# 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:** [September 12, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2884 "2020-09-12T18:38:18Z")

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Can you make our ship go? We look for things to make us go.

He is smart.

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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:** [September 13, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2885 "2020-09-13T16:33:01Z")

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Smells musty in here… like a bureaucrat’s office.

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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:** [September 16, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2886 "2020-09-16T17:17:07Z")

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We claim salvage!

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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:** [September 16, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2887 "2020-09-16T22:42:34Z")

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You’re roight, I schoood. I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage.

I meant to say that it should be hauled away _as_ garbage.

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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:** [September 17, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2888 "2020-09-17T15:38:18Z")

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And _that’s_ when you hit the Klingons?

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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:** [September 19, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2889 "2020-09-19T17:38:35Z")

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“I told him I’d have this report done for him in an hour.”  
“How long would it really take?”  
“…An hour.”  
“Oh, you dinnae tell him how long it would _really_ take, did you?”  
“Well, of _course_ I did!”  
“Ach, laddie, you’ve got a lot to learn if you want to earn a reputation as a miracle worker!”

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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:** [September 19, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2890 "2020-09-19T18:02:46Z")

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Aye, the haggis is in the fire for sure.

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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:** [September 21, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2891 "2020-09-21T18:43:55Z")

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No talk. Sleep.

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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:** [September 22, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2892 "2020-09-22T14:48:20Z")

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Don’t pass out. Nobody’s authorized to pass out!

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2893 "2020-09-24T01:25:51Z")

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What is our name? Who are we?

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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:** [September 24, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2894 "2020-09-24T13:49:52Z")

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Darmok at Tanagra.

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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:** [September 24, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2895 "2020-09-24T16:41:02Z")

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Are you kidding? I got to hold a heart!

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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:** [September 25, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2896 "2020-09-25T14:18:07Z")

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You will remain un-eeled. For now.

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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:** [September 25, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2897 "2020-09-25T15:40:37Z")

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No one can restore a brain!

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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:** [September 25, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2898 "2020-09-25T19:02:54Z")

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“I thought you said you might like him if he mellowed a little.”

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2899 "2020-09-28T23:05:10Z")

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My mother’s mother’s mother.

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2900 "2020-09-28T23:52:02Z")

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I fail to understand why I should care to induce my mother to purchase falsified patents?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2901 "2020-09-29T02:30:41Z")

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I like my species the way it is!

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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:** [September 29, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2902 "2020-09-29T13:32:40Z")

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Harry Mudd: “Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb V?”  
Spock: “The guilty party has his choice. Death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging…”  
Harry Mudd: “The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was ‘death’. Barbarians!”

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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:** [September 29, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/2903 "2020-09-29T13:45:26Z")

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Silence! This trial is over. You are guilty. On all counts, you are guilty. And according to your own laws, this court has no choice in fixing punishment. You will hang by the neck, Captain, until you are dead, dead, dead!

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