# 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:** ![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:** [January 14, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3104 "2021-01-14T18:30:42Z")

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I am superior, sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human.

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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:** [January 15, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3105 "2021-01-15T00:37:33Z")

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You are inconsistent. You cannot be programmed. You are inferior.

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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:** [January 16, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3106 "2021-01-16T04:09:53Z")

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You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And its flaw.

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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:** [January 16, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3107 "2021-01-16T17:03:38Z")

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Humor. It is a difficult concept.

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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:** [January 16, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3108 "2021-01-16T18:16:54Z")

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Good evening ladies and germs. I come from a town so small, we had a fraction for a zip code. It was so small in fact we didn’t have a godfather of crime, we had a nephew. I was so ugly as a child they hung a pork chop around my neck so the dog would play with me. And then there was the human cannonball who was hired and fired in the same night.

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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:** [January 16, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3109 "2021-01-16T19:50:01Z")

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Their behavior is chaotic.

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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:** [January 17, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3110 "2021-01-17T02:51:01Z")

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Human females are so repulsive.

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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:** [January 17, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3111 "2021-01-17T19:19:08Z")

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Captain’s log, stardate 5630.7. We have been assigned to convey the Medusans’ ambassador to the Federation back to their home planet. While the thoughts of the Medusans are the most sublime in the galaxy, their physical appearance is exactly the opposite. They have evolved into a race of beings who are formless, so utterly hideous that the sight of a Medusan brings total madness to any human who sees one.

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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:** [January 17, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3112 "2021-01-17T21:26:45Z")

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Captain’s log, no stardate. For us, time does not exist.

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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:** [January 20, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3113 "2021-01-20T04:41:47Z")

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It’s a starship, not Heaven!

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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:** [January 20, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3114 "2021-01-20T14:12:17Z")

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What does God need with a starship?

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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:** [January 20, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3115 "2021-01-20T18:59:18Z")

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What they’re doing is dangerous.

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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:** [January 21, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3116 "2021-01-21T01:52:18Z")

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“It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.”

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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:** [January 21, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3117 "2021-01-21T02:57:59Z")

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Suppose you had all of space to choose from, and this was only one small sample.  
_Wouldn’t you say it was worth a man’s soul?_

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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:** [January 21, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3118 "2021-01-21T03:56:26Z")

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He entrusted you with his very essence, with everything that was not of the body. He asked you to bring him to us …and bring that which he gave you, his _katra_, his living spirit.

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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:** [January 22, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3119 "2021-01-22T00:17:48Z")

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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:** ![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:** [January 22, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3120 "2021-01-22T01:44:33Z")

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“An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution.”

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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:** [January 22, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3121 "2021-01-22T03:38:27Z")

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Barbara Brinson: “I swore I’d never do long-distance, but then I met this goofball on Vendu last month. He radiates a primal confidence. I’m sure you’ve felt it.”  
Beckett Mariner: “No, I try not to feel anything around Brad.”

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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:** [January 23, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3122 "2021-01-23T00:10:15Z")

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_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:** [January 23, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3123 "2021-01-23T01:06:56Z")

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Have you been drinking again, you miserable sot?!

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