Question
Answer the following about incidents in Star Trek films where the originator of an idea obtains it from a time traveler from the future, for 10 points each:
[10m] In The Voyage Home, the Enterprise crew give the inventor of “transparent aluminum” its formula to get a tank built to transport two of these animals to the future, where an alien probe is trying to contact these animals.
ANSWER: humpback whales [or humpbacks]
[10e] In the 2009 reboot, Montgomery Scott is given his own formula for beaming onto a ship at warp by a future version of this character. Leonard Nimoy played that version of this character, reprising his role from The Original Series.
ANSWER: Spock [accept Spock Prime]
[10h] In this film, Commander Riker quotes a line about not trying to be a great man to Zefram Cochrane 10 years before Cochrane says the line himself. The Enterprise-E travels back in time to stop the Borg interfering with humanity’s first warp flight in this film.
ANSWER: Star Trek: First Contact
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Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elegy WRITten in a Country Churchyard | Syracuse University New York Everything Sports Fun | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Holding Space for the Lyrics of Tequila | The Master and the MargaRITa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The House of the SpiRITs | CRITique of Pure Reason | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The RITes of Zhou | ESF Bee | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 HONK! @ Waterloo | 2024-08-03 | Y | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |
| 2024 HONK! @ Carleton | 2024-10-20 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 HONK! @ Syracuse | 2024-12-07 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 HONK! @ Online | 2025-03-09 | Y | 10 | 25.00 | 100% | 80% | 70% |