Name That Episode #32 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Inner Light

One of the more iconic images from this beautiful and memorable episode is the tin whistle, which Kamin and his family kept referring to as a flute. We first see it when Kamin's wife, Eline, retrieves it from a dresser when Kamin is still a young man down on the planet of Kataan.

The next time, Kamin is older and playing it outside his home at night for his friend, Batai. Then we see Kamin playing it in front of guests for the naming ceremony of his second child, whom they call Batai (in honor of his late friend).

The 'flute' would be heard being played by a grown-up Batai some years later before it is ultimately seen one last time at the very end of the episode, when Picard retrieves it from the rectangular box, salvaged from the alien probe, that Riker brings into the captain's ready room.

Answer: Skin Of Evil

With all of the technical trek terminology frequently being used when situations related to the Enterprise's warp core arose, the actual aligning of the trademark dilithium crystals is an event that was rarely seen in the series. At the beginning of this memorable episode where Tasha Yar meets her untimely demise at the hands of Armus, the Enterprise has just received an emergency distress call from the shuttle carrying Counselor Troi and the rest of her team, who were set to return from a Federation conference.

When Picard orders the ship to fly at maximum warp, we see a team of crewmembers down in Engineering pushing a cart with a chunk of the famed dilithium crystals atop it, the chief engineer stating that they have to align the precious minerals and that there would be a slight delay.

But there is no time to properly go through the normal procedure; once the crystals are seen being inserted horizontally into the warp core (similar to a disc being fed into a CD-ROM drive), Geordi throws the Federation flagship into high speed in hot pursuit of Troi's shuttle.

Answer: The Ensigns Of Command

Ard'rian Mackenzie, the young woman enthused with cybernetics, was one of the Humans down on Tau Cygna V supporting Data's plan to evacuate before the arrival of the Sheliak. Midway through the episode, Ard'rian kisses Data on the lips, which causes the confused android to question her intentions.

He concludes that she kissed him either out of friendship, romantic love or support, determining that support must be the reason. Although when Ard'rian responds by saying that he doesn't quite understand Humans, it might be assumed that she really did kiss him for romantic reasons.

The latter would turn out to be true by the end of the episode, when Data is preparing to leave the planet. When she asks if Data ever had feelings for her, the android replies that he's incapable of expressing those emotions.

A clearly disappointed Ard'drian is then kissed by Data who, after she questions the gesture, explains that he felt she needed it. She determines the kiss was simply an attempt to make her happy, although when Data finally boards the shuttle, a sense of sadness at the missed opportunity for love still lingers in the air.

Answer: Lower Decks

Ensign Sito Jaxa, highly recommended for a new promotion at Ops, is both physically and mentally tested by Worf shortly after an exercise session. He places a blindfold on her, then orders her to defend herself as they engage in a ritual combat that Worf gives a Klingon name to.

She is knocked to the floor each time the pair make hard contact, with the third time leading her to snatch the blindfold off and protest that the combat was unfair. An impressed Worf then relays that it took courage for her to admit that, further confessing that the ritual itself, whose name Sito realizes translates as 'to the death', is actually not even a Klingon ritual at all.

Answer: Haven

When Lwaxana Troi and her trusty valet, Mr. Homn, arrive in the Transporter Room, she demands that Picard carry her massive suitcase, which would become a trademark in many of her Enterprise appearances. Despite protests from her half-Betazoid daughter in the corridor moments later, the clearly-struggling Picard insists on continuing to heft the elder Troi's overstuffed bag all the way to guest quarters.

The humorous part is when, after Picard sets the bag down, Mr. Homn calmly walks over, easily grabs the bag himself and effortlessly carries it to another part of the room. Lwaxana's valet clearly demonstrated extraordinary strength, which begs the question of why he didn't insist on carrying the luggage in the first place? And a follow-up question to spark some curiosity just for fun: was Mr. Homn's strength superior or at least comparable to that of Data's?

Answer: Journey's End

While Wesley is down on the homeworld of the Native Americans, he is approached by one of the natives, a mysterious man who not only knows the cadet by name, but claims has also been expecting him. He invites Wesley to go on a vision quest, sensing that the cadet is seeking the answers to many questions. We then see this mystery man and Wesley in a covered room, decorated with colorful objects in the traditional Native American motif.

After adorning the floor with sand, the man sits on the floor, telling Wesley to start a fire and wait. Sometime later, a fire is ablaze in front of Wesley, but the native man whom invited Wesley up into the room has vanished.

In his place, the image of an equally mysterious man is standing in a doorway; this man turns out to be Wesley's deceased father, who gives the ominous message for Wesley to not follow him. Dr. Crusher's son takes the message as a sign that he should quit the academy and never to follow in his father's footsteps ever again.

Answer: Coming Of Age

When Admiral Quinn and Commander Remmick come aboard the Enterprise, they immediately inform Picard and the crew that there's something wrong happening on the ship. Remmick is first determined to get answers about Picard out of an infuriated Riker, then proceeds to speak to Geordi about the failed warp experiment (featured back in "Where No One Has Gone Before"), the mind-controlling device used by the Ferengi (as seen in "The Battle") before ultimately confronting the captain himself regarding the incident with the Edo (which happened in "Justice").

It's soon determined that there wasn't anything wrong with neither the Enterprise nor Picard after all, and by episode's end, Admiral Quinn has transported off the ship with the friendship to the captain still intact.

Answer: Who Watches The Watchers?

In the opening teaser, the Enterprise is set to meet up with the Federation team of scientists stationed on Mintaka III, the team stationed there to simply study the pre-warp alien civilization. When there's an explosion inside the observatory, two of the scientists are instantly knocked unconscious, but one of the scientists named Palmer manages to escape through the window that had been hidden in the cliffs prior to the explosion. Palmer is eventually brought into an encampment where we met the leader, Nuria, and several other Mintakans while the Enterprise crew devises a plan to rescue him without further violating the Prime Directive.

Answer: Thine Own Self

Inspired by Dr. Crusher's decision to add command to her Starfleet career repertoire, Troi approaches Riker about taking the Bridge Officer Exam so that she can assume a full command role herself. We then see the counselor on the holodeck, working alongside a holographic Worf and holographic Geordi (plus an unnamed holographic female ensign in the background) to solve a problem involving radiation that has the Enterprise on the verge of destruction.

But indecision on her part literally causes the whole simulation to 'blow up' in her face (actually, just a flash of bright white light and the instant termination of the program), prompting Riker to say that the half-Betazoid isn't quite cut out for command duty.

Answer: Imaginary Friend

There were some alien species the Enterprise crew encountered whose speech was, despite the presence of the trademark built-in Universal Translator, either distorted or didn't sound very Human altogether. In "The Big Goodbye", the crew is preparing to make contact with the Jarada, whom the Federation has been unable to establish relations with due to the mispronunciation of their language.

In their rather insect-like vocals, they persistently demand that Picard deliver the standard Jarada greeting while the captain is trapped on the holodeck. Thankfully, following resolution of the events, Picard is able to greet the reclusive aliens correctly, even though we never get to see what the Jarada actually look like.

In "Schisms", the mysterious aliens that were performing the strange experiments on the crew are heard speaking in their equally-insect-like vocals (which sounded like clicks, according to the unnamed woman during the holodeck re-creation of the table that everyone remembered) when we finally see them in their lab near the end of the episode. Riker has just been 'brought' into their realm once again as he attempts to rescue Ensign Rager, the last crewmember unaccounted for.

Then in "Night Terrors", during Counselor Troi's dreams, we hear the aliens, who were also caught inside the rift, repeatedly telling her 'one moon circles' in their distorted, dream-like voice; it was a clue for the crew to emit hydrogen so that a large enough explosion could expel both the Enterprise and the alien ship into normal space. So that leaves "Imaginary Friend" as the correct answer. The only aliens encountered in this episode are the energy beings that are draining power from the ship, one of them manifesting itself as the blond-haired girl named 'Isabella'. And as 'Isabella' is the only member of this race who is actually doing any speaking and talks in clear, Human-like speech whenever she's playing with Clara or confronting Picard in the arboretum near the end, "Imaginary Friend" must be differentiated from all of the other possible choices.