# 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:** 221
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4404 "2023-05-12T20:38:35Z")
I’d advise ya to keep dialin’. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2023, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4405 "2023-05-13T09:55:01Z")
Captain, you’re asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4406 "2023-05-13T14:15:14Z")
The Borg Collective is like a force of nature. You don’t feel anger toward a storm on the horizon. You just avoid it. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4407 "2023-05-13T14:37:05Z")
That’s the most imbecilic attempt to rationalize personal cowardice that I’ve ever heard. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4408 "2023-05-14T23:17:51Z")
I hope you’re watching carefully. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4409 "2023-05-15T01:28:00Z")
I see no logic in preferring Stonn over me. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4410 "2023-05-15T10:53:00Z")
You have not achieved Kolinahr. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4411 "2023-05-15T14:58:48Z")
That tinplated, overbearing excuse for a starship captain did it to us again! ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4412 "2023-05-15T17:23:00Z")
One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies – maybe even the atom; energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future… and those are the days worth living for. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4413 "2023-05-15T21:58:33Z")
That’s it? That’s what you called me out here for? To complain about the donuts? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4414 "2023-05-15T22:54:52Z")
Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!!! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4415 "2023-05-16T00:54:28Z")
What about W.E.B. Du Bois? Zora Neale Hurston? Langston Hughes? Ralph Ellison? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4416 "2023-05-16T21:17:56Z")
I want to see Commander Data level work, people! Those isolinear chips better be a blur! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4417 "2023-05-16T22:25:41Z")
My friend is obviously Chinese. I see you’ve noticed the ears. They’re actually easy to explain. He caught his head in a mechanical… rice-picker. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4418 "2023-05-16T23:36:50Z")
Temba: is a person? His arms wide: because he’s holding them _apart,_ in, in _generosity,_ in _giving?_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4419 "2023-05-17T00:19:02Z")
Alouette, gentille alouette, alouette, je te plumerai. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4420 "2023-05-17T12:18:01Z")
McCoy: “Admiral, wouldn’t it be easier to just put an experienced crew back on the ship?” Kirk: “Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, doctor.” Uhura: “Now, what is _that_ supposed to mean?” ---
**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:** [May 17, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4421 "2023-05-17T12:43:44Z")
I’m telling you, this broad ain’t playing with a full deck. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4422 "2023-05-17T17:16:45Z")
“Are you machine or being?” “I am both and neither. I am my own beginning. My own ending.” ---
**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:** [May 17, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/4423 "2023-05-17T17:42:10Z")
That’s great, baby. I got some good news, too: I talked to Mrs Jackson last night, and she’s serious about retiring in the next couple of years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112.md?page=222)