# 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:** [April 19, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3264 "2021-04-19T17:51:55Z")

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I’ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive.

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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:** [April 20, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3265 "2021-04-20T00:26:53Z")

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But what of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3266 "2021-04-20T04:16:43Z")

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Thou art notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [April 20, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3267 "2021-04-20T13:10:34Z")

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Greetings and felicitations.

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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:** [April 20, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3268 "2021-04-20T16:58:04Z")

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Nobody wants a sparkly captain!

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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:** [April 20, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3269 "2021-04-20T21:37:21Z")

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Our regards to Captain Dunsel.

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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:** [April 20, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3270 "2021-04-20T22:27:20Z")

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Now the years I spent studying every single detail of the ship’s operation will be tested. With a little experience, I will be invulnerable to suspicion. At last I attained what is my just due - command of a starship. All the months of preparation now come to fruition.

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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:** [April 21, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3271 "2021-04-21T17:12:40Z")

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Silence! The chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me, and it’s time I took command of the Enterprise.

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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:** [April 21, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3272 "2021-04-21T21:48:36Z")

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You are arrogant, and closed-minded. You need to control everything and everyone. You don’t provide an atmosphere of trust, and you don’t inspire these people to go out of their way for you. You’ve got everybody wound up so tight, there’s no joy in anything. I don’t think you’re a particularly good captain.

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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:** [April 21, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3273 "2021-04-21T23:31:31Z")

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You are wrong! Jackson Roykirk, your creator, is dead. You have mistaken me for him. You are in error. You did not discover your mistake. You have made two errors. You are flawed and imperfect and you have not corrected by sterilisation. You have made three errors!

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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:** [April 22, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3274 "2021-04-22T13:30:00Z")

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The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique?

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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:** [April 22, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3275 "2021-04-22T14:11:16Z")

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It may interest you to know that since the initial use of corbomite more than two of our centuries ago, no attacking vessel has survived the attempt. Death has little meaning to us. If it has none to you then attack us now. We grow annoyed at your foolishness.

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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:** [April 22, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3276 "2021-04-22T15:22:40Z")

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And they can make me a real boy again?

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3277 "2021-04-29T02:47:07Z")

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Time is the fire in which we burn

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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:** [April 29, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3278 "2021-04-29T17:45:52Z")

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Unlikely, Major.

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3279 "2021-04-30T00:01:08Z")

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“Marriage is the greatest adventure of them all. It’s filled with pitfalls and setbacks and mistakes and… But it’s a journey worth taking… 'cause you take it together.”

Would that I had learned that some forty or so years ago…

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [April 30, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3280 "2021-04-30T00:54:07Z")

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Oh, enjoy these times, Geordi. You’re the Chief Engineer of a starship; and that’s a time of your life that’ll never come again. When it’s gone - it’s gone.

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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:** [April 30, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3281 "2021-04-30T01:04:42Z")

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I’m with you every day, Geordi. Every time you look at this engine, you’re looking at me. Every time you touch it, it’s me.

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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:** [April 30, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3282 "2021-04-30T01:12:49Z")

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She was attacked by what appears to be essentially a robot, an automated weapon of immense size and power. Its apparent function is to smash planets to rubble and then digest the debris for fuel. It is, therefore, self-sustaining as long as there are planetary bodies for it to feed on.

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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:** [April 30, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3283 "2021-04-30T14:44:35Z")

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I contain no parasitical beings.

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