# Favorite Star Trek line **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311 "2006-06-27T03:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/21 "2006-06-27T06:32:53Z")
“You should never tell the same lie twice.” (Just saw this ep, so it’s freshest in my memory.) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/22 "2006-06-27T06:36:03Z")
Do the movies count? If so, then it’s no contest for me: “If you were any other man I would kill you where you stand.” But if it has to be from the tv shows, then it’s from the end of All Good Things: “Maintain position! Mister La Forge --” [Here](http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/nextgeneration/) are transcripts from every TNG episode. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/23 "2006-06-27T06:37:42Z")
“I will not sacrifice the enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already. Too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they have done!” ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/24 "2006-06-27T06:43:03Z")
“VICTORY IS LIFE!” “TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!” (Battle cries used by a Jem’Ha’Dar guard and Commander Worf as they are about to engage in one-on-one unarmed combat in Deep Space Nine) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/25 "2006-06-27T06:49:55Z")
“Laddy, don’t you think you’d better…rephrase that?” ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/26 "2006-06-27T07:10:57Z")
Oh, come on. " … to boldly go where no man has gone before!" ---
**Author:** ![Whifton\_Polekitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@Whifton\_Polekitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whifton_Polekitty)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/27 "2006-06-27T07:20:59Z")
Only because I’ve wanted to say it with the same… method… as Kirk was using as a sort of secondary emphasis… “I! HAVE HAD! ENOUGH! OF YOU!” {kick kick kick kick kick etc} ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/28 "2006-06-27T08:52:54Z")
From First Contact, Data in reply to Picard saying he’s about to violate Star Fleet orders. Sir, I think I speak for everyone when I say. . . To hell with our orders. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/29 "2006-06-27T08:59:10Z")
“I’m trying to build a computer out of stone knives and bear skins.” - Spock (I might have gotten it wrong.) “It is… green.” - Scotty (or Data) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/30 "2006-06-27T09:53:26Z")
The one line I use when something goes wrong at work, “So much for the little training cruise.” ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/31 "2006-06-27T10:01:27Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > From First Contact, Data in reply to Picard saying he’s about to violate Star Fleet orders. > > Sir, I think I speak for everyone when I say. . . To hell with our orders. I think that was ‘Insurrection.’ Still a heck of a good line. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/32 "2006-06-27T10:15:42Z")
“Excuse me, but what does God want with a starship?” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/33 "2006-06-27T11:34:57Z")
“Who put the Tribbles in the Quartritcale?” ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/34 "2006-06-27T11:40:04Z")
"A Regulan bloodworm is soft, and shapeless. But Kirk isn’t soft. He may be a swaggering, overbearing tin-plated dictator with delusions of Godhood…but he isn’t soft. - Klingon captain in “Trouble with Tribbles.” Most accurate description of James T. Kirk evah!! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/35 "2006-06-27T11:47:51Z")
“They are not the Hell your whales.” ---
**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, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/36 "2006-06-27T11:59:56Z")
> [@Strinka](#): > > “The line must be drawn here!” That’s actually “The line must be drawn HYAH!” Common mistake. 😉 My choice? Star Trek II. “I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.” ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/37 "2006-06-27T12:23:55Z")
Actually it is qa set of lines… which is also the greatest Kirk Moment: KIRK: I Don’t believe in the now win scenario… Kirk to Spock it’s been 2 hrs SPOCK: Right on schedual Admiral KIRK: All right. (To SAAVKIK) I don’t like to lose. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/38 "2006-06-27T12:28:34Z")
Jean-Luc:- “Merde” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/39 "2006-06-27T12:30:53Z")
_Highly_ illogical. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/40 "2006-06-27T12:34:00Z")
“I will be … irritated.” (Worf’s reply when Riker asks about the consequences of losing at Stratagema before progressing far enough for Worf to win his bet.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311.md?page=3)