Trek quote game

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Correct.

[Zeke]

Time for another change-up. One of this site's running jokes is Captain Janeway's blind rage at the concept of "antimatter radiation". What episode is the origin of this vendetta?

[Nate the Great]

Probably a Malon episode.

[Zeke]

Nope. Though now that you mention it, the idea of anyone in this universe having so much antimatter they're throwing it away should probably have outraged her just as much.

[evay]

That sounds like she's talking about Emck, from "Night," but I didn't think he was from another universe.

[Zeke]

I don't think you followed that exchange correctly. Nate suggested the Malon, and I was just saying nope, not them. (My emphasis on "this universe" was a physics thing. Our universe is biased toward regular matter over antimatter; it's easy to imagine the bias going the other way in a different one.)

[evay]

No, I was sort of agreeing with you. It sounds like Emck, but it clearly isn't.

[Zeke]

Okay, a hint: the radiation was killing people. For plot purposes, it might as well have been Chernobyl-style nuclear radiation rather than the kind that annihilates everything it touches.

[Nate the Great]

Ugh. "Friendship One." That horrible, horrible episode.

[Zeke]

Yep. Lots of people seem to hate that one for different reasons. I was furious about Carey being brought back just to die; Jim Wright argued passionately against Janeway's carelessly-written final sentiment that exploration doesn't justify loss of life; purists were angry to see a delta symbol on a probe that predated Starfleet, much less the symbol's broader use which didn't start until the movie era; and Janeway, of course, will personally kill the next person who says "antimatter radiation." (Heh -- I just noticed the fiver also has an April Fool's reference. Timely.)

You're up. Side down.

[Nate the Great]

To celebrate April Fools I'd give a quote from a non-Trek series for a change, but nothing's coming to mind that'd be mainstream enough for you guys.

"When the neutrinos are in bloom."

[Zeke]

but nothing's coming to mind that'd be mainstream enough for you guys.

Wow. Hey everybody, see that red mark on your face? That's where Nate just slapped us with his glove.

[Nate the Great]

That came out more snobbish than I'd intended, but I can't be sure how many of you were fans of Stargate or Andromeda. Never Babylon 5, however. Ugh.

[Zeke]

Heh -- if that's snobbery, I want my money back. I was expecting, I dunno, Blake's 7 or The Quatermass Experiment or at least Isaac Asimov. The stuff DoctorWho42 is always quoting on Facebook, in other words. </reference no one but me will get>

I can only speak for myself, but I love DROM, though I haven't seen much of the later stuff. (Okay, I did list it in Five-Minute Cheese, but that was affectionate ribbing.) SG is a franchise I never got into -- the movie's great, but I couldn't see a whole TV show in that premise. One of these days I'll catch up and probably love it.

Not a B5 fan, eh? I'd pay to see you and Sa'ar duke it out over that one. But hopefully I'll get it for free! (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=80078#post80078)

Don't recognize the quote. For clarity, is it in fact Trek? And if it is Trek, is it "Rivals"?

[Nate the Great]

Yes, Star Trek. Not Rivals.

[Zeke]

Looks like we need this narrowed down a bit.

[Nate the Great]

Fine, the previous line (censored a bit to remove obvious giveaways) is "There's nothing more romantic than a X on Y in springtime."
"When the neutrinos are in bloom."

[Nate the Great]

Fine, it's from the episode "You are Cordially Invited." "There's nothing more romantic than a wedding on DS9 in springtime."

Next quote!

"Please not the Death Chant."

[Zeke]

Hmm. Let's try "In the Cards" and "Penumbra." It sounds like what someone listening to Klingon opera might say.

[Nate the Great]

It sounds like a Klingon reference, but it's not. Guess again.

[Zeke]

Not Klingon... Ferengi maybe? Let's try "The Nagus" and "Body Parts".

[Nate the Great]

Not Ferengi. Not DS9 for that matter. That's all the hints I'm giving for now.

[Nate the Great]

Next hint: It's from NextGen.

[Nate the Great]

Fine, it's Ro Laren in "The Next Phase." Ro and Geordi are presumed dead in a transporter accident, but are just invisible and intangible, watching the crew plan their funerals:

Data: Ensign Ro was Bajoran. Her beliefs should be reflected as well. But their death rituals are quite complicated.
Ro: Please, not the Death Chant...
Worf: The Bajoran Death Chant is over two hours long.

Next quote:

"I said you're a penny-ante operator!"

[Nate the Great]

No takers whatsoever? Need a hint?

[Zeke]

Oh, sorry, I was distracted by a shiny object. "Piece of the Action"?

[Nate the Great]

Yup. Your turn.

[Zeke]

Nice. Okay, let's see...

"Off the hook, after all."

[Nate the Great]

Had to look it up, but the thread was dead:

Li Nalas in "The Siege".

And now for something a bit easier:

"We'll both die here!" "Then that's the way it shall be!"

[Zeke]

Sorry, forgot to check the thread again. Yes, it's "The Siege", following up on an exchange Li had with Sisko earlier. ("I would die for my people, but --" "Of course you would. Dying gets you off the hook.")

Kirk and Kruge, STIII? I've only seen it once.

[Nate the Great]

Yes indeedy.

[Zeke]

Nice. This next one isn't very indicative, so I'll tell you it's from ENT.

"I didn't cut and run."
"Oh, yeah, I forgot. It was an orderly retreat."

[Nate the Great]

The thread died again, so I looked it up. It's from Enterprise's "Storm Front".

"I flew something similar in my Academy days."

[Zeke]

New rule: I don't care how long it's been, no posting a looked-up answer without at least one guess.

Anyway, I'll grant that that one was confusing, mostly because the two characters are talking about different things. Archer's still figuring out the AU he's landed in, and bristles at the accusation that he "cut and run" -- but the mobster doesn't mean him personally, he means the military (which he thinks Archer is in).

For your quote... let's try Sulu in Trek III or IV, talking about the Bird of Prey.

[Nate the Great]

Not quite.

[Zeke]

Hmm, maybe I just gave too much information. According to the rules, it's enough just to get the source right. Is it either of those movies?

[Nate the Great]

Yes.

[Zeke]

Okay, then I did get it, but I'll take one more shot at the context. I think I remember Sulu flying a helicopter at one point. Was he talking about that?

[Nate the Great]

Yes, he's talking to the helicopter pilot, attempting to butter him up to borrow the chopper to deliver the plexiglass.

[Zeke]

Cool. This one may be tricky, so I'll tell you for free that the speaker is a hologram.

"No one can deny us, no power on Earth or beyond."

[Zeke]

No? Okay, I'll also say it's from Voyager.

[NAHTMMM]

Sounds like something out of "Bride of Chaotica!"

[Zeke]

It does, doesn't it? But it's not. Look for a historical equivalent.

[evay]

The only historical equivalents I can think of for "grown adults dress up in silly elaborate costumes and run around pretending to shoot lasers at each other and take each other captive and rescue each other" are Halloween and ComiCon. Or possibly some adventurous marriages, to which I say "more power to you!"

Oh wait, that's "historical equivalent to playing Bride of Chaotica! on the holodeck." I got nothin' for the quote. "Author, Author," I guess?

[Zeke]

Nope. I meant more like historical equivalents to Chaotica himself.

[Zeke]

No more guesses? It's from the closest thing history has to an over-the-top supervillain: the Nazis. One of the Nazi holograms in "The Killing Game" explains his vision to the Hirogen Beta, inspiring him to rebel against his commander's admittedly ridiculous plans.

Next!

"<i>That</i> should not have happened."

To narrow it down, the character saying this has just been interrupted by something which, indeed, should not have happened -- but the line also works as a conclusion to what he was saying before.

ED: On further consideration, that won't be much help without narrowing the field a bit. I'll do that by telling you the quote is from the same episode as an earlier quote in this thread.

[Zeke]

A week and not even one guess? Bleah. Okay, that was from "Contagion". The scene goes like this...

WESLEY: It's the Yamato, Captain. I can't stop thinking about her. All those people dead. I don't know how you and Commander Riker and Geordi, how you handle it so easily.
PICARD: Easily? Oh no, not easily. We handle it because we're trained to, as you will be. (to replicator) Tea, Earl Grey, hot. (back to Wesley) But if the time ever comes when the death of a single individual fails to move us --
(a potted plant appears in the replicator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUuaDXBhs4))
WESLEY: Didn't you order tea, sir?
PICARD: Now that should not have happened.

Fun fact I didn't realize till I looked up the scene on YT: this is actually the first time Picard gives his famous tea order. I'm sure he was seen drinking tea earlier, but the exact line first appears in this episode... only for the replicator to screw it up. Janeway can relate.

Next:

"They're not keeping him alive by artificial means, are they? [He] wouldn't want that."
"No, he's clinging to life all on his own."
"Typical."

[voyager0929]

Zeke,

If i remember correclty, your quote is from the delicious DS9 episode "Necessary Evil" and is between Odo and Rom talking about Quark after he was stabbed by that Bajoran thug.

Here's my quote:

"Remind me to stop trying to help people."

P.S. Vulcan scout's honor that I didn't look it up..I have a soft spot for Rom and that episode....

[Zeke]

Nailed it! Good job.

For yours, let's try "Samaritan Snare" and "The Andorian Incident". (It also sounds like something Dovan from Wowbagger's Excelsior show would say.)

[voyager0929]

Thanks Zeke. You give good guesses i think but not qute. Your second guess is closer--you got the right series and the right character--assuming you're thinking of whom I think you're thinkng of on ENT. My hint s that it's an early on situation in which the crew is tryng to help a member of a then-hostile but familiar species and they respond with anythng but gratitude and friendlness--but no Vulcans involved this time. Hope that's enouigh ..if not ll give another hint

[Zeke]

Thought I'd give someone else a chance to jump in, but nothing so far, so... let's try "Broken Bow" and "Fortunate Son".

[Nate the Great]

I have no clue beyond "probably Enterprise".

[voyager0929]

Okay hint: Hoshi's second away mission after she screamed at those corpses in Fight or Flight....and I'm embarrassed to use this as a hint but this episode I believe features the first threeway scene in the illustrious decon chamber...this time with Hoshi, T'Pol, and Reed...

[Zeke]

Ah, those hints were too big. "Sleeping Dogs". On the plus side, that threesome scene didn't have any actual activity -- the team was worn out from the away mission and we just saw them using the place like a sauna. Bad news for Phlox, good news for decency.

Next: "I'm trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer!"

[voyager0929]

Oh ok..I thought it would be too big a hint if I just said the species was the Klingons..so I went with the threesome..I knoew there was no activity in that scene just said that to try to be cheeky :)..

As for your quote..that sounds a lot like Trip..so ENT? Not sure the episode..feel like it's almost on the tip of my tongue....maybe that episode in season 4 where he transfers to Columbia and theyre trying to climb from one ship to the other before they explode or something..Divergence i think it was called?

[Zeke]

Nope. Wrong series.

[evay]

As for your quote..that sounds a lot like Trip..so ENT? Not sure the episode..feel like it's almost on the tip of my tongue....maybe that episode in season 4 where he transfers to Columbia and theyre trying to climb from one ship to the other before they explode or something..Divergence i think it was called?

Nope, Trip's major quote about that tool was in "Borderland" (also S4), when he shouted "We're gettin' hammered down here!" at which point I paused my TiVo and had hysterical laughing spasms for nearly 10 minutes. :D

[Zeke]

I'll reveal the answer tonight.

Sort of.

[ED: I did. If you haven't noticed yet, look around.]

[voyager0929]

Well since no one else has responded can I just say it was Spock's Brain..as you posted the fiver for it the other night. ..And if you don't object can I post the next quote since I have several (I think) cool, memorable quotes I'm itching to try...This next one I'm sure we can all agree is one of the most profound, memorable, thought-provoking, soul-stirring quotes in all of Trek:

"What possible use could you make of my intestines?"


Enjoy

[voyager0929]

No takers? Not even Zeke? Need a hint?

[evay]

It sounds like someone is responding to a typically Klingon threat ("I'll rip out your intestines and wear them for a necklace!") with typically Vulcan or medical literalist dry humor. Probably not ENT. Maybe Holodoc to B'Elanna? McCoy on the outside? He could be quite snarky too.

[Zeke]

I'm with evay on both counts (what it sounds like, and having no idea beyond that). Hint?

[voyager0929]

My hint is that it is a response to a statement by an aggressive Klingon-like species but not Klingons...it also involves a hostage situation. And one of the two series you guessed, evay, is correct. Hope this helps.

[evay]

I had to Google it. I wouldn't have gotten that. Good one, though. I was right about the dry humor.

[voyager0929]

Thanks, I always liked it. You were right about a Klingon-like threat/ritual too. I'm gonna hold off for a bit to reveal the answer to see if Zeke or anyone else will try to guess.

[Zeke]

Hmm. "The Andorian Incident"?

[voyager0929]

Nope. Another hint..hopefully not too big: The hostage situation takes place on a ship belonging to the aggressive Klingon-ish species whose ship is adorned with various instruments/weapons used to get at said intestines..among other things

[Flying Gremlin]

Well, the species has to be Hirogen. And the person saying that has to be either Tuvok or Seven.

Crap... I forget the title... is it "Hunters"?

[Nate the Great]

*Puts on wig, starts chanting over a cauldron* Thread, arise! Arise!

So yeah, the quote was from Seven in "Hunters."

"What were you then?" "Younger, Captain. Much younger."

[Flying Gremlin]

Double, double, toil and trouble, Nate.

[evay]

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[Nate the Great]

Do either of you care to guess the quote?

[Nate the Great]

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

[Flying Gremlin]

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

[Nate the Great]

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

[Nate the Great]

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.

[Flying Gremlin]

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

Data, "The Icarus Factor".

[Nate the Great]

Yup. Your turn.

[Flying Gremlin]

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

[Nate the Great]

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."

[NAHTMMM]

Sounds like Data to me.

[Nate the Great]

Nope.

[Flying Gremlin]

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

[Nate the Great]

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

[Flying Gremlin]

I'm sure I muffed the quote a bit.

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."

[Nate the Great]

The thread died.

Torres in "The Q and the Grey."

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

[Zeke]

"...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."

[Nate the Great]

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.

[Nate the Great]

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.

[Zeke]

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."]

[Nate the Great]

Softball time.

"We are not in the mood, Herbert!"

[Zeke]

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...

[Flying Gremlin]

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."

[Nate the Great]

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

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

[Zeke]

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."

[evay]

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'.

[Zeke]

<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

[evay]

ooh, I'm up!

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

[Nate the Great]

Thread died again.

Chakotay in "The Void."

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

[evay]

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.

[Nate the Great]

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

[evay]

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

[Nate the Great]

As I said a few weeks ago...

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

[Nate the Great]

As we say over at TVTropes...bump!

[Nate the Great]

Thread, arise, arise!


McCoy in "Arena."


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