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It's a heartbreaking work of heretic pride where no one has gone before! Your mission is to identify each item as the title of an episode from the Star Trek universe (any series), a book by Gen-X literary darling Dave Eggers, or a song by the great allusionists of indie rock, The Mountain Goats.

It's a heartbreaking work of heretic pride where no one has gone before! Your mission is to identify each item as the title of an episode from the Star Trek universe (any series), a book by Gen-X literary darling Dave Eggers, or a song by the great allusionists of indie rock, The Mountain Goats.

Star Trek episode, Dave Eggers book, or Mountain Goats song?

This 1988 episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ features a malevolent disembodied face floating in the void of outer space like an evil version of the Sun from _Teletubbies_.

Star Trek episode!

John Darnielle has called this song, from The Mountain Goats' 2004 album _We Shall All Be Healed_, "a song about young people on speed."

Mountain Goats song!

This underrated 1966 episode of _Star Trek's_ original series features a traveling Shakespearean actor who may or may not be a mass-murdering dictator in hiding. The title is a reference to _Hamlet_--but you've never really experienced Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon.

"STUPIDO! FOOLISH FLORENTINES!" shouts a hologram simulation of Leonardo Da Vinci in this 1997 episode of _Star Trek: Voyager_.

_New Zion_, a song about an imaginary cult, is featured on The Mountain Goats' 2008 album _Heretic Pride_.

Eggers' 2012 novel about an American IT consultant in Saudi Arabia was later adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks.

Dave Eggers book!

A 2003 episode of _Star Trek: Enterprise_ sees our heroes visiting 21st-century Detroit to prevent space lizards from harvesting human blood for use in a bioweapon.

I'm not crying, you're crying. Okay, I'm crying. This song is beautiful. Is there a proper way to mourn the passing of our childhood tormentors? This 2005 Mountain Goats track doesn't provide an answer, but it's poignant and affecting all the same.

Interestingly, this 2019 episode of Star Trek: Discovery takes its name from a quote by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro: "Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection." The plot involves tracking a monster within a transdimensional network of space fungus.

Dave Eggers' debut novel, published in 2002, features a pair of childhood friends who travel around the world to give away large sums of money.

"Methuselah," the longest-lived human in the Bible, is frequently invoked as a metaphor for longevity. In this 1969 episode of _Star Trek's_ original series, Kirk & friends encounter an ancient immortal born millenia ago on Earth who has gone by many names, including Brahms and Da Vinci. _Star Trek_ really has a thing for Leonardo Da Vinci.

This song from The Mountain Goats' 2002 album _Tallahassee_ borrows its name from a cycle of Arthurian poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

This 1974 episode of _Star Trek: The Animated Series_, penned by the late Native American sci-fi writer Russell Bates, was the first in the franchise to win an Emmy. The episode's name comes from Shakespeare's _King Lear_.

The Roman satirist Juvenal identified "panem et circenses" (bread and circuses; in other words, free food and entertainment for the masses) as a potent means of accruing and holding onto political power, at the cost of eroding the public's sense of civic duty. This original series _Star Trek_ episode from 1968 features a planet of Roman gladiators.

Published in 2014, this Dave Eggers novel consists entirely of dialogue. The title quotes Zechariah 1:5.

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Did you know Alaska's state nickname is "The Last Frontier?" Anyway, this 2016 Eggers novel concerns a dentist who moves with her family to Alaska. Unfortunately, a time-traveling William T. Riker does not show up.

The title of this 2019 outing for the _Star Trek: Discovery_ crew is a reference to the payment required for the ferryman of the River Styx. More importantly, Tig Notaro is in this episode!

"Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel," sings John Darnielle on this track from 2012's _Transcendental Youth_.

One of the finest installments of the **greatest**_Star Trek_ series, _Deep Space Nine_ (don't @ me), this oft-overlooked 1998 episode deserves more accolades than it's given. (Sabotage, blasphemy, Ferengi mysticism, cranky O'Brien, and Weyoun, SO MUCH WEYOUN. It's great, y'all.)

"Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings," says the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca in this 2017 episode of _Star Trek: Discovery_. This is the fourth time, but not the last time, the word "king" appears in one of these quiz clues.

Dave Eggers published this slim novella in 2004; the title presumably comes from T. H. White's description of the totalitarian political models of ant colonies in _The Once and Future King_.

This title sounds like it belongs in a rock opera inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. That's exactly what it is. The Mountain Goats' 2019 album _In League with Dragons_ is described as a partial rock opera with film noir influences, inspired by tabletop games like D&D.

Not to be confused with _Dragon's Teeth_, a 1999 episode of _Star Trek: Voyager_, this is a song from The Mountain Goats' beautiful and heartbreaking 2005 album _The Sunset Tree_.

The title in this 1968 episode of _Star Trek's_ original series comes from a line spoken by one of the characters. Fun fact: it's the longest episode name in _Star Trek_ history.

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Originally titled _Tears of the Gods_, the eponymous prophets in this 1998 episode of _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ are in fact supernatural beings who are revered as deities by the Bajoran people.

This song from The Mountain Goats' debut studio album _Zopilote Machine_ is a reference to the play _Iphigenia in Tauris_ by the Greek playwright Euripides.

_Star Trek_ has often relied on time travel as a plot device when they've run out of ideas. Happily, this time-hopping episode of _Star Trek: Discovery_, which aired in 2017, is clever and delightful. The title comes to us from Homer's _Iliad_, wherein Aphrodite gives her girdle (a love charm) to Hera in order to beguile Zeus. Also, in _The Iliad_, Aphrodite is Zeus's daughter. Awkward.

The Mountain Goats wrote and performed this darkly comic song for American Public Media's _Weekend America_ program in 2008. The song, and the episode, focus on "Super Tuesday," an important day in the US Presidential Primary calendar.

This 2006 novelized biography of Sudanese child refugee Valentino Achak Deng purportedly takes its name from a Dinka creation myth.

In 2015, The Mountain Goats released _Beat the Champ_, an album about professional wrestling. This song tells the story of the late Apache Bull Ramos, a wrestler from Houston.

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