"Maybe he should offer to divorce more people if this was the way they reacted."
- Victor Krieghoff
"Victor felt calmer when there were plants around. Maybe it was because they didn't ask questions or scream and run - they just sat there and were green."
- Victor Krieghoff
"This is a little known fact in Star Trek lore: Around the time of the first warp drive was developed, there was a great civil war amongst the Amish communities of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There was a segment that seceded from the standard views and beliefs and relocated in the northwestern town of Erie, a lake shore community that was a bastion for Quaker and Puritain communities. They were known as the Dacgedeye - which is Middle Amish for "those who have crossed over".
Nobody really knows the reason for this rift. Rumor has it the more progressive Amish opted to buy their clothing in local Wal Marts, rather than hand make them as was the traditional custom.
Decades later, the two Amish tribes were united as Eluka Fieldplower, the spiritual leader of the Amish and Mara Jade Claprod, the seamstress turned Wal Mart greeter from the Dacgedeye, wed uniting the two groups as one.
Throughout the years the Amish community evolved and adopted different views and the strange "thee and Thou" dialect that is heard in posts across the nation today.
Its a very interesting concept and I applaud Gene Roddenberry for having the vision to explore it in an episode that never aired. (Episode 213.5a: "Goat's Milk isn't Frothy" Spock and the crew of the Enterprise race to save Kirk from bedding a 500 pound butter churner in Lancaster while a civil war errupts around them.)
And thanks! As long as I got a giggle out of you, I dont mind being a little inaccurate in the details. :)"
- An OOC from Joe
"We're about to enter battle." Cass said seriously, and both chicks on his lap suddenly seemed concerned and even sad. "I need you to take the ship's rear."
- Cassius Henderson
"The United States Navy's safety measures against sharks during that time period was to thrash about and slap the water in an effort to scare the offending shark away. It was later determined through studies years later that this was a rather grim policy as this sort of action only served to draw the attention of the shark."
- Pilot Tyten telling of "old" naval practices
Nara spoke up, "So we can communicate with it? Does it have it's own will or will it do anything someone tells it to? Can we tell it to...you know...die?" ... She stepped closer to the ball and spoke firmly, "Ok you. Kill yourself...and all your little friends too." ... Nara's smile grew. She sent the command at the same time thinking, 'In your face!' Too bad the mines didn’t have an ability to care one way or the other.
- Nara when told they would have to link to biomines to destroy them.
“Okay. Sleep now.” Every fiber of Iniara’s being tried to rebel, but the prospect of sleep was far too tempting. “Sleepy. Thanks, mom.” Some part of her subconscious snickered at her childish responses. How quiet the place was, she mused as sleep dragged her down once more. How painfully, torturously quiet.
- Iniara when awakened from a nightmare
"Why, obviously I have a super secret Intelligence mission, including assassinations, nasty villains, shiny gadgets, and surrounding myself with beautiful girls. That's a good start by the way." he gestured at the two of them, his smile widening. "That can be very dangerous; surrounding yourself with beautiful women." Phoebe Ivers responded. "Some beautiful women can be cunning, and deadly. Like tigers, with their claws extended." she lifted one hand, as if to twixt it into a claw-like gesture, but she ended up only pushing her glasses up on her nose.
- Saul and Phoebe
"Perfect" Gandolfini Gray said, ushering Zeke along. "Go now. And hurry. I sense the Nicegurls are approaching. Keep off the roads and travel only during the day."
- Joe's spoof on LotR
He really wanted to defuse the scene before she went into full Righteous Bitch mode.
- Lt. Jeremy Savoie to Erin
"The yanks can't scare a Tribble, if you ask me."
- Ensign Will Warbeck
"There were hostages, there were Breen, there was a fair amount of pretty girls at Ten-Forward - Saul definitely had no complaints so far."
- Saul's first impression of the Galaxy
"You know what I think?" Saul asked, grinning. Even though he didn't know his partner well, he recognized that humor would be the best way to disarm the situation. "I think it's all an officers' conspiracy. Ever since the dawn of times, officers did their best to turn all NCOs into cooks and janitors. I think that Dobryin was rebuked for having a NCO in her department who is allowed to touch computers!"
- Saul trying to convince an NCO in Intel that JFK and Elvis caused the Dominion war, or whatever
“I'm not entirely what one would consider a credible person, I don't think. Alcoholic half Vulcans more interested in screwing than star gazing probably would never be held as model citizen of the year.”
- 8-ball
"Halt! We are the Breen who say Jii!"
"No! Not the Breen who say 'Jii'!" Saul blurted out in despair.
"The same!" the Breen leader replied.
- Saul and the Breen who say “Jii”, gotta love a Monty Python reference :)
His former Chief Flight Officer was back aboard after a lengthy trip back to Earth for a court martial. At least, Daren decided with a sigh as he stood to get more coffee, Savoie had broken with tradition and not been the *subject* of the court martial. That was something of a record for a Galaxy crewman.
- M'Kantu discussing Jeremy Savoie
Daren looked down at his borrowed desk and wondered for the millionth time how Jean Luc Picard managed to keep his office so damned clean and uncluttered. In the middle of a complete refit and total personnel transfer you could eat your dinner off the man's desk instead of a plate if you wanted to. It wasn't human; no one could be that obsessive-compulsive and not self-destruct.
- M'Kantu
"Destroyed? What sort of over the top shit is that? Leo you've been through too much drama. It's twisted your mind. Not everything is complicated and Machiavellian"
- Excerpt from the one ring, really the whole thing is quotable but I liked this.
“You can take your goddamn flowers and shove them so far up your ass that your eyes turn purple!!"
- Erin Friel
"Excuse me, ma'am". I am Turan, founding member of the committee against dining alone. Our expert - that's me - came to the conclusion that dining alone leads to anonymity, social deprivation, boredom and a lack of communication. I'm here to help you out of that misery. May I have a seat at your table?....and honestly - I promise not to steal your food."
- Turan talking with 8-Ball
"I appreciate that," he replied, relieved. With Rima Pennington, and his unbidden attraction to her, at the forfront of his mind, that last thing he wanted to do was have ritualized sex with a beautiful, and probably physically superior, Andorian woman.
- Cass Henderson
“Very well,” he said politely but emotionlessly. “But please understand that we cannot be disturbed inside the monastery: noise is prohibited.”
“Ah, Vulcans, the most talkative species the Federation has to offer.”
"Remind me not to easy spicy food and visit this place.”
- Vulcan, Ramir, and Anna
Saul didn't like Ferengi. They were bold, dubious, had ugly wrinkled noses, ears which were too big on any standard, and eyes which shouted 'I'm fishy, I smell like fish, I do fishy business.'
- Saul
"I hadn't noticed. Been too busy dusting the cobweb in my memory. Except there seems to be a HUGE spider still living there and I do NOT want to approach it."
- Nara
"That's right!" Cut in the information video, "In the event of oncoming phaser fire from an unknown location you should... duck... and cover!"
"F**k being ripped off." Corgan said, off handed to Claire, "I feel violated."
- Corgan
“toDSah!” K’vala spat, her face flushed and eyes burning with anger and what he took to be shame. “I will cut your heart out and eat it in front of your still living eyes!”
“Because I said you don’t know the first thing about making coffee?” Victor frowned. “Don’t you think that’s a bit… extreme, Attendant?
- Victor and K’Vala
"Lieutenant Commander Suder," she half shouted above the sound of smashing items, "Commander Sanders will be here in a few minuets. And she has been your office, in its previous non battered state." She ducked again, "I therefore request that you desist."
~Dhani to Suder, after he has wrecked his office
"Who's they? How do you know I wouldn't like to meet them and more importantly, who the hell are you?" Streely asked.
"I am Stradler. Now quickly, come!" Stradler said, fluffing up the beds and tucking the pillows."
"Not on your life, pervert." Leo said.
- Joe's LOTR parody
"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
May you live as long as you want, And never want as long as you live.
Always remember to forget The things that made you sad. But never forget to remember The things that made you glad. Always remember to forget The friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember Those that have stuck by you.
Always remember to forget The troubles that passed away. But never forget to remember The blessings that come each day.
May the saddest day of your future be no worse Than the happiest day of your past.May the roof above us never fall in. And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.
May there be a generation of children On the children of your children.May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you.
Walls for the wind, And a roof for the rain, And drinks beside the fire - Laughter to cheer you And those you love near you, And all that your heart may desire!
May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
"May you all find peace and happiness on your road.”
- Mulligan’s blessing
At any rate, you'd be hard pressed to find me acting in a logical, disciplined, unemotional manner, and therefore my angry stabbings at my disgusting attempt at food is not indicative of any unwell mental state of affairs."
- 8-ball
"Nothing that anyone can say, you father is wanting me tortured and killed, Starfleet will probably have my career and whatever I thought I had with you.. doesn't even seem possible anymore.This is why I never take vacations... next they'll book my trip into little city north of Breen capital."
- Anna
"Vlnadr crush!"
"Third person? You actually spoke about yourself in third person?"
"Big words! Vlnadr hate big words!"
- Victor and opponent, Vlnadar
And then to her horror the end of the hall blew up! She felt the blast wave before anything else, it pushed her with such force that she literally flew backwards down the corridor and went SPLAT on the wall.
- Dhanishta Eshe
Corgan, during the last few missions, was a jackass who didn't do his job effectively.
- James Lionel Corgan
~"Savar is right. I have to stop being a goof and grow up. Christ, I'm over the Borg and lady troubles shouldn't affect my job. So why do I still act like an immature f**ktard? Maybe if I get my act together and show I can do my job, everyone else will treat me seriously. It would be nice.
- James Lionel Corgan
Popping the trigger with a short burst, James phaser seared a volcanic circle across the Breen's helmet, bursting the plates like a brown easter egg.
- James Lionel Corgan
He was death. What did death care about morality and causes when everyone eventually fell?!
~"Watch this whole f**king ship come down."~ Corgan phasered another Breen, but two more came in with their rifles blasting. ~"Krieghoff's a devil, Savar's a wolf, Tekri's the backstabber and Captain is god… but who cares?! I'm motherf**king death incarnate! Everything around me dies or goes to sh*t! C'mon Breen! I don't give a f**k if you're the best!"~ His arm shot at a Breen, gouging a smoking hole in its chest, ~"I'm death! You're in my way! DIE!"~ He shot another, ~"DIE! I DON'T CARE IF I DO!!!!!"~
The rush of slaying in droves, as efficiently as Death in his fields swiping his scythe across a fresh harvest, was a heady rush that brought him in rhythm hard to ignore. He took disgust and adulation of the death around him. His gun shot another Breen, two more. The energy levels on his phasers depleted, and yet he still could not register panic.
"C'mon!" He dared the Breen, ~"This is all I can do! Kill and die some more! Just try to hurt me more! I dare you!"~
- James Lionel Corgan
"My bad." Saul concurred. Indeed he allowed his tongue to loosen up too much.
- Saul Bental
Brianna looked down feeling Peckerwood, her dog, lay down beside her boot.
- Brianna O'Shea (this was chosen for the dog's name)
"True they can, but usually for me the eyes that are lying to me are in a very attractive young man with body by the gods and a smile that could melt titanium."
- Brianna O'Shea
Of course she would be hungry this early in the day; she had been dreaming about food.
- Aristi Ferguson
The computer beeped, then spoke again: "Message from your mother. Unread for 32 days."
The Bajoran chuckled. "Make that 33 days. And the second one?"
- Miramon Terrik
He'd always wondered at that - since the Federation promoted multi-cultural tolerance, why was it therefore wrong to wear something that represented your cultural and religious beliefs? It was like forbidding Klingons to wear a baldrick with family insignia. Just less dangerous.
- Miramon Terrik
“A little on edge with the whole, you know, imminent doom thing,” Aristi replied.
- Aristi Ferguson
"...but let's face it - if you wanted a boring and flatly uninteresting job, you'd have signed up for merchant freight rather than for Starfleet. This kinda thing comes with the job."
- Miramon Terrik
Why, obviously I have a super secret Intelligence mission, including assassinations, nasty villains, shiny gadgets, and surrounding myself with beautiful girls."
- Saul Bental
"...Starfleet credo, and all that sort of thing you know- seek out new life and so on and so forth..."
- Phoebe Ivers (of the USS Miranda)
"I mean, in the past, the people of Earth didn't even have a common language!"
- Saul Bental
On the press of a trigger, James very well expected to die.
- James Corgan
Ensign Satler, that was the name James recalled, once had crystalline blue eyes, cut from glaciers as rich as her accent. She was one of the new officers, not yet blooded in battle, until now. To witness an atrocity of such a depth as to turn her gemstone irises into ash gray.
- James Corgan
Now, high tech equipment was all but useful, blown out in charred heaps, as consoles spilled their electronic guts on the floor.
- James Corgan
Ella stared at Cutter and then slowly and deliberatly flipped him the bird.... She still stuck her tongue out at the Fruna'lin as he left though.
- Ella Grey
"My Starfleet counselor told me I'm OK." Saul blinked innocently. "She told me I could keep my lovely Starfleet uniform and continue boldly going where no Starfleet Officer has gone before – your shop for instance."
- Saul Bental
For probably the first time in her entire life, 8-ball was actually early for something, and she figured out why she didn't do it more often. She was utterly bored.
- 8-ball
"You love him, he loves you. . .star crossed lovers on a ship crossing stars. . .it'd be cute if it wasn't so annoying."
- 8-ball, referring to Victor and Ella
"Alcoholic half Vulcans more interested in screwing than star gazing probably would never be held as model citizen of the year."
- 8-ball
"I kind of liked him, though. He has a sort of annoying charm to him. A sort of 'I hate you and I want you to die but you're kind of funny' ambience."
- 8-ball, referring to Victor
...and the wind was like the graceful hand of a mermaid gently stroking his cheeks.
- Saul Bental
"Sark had given her his coat for the heat of the day was always sucked away at night."
- Dhanishta Eshe
The Milky Way Galaxy, all spiral and stars and nebulas which is not very good for you if you're allergic to dust.
- Saul Bental
He barely managed to land before he found himself airborne again, this time landing on Cassius' lap, scattering frightened chicks in swimsuits to all directions.
- Saul Bental, in a dream
"Everything dies," Victor answered quietly, with certainty. "Plants die, animals die, people die, planets die, stars die, galaxies die, and even universes die. Being sad over something that can't be changed is... senseless. There's no point to feeling sad for Grey, anyway."
"Why's that?"
"Because Grey isn't dead."
"Krieghoff," Indy began and then looked at him curiously. "How do you know?"
His answer was simple and delivered with a conviction that seemed unshakable. "Because I haven't told her that she could be."
- Victor and Indy
"Indigo began and looked hard at Krieghoff. He still looked like the boogeyman, he was still giving her the heebie-jeebies, but he had given her some kind of hope.
- Indigo Renkert
He simply wasn't human. Maybe he was really a Q - that would explain a lot.
- Daren M'Kantu, his take on Picard
"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!!! I LIKE NICE GIRLS!!!! I'M READY! I EVEN HAVE FRESH BOXERS ON TODAY!!!"
- Zeke Wikkins
[Space, following bread crumbs...]
- Jasmine "Jazz" Heloi
Black hair ran like a Ferengi's headscarf across the back of his head, as twinkling blue eyes looked down, tag teaming with a sneer asking for a fist to fill it.
- James Lionel Corgan, speaking of Sean McMasters
"So, we have your career by the ballsack. Co-operate or I'll squeeze 'till they pop. Is that clear?!"
- Sean McMasters to James Lionel Corgan
She wanted to get through her stages of grief quickly, preferably before lunchtime, and be able to move on to that point where she was in a "healthy and harmonious coping stage", where she was still sad but had realized that her friend had, "moved on to a better place", and that life was worth living and all that happy horseshit.
- 8-ball Hunter, mourning for Ella
But no matter the doubts, no matter the fears, no matter the dangers, only one answer could come from Klaus' mouth when the final request was made. "Yes Cassius. I'm with you."
- Klaus Fienberg
"I could get in so much trouble here..." She said then grinned. "So many people to mess with, so little time."
- Brianna O'Shea
She was quite content to keep working and bolstering that ‘I AM normal’ flag as high as it could go.
- Dhanishta Eshe
"The connections that friendships can form. These are going to be the best years of your life.”
- Ethan Suder
Betrayal is a legitimate tool.
- Saul Bental
"Well, funny story, sorta. Not so long ago, I was waiting to get into the holodeck and, you know, kick ass at pool, and this intensely freaky man comes out, right? So I'm backing up into the wall, trying to hide, and then I realize, wow, this is Victor, your studmuffin, so I told him how he really needed to just seriously make out with you, and he was very grrrrrrr-like and he-man, and I'm thinking you better just jump him soon because he's obviously too enamored of his whole me-tiger-you-sheep scenario to do anything about you guys, and if he's as scary as he seems to be, I'm not sure sexual frustration is good for his soul."
- 8-ball, on victor and ella
The bridge appeared just like he remembered from his last visit, even the same crew – of course, with the addition of the cute blonde and pretty red-head in Bikini swimsuits. Both of them sat on the lap of the Galaxy's executive officer now occupying the Captain's chair. The red-head caressed his chest whereas the blonde massaged his temples.
A career in Starfleet does have its reward, Saul reckoned.
- Saul
That is the One Nipple Ring. Forged by the dark skinned lady Sorefromman, high priestess of Morehors.
- Gandolfini Gray
"I know I should've been in touch more, but I did miss you." Instinctively, he gently moved his hand toward her hair in what was meant to be a calming gesture.
"Touch me, and the stump that was your hand will be redder than your uniform," Erin warned through clenched teeth.
Obviously, the gentle approach wasn't going to work.
- Jeremy Savoie and Erin Friel
Omar – who was beginning to realize that Romulans weren’t immune to vodka – grinned like smiles were going out of fashion.
- Omar
He hadn't had to kill her yet - that was always a good sign at the start of a mission.
- Victor, on K’vala
Rexa peered closer at the screen. "Oh my, I think he's really mad, Ar'resh."
"No," her sister said with a shake of her head. "That's silly, he'd..." She peered at the screen and blinked. "Oh, dear. He has that same little crease..."
"...between his eyes that dear Bernhard used to get..."
"...when *he* was really angry..."
"...or very, very frustrated," Rexa finished with a nod that make her hair bob.
"Oh, maybe that's it," Ar'resh said brightly. "It's because his..."
"...strong Krieghoff sex drive hasn't got any..."
"...outlet with his poor Ella still MIA!" Ar'resh frowned. "Our poor Heinrich..."
"...no wonder you're so cranky!"
- Rexa and Ar’resh
McMasters was glad to be away from what was the most unruly group yet.
It was HIS video! Everyone tore away at it, even the Vulcan. Corgan, once known as a cold and aloof sniper whom didn't talk much and smiled less, even had a few jabs at his masterpiece, his craft of patriotic inspiration and safety.
No longer. James was now McMaster's b*tch.
- McMasters on James
Ella entertained herself with thoughts of her and Victor doing some naughty things under bearskin covers on the floor of a cave, with a platter of real food and chocolate nearby. And a huge pitcher of cold water. Which then became her and Victor in an ice cold stream, with a platter of real food and chocolate nearby. Either fantasy, she was keeping the food and chocolate.
- Ella
“I will cut your heart out and eat it in front of your still living eyes!”
“Because I said you don’t know the first thing about making coffee?” Victor frowned. “Don’t you think that’s a bit… extreme, Attendant?”
- K’vala and Victor
Life went on, Ella told herself firmly. It was a good mantra, like "You can't always get what you want" and "There is no joy in Mudville."
- Ella
Many thanks go out to Lori, Kylee, Mek, and Oded for the gathering of quotes for Intermissions.