The random Star Trek quotes thread...

He tasks me... he TASKS me... and I shall have him.
I will chase him round the moons of Nibia
and round the Antares maelstrom
and round Perdition's flames before I give him up.

Meh. Not really a Star Trek quote but a paraphrase from Moby Dick.

Ergo, doesn't qualify.

Most of the really good Trek quotes are stolen from great works of literature. Hell, half of Picard's speeches from TNG were riffs on Shakespeare's Henry V.

Come to think of it, this speaks quite poorly of Trek writers.

Some that get lots of use around our house:

"Is there some significance to this action?"

"No kill I!"

"Oochi woochi koochi koo, Captain?"

"AN-tee-bah-dees!"

"Don't forget to pick up your shoes."

"Respect must be earned- not given away."

"You are an insulting pompous fool and if you were not an ambassador I would disembowel you right here!"

"What the _______ says is unimportant, and we do not hear his words."

"Klingon" fills the blank in the original quote, I insert my own subject depending on what I'm talking about.

One is my name. The other is not.

I often use this quote when the subject of Jenee vs Jennifer comes up.

So far, all those quotes just prove my point. Trek writers suck when they're not paraphrasing someone else's work.

Spock, you traitorous pig, I'll hang you up by your Vulcan ears!

"We’re human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we’re killers, but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes. Knowing that we won’t kill today."

Mind your own business, Mr. Spock. I'm sick and tired of your half-breed interference.

Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits! - Waiting.

"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true."

"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars, and then to the nearest star? That's like saying that you wished that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not -- because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk ... risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her."

FTFY

Shaternized!

Trip Tucker: "If you don't start moving in the next five seconds, I'm gonna take my phase pistol and shoot you in the ass!".... as he's pulling out his phase pistol.

This one has had particular significance for me during the better part of the last decade.

"Well, now that the ranks are dropped, Captain, I don't like you either. You are arrogant and closed-minded. You need to control everything and everyone. You don't provide an atmosphere of trust and you don't inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You've got everyone wound up so tight, there's no joy in anything. I don't think you're a particularly good captain."

"I wonder if the Emporer Honores, watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill, truly realized that the Roman Empire was about to fall."

I used this one several times in the fall and early winter of 1999.

A few of my favorites, most aren't especially classic lines...

"Risk is our business."

"We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes."

"V'ger! WE are the Creator."

"Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many."

"No, no, no, no. You don't understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill just one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand. I killed all of them. All Husnock. Everywhere."

"Blasphemy! I oughta smite you or something."

"I've brought down bigger men than you, Picard!"

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

"So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it."

"You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being. Finding your weakness is only a matter of time."

"Nice legs... for a Human."

"Without your assistance on our last encounter I would never have survived. I would have taken my own life but for you."
"We all make mistakes."

"Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!"

"Get this cheese to sick bay!"

"Lying is a skill like any other, and if you want to maintain a level of excellence you have to practice constantly."

"A man shouldn't allow his enemies to outlive him. "

"How thoughtless of me not to consider the effects the destruction of my home world would have on your business; These must be trying times for you, be brave. "


"Come now, Mr. Worf! You're a Klingon; don't tell me you'd object to a little genocide in the name of self-defense."

"Where are we going?" -- McCoy
"Where they went." -- Kirk
"What if they went nowhere?" -- McCoy
"Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all." -- Kirk

"I'm NOT Picard!"

"Let's get the hell out of here."

"Computer, deactivate iguana."