Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "Star Trek": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.
▶ Play today's quizWhat is the name of the starship commanded by Captain Kirk?
Source: Kirk's USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the most famous ship in the franchise, but each later show got its own flagship.
What does a transporter do in Star Trek?
Source: The transporter dematerializes and reassembles you elsewhere, partly invented to save the budget on landing the ship.
Which alien species is known for its logic and pointed ears?
Source: Vulcans suppress emotion in favor of cold logic; the pointy-eared Romulans share their ancestry but rejected that path.
What is Spock's job aboard the Enterprise?
Source: Spock is the science officer and first officer, not the doctor McCoy or engineer Scotty he constantly bickers with.
Which cybernetic species seeks to assimilate others into a collective?
Source: The Borg's chilling line 'Resistance is futile' made them the franchise's most feared antagonists.
What kind of energy weapon do Starfleet crews typically carry?
Source: Starfleet uses phasers; disruptors are the Klingon and Romulan equivalent, and lightsabers belong to a different galaxy entirely.
What allows starships to travel faster than light?
Source: Warp drive bends space around the ship; impulse engines are the slower sublight option used near planets.
Which warrior species values honor and battle above all?
Source: Klingons live by a fierce honor code, unlike the profit-driven Ferengi who care mainly about gold-pressed latinum.
Which big-eared species lives by the money-grubbing Rules of Acquisition?
Source: The Ferengi worship profit, hoarding gold-pressed latinum in a satirical mirror of unchecked capitalism.
Which captain commands the USS Voyager, stranded far from home?
Source: Janeway was the first woman to lead a Star Trek series, guiding Voyager home across the Delta Quadrant.
What is the artificial life form serving as operations officer on the Enterprise-D?
Source: Data is an android who dreams of being human; Lore is his sinister identical 'brother'.
On which space station is Deep Space Nine set?
Source: DS9 was built by the Cardassians as Terok Nor before the Federation took over the abandoned station.
What is the rare mineral that powers Federation warp cores?
Source: Dilithium crystals regulate the matter-antimatter reaction; tritanium is just a tough hull metal.
Which crew member is half-human, half-Klingon on Voyager?
Source: B'Elanna Torres struggles to reconcile her fiery Klingon side with her human upbringing as Voyager's chief engineer.
What guiding principle forbids interfering with developing alien civilizations?
Source: The Prime Directive is Starfleet's most sacred rule, and breaking it drives countless episode dilemmas.
Who created Star Trek?
Source: Roddenberry pitched it as a 'Wagon Train to the stars' and envisioned an optimistic, diverse future.
Which species lives in symbiosis with a long-lived slug-like organism?
Source: A Trill host carries a symbiont that retains the memories of all its past hosts across centuries.
Which actress played Uhura in the original series?
Source: Nichelle Nichols was talked out of quitting by Martin Luther King Jr., who saw her role as groundbreaking.
Which film features the Genesis Device and Spock's sacrifice?
Source: In The Wrath of Khan, Spock dies saving the ship with the line 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.'
What was the registry number of Kirk's original Enterprise?
Source: NCC-1701 is the original; NCC-74656 was Voyager and NX-01 was Archer's much earlier Enterprise.