# 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:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3744 "2022-11-09T00:11:08Z")

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Would you care for a wee bit of scotch whiskey?

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3745 "2022-11-09T04:18:02Z")

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MAXWELL: What the hell has happened to this war?  
O’BRIEN: Sir, there is no war. The war is over.  
MAXWELL: You’re wrong. The Cardassians live to make war.  
O’BRIEN: That’s what everybody thinks about the enemy. That’s probably what they think about us.  
MAXWELL: We’re not the same at all. We do not start wars. We do not make surprise attacks on manned outposts. We do not butcher women and children in their homes. Children who never got the chance to grow up. You were with me on Setlick. You saw what they did.

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3746 "2022-11-09T13:33:56Z")

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Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3747 "2022-11-09T15:19:27Z")

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I’ve met some Cardassians I didn’t like. And I’ve met some I did. Like you.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3748 "2022-11-09T16:40:20Z")

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I’ll have to get your brain out of your skull and freeze it so I can nanosuture your dendrites by hand.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3749 "2022-11-09T16:47:14Z")

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Pity! You might have learned an interesting lesson, Macrohead - with a microbrain!

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3750 "2022-11-09T17:34:26Z")

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Q: It is an unknown, Captain. Isn’t that enough?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you’d earned that uniform you’re wearing, you’d know that the unknown is what brings us out here.

Q: Wasted effort considering human intelligence.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3751 "2022-11-09T17:38:19Z")

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DATA: According to these coordinates, we have travelled seven thousand light years, and are located near the system J two five.  
RIKER: Travel time to the nearest starbase?  
DATA: At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours we would reach Starbase one eight five.  
RIKER: Why?  
Q: Why? Why, to give you a taste of your future, a preview of things to come. _Con permiso, Capitan_. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It’s now time to see if you can dance.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3752 "2022-11-09T20:45:14Z")

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So you were utilizing highly-invasive neuromedical procedures in order to make sure I _liked_ you?

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3753 "2022-11-09T21:13:11Z")

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It seems impossible.

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3754 "2022-11-09T21:15:01Z")

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You gave your girlfriend a _tracking device?_

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3755 "2022-11-16T02:19:13Z")

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Don’t you think _ **I** _ know that?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3756 "2022-11-16T04:17:26Z")

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Sokath! His eyes open!

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3757 "2022-11-16T14:31:44Z")

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Very bad poetry.

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3758 "2022-11-16T14:35:26Z")

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Yes, you can hate me.

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3759 "2022-11-16T22:18:17Z")

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You have always been more clever than observant.

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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:** [November 16, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3760 "2022-11-16T22:27:43Z")

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[I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3761 "2022-11-17T03:17:39Z")

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Often Wrong’s got a broken heart. Can’t even tell his boys apart.

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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:** [November 17, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3762 "2022-11-17T12:46:27Z")

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KIRK: So you’re the terrible thing, the murdering monster. The creature.

LAZARUS B: Yes, Captain. Or he is. It depends on your point of view, doesn’t it?

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3763 "2022-11-17T13:39:43Z")

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Well, fly her apart, then!

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