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This Star Trek trivia quiz runs 164 free questions with answers across the whole franchise, and about a third of them belong to the original Star Trek series: Gene Roddenberry and NBC, the unaired pilot with Captain Pike, Kirk's middle name and registry number, Spock's salute and nerve pinch, Uhura, McCoy, tribbles, Romulans and the episode that gave the Vulcans their four-word blessing. From there it moves through the films (The Wrath of Khan, First Contact, Nemesis), The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and Discovery, with questions on the ships, the species, the Prime Directive, the actors and the odd real-world crossovers such as NASA's shuttle Enterprise. Early questions suit anyone who has watched a few episodes; the later ones are for people who can name the colony where Data was found. Every answer was checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01After his death, Star Trek's creator was among the first people to have what carried into orbit?
His ashes
His ashes: a small sample flew aboard shuttle Columbia in 1992 and came home, then a capsule launched in 1997 carried more into orbit, where it circled until it burned up on re-entry in 2002.
Q 02Who was Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series?
Leonard McCoy
Leonard McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley, outlasted Kirk's era: Kelley returned as a 137-year-old admiral touring Picard's new ship in the first episode of The Next Generation.
Q 03In which Hugo-winning episode does an alien probe make Picard live out a whole life on a dying world?
The Inner Light
'The Inner Light' won a 1993 Hugo Award; Picard lives decades as a man named Kamin while under half an hour passes on the bridge, and afterwards keeps the flute he learned to play there.
Q 04Nimoy invented Spock's nerve pinch for which Star Trek episode, in which an accident splits Kirk in two?
The Enemy Within
'The Enemy Within' has Spock subdue Kirk's violent double; the script called for a knockout blow, Nimoy proposed the pinch instead, and later scripts simply wrote 'FSNP'.
Q 05What was Captain Picard's first command, a Constellation-class starship, before the Enterprise-D?
USS Stargazer
The USS Stargazer had to be abandoned after the fight that made Picard's name: a short warp jump made it seem to be in two places at once, the trick known ever since as the Picard Maneuver.
Q 06Which chief engineer keeps the Enterprise's engines running in Star Trek: The Original Series?
Montgomery Scott
Montgomery Scott, 'Scotty', gave his name to a famous catchphrase, yet nobody in the original series ever says exactly 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
Q 07Star Trek: TNG's Counselor Deanna Troi is half-human and half of which telepathic alien species?
Betazoid
Betazoid through her mother Lwaxana: full Betazoids read thoughts outright, but half-human Troi can mostly only sense emotions.
Q 08Nimoy based Spock's split-fingered salute on a blessing he saw where?
A synagogue
A synagogue: worshippers were not meant to look while the priests formed the Hebrew letter Shin with their hands, but young Nimoy peeked.
Q 09Who played Captain Pike in 'The Cage', the first Star Trek pilot, which NBC turned down?
Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter starred in 'The Cage', which NBC judged 'too cerebral'; when the network ordered a second pilot he chose to stick to films, so the series launched with a new captain.
Q 10Where does Picard's crew reboard the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: Picard?
Fleet Museum
Fleet Museum: its curator had spent twenty years rebuilding the fifth Federation Enterprise there, and it flew again because it was never tied to the network the Borg used to seize the fleet.
Q 11Star Trek VI revealed that the ridged-forehead warrior species has blood of what colour?
Pink
Pink, shading to violet: the film-makers avoided red so that the zero-gravity assassination, with blood drifting in globules, would not earn an R rating.
Q 12The Borg are a collective of cybernetic organisms driven by the goal of achieving what?
Perfection
Perfection is the Borg's stated aim in absorbing other species; they revere the unstable Omega molecule as perfection itself and are under orders to assimilate it at any cost.
Q 13Who was the Starfleet Commander, and later Captain, of Deep Space Nine?
Benjamin Sisko
Benjamin Sisko arrives a grieving widower on the verge of resigning, and ends the series among the Prophets, appearing to his wife in a vision to assure her he will return.
Q 21The 11-foot model used to film the original starship Enterprise is now displayed in which museum?
National Air and Space Museum
National Air and Space Museum: Paramount donated the model to the Smithsonian in 1974, and the TV prop now stands in the Milestones of Flight hall among real aircraft and spacecraft.
Q 22What drink does Captain Picard habitually order, always adding the word 'hot'?
Tea, Earl Grey
Tea, Earl Grey, hot: one of the English tastes Patrick Stewart's captain keeps, along with quoting Shakespeare, although the character is no Englishman.
Q 23Spock's people bleed green because their blood is based on which metal?
Copper
Q 14Which actress was first cast as Voyager's captain but left on her second day of filming?
Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold, a film star, left the pilot 'Caretaker' on her second day, the stated reason being television's hectic pace; Kate Mulgrew took over as Janeway for all seven seasons.
Q 15Which Original Series episode has small, furry, fast-breeding creatures overrunning the Enterprise?
The Trouble with Tribbles
'The Trouble with Tribbles' was written by David Gerrold; the producers sought a waiver from Robert Heinlein because the tribbles resembled the flat cats of his novel The Rolling Stones.
Q 16In Star Trek: The Original Series, which episode marked the first on-screen appearance of the Romulans?
Balance of Terror
'Balance of Terror' plays as a submarine duel modelled on the war film The Enemy Below, and its first sight of a Romulan, who looks just like Spock, turns a bridge officer against him.
Q 17Which spaceborne menace stripped all life from Omicron Theta, the colony where Starfleet found Data?
The Crystalline Entity
The Crystalline Entity, a snowflake-shaped creature that feeds on living matter, emptied the colony; the USS Tripoli later followed a signal there and found only Data.
Q 18Which phrase ends The Next Generation's opening narration?
To boldly go where no one has gone before
'To boldly go where no one has gone before' closes the narration; Kirk's version ended 'where no man has gone before', and the 1987 series widened it to 'no one'.
Q 19Which Starfleet class is Captain Jean-Luc Picard's USS Enterprise-D?
Galaxy-class
Galaxy-class ships carried crew families as well as officers, so the saucer was built to detach and carry civilians clear while the rest of the ship went into battle.
Q 20Which Star Trek: TNG two-parter features Captain Picard being assimilated by the Borg?
The Best of Both Worlds
'The Best of Both Worlds' closed TNG's third season in 1990 on a cliffhanger: Picard assimilated by the Borg, and his own first officer giving the order to fire on him.
Copper-based blood runs green in Spock's veins, an echo of real hemocyanin, the copper protein that makes an octopus's blood blue.
Q 24Which Star Trek device was invented to spare the cost of filming ship landings?
Transporter
The transporter began as a budget fix that Gene Roddenberry came to prize: 'beaming' the crew down let a script be well into its story by page two.
Q 25In 'Amok Time', which Vulcan condition forces Spock to return home and take a mate or die?
Pon farr
Pon farr returns every seven years; in Theodore Sturgeon's script Spock's bride demands a duel instead, and he ends it believing he has killed Kirk.
Q 26What was the Cardassian name of the station later called Deep Space Nine?
Terok Nor
Terok Nor was built by Bajoran slave labour as a Cardassian mining and refinery station; when the occupiers pulled out they stripped it, and Bajor asked the Federation in, which gave it its new name.
Q 27Voyager's premiere in January 1995 was the very first programme broadcast on which new US network?
UPN
Voyager's pilot 'Caretaker' was the first programme aired on UPN, the United Paramount Network, at its launch on 16 January 1995; Paramount built the network partly around the show.
Q 28After being assimilated by the Borg, Picard is given what name?
Locutus
Locutus was the Borg's chosen voice to humanity; armed with everything Picard knew about Starfleet, a single cube then wiped out the fleet sent to stop it at Wolf 359.
Q 29Odo, the security chief of Deep Space Nine, belongs to which species?
Changeling
Odo is a Changeling, one of the shapeshifting Founders; a hundred infant Changelings were sent across the galaxy in containers to learn about other races, and Odo was one.
Q 30What is the class of the USS Voyager starship?
Intrepid-class
Intrepid-class ships can set down on a planet: Voyager does so in 'The 37's', where its crew finds Amelia Earhart and other humans abducted in 1937, still in stasis.