Can you boldly go farther?

You don't want to be an ensign all your life. (It's a dangerous rank.) Multiple choice.

1. Which of these species made the first (official) First Contact with humans?
   
   • Andorians.
   • The Borg.
   • Vulcans.
   • Ferengi.
2. You are at the helm. You look up and see something really weird on the giant viewscreen. Which of these do you not say?
   
   • 'Captain, we're being scanned by some sort of alien species.'
   • 'There appears to be some sort of spatial anomaly ahead.'
   • 'We're flying into some sort of energy field.'
   • 'Swirly thing alert!'
3. Which of these species haven't tried to destroy Earth yet?
   
   • The Klingons.
   • The Borg.
   • The Xindi.
   • The Remans.
4. Which Star Trek captain was once forced to apologise to aliens using a chainsaw?
   
   • Captain Kirk.
   • Captain Sisko.
   • Captain Archer.
   • Captain Janeway.
5. Which of these Star Trek aliens is blue?
   
   • Spock the Vulcan.
   • An Orion slave girl.
   • Data the android.
   • Shran the Andorian.
6. What is the difference between a holodeck and a holosuite?
   
   • A holodeck is from TOS, the later series use holosuites.
   • A holodeck often malfunctions, holosuites never do.
   • A holodeck is found on a starship, a holosuite on a space station.
   • A holodeck can only run military simulations, a holosuite is for recreational purposes.
7. What was Terok Nor?
   
   • A space station.
   • A planet full of sentient plants.
   • The title of a Klingon opera.
   • A game.
8. What do Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and the Enterprise computer have in common?
   
   • They were all born or constructed on Utopia Planitia.
   • They were all played by the same person.
   • They were all fired by Gene Roddenberry.
   • They were all built by alien technology.
9. As everybody knows, Starfleet Headquarters and Starfleet Academy are in San Francisco, because they're a lot of space hippies. Which of these would you not be likely to see there?
   
   • Ruby from the 602.
   • A lot of admirals.
   • Quark, tending bar.
   • Boothby, raking leaves.
10. It's your first day on the job, and you'd like to do something original to get the Captain's attention. Which of these faux pas hasn't been tried yet?
    
    • Spilling hot chocolate on his uniform in Engineering.
    • Losing his dog in a transporter.
    • Spilling water on him from the holodeck.
    • Turning him into a Klingon targ.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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