Bringing back an old game - Name the TrekLit Quote

[Star Treks]

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]

(preferably anything except unpublished, little-known fan-fiction)

no fan-fiction please, published Trek books only.

 

[trampledamage]

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

 

[Trent Roman]

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

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JD]

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

 

[Defcon]

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

Yes:

... 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]

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

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Afraid not, but good guess.

 

[BrotherBenny]

"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]

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]

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

 

[Dayton Ward]

^

 

[TigerBait]

hmm, dark mirror?

 

[Star Treks]

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]

ghost ship?, hahaha, kinda figured the tng aspect

 

[Mistral]

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.

 

[greenmystik]

This one is a toughie. I'm gonna go with The Soldiers of Fear.

 

[Star Treks]

I don't want people to get too bored and frustrated, so I'll throw out another hint: it's a numbered novel.

 

[TigerBait]

children of hamlin??

 

[Man of Steel]

Contagion? (I think this is the name of the book)

 

[Star Treks]

From now on I'm going to pick more popular books. Obviously this one didn't stick in people's minds, at least of those who've read it.