Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Alternative Factor"

In which Kirk sees double!

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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.

Journey to the stars each weekday with a chronological quiz testing your knowledge of each episode in order. Let's see how long we can all keep the streak going!

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 27: "The Alternative Factor". 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. After everything flashes twice, a ________ appears on an uncharted planet, despite not showing up on the Enterprise's standards moments before.
  2. The phenomenon drains the Enterprise's ___________.
  3. _________ claims he's being chased by a monstrous "thing."
  4. Spock: "I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I have simply made the logical deduction that you are a ______."
  5. Who says... "Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure."?
  6. Spock says that the source of radiation specifically comes from outside...
  7. A major clue is the disappearance and reappearance of a _______ on the man's head.
  8. What will happen if the two versions of the man meet?
  9. The two parallel universes are connected by a...
  10. Who is ordered to target the inter-dimensional timeship with the Enterprise's phasers?

Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Alternative Factor"

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51 Comments

Fred_Clampett 18 days ago
9 of 10. While far from a favorite episode of mine, it is very unusual. It grabs my attention whenever I see it.
Zip 22 days ago
6/10
Another episode I don't remember.
MichaelPowers 22 days ago
8/10. Not a highly regarded episode of Star Trek by most fans, including me.

Guest star Robert Brown (Here Come the Brides) worked with William Shatner previously in the 1962 TV/pilot "Colossus."

Good ole' Vasquez Rocks is back for some location shooting.

I was never impressed with Lazarus's time ship design. Looked like something you'd have seen on My Favorite Martian.
Bapa1 22 days ago
7/10, not one of my favorite episodes.
frenchman71 22 days ago
6/10. "Star Trek" is one of my 3 favorite TV shows but this was the WORST episode of the series. Robert Brown shoulda stayed on the set of "Here Come the Brides" and filmed another episode.
There is actually a cross-over novel which combines "Star Trek" and "Here Come the Brides". "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly is in part a time travel story in which Spock ends up back on Earth, in Seattle of the 19th century. He is taken in and helped by a lumbermill owner named Aaron Stempel.
(For those who don't know, "Aaron Stempel" on HCTB was played by actor Marc Lenard, who is most famous for playing Spock's father, Sarek in multiple Trek instances.)
Bapa1 CaptainDunsel 22 days ago
David Soul was also in HCTB, and did a guest appearance in ST:TOS. I guess he, Brown and Lenard would sit down at lunch and gossip about Shatner.
CaptainDunsel Bapa1 22 days ago
All Trek missed was Bobby Sherman for the win.
I looked up HCTB and read that about Marc Lenard being a cast member. And I hafta mention my favorite girl from HCTB, Bridget Hanley.
Bapa1 frenchman71 21 days ago
She was cute.
Bapa1 CaptainDunsel 21 days ago
"Uhura, Uhura, Uhura, Do you love me, do you do?"
JimmyAngel 22 days ago
7/10 I didn’t remember too much from this episode
edcrumpacker 22 days ago
9/10. Wow! Surprised that I did so well on this one. This has got to be my least favorite episode along with "Spock's Brain" of course.
"Fascinating" 🖖🪐🚀🛸🖖
Bob edcrumpacker 22 days ago
Me too. But, I got 8 out of 10.
Totally agree. The series' worst episode!
And don't forget about "Catspaw" frenchman71, their only Halloween episode. It was on last night, couldn't bring myself to watch it. 🖖🖖🖖
Yeah..."Catspaw" wasn't one of the better ones.
"Agreed" frenchman71 🖖
BradBeall 22 days ago
Only 4 out of 10, but I can remember this episode from when I was a little kid. Pretty sure it was the first episode I ever watched.
deltadart 22 days ago
7/10 It may not be the best episode but there is so many other bad episodes that I could list in my subjective opinion.
FLETCH 23 days ago
7 out of 10. Not a great episode 🖖
edcrumpacker FLETCH 22 days ago
Agreed Mr. FLETCH 🖖
KJExpress 23 days ago
8/10. Much better than I expected. This is my least favorite episode and I've only see it once or twice. And not lately. 😝
Jacki 23 days ago
5/10 "highly illogical"...just like my judgment...🤔
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