Q 01/05

After his death, Star Trek's creator was among the first people to have what carried into orbit?

A) A DNA sample

B) His ashes

C) A handwritten script

D) A signed photograph

Answer · why

B) 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 circle...

Q 02/05

Who was Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series?

A) Spock

B) Leonard McCoy

C) Hikaru Sulu

D) Nyota Uhura

Answer · why

B) 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 episo...

Q 03/05

In which Hugo-winning episode does an alien probe make Picard live out a whole life on a dying world?

A) Tapestry

B) The Inner Light

C) The Measure of a Man

D) Cause and Effect

Answer · why

B) 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...

Q 04/05

Nimoy invented Spock's nerve pinch for which Star Trek episode, in which an accident splits Kirk in two?

A) The Enemy Within

B) Mirror, Mirror

C) The Alternative Factor

D) Turnabout Intruder

Answer · why

A) 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 ...

Q 05/05

What was Captain Picard's first command, a Constellation-class starship, before the Enterprise-D?

A) USS Reliant

B) USS Farragut

C) USS Hood

D) USS Stargazer

Answer · why

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 k...