# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/121 "2006-06-30T08:58:45Z")
Since my favourite was already nominated, I can’t think of any others that spring to mind. I think the following were nominated on another thread of the same topic; Data reminding Worf how to praise Spot, how he’s a pretty cat 😛 Or (another Data related line) Dr Crusher letting Data know that the two boys in sickbay will forgive each other because they’re brothers, right after Lore has killed Soong and made off with the emotion chip. And of course Spock’s line in The Cage, “The Women!”, to be enjoyed with his sudden recoil in surprise 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/122 "2006-07-01T02:31:25Z")
I also liked at the end of “Redemption II” after the plot has been foiled and the pretender to the throne is hauled before the Klingon High Council. He of course is full of bravado, swearing that one day his side will rule the Empire. Gowron, bristling with confidence, smiles and replies, “Perhaps … but NOT TODAY!” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/123 "2006-07-01T02:47:56Z")
By Grabthar’s Hammer…what savings!.. :smack: sorry, wrong movie… \*slinks away, giggling ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/124 "2006-07-01T05:54:39Z")
“…No, I live in Iowa, I only work in outer space.” ---
**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:** [July 1, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/125 "2006-07-01T20:30:37Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Shaka. When the walls fell. Personally, I prefer “Darmok and Jilad at Tinagra” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/126 "2006-07-01T20:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Also great is Sisko’s closing speech: > Quote: > “At 0800 Hours station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck 15 bases along the Cardassian border. So this is a huge victory for the good guys! This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There is even a ‘welcome to the fight’ party tonight in the wardroom. 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. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it… because I can live with it… I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.” > > Even his o-ver-e-nun-ci-a-ting worked to good effect there That episode is the best one ever. Suddenly, Star Trek is not this antiseptic-diplomacy-will-always-work-universe. It’s messy, it’s bloody, there are shades of grey, and sometimes the good guys have to do bad things in order to win. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/127 "2006-07-01T20:53:11Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > That episode is the best one ever. Suddenly, Star Trek is not this antiseptic-diplomacy-will-always-work-universe. It’s messy, it’s bloody, there are shades of grey, and sometimes the good guys have to do bad things in order to win. If **that’s** what you want, watch _Babylon 5!_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/128 "2006-07-01T20:54:58Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Data reminding Worf how to praise Spot, how he’s a pretty cat 😛 WHORF (lips curling and nostrils flaring in disgust): I will . . . **feed** him! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/129 "2006-07-01T21:25:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > If **that’s** what you want, watch _Babylon 5!_ I quit watching B5 when they had a _boxing episode_ and the security guy became a dipsomanic. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/130 "2006-07-01T23:49:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I quit watching B5 when they had a _boxing episode_ and the security guy became a dipsomanic. Must have taken you a long time to quit–the boxing episode was in the first season, and the drunken Garibaldi episodes were in the final (fifth) season. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/131 "2006-07-02T00:04:02Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Must have taken you a long time to quit–the boxing episode was in the first season, and the drunken Garibaldi episodes were in the final (fifth) season. Er, there’s a first season episode (“Survivors”) in which Garibaldi falling off the wagon (after being framed for sabotage) is a major subplot. He pulled himself together and stayed sober until the middle of the fifth season. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/132 "2006-07-02T00:19:16Z")
TNG episode…Worf is in a mud bath with Lwaxana and Alexander: “You’re just supposed to sit here?” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/133 "2006-07-02T00:29:01Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > Er, there’s a first season episode (“Survivors”) in which Garibaldi falling off the wagon (after being framed for sabotage) is a major subplot. He pulled himself together and stayed sober until the middle of the fifth season. Ah, sorry. I forgot all about that. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/134 "2006-07-02T00:30:04Z")
“where they’ll be no tribble a’tall!” Of course my personal favorite has to be “NOT NOW, MADELINE!” said to the red-haired secretary. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/135 "2006-07-02T00:52:58Z")
Space, the final frontier These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise Her five year mission, to seek out new life, new civilzations To bodly go where no man has gone before. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/136 "2006-07-02T01:02:20Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Space, the final frontier > These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise > Her five year mission, to seek out new life, new civilzations > To bodly go where no man has gone before. To boldly split infinitives no one had split before! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/137 "2006-07-02T01:06:08Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > That episode is the best one ever. Suddenly, Star Trek is not this antiseptic-diplomacy-will-always-work-universe. It’s messy, it’s bloody, there are shades of grey, and sometimes the good guys have to do bad things in order to win. Umm, it was never like that. How about: Edith Keillor must die. or 100 serpents for the Garden of Eden ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/138 "2006-07-02T01:48:40Z")
Scotty (shocked at LaForge’s honesty): “Ye dinna tell him how long it was really going to take you?” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/139 "2006-07-02T02:23:57Z")
Worf upon tasting prune juice: “A warrior’s drink.” ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311/140 "2006-07-02T03:26:14Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > There! Are! Four! Lights! I rewatched that episode a few months ago, after having seen it as a kid. I remembered Picard defiantly refusing to cave in, being of iron will and character. And then I rewatched it. It’s not a victory of will, of character - it’s a victory of circumstance. He knew he was going to be rescued when he said that. It renders it meaningless. > [@](#): > > I quit watching B5 when they had a boxing episode and the security guy became a dipsomanic. The first season is pretty rough in spots, and mostly unlike the rest of the series, but from late season 2 to the end of 4 is some really good stuff. In some ways quite flawed, but easily, easily far better than even the best of trek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-star-trek-line/362311.md?page=8)