# 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:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2744 "2020-07-04T00:21:59Z")

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Error. Error. Error. Examine. I shall analyse error. Analyse error. Examine error. Error. Analyse error. Error. Faulty! Error. Error. Faulty! Faulty! Must sterilise. Sterilise,

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2745 "2020-07-04T00:33:53Z")

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- [Q](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209496/?ref_=tt_ch): [scoffs] The anomaly, my ship, my crew; I suppose you’re worried about your fish, too. If it puts your mind at ease - you’ve saved humanity, once again.

- [Q](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209496/?ref_=tt_ch): Oh, you’d like me to connect the dots for you, lead you from A to B to C, so that your puny mind could comprehend? How boring.

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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 4, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2746 "2020-07-04T03:14:33Z")

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I have to admit that it has a sort of strange fascination - how long can two people talk about nothing?

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2747 "2020-07-04T04:00:32Z")

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Why would he put a _bag_ on our _captain_ ?

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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 4, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2748 "2020-07-04T04:09:57Z")

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Just like the Federation!

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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 5, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2749 "2020-07-05T19:09:08Z")

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“YOU BETRAYED YOUR UNIFORM!”  
“AND YOU’RE BETRAYING YOURS! RIGHT NOW! The difference is, you don’t even realize it. I feel sorry for you, captain. This obsession with me… look what it’s cost you.”  
“MAJOR! SHUT THAT THING OFF! COMMANDER WORF, PREPARE TO LAUNCH TORPEDOES!”  
“WAIT! …If you’ll… call off your attack… I’ll turn over all our biogenic weapons.”  
“NOT ENOUGH!”  
“…Heh! All right, Javert. I’ll _give_ you what you want. Me.”

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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 5, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2750 "2020-07-05T19:11:10Z")

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Away! Away, spirit! And let honest men approach.

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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 5, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2751 "2020-07-05T20:16:41Z")

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No debate, no innovation.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2752 "2020-07-06T00:00:06Z")

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Captain, our information on these people and their culture was not correct. This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanisation. They are totally stagnant. There is no evidence of any progress as far back as my tricorder can register. For tens of thousands of years, there has been absolutely no advancement, no significant change in their physical environment. This is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2753 "2020-07-06T03:16:18Z")

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I’ve never been arrested in my whole life!

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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 6, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2754 "2020-07-06T03:40:34Z")

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The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2755 "2020-07-06T12:29:32Z")

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How do you feel?

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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 6, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2756 "2020-07-06T20:36:53Z")

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What would you like?

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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 6, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2757 "2020-07-06T22:09:17Z")

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How we deal with death is at _least_ as important as how we deal with _life_, wouldn’t you say?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2758 "2020-07-06T22:32:20Z")

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SPOCK: The guilty party has his choice. Death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging…  
MUDD: The key word in your entire peroration, Mister Spock, was _death_.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2759 "2020-07-07T14:55:30Z")

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NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2760 "2020-07-07T18:43:22Z")

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The name of my ship is the Lollipop. It’s a good ship.

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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 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2761 "2020-07-07T19:46:03Z")

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While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I do not believe he has the knowledge to restore a brain.

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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 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2762 "2020-07-07T19:46:54Z")

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Baseball.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2763 "2020-07-08T01:56:29Z")

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Jim, you just sat that man down at a high-stakes poker game with no cards and told him to bluff. Now, Sulu’s a good man, but he’s no captain.

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