For those of you unfamiliar with this program, this bonus round consists of the contestants working together to find the choices which are true, but no one in the hundred people who were asked managed to identify or remember. (The population are given 60 seconds to name as many as they can.).
Of the six: two are false (in this case not Star Trek races), two are true but score points (they are Star Trek races but people asked came up with them), and two are true and pointless (these are the ones they were trying to find).
The two false ones often have amusing or trick relationships to the question. There is one of those here!
The big disadvantage of the contestants had: none of them were Trekkies. So they had to guess . And guessed badly.
I'd flip Talosians and Tholians. Talosians were famously featured in the TOS episodes with Pike (both the OG pilot, and the same episode recut as its only two-parter) so thanks to both these and SNW bumping people's interest in Pike, the normies of the street that they asked might actually know about them. Tholians, OTOH, are only in one TOS episode named after them, and then they only pop up in the flesh (so to speak) in Enterprise's mirror universe two-parter because they are expensive to put on screen.
You're probably correct about the rest: Tribbles are well-known, Jenners and Zabrak are not ST species, and Vidiians were only in Voyager; when it comes to Trek the average British man of the street they asked is likely a boomer who has only watched TOS.
(If the question was about Doctor Who species, guessing the pointless ones might be harder.)
Tholians featured quite a few times on Enterprise, not just in the mirror episode. They are also featured relatively often as one of the stronger lesser-known empires in the Alpha Quadrant in beta canon stuff (e.g. video games).
I would honestly expect that nobody answers Tribbles, simply because that's not what you think of when someone asks you to name Star Trek races. You'd think of intelligent species (e.g. nobody is going to remember to name Targ or Sehlat either even though they are relatively well-known, just because the question makes your mind start out in a different direction).
I haven’t seen this show before, are the pointless ones meant to be pointless in the universe of Star Trek? Like they’re kinda ineffective in story terms?
It’s more like the inverse of family feud. It’s a general trivia show and they survey people and lowest scores win. Getting the obscure (and right!) answers is the game.
I would expect Talosian and Tribbles. Simply because when someone asks for a "race", everyone's mind immediately goes to intelligent species and nobody would think of Tribbles. The Vidiians were one of the top 5 most prominent Voyager races.
They poll 100 people before the show, so this would be something like "name all the star trek races you can think of". If none of that 100 thought of it, it is pointless.
Jenner-Kardashians. Zabrak are Star Wars. Talosians are from the Pilot Episode. Vidiians are from Voyager so they’re probably pointless. Tribbles just eat and breed so they are literally pointless in universe even though they’re iconic. Tholians have been in every series since the original but are pretty minor
I'm surprised that the producers of this program did not decide to sneak "Thetans" in there as a reference. Although I do not know if anyone in the United Kingdom would necessarily get the reference, given that I tend to think of Scientology as a more American thing, due to being founded by an American and being rooted in ideas of self help that seem very much rooted in American ideology.
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u/throwaway00012 8d ago
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