Ok I know most want to forget this Movie ever happened but My favorite McCoy line seemed to be in true character
“Jim, you really piss me off…”
Another Great moment comes to mind… Not a single quote but some good acting…
Charlie Evans: Oh, no, please…don’t let them take me.I can’t live with them anymore! You’re my friends. You said you were my friends. Remember?
When I came aboard! Please…
I want to go home. Take me home.
[snip]
I won’t do it again. Please, I’ll be good. I won’t ever do it again. I’m sorry about the Antares. I’m sorry! Please? I want to go with you. Help me!
[SNIP]
Oh, please…Don’t let them take me. I can’t even touch them! Janice… They can’t feel. Not like you! They don’t love! Please…
I want to stay…
stay…
stay…
stay…
stay…
stay…
stay.
Slight correction, it’s “I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.”
Another one from DS9’s “Duet”—
[spoiler]Kira has realized that the man claiming to be the war criminal Gul Darheel is an impostor named Maritza. He tries to deny it,
“I’m alive! I’ll always be alive! It’s Maritza who’s dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bed and wheeping like a woman! Who would, every night, cover his ears because he couldn’t bear the—”
At this point, what makes the line, Maritza’s “smug war criminal” act just breaks down into sobs.
“—screaming of the Bajorans! I’d cover my ears every night, so I couldn’t barely hear those horrible screams… you have no idea what it’s like to be a coward. Seeing these horrors, and doing nothing. Maritza’s dead, he deserves to be dead.”
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Another line I like:
“Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed with the Maquis? We’ve never harmed you -and yet we’re constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands, and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. WHY? Because we’ve left the Federation -and that’s the one thing you can’t accept. Nobody leaves Paradise -everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join; you’re only sending them replicators because one day, they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways, you’re even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You’re more insidious; you assimilate people, and they don’t even know it.”
—Eddington, DS9, “The Cause”
You know, I stopped watching Enterprise after the second season. Thank you for reminding me why. I myself once came up with a simpler, more plausible explanation for the difference:
My theory is the Klingons always had the ridges (and the strength, and the redundant organs), it was part of their natural evolution. During the mid 23rd century, Klingon medicine advanced to the point where cosmetic surgery was easily and publicly available, just a matter of waving a few whirring doodads over the warrior’s face and bingo. It became popular to use these new devices to remove the ridges. Maybe they thought it was more Spartan or something. Anyway, by the 2270s (or at least before the first movie took place in 2279), the Klingons realized how vain and dishonorable they were being, and the practice ceased. Everyone who had done it was restored to how they looked before.
You’ll note that my theory explains the discrepancy itself, the appearance of the Kahless clone in “Rightful Heir,” Worf’s reluctance to discuss it with outsiders, and also the change in the appearance of Kang, Kor, and Koloth, all without messing with the quasi-established first contact with the Klingons of 2218.
Enterprise really is pretty good right now, Rift. Hokey as the explanation may be, that arc was very enjoyable. The season drifts too close to TOS fanwank for it to be ideal (here’s the augments arc, then the arc making the Vulcans more like they were in TOS, the first “appearance” of the Organians, then the Klingon forehead arc, then Orion slave girls, then Mirror Universe , etc.), but it’s all well-executed and all undeniably Star Trek.
S: That was the turbulence caused by the crossing of a boundary layer.
K: A Boundary between what and what?
S: The boundary between where we were, and where we are.
ST-IV:“What does he mean, ‘exact change’?”
“You must forgive my friend, back in the 60s he took too much L-D-S”
TNG setup line:
Q: What do I have to do to convince you I am now a mere mortal?
Worf: You could… die.
This triggered the great “Eat any good books lately?” retort.
DS9:
Worf, assisting Keiko who has gone into labor: “Congratulations, you are now fully dilated to 10 centimeters: you may now proceed to give birth.”
Bones:
“Just once I’d like to land somewhere and just say, ‘Behold, I am the Angel Gabriel’!”
From DS9, the episode in which some of the DS9 crew and the Jem’Hadar are cooperating on a mission. The Jem’Hadar do their “we’re all dead, victory is life” speech and leave.
O’Brien to the Starfleet people: My name is Miles Edward O’Brien. I’m very much alive, and I intend to stay that way!
It comes up everytime we see a pre-battle speech on TV or in a movie!
Another favorite, from TNG “The Emissary”:
Worf, during a poker game: Klingons never bluff.
Nitpick: I’m pretty sure that’s from TNG. Keiko gave birth to their first child in ten-forward on the Enterprise while the ship was out of the crew’s control (again) for some reason that I can’t remember (which was also why Worf was doing the delivery). The one born on DS9 was carried by Narys.
To the last I will grapple with thee. From Hell’s heart I stab at thee. For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Khan: You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.
Kirk: What is the meaning of this attack? Where is the crew of the Reliant?
Khan: Surely I have made my meaning plain. I mean to a-VAYNGE myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life. But I wanted you to know who it was who had beaten you.
Both of these quotes are also among my favorites; I just couldn’t find them online. They’re both brilliantly delivered monologues- the first is absolutely heartbreaking, both for the audience and for Kira, and the second sends chills down my spine. Because, when you think about it, Eddington is absolutely right. The Federation really is an “insidious” Borg. And given what we learn about the darker parts of the Federation (Section 31, anyone?) later in the series, they don’t even necessarily hold the moral high ground.
Again, there’s a reason DS9 is easily my favorite Trek.
Michael Dorn delivers some wonderful deadpan lines. I like the Robin Hood episode, where Q sends the senior officers off to Sherwood Forest. Picard is explaining to everyone who they are, and tells Worf that he’s Will Scarlet, to which Worf growls,
“Captain, I must protest! I am NOT a Merry Man!”
I about fell out of my chair on that one.
And speaking of delivering Keiko’s baby, there’s an excellent DS9 scene where Worf finds out Keiko is expecting again, and the look of fear and panic on his face, skillfully hidden of course, is priceless.
They’re both brilliantly delivered monologues- the first is absolutely heartbreaking, both for the audience and for Kira, and the second sends chills down my spine. Because, when you think about it, Eddington is absolutely right. The Federation really is an “insidious” Borg. And given what we learn about the darker parts of the Federation (Section 31, anyone?) later in the series, they don’t even necessarily hold the moral high ground.