She tumbled ass over teacups and landed in a graceless sprawl, still wearing the gold silk evening gown.

- Unaurie Quyve

"Sometimes, the winds of time change, maybe people in your life will leave, go on to a better place, whatever it may be, no matter what, great memories are the key things to our lives. We live to fight to hold on to them and those memories are what keeps us going."

- Unknown

"Arrogant?", Saul asked.

"Try 'snobbish'."

"Try 'Irritating, cocky and bossy little buggers with megalomania on the side'.", Dupont offered, imitating Nyoko's high-pitched voice.

"Try 'French'.", Nyoko retorted.

- The Intelligence department tries to determine the traits of the Dreshayans

"I don't have any problem using a phaser." Saul told Miramon. "I have a problem with other people using a phaser on me."

- Saul and Miramon

"They aren't married," Phnel assured her. "They're just working unclothed together."

- Phnel explains his wife the relationship between Kreighoff and K'Vala

Victor hoped Phnel kept her from interacting with the real world too much.

- Kreighoff gives up hope on Phnel's second wife, which really needs a reality check.

Asking a Klingon if they were scared was much like poking a Cappellan Power cat in the eye with a sharp stick: they weren't going to like it and their response was likely to shock you.

- Unknown

It would have been any Freudian's field trip.

- An accurate description of Vronski's psyche

Perhaps a little nervous was an understatement. Though saying he was a bit nervous was like saying that Hitler was a bit naughty.

- Ensign Warbeck on his way to meet Captain M'Kantu

"Put me against the scum of the universe and see what kind of backbone I have!" Saul protested. "I'll... I'll... I'll gather quality intelligence on them and blackmail their mama!"

- Scum of the universe beware, Saul Bental will blackmail your mama!

Samantha ventured further in and was about to comment when she felt solid kick to her rear and went tumbling in headfirst.

"That's for the plank in Peter Pan!" Arel shouted after her, referring to another hologram adventure.

- Security chiefs from other sims don't get mad - they get even!

"You threw me into an ocean with sharks, crocodiles, and some weird alien thing that even a Klingon wouldn't have eaten." Arel said darkly. "You also pushed me out of a window to try to get me to fly, nearly got me killed by a bunch of mermaids, and had a bunch of brats dressed in road kill sing songs at me."

"But they were so cute." Samantha said.

- Holographic Arel Smith explains why she took the Peter Pen holo adventure so hard.

"Well, I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly." Samantha said with a scowl. "Not my fault your being deliberately obtuse."

"What's that supposed to mean?" The caterpillar asked, perplexed.

"Look it up on Google." Sam snapped.

- Lewis Carro'lls characters are introduced to the wonderful world of online search engines.

"I don't have any problem using a phaser." Saul told him. "I have a problem with other people using a phaser on me."

- Saul Bental and Miramon Terrik preparing to go planetside.

Another half of a song later, the man's door was decorated with two 'merry christmas' and five candy canes.

- Sam does her good deed for Christmas

"I mean, for all I know, Kirk had a sexual fetish with stuffed penguins. Stranger things have happened."

- 8-Ball concludes her professional opinion about the historic persona James Tiberius Kirk.

"Don't get me wrong, some Christmas songs are great. My Asshole Captain Got Ran Over By a Reindeer is just an absolute classic and my life would surely not be the same thing without it, but most people play that boring crap like "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Joy to the World", and not only do they play it once, they place it six thousand times, so whenever the song begins to start again, you want to take a phaser, shove it down your throat, and do a few cartwheels so that you can hit the trigger while choking on said phaser and be blown apart into bits from the inside. It's wretched, wretched stuff."

- 8-Balls explains her vantage point on the subject of Christmas songs.

The joy. Honestly, the joy. Everybody's singing and dancing along like they could just die happy right now and you're sitting there after working a double shift with tribble guts in your hair because of a freak accident and people want to know why you're not in the holiday spirit.

- 8-balls makes a Tribble excuse for not sharing everbody's Christmas spirit

"I assure you, sir, the warp drive will be ready if I have to get out and push."

- Brianna Oshea assures the captain that repairs will be ready in time - whatever the cost might be!

If Engineering has to fix a pipe or a conduit, OPS has to reroute that material somewhere, they may have to shut off a sections toilets. What if you had to go to the other side of the ship to pee?

- From an OOC article by Chad about how to play a realistic on-duty scene.

~Yea, you're just waiting till she comes around to ME to breach, aren't you?~

- Naranda Sol Roswell talks to the warp core while awaiting the Chief Engineer's inspection.

"He left to get something... I didn't know what. I conjured up all sorts of terrible things in my mind, so terrible that I took a shot at him when he returned." she made a face. "My hand was shaking so hard that I missed terribly- but he complimented me anyway, told me that it was a good idea to be that ready to shoot if the Breen came."

*WHAT DID HE GO TO GET?*

"Pants."

Ella mouthed an 'oh.'

- Ella and Transporter chief Canon discussing Victor Krieghoff's actions

Not being able to use her computer PADD, Ella settled for a 'bwak bwak' chicken noise.

- Ella Grey mocks the ship's Chief Helmsman during a reckless shuttle flight.

She had particularly enjoyed Nintendo and Super Mario Brothers, though for the life of her she couldn't understand why pretending to be a short little fat man jumping on turtles would be so amusing.

- 8-Ball discovers the incredible world of video games

"Where are the weapons stored!?" The interrogator yelled.

Nara screamed, "In your bumhole!"

- Naranda Sol Roswell resisting an interrogation

"Were you good to the lass?"

James had to reflect on that, "Aside from the gunfight... yes I was."

- James Corgan and a hologram discussing Corgan's Romulan Ex.

"It's a fish. It swims in the ocean. Now it's on your plate. You eat it."

- Victor Krieghoff explains the concept of eating fishes.

Samantha Widdlestein was now onto buttons. She tried to match the button to the personality but some were harder than most. She had finally settled for a blue button that read "Spank my ass if I'm hot" for Mr. Corgan.

- Sam Widdlestein trying to raise the moral of the crew by making personality-matching buttons.

"No marines and no psychologists. What kind of world is that?"

- Lieutenant Branwen London is once again amazed by alien cultures

You can't just go attacking other people's teddy bears. It's not polite."

- 8-Ball protects Egptac the teddy bear from an infuriated Ella Grey

"We...represent the lollipop guild! And we wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land! Can you say ping?*~

- Jasmine Heloi losing it once her mental shields are down near the rift

"We will meet again, and I won't let you walk away. I will kill you myself. You have my blood oath on it."

"Stand in line."

- Captain Adair swearing vengeance on M'Kantu, who shrugs it off.

"Mr. Bartlett. No one is to awaken me unless it's an emergency. And by that, I mean end of the universe type."

- Captain M'Kantu wraps up yet another successful episode.

Another Day, another pot of coffee.
~ Klaus Fineberg

"Why does everyone threaten me with going to my superior!" George stated when he finally got his voice.

"Probably because your mother is too far away."

~George Kastanza and Saul Bental

I think Nara's ready for someone who can do something more than just thrust, rinse, repeat, and let's be honest here, I'll bet all the latinum I've ever seen that I'm a touch more experienced than you.

~8-ball Hunter to Saul Bental

If she started spouting off nonsense again like 'two by two, hands of blue' she was going to check herself into the nearest mental institution and let it be.

~Jasmine Heloi (gotta love a Firefly reference)

Somehow, bringing chocolate chip cookies and a card that said 'Thanks for saving me from going insane' seemed a bit much. She seriously doubted that any card maker - from Hallmark to Galactic Greetings - carried any 'saving from insanity' cards.
~ Jasmine thinks of how to thank Tarin

"You think that intergalactic diplomacy is simply all about sex?" Victor asked.

"I'm afraid that your companion would say that his diplomatic relations have moved into the break-up phase right now."

"Just a little more work and you'll be handsome enough to put the other targ to shame in the pen tonight."
~Krieghoff showing us his charm.

Nara paced the common area of her and Bran's quarters trying to think of words to say to Saul. Maybe once she came up with words, she could form coherent sentences. Just as she had come up with a few articles, namely "a" and "the", a perky Bran walked in. "A" and "the" flew out the window.
~Nara agonizing over Saul, who was dating Bran at the time.

"Go away," she said to him. "Can't you see I'm fully dressed right now?"

~8-ball to the ensign that always walks in on her.

Many thanks go out to Oded and Mek who put together the great majority of the quotes for "Rite of Passage".