My husband used to play some game in which you could in fact poke another monster-like (ogre?) character, and it would repeatedly growl "Stop poking me!" We still use this line occasionally, along with early Bart Simpson "Ow! Ka-wit it."

Of course, we also still use "Svimvear! Veddy nice." Five points to anyone who knows that reference.

"Some game"? That was Warcraft II. I think you're referring to the Orc Grunt.

The poke sequence went something like this:
Argh?
Yes?
Argh?
WHAAAAAAAAAT!
Stop poking me.
IwouldnotdosuchthingsifIwereyou.

The Alliance equivalent (Human footman) said things like "Are you still touching me?" and "Don't you have a kingdom to run?"

Oho, that scenario sounds familiar. Voyager's "Parallax"?

Indeed. First season Voyager I actually watched.

Let's change it up a bit. There's a TOS episode where Spock remarks on "The renowned * punctuality," where * is a species. What species is it?

Mi amore goes through games pretty quickly. FPS, Civilization-type, space-based resources, they all look the same after a while. I'm sure he thinks the same thing about my various TV show crushes. :)

Yeah! That was it!

Nobody biting?

Tholian.

Yep. When the <i>Enterprise</i> trespasses in their space, they show up and attack right on schedule.

Never turn your back on a blank.

(Woulda got to this earlier, but I spent all yesterday on a plane)

The "blank" is "Breen", and it's an episode of DS9, but I don't know the speaker or episode.

Breen is correct, and we don't seem to be requiring the name of the episode or the speaker, since Zeke gave me credit for just saying Tholian. I believe you're up.

Yeah, but there was only one episode with Tholians, and it was called "The Tholian Web", so I figured it went without saying. We'll let it go, though, as this one would've been hard to narrow down. (It's from "In Purgatory's Shadow" -- certainly not the first episode I think of when Breen are mentioned.)

"I am proud of what I am. I believe in what I do. Can you say that?"

Wow, that one seems to have frozen us solid. Mind narrowing it down a bit?

A bit? TOS, a man and a woman talking about the different ways they've chosen to live their lives.

Turnabout Intruder, crazy Whatshername who steals Kirk's body.

Nope.

Areel Shaw to Kirk in "Court-Martial"?

Okay, I'll give another hint. It's said by one of the main cast to a guest star of the opposite gender.

Okay, I Googled it, so I'm officially out for this round, but I have to say I would never have gotten that one.

^^^ Likewise

Okay, Nate, you've officially stumped everyone and won this round. :) Can you reveal the answer and provide a new quote?

I, too, do not recognize the quote . . . and "Court Martial" and "Turnabout Intruder" would probably have been my first two guesses, for what it's worth.

Odd that it's so hard to place, because it seems like it should be a striking moment.

Okay, it's from "The Way to Eden":

CHEKOV: Why did you do it? [Join the hippies]
IRINA: Why did you? [Leave her and join Starfleet]
CHEKOV: I am proud of what I am. I believe in what I do. Can you say that?

Okay, I hope this one is easier....

"We have a saying in [place], 'It's lonely at the top.'"

I have to censor the place mentioned, or else it'd be too easy.

Voyager?

The series, but not the place in the quote.

"We have a saying on Arachnia..."

It's from Bride of Chaotica! if I don't miss my guess. The place would definitely, definitely have been a giveaway.

Yup. Your turn.

Got one.

"Well, how do you expect me to type, with my nose?"

The thread died, so I'm gonna cheat and give the answer. Maybe we can get the ball rolling again....

Roberta in Assignment: Earth

"I've heard Klingon belly-laughs that would curl your hair."

No idea. "A Matter of Honor"?

Guinan in "Redemption."

Let's try again...

"Life is not a dream."

Ah! I know that one, even though I haven't seen the movie all the way through. It's Spock in Trek V, struggling to understand "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". (I know about it from reading the review at Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension -- fun place, read the Superman IV review -- where that moment is one of the two in the whole movie he likes. The other is Spock remembering something mean Sarek said within minutes of his birth.)

Here's one I looked up earlier today: "A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind."

I cheated and looked this one up. I hope someone else can do better.

I really have no idea. :(

The original was Samuel Johnson talking about being hanged in the morning. I dunno where it turns up in Trek. Jake was a writer, writers have deadlines, possibly something there?

Okay, fairly large hint: Samuel Johnson is close, on account of being a historical British person, but he has the handicap that he really existed.

I would never have gotten that if I hadn't looked it up. Obviously I have to watch that ep again. I really enjoyed it when it aired, too; I thought that ep and its successor were some of the more clever bits of Trek plotting.

I thought the quote sounded a lot like Douglas Adams ("I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"), who is also British.

It reminded me of a bit in one of Terry Pratchett's novels, where the context is in fact an imminent hanging. And he's British.

Still couldn't tell you where the Trek version comes from.

I, too, cheated and looked it up, and then realised I should have been able to guess it if I'd thought long enough.

So, a British fictional character. Where do people in the future go to interact with fictional characters?

(Apart from large plush bears and associates)