The bestest thing about yesterday's Trekki quiz was the artwork on the banner, so let's run that again!
Here are the "Official Answers" that ran with the quiz in
Marvel's
Pizzazz magazine -
Ummm - yeeee-ah...
Let's take it by the numbers, shall we?
1. Mr. Spock plays the
Vulcan Lute, which does look like a small harp. And it is sometimes called a Vulcan Lyre or a Vulcan Harp. We'll give it a half point for correctness.
(minus a half point since he can also wiggle his ears)
2. - 4. Answers lie within acceptable parameters, and remind us that we are reading a Marvel magazine.
5. Arell Blanton's
Lt. Dickerson was the
"Chief Security Guard" for one episode -
The Savage Curtain - and never seen again. All ranking personnel wearing red who weren't a part of the Engineering staff would be classified as
"Security officer aboard the Enterprise."
6. I would have said
"Trouble" which doesn't make their answer incorrect.
7... 8...
9! Well, apparently there was an un-aired scene where
Bruce Hyde got carried away as
Kevin Riley when he usurped Kirk's captaincy. It seems he must have swiped
Montgomery Scott's nickname, too.
Obviously, it didn't stick. As i recall, they called him
"Kathleen" in the mess hall for quite a while.
(Kevin, not Bruce. Bruce was/is cool.)
10. Yup.
11. Okay... Maybe this guy actually does know his Trek and he's just playing with us?
See,
Zarabeth was a woman played by the lovely
Mariette Hartley. And the answer
"the only meat Spock ever ate" was likely a technically correct answer at that point in his life. We weren't privy to the specifics of their coupling on 1960's TV to fully confirm one way or another, but it seems logical given the parameters of the situation.
13. The name of the High Priestess of
Yonada was
Natira, not
Matiza. And Yonada was an asteroid ship, not a world.
14. The
Horta was the creature appearing in the episode
Devil In The Dark. The first aired episode was
The Man Trap, featuring a shape shifting salt vampire named
Nancy.
15. Well, at least they knew the Horta was just protecting her eggs.
17. The
Hyena, of course, was
Leena.
18. "Medical Check-Up" Is that the new euphemism for an uncontrolled mating rut? Y'know - like
Shatner's title for that episode...
"What Makes Salmon Run?"
21. Jeffrey Hunter played
Captain Chrisopher Pike in the first pilot - the officer who handed over command to Captain Kirk at the beginning of his tour on the Enterprise.
William Shatner was, indeed, the only actor play
James T. Kirk on film, both live action and animated.
(On vinyl record is another matter. And this quiz was last century, before the reboot with the punk kid version of Kirk)
22. "A Villain? Oh! You wound me, Sir! I BLEED that a Noble Rogue such as myself
might be branded a villain by a cruel and unjust governance!"
23. There are six pads on the transporter platform and six is the maximum recommended safe transport, but we did see that number exceeded on at least one occasion.
(And shouldn't the hanger and storage facilities on board the Enterprise have a cargo transporter? (Your Honor, we call Speculation - Irrelevant to the answer. (Agreed. Move along.)))
24. I would have said
"Half Human." That's what they told him when he was growing up.
26. Seriously? A total non-aggression pact forcibly imposed upon both stellar empires and maintained by highly evolved outside parties because Kirk and
Kor lose their shit every time they meet, and all they're going to do is mention who signed it? The description could have been Glorious.
*sigh*
The rest is close enough. I'm too depressed to go on.
But!
We do have a
Bonus Saturday Solution!!
An answer to
yesterday's Matinee query* as to the nature of
Micro-Face. No, i don't mean an answer to why the poor sap was hobbled with the name Micro-Face, and why there was no talking badger or something to harass him for it. I mean, to what did the name refer?
As it turns out, he did not have a shrunken face on a normal sized skull, like
Little Face. But he
did not have tasers from his face, just like
Taser-Face. However, the name Micro-Face is derived from the
Micro Mask our hero, Tom Wood, developed.
No, it's not a very small mask. It has "Micro" tools built into it. Like Microscope, Microphone, Micro... ears?
Okay. But still...
Micro-Face?
puzzle from Pizzazz # 5 (1978), Micro-Face from Clue Comics #1 (1943)
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*(My apologies to any who tried the link and hit a dead page earlier. Blogger is now "correcting" the code and such directed links are no longer possible)
