Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote

Star Treks · May 7 2008, 10:10 PM

There was a thread like this a long while ago that I started (and it's probably been done before, too). The idea is that someone writes a line from any published Star Trek book or short story (fan-fiction not allowed) and the first person to correctly name the source gets, well, a pat on the back and the chance to pick their own line.

Oh, and it's probably not fair to guess, if you're the author of the quote.

It's really just a way to waste some time, but what the heck?

So I'll start. Name the book:

"Picard's second cup of tea got cold, and the fishtank bubbled on, the lionfish inside it bumping incuriously against the glass and gracefully waving its tan-and-cream-striped spines. It was no wonder, Picard thought, that such people would see him as a demonic figure, and the Enterprise and her sister starships as symbolic of everything they stood against - of doing and being in the universe, of asserting one's own right to exist and to work out what life should be, which was worth desire and passion and energy."

Rosalind · May 7 2008, 10:27 PM

Star Treks wrote:

(preferably anything except unpublished, little-known fan-fiction)

no fan-fiction please, published Trek books only.

trampledamage · May 7 2008, 10:42 PM

Well I can tell you for certain that it's not a book I've read!

Trent Roman · May 7 2008, 10:51 PM

I'm going to guess Gulliver's Fugitives, by Keith Sharee.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

JD · May 7 2008, 11:06 PM

Do you have to get the one that's posted before you can add a new one?

Defcon · May 7 2008, 11:07 PM

JD wrote:

Do you have to get the one that's posted before you can add a new one?

Yes:

Star Treks wrote:

... and the first person to correctly name the source gets, well, a pat on the back and the chance to pick their own line.

Star Treks · May 7 2008, 11:15 PM

Trent Roman wrote:

I'm going to guess Gulliver's Fugitives, by Keith Sharee.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Afraid not, but good guess.

BrotherBenny · May 7 2008, 11:17 PM

Star Treks wrote:

"Picard's second cup of tea got cold, and the fishtank bubbled on, the lionfish inside it bumping incuriously against the glass and gracefully waving its tan-and-cream-striped spines. It was no wonder, Picard thought, that such people would see him as a demonic figure, and the Enterprise and her sister starships as symbolic of everything they stood against - of doing and being in the universe, of asserting one's own right to exist and to work out what life should be, which was worth desire and passion and energy."

The Romulan Strategem?? The quote seems familiar somehow.

Star Treks · May 7 2008, 11:23 PM

It's occurred to me that this thread could get flooded with "nice try, but no" responses, so I will just go on the record as saying that when someone gets it I will say they got it, but I'm not going to nix every wrong response because I don't want to flood. But, since I'm already posting this, I'll say, no, it's not "The Romulan Stratagem"...

haubrija · May 7 2008, 11:23 PM

I don't understand this game. Are we supposed to rewrite that passage or something?

Dayton Ward · May 7 2008, 11:41 PM

^

TigerBait · May 8 2008, 06:21 PM

hmm, dark mirror?

Star Treks · May 8 2008, 06:23 PM

Perhaps the book I chose was a bit obscure. Hint: It's not one of the more popular novels. Another hint: Yes, it is TNG.

TigerBait · May 8 2008, 07:09 PM

ghost ship?, hahaha, kinda figured the tng aspect

Mistral · May 8 2008, 07:30 PM

haubrija wrote:

I don't understand this game. Are we supposed to rewrite that passage or something?

Yes, that's exactly it. It says so in the thread title.

May 7 2008, 10:10 PM	#1
Star Treks Fleet Captain Location: California	Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote There was a thread like this a long while ago that I started (and it's probably been done before, too). The idea is that someone writes a line from any published Star Trek book or short story (fan-fiction not allowed) and the first person to correctly name the source gets, well, a pat on the back and the chance to pick their own line. Oh, and it's probably not fair to guess, if you're the author of the quote. It's really just a way to waste some time, but what the heck? So I'll start. Name the book: "Picard's second cup of tea got cold, and the fishtank bubbled on, the lionfish inside it bumping incuriously against the glass and gracefully waving its tan-and-cream-striped spines. It was no wonder, Picard thought, that such people would see him as a demonic figure, and the Enterprise and her sister starships as symbolic of everything they stood against - of doing and being in the universe, of asserting one's own right to exist and to work out what life should be, which was worth desire and passion and energy." __________________ "Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weakon our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence." - W.K. Clifford, The Ethics of Belief Last edited by Star Treks; May 8 2008 at 12:25 AM.

May 7 2008, 10:42 PM	#3
trampledamage Clone Location: trampledamage is doing her homework	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote Well I can tell you for certain that it's not a book I've read! __________________ Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence - Dr. McCoy And he says that like it's a bad thing...

May 7 2008, 10:51 PM	#4
Trent Roman Rear Admiral Location: The Palace of Pernicious Pleasures	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote I'm going to guess Gulliver's Fugitives, by Keith Sharee. Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman __________________ Obdurants and Amusings - Behind the Shampoo Curtain

May 7 2008, 11:06 PM	#5
JD Admiral Location: Arizona, USA	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote Do you have to get the one that's posted before you can add a new one? __________________ Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away. Me and Monty Python. Harry Dresden - Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6)

May 7 2008, 11:23 PM	#9
Star Treks Fleet Captain Location: California	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote It's occurred to me that this thread could get flooded with "nice try, but no" responses, so I will just go on the record as saying that when someone gets it I will say they got it, but I'm not going to nix every wrong response because I don't want to flood. But, since I'm already posting this, I'll say, no, it's not "The Romulan Stratagem"... __________________ "Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weakon our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence." - W.K. Clifford, The Ethics of Belief

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May 7 2008, 11:23 PM	#10
haubrija Lieutenant	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote I don't understand this game. Are we supposed to rewrite that passage or something?

May 7 2008, 11:41 PM	#11
Dayton Ward Word Pusher	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote ^ __________________ www.daytonward.com "tlhingAn HoL, Mother F*cker! Do you speak it?!"

May 8 2008, 06:21 PM	#12
TigerBait Captain Location: Charlotte NC , USA	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote hmm, dark mirror? __________________ "we make alot of money, but we spend alot of money too" - Patrick Ewing...during the 1999 nba lockout

May 8 2008, 06:23 PM	#13
Star Treks Fleet Captain Location: California	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote Perhaps the book I chose was a bit obscure. Hint: It's not one of the more popular novels. Another hint: Yes, it is TNG. __________________ "Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weakon our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence." - W.K. Clifford, The Ethics of Belief

May 8 2008, 07:09 PM	#14
TigerBait Captain Location: Charlotte NC , USA	Re: Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote ghost ship?, hahaha, kinda figured the tng aspect __________________ "we make alot of money, but we spend alot of money too" - Patrick Ewing...during the 1999 nba lockout