# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/61 "2006-06-27T16:44:30Z")
“Uhura, signal our surrender . . . We Surrender!!” - Kirk, ST6 To me, that was the best, most brilliant decision Kirk ever made. Also, gotta agree that Sulu’s line in that movie was delivered masterfully. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/62 "2006-06-27T16:59:37Z")
“Great. I think it’s great - Scotty, get us out of here!” “What a doctor it would have made. My son, the doctor. Get’s you right here.” ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/63 "2006-06-27T17:24:14Z")
Double dumbass on you! Do you like Italian? Yes/no. No/yes. Yes/no. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/64 "2006-06-27T18:00:23Z")
Okay, everybody else has already picked all the other ones I was going to pick (my real favorite is the “swaggering, overbearing dictator with delusions of godhood” one) but here are a few more I like: “Where are the nuclear wessels?” - Chekov “Keyboard. How…quaint.” - Scotty “HAAARRRCOUUURRRTTTT FENTON MUDD!” - Stella Mudd “Logic is a bunch of pretty flowers that smell bad.” - Spock “It seemed the logical thing to do at the time.” - Sarek ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/65 "2006-06-27T18:03:28Z")
Troi, to what’s her name the doctor that replaced Crusher for awhile upon the doctor asking advice on why her and the Captain kept butting heads: “Let’s just say you and the Captain both have well established personalities.” ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/66 "2006-06-27T18:10:29Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > “Keyboard. How…quaint.” - Scotty I pick up the mouse and do that “helllloooo computer” thing everytime I can’t get something to work on my computer. ---
**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, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/67 "2006-06-27T18:15:39Z")
In “Amok Time” (TOS), after T’Pau says to Spock, “Live long and prosper,” Spock responds with this devastating line: “I shall do neither. I have killed my captain and my friend.” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/68 "2006-06-27T18:18:21Z")
“Captain! There be whales here!” - Scotty ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/69 "2006-06-27T18:20:31Z")
“He’s gonna want a piece of OUR ACTION!” ---
**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, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/70 "2006-06-27T18:27:47Z")
> [@Dolores Reborn](#): > > “Captain! There be whales here!” - Scotty Admiral :dubious: ;j ---
**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, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/71 "2006-06-27T18:30:32Z")
“Captain! There be admirals here!” ??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/72 "2006-06-27T18:34:01Z")
Oops! What’s the line where Picard is on a planet with a guy who speaks in metaphors? ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/73 "2006-06-27T18:35:21Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > “You hit me!..Picard never hit me!” or something to that effect. > > Q, to Sisko, DS9 :eek: (rather blandly:) “I’m not Picard.” 🆒 * * * True Blue Jack ---
**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, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/74 "2006-06-27T18:35:48Z")
Shaka. When the walls fell. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/75 "2006-06-27T18:36:25Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Shaka. When the walls fell. Ah yes! Absolutely one of my favorites. ---
**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, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/76 "2006-06-27T18:37:13Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Shaka. When the walls fell. Chaka Khan. When the whales fail. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/77 "2006-06-27T18:49:38Z")
Many great lines here. Some better than others. But here’s mine (which sort of violates the OP rules, sorry) > [@](#): > > [Garak takes a drink of root beer] > Quark: What do you think? > Elim Garak: It’s vile. > Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy. > Elim Garak: Just like the Federation. > Quark: And you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it. > Elim Garak: It’s insidious. > Quark: Just like the Federation. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/78 "2006-06-27T18:51:32Z")
“No more bonk bonk!” – Kirk, from _Miri_ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/79 "2006-06-27T18:57:03Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Chaka Khan. When the whales fail. LMAO! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/80 "2006-06-27T18:57:31Z")
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