The TNG Quiz

[Vanyel]

"Lonely Among Us"

 

[Satyrquaze]

Incorrect.

 

[Tiberius]

I looked up that particular Dr Who episode on both Wikipedia and the Dr Who wiki and found nothing.

 

[Satyrquaze]

I can offer a hint: The episode has a one-word title.

Spoiler: the episode in question

Russell T Davies has said that the billing for the TNG episode "Darmok" was part of the inspiration for the Doctor Who episode "Midnight".

"I've seen lots of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I think it's a lovely show – but there's one episode, the billing for which is so fascinating I've actively avoided ever seeing it," Davies explained. "I love the idea so much, I'd rather think about it. Forever. The episode is called 'Darmok', and the synopsis simply says that Captain Picard is trapped on a planet with an alien who can only talk in metaphors. Wow. That sounds brilliant. How does that work? What happens? How does it end? I've got no idea – not seen it! But it keeps resonating with me. I've just looked up its TX date, and it's almost 20 years old. I've been thinking about that story and its potential for almost 20 years! Would it have sustained itself for that long in my head if I'd seen it on BBC2, long ago in 1991? I think the mystery keeps the concept alive. Here I am, still wondering, right now! And I can see the idea bleeding into my own work. In 2008, I wrote a Doctor Who episode called 'Midnight'. Is it like 'Darmok'? I don't know. But stripped down to its essentials, it's a story about a hero, an alien, and words. That's practically the same billing. Maybe the two shows are profoundly different, but I know for a fact that all those years of wondering about 'Darmok' led me to that script." (SFX, issue #200, p. 140)
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Linky

 

[Tiberius]

Methinks that was a little TOO obscure, and it was more of a Dr Who question. We need a new question!!!

What instruments do we see Data playing, and in which episodes?

 

[Mojochi]

Data plays violin in many episodes, my favorites of which are with his mother in "Inheritance" & for Sarek in "Sarek"

Data plays guitar in "Silicon Avatar". I always thought a commanding officers concert featuring Picard on flute, Riker on trombone & Data on guitar might have sounded nice, perhaps a jazz improv on some Bach

He also played the oboe in "In Theory" Another instrument he might sound good with in a command trio

I suppose you could also call him singing "Blue Skies" in Nemesis a musical instrument

 

[MickJo1701]

Its Darmok

EDIT: oops you've already given the answer lol

 

[Vanyel]

What was the name of the fictional ship Riker referred to as "a good ship"?

 

[Satyrquaze]

The USS Lollipop

What is the first line of dialogue spoken by Data?

 

[InklingStar]

Off the top of my head, and probably not word-for-word: "Difficult, Sir? Simply solve the mystery of Farpoint Station."

 

[Satyrquaze]

Correct!

 

[InklingStar]

All right.

What contemporary (active when TNG was on the air) actor was mentioned by name in an episode?

 

[Vanyel]

Kenneth Branagh in "The Defector"?

 

[InklingStar]

Yes!

 

[Vanyel]

Thank you good sir.

What analogy did Picard use to describe the the 2 Romulan Warbirds firing on the Enterprise in The Defector?

 

[Mojochi]

Thank you good sir.

What analogy did Picard use to describe the 2 Romulan Warbirds firing on the Enterprise in The Defector?

"A tap on the shoulder"

 

[Vanyel]

Thank you good sir.

What analogy did Picard use to describe the 2 Romulan Warbirds firing on the Enterprise in The Defector?

"A tap on the shoulder"

Correct.

 

[Mojochi]

Where did the idea come from, for the temporal fields used by the crew in "Timescape" that nullified the effects of the time displacement phenomena?

 

[Tiberius]

Could you clarify what you mean by "Where did the idea come from"?

 

[Mojochi]

Could you clarify what you mean by "Where did the idea come from"?

In Timescape, the crew adapts a previously used technique of theirs in order to create the temporal fields used to keep them from being incorporated into the rate of time within the event.

Where or when or in which episode even, did they use the technique from which this idea was derived?