Unanswered Questions
194 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What species are the skulls seen in Dr. McCoy's office from?
Dr. McCoy, aka Bones, has a couple of weird skulls in his office, as seen in the following picture from the episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (they are highlighted with red arrows and ...
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What are these plaques in Voyager's briefing room?
In the briefing room of USS Voyager, there is a strangely-shaped plaque or model on the wall, in the little alcove near the door:
(S05E17 - The Disease @ 34:38)
At some point in season 5 they moved ...
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How are the Prophets connected to the Orbs?
The Orbs and The Prophets
Events in the Show
Physical and Metaphysical bridge
These observations suggest a direct connection between the Orbs and the wormhole aliens.
Much as the wormhole is both a ...
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Which individual has the highest kill count of any Star Trek crew?
Re-watching Worf shoot another Klingon at point blank range (season 1 episode 20), I wondered if, despite his being Klingon and therefore the token warrior on the series, he actually had the most ...
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Who signed the Captain Picard Day sign?
With the release of the trailers for Star Trek: Picard we have observed what either a flashback, or an in-universe reproduction or preserved artifact of the Captain Picard Day sign. This also affords ...
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What is that brown stuff around the planet Xahea?
In Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 13, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I", another Red Burst™ leads the ship to the planet Xahea, home of Queen Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, who Ensign Tilly met in the ...
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Did Michael Dorn ever refer to his plane as a 'starship'?
In two separate articles on Wikipedia, the following claim is made:
Actor and pilot Michael Dorn owned a T-33.[6] Dorn, who played the character Worf in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation ...
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Red shirt tradition beginning?
Who first noticed that ST:TOS red shirts were an endangered species? Was it one of the fans or in a forum?
Subsidiary question: did the producers ever talk contemporaneously about the phenomena?
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Where did the "Noonien Wang"/"Kim Noonien Singh" story originally come from?
It's often said that Roddenberry chose the name "Khan Noonien Singh", and later "Noonien Soong", as an attempt at reuniting with a pilot he became friends with in WW2, with ...
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What happened to the original opening scene to "Whom Gods Destroy"?
I remember seeing the uncut episode of "Whom Gods Destroy" (TOS, Episode 3x16) in the 1970's which included a scene with Kirk, Spock and Scotty discussing the security question involving ...
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What nations are represented by the flags in the background in the episode Rapture?
In the season 5 episode "Rapture", during the ceremony scene, in the background we can see a number of colourful flags.
One is quite clearly the flag of the Federation...
But there are at ...
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Does oo-mox have a similar affect on Female ferengi?
In a lot of episodes of Star Trek involving the Ferengi, we see male Ferengi reacting to oo-mox (having their ear lobes rubbed).
It occurs to me that as far as I can remember it is only ever shown ...
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Gene Roddenberry and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
In Roddenberry's novelization Star Trek: The Motion Picture 40th Anniversary Edition there are some curious items that are added that I don't recall in the film or the series:
Page 1: Starfleet ...
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What does the Bajoran wormhole look like from behind?
The Bajoran wormhole has been a staple of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine since the very first episode. We see it opening up in all its grandeur in the opening credits as well as in many of the episodes. ...
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What is the lifespan of Betazoids?
What is the lifespan of Betazoids? Is it the same as humans or longer? I remember Lwaxana Troi always being intentionally vague about her age, supposedly out of vanity. I don’t remember any of the few ...
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