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Do either of you care to guess the quote?

Flying Gremlin, if you were concealing a guess it was clever, but I'd still like you to name the speakers and episode.

For the record, I wasn't guessing. I was just expanding on your cauldron stuff with a Shakespearean reference of my own.

Fine, teeny hint. It's not a Shakespeare quote, but it's from an episode where a lot of Shakespeare IS quoted...

It's from Karidian in "Conscience of the King."

I had to spoil it because in my Netflix watching I rediscovered a quote that I'm rather fond of.

"If I were not a consummate professional, and a X, I would find this entire procedure insulting."

The X would be too much of a giveaway.

A very entertaining episode. Entertaining tonight, in fact, after rereading the MA entry on it.

Data, "The Icarus Factor".

Yup. Your turn.

"Personally, I find the lady's taste questionable, but she obviously prefers you, and you obviously don't seem to mind."

The thread died again.

Kirk about Natira in "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".

"She was my friend, but you are also my friends. And I want my friends in my life."

Sounds like Data to me.

Nope.

I gave up on this, and I even tried to cheat and use Google. Still came up dry.

I'm sure I muffed the quote a bit. Hint: DS9.

You did, of a sort, but I understand that was trying to make it so it was a little bit of a challenge. As soon as you said DS9, it was an easy deduction. I pulled the exact quote from the transcript and bolded what you said:

"I never shook her hand and I never saw her face, but she made me laugh and she made me weep. She was all by herself and I was surrounded by my friends, yet I felt more alone than she did. We've grown apart, the lot of us. We didn't mean for it to happen but it did. The war changed us, pulled us apart. Lisa Cusak was my friend. But you are also my friends, and I want my friends in my life because someday we're going to wake up and we're going to find that someone is missing from this circle, and on that day we're going to mourn, and we shouldn't have to mourn alone."

O'Brien, "The Sound of Her Voice"



As it would be my turn now:

"I understand perfectly. You aren't the first female who's ever had a man run out on her."

The thread died.

Torres in "The Q and the Grey."

"Wait 'til you get four pips on that collar."

"...You'll wish you'd gone into botany." That's Sisko to Worf at the end of "Rules of Engagement." Great line from an odd but fun episode.

I was about to say there's not much point in trying to bring back the quote game until we get more people here, but ST:<b></b>D is bound to have that effect, so why not? Let's see...

"Am I making any sense here?"
"No, but that's okay."

That's Harry and Janeway in one of the anomaly episodes. The other Voyager that they see is themselves from the past, and he's confused as to how they could receive a hail before they sent it. The precise episode title is escaping me at the moment.

Or is it Harry and Janeway after the ship is duplicated and he's the only adult from the duplicate Voyager to survive? There's no difference, but he's still bothered.

Close enough (first reply). It's Tom rather than Harry, and the episode is "Parallax".

[ED: You were probably thinking Harry because of the bit from your second reply, which is a similar moment with a memorable Janeway response: "You're in Starfleet, Ensign. Weird's part of the job."]

Softball time.

"We are not in the mood, Herbert!"

That's a TOS name if I ever heard one -- and my knowledge of TOS has large gaps. Let's hope someone else recognizes it...

If you don't know what a Herbert is, you are one Zeke.

TOS "The Way To Eden"




...not even waiting for confirmation on that one. Might be a little arrogant of me, but whatever eh.

"You do understand that being afraid of everything means you learn nothing."

Oh look, a Discovery quote hit a brick wall. Moving on...

"Kiss the girl, get the key. They never taught me that in X."

Ah! That one I can do. It's Garak from "Our Man Bashir". (X is probably the Obsidian Order, but that's not required.)

Let's see... okay, here's one with a little story attached that I'll tell when it's solved.

"We have no great cause to desire the approach of day."

That's from Henry V, right before the Battle of Agincourt. I just watched the Hollow Crown version of that yesterday. Spectacular.

Was it on Trek also? I got nothin'.

<i>Man,</i> that was fast! And considering how slow this thread usually is, I'll make an exception and count that as a win even though it named only the source, not the episode that used it. TNG's "The Defector" opened with a scene from <i>Henry V</i> that Data was taking part in on the holodeck at Picard's direction (he thinks Shakespeare will give Data a window on the human condition, as he has for so many actual humans). What's particularly fun about that scene is that Patrick Stewart is in it twice! He plays both Picard and Michael Williams, and using Shakespeare in the first place was his idea (unsurprisingly, given his background). They had originally planned to do another Sherlock Holmes scene, but the Conan Doyle estate had taken notice after Season 2 and gave TNG some legal trouble that took till Season 6 to sort out.

Now here's the story I promised. Way back in 2001, when I went to Toronto Trek (and wrote a <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/features/conreport.html">con report</a>), one of the events was a Babylon 5 quote contest. It worked much like this thread, but playing for points instead of the right to choose the next quote (the organizers did that). I wasn't there the whole time, but I caught the end -- and it proved to be my finest hour.

The final quote was as follows: "That does it! This is the very, very last straw! I demand to know who's responsible for this!"

We must have been guessing for ten minutes. I made at least two wrong guesses myself. There were at least 20 devout fans in the room, B5 was only five seasons long, and this single, memorable-sounding quote was just <i>creaming</i> us. The organizers had warned us it was hard, and they dropped hints that we were thinking about it wrong, but we got nowhere.

None of us wanted to stop when time ran out (except the organizers, who were clearly getting frustrated), but there was no choice. And THEN! It suddenly hit me -- the only thing it could possibly be. It was <i>Daffy friggin' Duck!</i> One of the main characters (my favourite), Michael Garibaldi, is a big Looney Tunes fan, and since B5 was a Warner Bros. show, they were able to show him watching old Daffy shorts in a couple of episodes. One of them was the classic "Duck Amuck", the epic battle between Daffy and his cartoonist... which ends with him demanding to know who's behind the brush (Bugs, of course), and there's the quote.

I got the episode wrong. They let me have it anyway. :D

ooh, I'm up!

"Captain... I've failed you."

Thread died again.

Chakotay in "The Void."

"I'm looking forward to a good non-reconstituted meal."

if "Chakotay in The Void" is your guess, it's incorrect.

If you were trying to quote "In A Mirror Darkly", that appears to be "I failed you, Captain."

huh, so it is. Obviously it's been too long since I've seen it. :) You're up!

As I said a few weeks ago...

As we say over at TVTropes...bump!

Thread, arise, arise!


McCoy in "Arena."


"You're going to hit them with a box?"