I can think of a couple other possibilities, but the most obvious is "The Mind's Eye".

You are correct. That's the last line of the episode.

"Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named <i>Enterprise</i>!"

I want to say that's Riker some time in the first season, possibly the episode where Geordi gets command because absolutely everyone above him is stuck on a planet being shot at by L'Oreal Eggs.

Beyond that, I've got nothing (not even the episode title).

Right character, wrong episode (the one you have in mind is "The Arsenal of Freedom"). I can tell you the episode you want is from S2 and has a somewhat similar premise.

Nothing's coming. Anyone else?

http://www.triphammered.com/PhotosExtras/Fate.jpg

Trip and Mal being rescued at the end of "United."

(I know, I know, but it fits, doesn't it?)

Yeah, it does fit. But this one was Riker from "Contagion".

Next: "If I get lost, I'll just follow the ship in front of us."

Nog, What You Leave Behind, as the combined Federation-Klingon-Romulan fleet heads for Cardassia Prime.

Dead on. Out of curiosity, is there any special reason you know this one so well?

It seemed like a neat line, especially in the middle of the glorious CGI panorama of all the ships the Alliance still seemed to have despite Starfleet getting curbstomped in every single battle. Seriously, the Second Fleet was said to be down to 33% strength at one point, the Seventh Fleet took 88% losses in a single engagement...I don't understand how there was a Starfleet left by the end of the summer hiatus, let along how they went on the offensive.

Ummm, next line. An easy one:

In search of his brain, doctor.

Dear dog, that has to be from the ridiculous "Spock's Brain," but I've no idea who said it.

Well, it was said to McCoy, and it clearly wasn't Spock...

"Kirk" would have to be my random guess, since it's not one of the "Brain and brain, what is brain?" alien chickies.

Correct. None of the other four series regulars ever got any meaningful lines, so it probably wasn't them, and the aliens chickies weren't portrayed as being smart enough to understand McCoy's title (misogyny much?), which leaves Scene-Stealer Shatner as the only logical choice.

My turn, probably another softball:

"Yeah, and my underwear's flame-retardant... That doesn't mean I'm gonna light myself on fire to prove it!"

That's gotta be Trip (or maybe Tom Paris), but it'll definitely take some narrowing down.

One of your guesses is correct.

(Fun fact: Connor Trinneer and Robbie McNeill at one point had planned to do a two-handed theatre run of "True West," alternating roles each night, the way Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller did with Danny Boyle's "Frankenstein" in London.)

Heh, that's neat.

It would have to be after someone does something risky/stupid to test a theory. Tom in "Waking Moments"?

Nope. :) Wrong on all counts.

Trip, then. Sounds like it would be to Reed; let's try "Shuttlepod One" and "United".

Yes to Trip. Not Mal and not either of those eps.

...wow, seriously? This is one of Trip's best-known quotes. Or maybe I'm just looking at it with Tuckerite goggles. Do we want to pass and try a new one?

No, I was just seeing if anyone else would jump in before embarrassing myself further. Let's try "Unexpected" and... oh! How about "Singularity"?

No and no. I'll even give you two hints: it was second season, and Trip took no damage.

Rats, I really thought I was onto something with "Singularity". (Fun fact: I've had one scene of that fiver written for about ten years.) Now then, I happen to know a handy-dandy guide to which episodes Trip took damage in and which he didn't, and it's not cheating if I just look at the star ratings... let's try "First Flight" and "Cease Fire".

I won't drag this out any more; it's "Cease Fire."

[Captain's mess]

TUCKER: (watching his glass vibrating on the table) I don't like pushing the engines this hard. The injectors are running at a hundred and ten percent.
T'POL: They're rated for one hundred and twenty.
TUCKER: And my underwear is flame-retardant. That doesn't mean I'm going to light myself on fire to prove it.


Z, you're up.

In what way were you able to "drag this out any more"? I got it right. :)

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are."

Talk about an easy one. Picard in "Encounter at Farpoint."

"For you see, he was afraid and you weren't."

You did, but you offered two choices, and I could have said "Pick one." :)

The quote is from one of my favorite TOS eps, "The Enemy Within." Bones to "calm but weak" Kirk about "crazy command" Kirk. My turn again:


"Between impulse and action there is an entire realm of good taste begging for your acquaintance."

Ah, that's a classic, but I don't remember the details. Sounds like Doc talking to Seven. "Someone to Watch Over Me"?

Yep, sure could've. And I could then have pointed you to rule #3 in the first post.

Right characters, wrong episode.

ETA: I am going to be offline for a week, so rather than leave everyone in the lurch, I'll just tell you it's from "One" and give Zeke the win.

Oops, I didn't see evay's edit. This forum does need a poke feature.

"My mother always said, 'If you try to combine talking and eating, you'll end up doing neither very well.' "

That's O'Brien from the episode where Garak isn't on the station to have lunch with Bashir. I think it's the one where Garak and Odo end up on the Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order Doomed Taskforce Of Doom. What the hell was that called?

Let's say Crossing the Rubicon.

You're so close I have to wonder if you're doing it on purpose. "The Die is Cast."

It was one of those two, and I couldn't remember which one came first (I think Caesar declared the die was cast once he got to the other side, so he'd have to be in the process of crossing the Rubicon first).

Does that count as a correct guess, since you've given it away?

Edit: Actually, turns out I wasn't as right as I thought it was. For some reason I thought the two parters were called The Die Is Cast and Crossing the Rubicon (which are thematically linked), but it turns out there is no episode of DS9 called CtR (that's an episode of Beast Wars). The correct title of the other episode is Improbable Cause.

Oh, it counts as a win. You were close enough.

"So, we got a distress call from...ourselves?"

The episode is "Cause and Effect", but I don't know the speaker.

That's because I screwed up the quote.
"But we picked up the distress call before she sent the hail."

An episode I saw once when it was first broadcast, and haven't seen since.