Riker, who must now lead the ship to battle... as the new Captain of the Enterprise.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Answer: "Who Watches the Watchers"

The disguise is necessary because the locals are a bronze-age people of proto-Vulcan descent who must not be made aware of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Unfortunately the locals have already been made aware of the Enterprise, and particularly of Picard, whom they are now beginning to believe is their god. To make matters even worse, the locals find the missing scientist and begin to entertain ideas of hurting him in order to please "The Picard".

Answer: "The Hunted"

The Enterprise captures an elusive fugitive who had escaped from a nearby planet's prison. It turns out that this fugitive was once a super-soldier, engineered for a war now long over, but was never "de-programmed" by his people and is now unable to return to a normal life.

He vows to escape from the Enterprise brig, and he does exactly that, even though Worf manages to stay on his tail for nearly his entire run.

Answer: "Sarek"

A visit from the titular character Sarek, Spock's father and a renowned Federation ambassador, quickly gets out of hand when it's revealed that he has a strange Vulcan illness that projects powerful emotions to other people nearby. The crew of the Enterprise begins to lose control, and both Sarek and his entourage refuse to acknowledge that the ambassador is the cause. On a more basic level, this episode examines the ravages of old age, and coming to terms with them.

Answer: "The Defector"

A low-ranked Romulan logistics officer is seeking asylum in the Federation, claiming to have information about an impending Romulan attack. His lack of evidence as well as his reluctance to give any more help to the Federation puts Picard in a tough spot on the matter.

The Enterprise must violate the Romulan Neutral Zone if it wishes to determine whether he's telling the truth, but Picard makes sure to have a little Klingon card up his sleeve in case push comes to shove.

Answer: "The Offspring"

The waitress in question is Lal, Data's daughter, whom he had created by duplicating his own neural networks. She's working at Ten-Forward as an attempt by Data to get her to learn social behavior from the rest of the crew. Riker, however, was off the ship during all this, and had no idea who this waitress was before she made this social faux-pas.

It's still disturbing how quickly he goes straight to flirting with the young lady as soon as he enters the room.

Answer: Evolution

Wesley had pushed himself too hard in his academic achievements, and eventually slipped up - accidentally allowing two nano-robots to escape from his science project because he fell asleep. These "nanites" begin to evolve, and start colonizing the Enterprise's computer which causes all sorts of havoc. Worse than that, these malfunctions are threatening to crash the Enterprise into a rare star which they were hoping to run an important experiment on.