# Random Star Trek Quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 158
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3144 "2021-02-02T01:33:44Z")
I’ll not lower the screens, not until the Captain tells me to. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3145 "2021-02-02T01:40:27Z")
Make it so. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3146 "2021-02-02T04:33:59Z")
“There are three things to remember about being a Starship Captain: Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.” ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3147 "2021-02-02T15:17:48Z")
I think she’s a secret alien who’s gonna eat you, or a Romulan spy, or a salt succubus, or an android, or a Changeling, or one of those sexy people in rompers that murders you just for going on the grass! ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3148 "2021-02-02T16:26:41Z")
Kill him! He’s the one! Not me, you idiot. Him! ---
**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:** [February 2, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3149 "2021-02-02T22:58:22Z")
Remarkable, isn’t she? Notice the lifelike pigmentation, the variations in skin tones. The flesh - the flesh has warmth. There’s even a pulse. Physical sensation. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3150 "2021-02-03T04:07:12Z")
“I’ve been attempting to isolate them, but so far I’ve been able to recall clearly only one. Immense beings, a hundred limbs which resemble tentacles. Minds of such control and capacity that each limb is capable of performing a different function.” ---
**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:** [February 3, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3151 "2021-02-03T14:15:14Z")
I should say the Organians are as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3152 "2021-02-03T16:00:31Z")
Well, we’re Starfleet. Figuring out impossible problems is what we do, so let’s just keep calm and, uh, try to think of a solution. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3153 "2021-02-04T17:13:04Z")
We’re gonna ride that shockwave out of here. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3154 "2021-02-05T00:13:46Z")
You’ve got to hear me! We need a formula. We’ve got to risk implosion! ---
**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:** [February 5, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3155 "2021-02-05T03:48:51Z")
“You realize of course that if we give him the formula we’re altering the future.” "Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?” ---
**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:** [February 5, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3156 "2021-02-05T04:02:44Z")
But you must see that if I were to influence you, everything in this sector, in this quadrant of the galaxy, could change. History - _my_ history - would unfold in a way other than it already has. Now, what possible incentive could anyone offer me to allow that to happen? ---
**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:** [February 5, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3157 "2021-02-05T18:26:59Z")
Save her, do as your heart tells you to do, and millions will die who did not die before. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3158 "2021-02-06T22:50:51Z")
“You’ll be killed, man!” “Unless a solution is found quickly, that fate awaits all of us.” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3159 "2021-02-07T14:56:36Z")
“One alive, one not, yet both in pain.” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3160 "2021-02-07T16:01:17Z")
Take another step, you’ll die. Then we’ll both die. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3161 "2021-02-10T18:30:28Z")
Request denied. Is that a made-up code? Who is this? Clear this channel! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3162 "2021-02-11T01:49:20Z")
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on _me_. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3163 "2021-02-11T02:48:01Z")
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