# 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:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3824 "2022-12-12T22:29:50Z")

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Captain of the Enterprise, huh?

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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:** [December 13, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3825 "2022-12-13T15:46:11Z")

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Mister Saavik, you go right on quoting regulations!

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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:** [December 13, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3826 "2022-12-13T17:22:36Z")

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No. I just remembered. There is one Earthman who doesn’t remind me of a Regulan blood worm. That’s Kirk. A Regulan blood worm is soft and shapeless, but Kirk isn’t soft. Kirk may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, but he’s not soft.

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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:** [December 13, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3827 "2022-12-13T17:34:19Z")

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So _that’s_ when you hit the Klingons?

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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:** [December 13, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3828 "2022-12-13T19:55:58Z")

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They are the ambassadors of unhappy!

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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:** [December 13, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3829 "2022-12-13T21:45:36Z")

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They toil not, neither do they spin.

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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:** [December 14, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3830 "2022-12-14T21:10:00Z")

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No one’s ever paid me a greater compliment.

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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:** [December 15, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3831 "2022-12-15T20:43:45Z")

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So would an ermine violin, Doctor, but I see no advantage in having one.

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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:** [December 15, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3832 "2022-12-15T23:21:00Z")

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The test itself is a cheat, isn’t it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.

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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:** [December 16, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3833 "2022-12-16T23:15:32Z")

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I thought you said it was tradition.

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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:** [December 17, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3834 "2022-12-17T04:57:36Z")

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The ahn woon.

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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:** [December 17, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3835 "2022-12-17T21:11:06Z")

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My mother’s mother’s mother.

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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:** [December 17, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3836 "2022-12-17T22:20:52Z")

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Are our ceremonies for offworlders, Spock?

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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:** [December 18, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3837 "2022-12-18T21:17:58Z")

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Evolution is a fickle bitch, am I right?

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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:** [December 18, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3838 "2022-12-18T23:16:58Z")

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Can you make our ship go?

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Yes, I think so.

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We look for things to make us go.

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Fellas, why don’t you show me where your guidance system is, okay? Excuse me.

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He is smart.

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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:** [December 19, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3839 "2022-12-19T04:16:21Z")

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What’s a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?

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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:** [December 19, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3840 "2022-12-19T20:38:06Z")

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What? No, you don’t cut off my badass plan!

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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:** [December 19, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3841 "2022-12-19T22:10:22Z")

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There was an armistice. We’re at peace.

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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:** [December 19, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3842 "2022-12-19T22:25:18Z")

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I’ve given you back the horrors of war.

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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:** [December 20, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3843 "2022-12-20T18:11:11Z")

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Are you talking about the D? The flagship? They went to different dimensions, they fought the Borg, they insurrected!

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