# 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:** 196
**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 9, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3904 "2023-01-09T01:01:41Z")
Flawlessly logical. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3905 "2023-01-09T01:32:47Z")
Ah don’t see no points on yo’ ears, boy — but you _sound_ like a Vulcan. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3906 "2023-01-09T02:06:12Z")
They like you very much, but they are not the hell “your” whales. I suppose they told you that. The hell they did. ---
**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 9, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3907 "2023-01-09T02:44:55Z")
I was born in Iowa; I only work in space. ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3908 "2023-01-09T03:28:01Z")
What is so funny about man reaching for the moon? ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3909 "2023-01-09T03:32:36Z")
Who’s Clark Gable? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3910 "2023-01-09T10:17:50Z")
The master criminal. The man Holmes could only defeat at the cost of his own life, at Reichenbach Falls. Our adversary, my dear Watson, is none other than — _Professor Moriarty himself!_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3911 "2023-01-09T13:42:31Z")
Cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of war! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3912 "2023-01-09T14:09:18Z")
…sir, he’s dead already! ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3913 "2023-01-09T16:06:00Z")
Mr. Scott, the word is given. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3914 "2023-01-09T17:05:47Z")
I’m following your orders, Captain: _“Queen to Queen’s Level Three!”_ ---
**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 9, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3915 "2023-01-09T19:05:38Z")
Think of it as… letting a young star become what it’s meant to be. ---
**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 9, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3916 "2023-01-09T21:09:47Z")
_Assassins! Murderers!_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3917 "2023-01-09T22:27:13Z")
Solomon. Alexander. Lazarus. Methuselah. Merlin. Abramson. A hundred other names you do not know. ---
**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 9, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3918 "2023-01-09T23:25:15Z")
He means it’s _cold._ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3919 "2023-01-10T00:59:27Z")
Someone might say that, dear lady, if someone thought that the human race was akin to a precious jewel. But this increasingly hypothetical someone would not be me. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3920 "2023-01-10T01:02:41Z")
I don’t need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3921 "2023-01-10T01:17:43Z")
“Before him, there was no Klingon word for… [grimaces] …_‘peeeacemaker’_.” ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3922 "2023-01-10T13:52:57Z")
It should be _more_ illegal. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/3923 "2023-01-10T16:31:21Z")
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