# 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:** ![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:** [February 5, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4024 "2023-02-05T19:20:36Z")

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Kirk: “Care to join the landing party?”  
McCoy: “Well, if you’re giving me a _choice,_ I–”  
Kirk: “I’m not.”

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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:** [February 5, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4025 "2023-02-05T19:40:54Z")

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We’ve lost so many, you and me. But we can’t do harm in their names or memories. We have to honor them, all of them, because they were beloved, beautiful.

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**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:** [February 5, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4026 "2023-02-05T19:42:59Z")

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I told him what I thought of him, his pals, his planet, and I possibly made some passing reference to his questionable parentage.

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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:** [February 6, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4027 "2023-02-06T15:14:57Z")

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Sir, I Protest! I am not a merry man!

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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:** [February 6, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4028 "2023-02-06T15:20:11Z")

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If it weren’t for him, you’d still be damaged and alone on that planet. He’s the one that convinced me to beam you aboard. And when we discovered what you were, and some people wanted to destroy you, the Doctor defended your right to exist.

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**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:** [February 6, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4029 "2023-02-06T16:33:18Z")

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Don’t you realize what you’ve done? You’ve angered **THE PICARD** , and we may all suffer for it! I know! I’ve seen him! He is all-powerful!

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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:** [February 7, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4030 "2023-02-07T03:53:38Z")

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I am the Kirk, the Creator.

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**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:** [February 7, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4031 "2023-02-07T16:19:18Z")

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I told you: you’re dead; this is the afterlife, and I’m God.

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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:** [February 7, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4032 "2023-02-07T23:35:49Z")

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It doesn’t matter what you’re made of, what matters is who you are. You’re our friend and we want you back.

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**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:** [February 8, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4033 "2023-02-08T00:20:53Z")

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You are great. I am great. Twenty years of groping, to prove the things I’d done before were not accidents: seminars, and lectures, to rows of fools who couldn’t _begin_ to understand my systems! _Colleagues_. Colleagues _laughing behind my back_ at the boy wonder, and becoming famous building on my work…

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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:** [February 8, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4034 "2023-02-08T04:54:32Z")

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Kill you! Kill you all! :: maniacal laughter ::

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**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:** [February 8, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4035 "2023-02-08T05:08:18Z")

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[James T. Kirk]

_“First rule of assassination: kill the assassins.”_

[/James T. Kirk]

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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:** [February 8, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4036 "2023-02-08T13:24:27Z")

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Khan, I’m laughing at the ‘superior’ intellect.

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**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:** [February 8, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4037 "2023-02-08T13:56:51Z")

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You now see the primitive fear-threat reaction: the specimen is about to boast of his strength, the weaponry of his vessel, and so on. Next, frustrated into a need to display physical prowess, the creature will throw himself against the transparency…

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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:** [February 8, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4038 "2023-02-08T19:11:48Z")

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Those are strong words.

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**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:** [February 8, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4039 "2023-02-08T19:31:45Z")

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Calm never got me a damn thing.

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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:** [February 9, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4040 "2023-02-09T14:55:16Z")

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My brother’s positronic brain has a type L phase discriminating amplifier. Mine is a type R.

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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:** [February 9, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4041 "2023-02-09T17:54:11Z")

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It’s easy to become a god. The trick is staying a god.

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**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:** [February 9, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4042 "2023-02-09T18:14:50Z")

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…if you want to play god and call yourself Apollo, that’s your business; but you’re no god to us, Mister.

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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:** [February 9, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4043 "2023-02-09T19:20:11Z")

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You’re asking us to believe in magic.

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