# Random Star Trek Quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Tags:** star-trek-paramount\
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112 "2014-09-10T20:43:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2164 "2018-07-14T21:40:03Z")

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A blind man teaching an android to paint? That’s got to be worth a few pages in _somebody’s_ book.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2165 "2018-07-15T16:43:36Z")

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What a blessing to be able to live one’s life over again. If the life you’ve lived has left you unfulfilled. No, Sarah, I don’t want to live it all over again. I couldn’t improve one bit on what we’ve had together.

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**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2166 "2018-07-15T23:28:59Z")

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“You can’t appreciate Shakespeare until you’ve read him in the original Klingon.” – General Chang, Star Trek VI

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**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2167 "2018-07-16T00:13:52Z")

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I’d see the freckles on his nose if he had them, sir.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2168 "2018-07-16T18:53:40Z")

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I am pleasantly surprised at your capacity for deductive reasoning, Captain. When you are not being bellicose, there appears to be no end to your arsenal of formidable talents.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2169 "2018-07-18T22:28:53Z")

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Laheera spun, faced the screen, looked straight across the distance at Calhoun, and Laheera the blackmailer, the extorter, the murderer, screamed to Mackenzie Calhoun, _“Save me!”_

And it was M’k’n’zy of Calhoun, M’k’n’zy the savage, M’k’n’zy the warrior, who had crossed swords with an empire and lived to speak of it, who replied with icy calm, “You wanted hands off. You’ve got hands off.”

The mob descended upon her, and just before she vanished beneath their number, she howled, _“You bastard!”_

He replied softly, as much to himself as to her, since she was otherwise distracted and unable to hear him. “You don’t know the half of it. Good-bye, Laheera.”

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2170 "2018-07-24T09:37:36Z")

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Jim, I’m your doctor and I’m your friend. Get back your command. Get it back before you turn into part of this collection. Before you really _do_ grow old.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2171 "2018-07-24T17:05:20Z")

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Seize the time, Meribor – live now! Make now always the most precious time. _Now_ will never come again.

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**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2172 "2018-07-24T17:18:51Z")

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“Indeed, gentlemen. May I point out that I had an opportunity to observe your counterparts here quite closely. They were brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous - in every way splendid examples of homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity. I found them quite refreshing.”

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**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2173 "2018-07-24T17:37:59Z")

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“Right now I’d settle for a stabilizer and the captain’s desk.”  
“The river will provide.”

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2174 "2018-07-24T20:11:35Z")

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“Lieutenant, send a subspace message to Admiral Hanson: ‘We have engaged the Borg.’”

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**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2175 "2018-07-24T23:41:01Z")

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Take your best shot, Locutus, because we are about to intervene!

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2176 "2018-07-25T02:51:09Z")

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“How much do you remember?”  
“Everything. Including some brilliantly unorthodox strategy from a… _former_ first officer of mine.”

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2177 "2018-07-30T20:06:53Z")

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Why this marvelous gift? The troublesome little man-child! Are you prepared for the kind of death you’ve earned, little man?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2178 "2018-08-03T19:55:49Z")

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Visitors are welcome here.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2179 "2018-08-03T22:56:51Z")

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The word “trust” just isn’t in your vocabulary, is it? Good try, nine out of ten for effort.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2180 "2018-08-05T13:28:43Z")

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Send the Doctor.

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**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2181 "2018-08-05T16:21:19Z")

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A hundred thousand welcomes. It’s an old Irish saying. We’re all friends here.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2182 "2018-08-05T21:54:02Z")

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They’re all dead. We’re going to die, too.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2183 "2018-08-11T21:38:15Z")

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To this end my blade soars! Through the aquarium of my soul, seeking the kelp of discontent, which must be cut, so that the rocky bottom of love lie in waiting with fertile sand, for the coming seed of Grilka’s affection. And yet, does this explain my need for her? No. It is like a giant cave of emptiness, waiting for the bats of love to hang b-

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