# 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:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/442 "2014-10-06T00:01:37Z")

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> [@beowulff](#):
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> …And how long will it be before all of us simply get in the way?

48 minutes, give or take.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/443 "2014-10-06T01:11:52Z")

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Risk! Risk is our business. That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/444 "2014-10-06T01:29:11Z")

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That’s the way they want you to feel. It makes them think that they’re alive.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/445 "2014-10-06T01:38:52Z")

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All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by…

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/446 "2014-10-06T03:05:21Z")

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You will suffocate … in the icy cold of space!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/447 "2014-10-06T03:31:24Z")

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Lieutenant Uhura, I value your intelligence, but we may be able to seize an opportunity to escape if the Kzinti believe you have none.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/448 "2014-10-06T03:35:21Z")

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Why don’t you tell me I’m an attractive young lady, or ask me if I’ve ever been in love?

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/449 "2014-10-06T12:45:43Z")

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He… I was unprepared for his attack. I used the Vulcan Death Grip instinctively.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/450 "2014-10-06T14:48:28Z")

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I’m Tweedledee, he’s Tweedledum.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/451 "2014-10-06T15:43:45Z")

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What do you mean, “like me”? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/452 "2014-10-06T16:58:54Z")

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Okay, okay, don’t get your antennas in a twist.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/453 "2014-10-06T17:18:27Z")

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RAND: That little girl…  
SPOCK: Is at least three hundred years older than you are, Yeoman. Think about it.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/454 "2014-10-06T18:05:04Z")

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Well, there’s no accounting for taste!

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/455 "2014-10-06T18:07:44Z")

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His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/456 "2014-10-06T18:22:40Z")

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What can you expect from a simpering, devil-eared freak whose father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia?

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/457 "2014-10-06T19:34:17Z")

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Please, I want to staystaystaytaytaytayayayyyyyyyyyyy…

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/458 "2014-10-06T20:17:36Z")

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There are a million things you can have, and a million things you can’t have!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/459 "2014-10-06T21:46:38Z")

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If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed.

It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross.

But it’s not for the timid.

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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:** [October 6, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/460 "2014-10-06T22:15:09Z")

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You run away from them and you guarantee war. They’ll be back - not just one ship, but with everything they’ve got.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/461 "2014-10-06T22:35:36Z")

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This time we’ll handle it without your help, Mr “Science Officer.” :mad:

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