# Bastardizing famous movie, TV, and book lines to Trek-isms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345 "2006-06-27T13:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/1 "2006-06-27T13:41:55Z")
Inspired by Trek Doper **carni** and his fave lines thread. I posted there: “You had me a qa’plah.” I also think of: “We’ll always have Rigel 7.” “With replicators as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again.” “If you could see, what I’ve seen, thru your VISOR.” “Daddy, there’s a targ under my bed, can I have some water?” “In the beginning, Q created the heavens and the earth.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/2 "2006-06-27T13:59:38Z")
Never draw to an inside _fizbin_ Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the _mugatu_ of war. It’s hard to remember, when you’re up to your ass in tribbles, that your origfinal intention was to colonize the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/3 "2006-06-27T14:13:24Z")
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a tribble. Play it again, Q ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/4 "2006-06-27T14:55:04Z")
Frankly Spock, I don’t give a damn… ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/5 "2006-06-27T15:02:32Z")
Phasers? We don’t need no steenkin phasers! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/6 "2006-06-27T15:08:04Z")
“Combadges? We don’t need no steekin’ combadges!” ---
**Author:** ![ululate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/59ef9b/32.png) [@ululate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ululate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/7 "2006-06-27T15:10:57Z")
Jean-Luc Picard: _“I’m FRENCH! Why do you think I have this OUTRAGEOUS accent?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/8 "2006-06-27T15:25:32Z")
Forget it Jake, it’s Romulantown. Is that a dilithium crystal in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? If life gives you tribbles, make crushed tribble juice. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/9 "2006-06-27T16:28:57Z")
Of all the synthehol joints in all the galaxy, she had to transport into mine. I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six photon torpedos or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a Constellation-class starship, the most powerful vessel in the universe, and would blow your planet clean away, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/10 "2006-06-27T16:42:05Z")
Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot…Spock ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/11 "2006-06-27T17:12:18Z")
KIIIIIRRRRRKKKKK! Oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/12 "2006-06-27T17:51:55Z")
“Oh what a Tholian web we weave when first we practice to decieve” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/13 "2006-06-27T17:58:24Z")
“Here’s beaming at _you_, kid.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/14 "2006-06-27T18:12:33Z")
We’re going to need a bigger shuttlecraft. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the season of light, it wasthe season of darkness. It was Captain Picard, it was Captain Archer. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/15 "2006-06-27T18:15:20Z")
\*The Uhura. The Uhura. \* ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/16 "2006-06-27T18:19:42Z")
Ah, they’re 2920’s style phaser death rays. I phasing your dog. Rio by Data Data ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/17 "2006-06-27T18:24:18Z")
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Worf? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/18 "2006-06-27T18:27:24Z")
'Twas brillig, and the red shirts Did gyre and gimble in the away team: All mimsy were the series regulars, Knowing they were safe. “Beware the Technobabble, my son! The plots that bite, the gimmicks that catch! Beware the deus ex machina, and shun The frumious ‘Beam me down!’” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/19 "2006-06-27T18:31:53Z")
Nova in the 2nd Planet of the Apes movie: “Data!” I would enjoy seeing Data as Taylor in the first movie, too. “Get your stinking hooves off of me, you damn, dirty Tellerites!” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345/20 "2006-06-27T18:46:18Z")
“Wesley… phone home…!” “That rug… really tied the bridge together.” “Show me the gold-pressed latinum!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bastardizing-famous-movie-tv-and-book-lines-to-trek-isms/362345.md?page=2)