Daily Star Trek Quiz: ''Operation—Annihilate!''

In which Kirk makes a surprise visit to his brother's family!

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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

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It's up to you to keep track of your score, and we work on the honor system here in the United Federation of Planets. Missed a quiz? Just click here, and you'll have the chance to catch up!

This quiz is about Season 1, Episode 29: "Operation—Annihilate!". See which details you recall, and which you might need a little refresher on. Good luck, have fun, and be sure to share your score (cumulative or otherwise) in the comment section below!

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  1. A ship is on track to burn up, but seconds before it does, the pilot says...
  2. What's the name of Kirk's sister-in-law?
  3. Kirk's landing party beams into the capital city on...
  4. "Things" arrived months prior on a ship from...
  5. The "things" break their victims' minds with...
  6. Spock breaks out of sick bay and nerve pinches...
  7. Who says... "Don't give me any damnable logic about him being the only man for the job!"?
  8. Spock and Kirk indicate that each creature may be an individual "_____," part of a larger organism.
  9. Spock: "I am free of it, and the pain. And I am also… quite blind. A(n) _________, Doctor."
  10. Ultimately the creatures are killed by...

Daily Star Trek Quiz: ''Operation—Annihilate!''

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49 Comments

Bapa1 1 month ago
8/10, good episode. No mention of Kirk's brother and nephew. But the creatures always reminded me of slices of pepperoni pizza.
Snickers Bapa1 1 month ago
Kirk's brother Sam was killed by the creatures and his nephew was infected by one both which are mentioned in the episode.
Stoney Snickers 1 month ago
True...but I think he meant no mention of them in the quiz...
Snickers Stoney 1 month ago
True, not in the quiz but Kirk's sister-in-law does get a mention in question two.
Bapa1 Snickers 1 month ago
I meant the quiz. But think about it, all the episodes and movies that followed, the nephew is never mentioned again.
Snickers Bapa1 1 month ago
I stand corrected. 12 hours in the brig for me.
frenchman71 1 month ago
8/10. I thought the creatures were killed by intense exposure to light? I remember Spock saying it was one-million candle power per square inch that the test called for.
That's what they originally thought. It was only after Spock was blinded that Dr. McCoy realized he "didn't have to throw the whole spectrum" at the creatures.
Watched your episode last night CaptainDunsel. "The Ultimate Computer" EXCELLENT episode.
"Highly Interesting" 🖖🛸🚀🪐🖖
Snickers CaptainDunsel 1 month ago
You think as a doctor McCoy would have waited for the test results first.
CaptainDunsel Snickers 1 month ago
Yeah, I guess. But he *was* getting a lot of push from that Kirk guy...
MichaelPowers 1 month ago
These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season One by Marc Cushman:
Original title, "Operation: Destroy.
This episode is reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel, The Puppet Masters.
The idea that these creatures are part of a larger entity was taken from Jerry Sohl's script "This Side of Paradise."
The original ending was to have Kirk destroy all life on Deneva.
10/10.
deltadart 1 month ago
9/10 Very creepy episode, I remember as a Child it was quite disturbing to me.
edcrumpacker 1 month ago
10/10. Phew... Threat neutralized!
"Highly Interesting" 🖖🪐🚀🛸🖖
KJExpress 1 month ago
9/10. Had no idea on #4.
CaptainDunsel KJExpress 1 month ago
The test writers are getting a little bit sneakier. (I suspect they are mining the "Memory Alpha" site, though sometimes not carefully enough.)
All three answers for #4 are in fact planets mentioned in "Star Trek". Sarthong V is mentioned in the episode "Captain's Holiday" in TNG, and "Kzin" is mentioned in "The Slaver Weapon" from the animated series.
(Yes, "Kzin" and the Kzinti are from Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space" stories. Trek didn't steal them - Niven adapted his own short story into the Trek script.)
KJExpress CaptainDunsel 1 month ago
I wish they would just watch the episode and not use other sources. 😬
Poolboy13 1 month ago
7/10 I got one of those things stuck to my head...so 7 out of 10
MikefromJersey 1 month ago
"You got 10 out of 10. Phew... Threat neutralized!"
Snickers 1 month ago
Just wondering if anyone knows where the scenes on Deneva were filmed. And don't some wise guy say on Deneva.
Muleskinner Snickers 1 month ago
According to an IMDB reviewer, the scenes were filmed at the old TRW Defense and Space Systems Group campus in Redondo Beach, California, at Aviation Blvd and Marine Ave.
Snickers Muleskinner 1 month ago
Thanks for the info. I thought it might have been at the world's fair or Disney World.
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