Star Trek Trivia Quiz # 142

Chekov's initial "Ship's log" entry makes it clear that he is the first officer of the USS RELIANT.

This is the currency used by the Providers in 'The Gamesters of Triskelion' to bet on gladiatorial matches between prisoners.

Even the Borg Queen was a joker now and then. Poor Harry had a very worried look on his face as he responded, "What did she mean by that?"

Furel is clearly shown as missing most of his left arm. Everything from the mid-humerus down is gone.

The Federation fleet engaged the Borg in the Typhon Sector and the battle continued all the way to Sector 001 (the Borg designation for the Sol System). Sector J-25 is where the Enterprise first encountered the Borg in 2364. The Omega Sector is where the Hansens disappeared.

The change took place as a result of changes made by Sisko and Bashir.

Scotty, Captain Kirk's chief engineer on the Starship Enterprise, is used to being able to talk to the computer and to have it respond appropriately. When told to use the keyboard he begins very slowly until he gets the hang of it. Within seconds he produces a computer model for transparent aluminum. In this particular adventure, the crew of the Enterprise has traveled back to 1986. They must make a whale tank in which to transport a pair of whales forward to the 2200s. The whales, extinct in Kirk and Scotty's time, are needed to stop the destruction being caused by a probe in the 23rd century.

Communications Officer Lt. Nyota Uhura (whose name translates as "Star of Freedom") was a breakthrough character, in more ways than one:

1. She was one of the first Black characters on television in a non-servant role (Or, as a young Whoopi Goldberg once put it, "There's a Black lady on TV, and she ain't no maid!"). At one point, Nichelle Nichols was at a crossroads with "Star Trek" and had even told Gene Roddenberry that she wanted to leave the show. But, just hours after she did this, she met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King tried to tell her that he had admired her work on the show, but she stopped him and revealed she was going to quit. Upon hearing this, Dr. King said "You cannot! You must not! It's one of the only shows my wife and I let our children watch. Don't you realize the historic role you have in life? Not only are you a role model for little black children, but for the first time, little white children see us as we should be seen." Needless to say, she stayed with the show! (Quote from "Beyond Uhura", by Nichelle Nichols)

2. Nichelle Nichols and Bill Shatner shared the first interracial kiss on national television, in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren". But if you watch carefully, Nichelle and Bill don't actually kiss; their lips were, however, less then a half-inch away from each other. There was much concern as to whether people would object to "the kiss," especially in the South, but Gene Roddenberry claimed that not one letter complaining about it ever came in!

Although Janeway tells Tuvok in "Repression" that he had taught her to meditate, the only time we see her meditating was when Chakotay showed her how to contact her animal guide. Tuvok and Chakotay were seen meditating, as was Delenn (who tried to teach Sheridan).

The Q continum felt that Riker would make a good addition to their ranks, but he turned them down.