The random Star Trek quotes thread...

"I like the idea of an ancient race. It makes a world feel . . . lived-in."

A pity. I quite liked him.

"Assimilate this!"

I thought it strange that a mere cadet would know about Mintoka III, but the Firox plague has been classified top secret. Who are you?

Are you all out of your minds? End of what? It's the end of everything! What are you, ROBOTS? Wound-up toy soldiers? Don't you know when you're dying? Watch and regulations and orders... What do they MEAN?

"Mr. Sulu. You may indulge yourself."

"No beach to walk on . . . "

Quark: I want you to try something. It's an Earth drink. Root beer.
Garak: I couldn't...
Quark: Go on.
Garak: It's vile!
Quark: It's so bubbly and cloying and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: You know what's worse? If you drink enough of it, you start to like it.
Garak: It's insidious.
Quark: Just like the Federation.

There is no on deck 9, section 12 that doesn't know when you're have intimate relations.

I'm culling most of these from memory...please forgive any misquotes in advance.


Q: "I tell you I'm human! What do I have to do to convince you?"

Worf: "Die."

Geordi [regarding a disabled Packled ship] "Let me guess...their rubber band broke?"

Riker: "My ship is the...Lollipop."

Holographic/fake Captain Rice: "The Lollipop...I'm not familiar with that ship."

Riker: "She was just commissioned --she's a good ship."

"We have no laws to fit your crime."

Picard: "Maximum setting. If you had fired this, you would have vaporized me."

Lily: "It's my first ray gun."

"Spock! So help me, I'm actually glad to see you."


"I choose the danger. (aside) Helluva time to ask."

"Have you ever fought an idea, Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, no body to kill!"

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Well done, Lieutenant Broccoli...........Barclay."
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"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."

"By God, Jim, I'm beginning to think I could cure a rainy day!"

"Spock, where the hell's the power I asked for?"
"One damn minute, Admiral."

"Brain and brain! What is brain?"

"You're too slow, old man" (only good line from that movie)

"Do not patronize me, sir. I invented physics."

"I may be surrounded by insanity, but I am NOT insane."

"Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit"

"Good tea. Nice house."

"All I ask is a tall ship, and a load of contraband to fill her with..."

"I suppose your gods are less vague?"
"Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennium ago."

We reach

"You just don't get it, do you Jean-Luc? The trial never ends."

"The Federation needs people like you, Doctor. People who can sleep at night."

"We've all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have."

"That'll be the day!"

"Captain, Captain, Captain... Save your strength. These people have sworn to live and die at my command two hundred years before you were born."

"Spock says this could be an historic occasion and I'd like to believe him. But how on Earth can history get past people like me?"

"Doctor, you are a sensualist." "You bet your pointed ears I am."

"To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?"

"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"

Herbert, you are STIFF!

I am not Herbert.

I wonder how much crossover fandom there is between TOS and White Zombie. There is sampled audio from that episode on one of the songs from La Sexorcisto. One of the cuts is Spock saying "I am not Herbert."

He's not Herbert ! We reach.

"Wife, attend me." - Sarek