Confession: Your Editor was never a diehard Trekker. Maybe you aren't, either. What's the least you need to know to keep up with your Trekker friends, to avoid sounding like a complete dork at the convention? Try your hand at this quiz.

Multiple choice, and don't fail the Starfleet entrance exam.

1. Which of these persons never commanded the Enterprise?
   
   • Captain Kirk.
   • Captain Picard.
   • Captain Archer.
   • Captain Janeway.
2. What is the Prime Directive?
   
   • A recipe for gach.
   • A rule about non-interference.
   • A rule about transporting in a red shirt.
   • A way to get out of tight plot situations.
3. Which of these races sports spots?
   
   • Trills.
   • Klingons.
   • Vulcans.
   • 29th-century humans.
4. Which Starfleet captain had a dog?
   
   • Picard.
   • Janeway.
   • Archer.
   • Sisko.
5. What does it mean when an episode takes place in the 'Mirror, Mirror' universe?
   
   • All the directions are reversed, and the actors walk upside down.
   • The colour scheme for Starfleet uniforms is changed.
   • Everyone acts campily evil.
   • The Klingons are peaceful, and hand out flowers.
6. What made Voyager different from other Star Trek stories?
   
   • The captain spoke with a British accent.
   • The ship wasn't interested in exploration.
   • The ship was parked next to a wormhole.
   • The ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant.
7. What made Deep Space Nine different from other Star Trek stories?
   
   • The Klingons were bad guys.
   • The crew was on a space station, not a starship.
   • There were no Ferengi jokes.
   • Nobody ever had holographic adventures.
8. Which is true of holodecks/holosuites?
   
   • They never malfunction.
   • Nobody ever has sex there.
   • No holocharacters ever find out they're holograms.
   • If the 'safeties' are off, there can be collateral damage.
9. Who was Zephrem Cochrane?
   
   • The very tall inventor of the warp drive engine.
   • The first person to be lost in a transporter accident.
   • B'Elanna Torres' husband.
   • The scriptwriter responsible for 'The Trouble with Tribbles'.
10. Which is not true of Bajorans?
    
    • They give their last names first, like Hungarians.
    • They only mate once every seven years.
    • They worship the lifeforms who live in a wormhole.
    • They dislike Cardassians.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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