Trek quote game

[Zeke]

Nope.

[Nate the Great]

Once again I had to look it up. That's one obscure quote.

[Zeke]

You think so? It's a significant episode, and the scene in question is (without revealing too much) one of my favourite "sticks out like a sore thumb when watched now" moments.

[Zeke]

Okay, this may narrow it down too much, but the episode in question introduced a new alien species (they had been mentioned, but not seen).

[Sa'ar Chasm]

The Last Outpost, the Ferengi. Probably slobbering over someone's communicator.

[Zeke]

Close enough. It's Riker confirming their suspicions. I've always wondered if Will was telling the truth or just posturing.

You're up.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

"Oh, your species is always suffering and dying."

[Nate the Great]

That's a Q line, but I don't know the specific episode.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

It is indeed a Q episode, one in which a number of humans were suffering and dying offscreen while Q was futzing about with the crew.

[Zeke]

"Hide and Q"? I remember some disaster that Riker had to resist using his Q powers on.

[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.