# 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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**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5184 "2023-11-05T03:10:37Z")

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“How’d you deal with this kind of thing back on Orion?”  
“Blindfolded saber fight.”

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**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5185 "2023-11-05T03:20:31Z")

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“Did we… complete the mission?”  
“Yes. You were the only fatality.”

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**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5186 "2023-11-05T03:53:48Z")

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“What’s gonna spill first, your mouth or your guts? Heh heh… I heard that in a holo-movie.”

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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:** [November 5, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5187 "2023-11-05T10:37:07Z")

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**“I am _NOT_ Dixon Hill! …I just _LOOK LIKE_ Dixon Hill!”**

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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:** [November 5, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5188 "2023-11-05T13:07:54Z")

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It’s a radio transmission.

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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:** [November 5, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5189 "2023-11-05T13:11:43Z")

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…he’s comparing the Enterprise to a _cruise ship?_

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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:** [November 5, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5190 "2023-11-05T20:48:48Z")

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I know engineers. They love to change things!

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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:** [November 5, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5191 "2023-11-05T21:58:56Z")

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You know, I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, but: I went to Zefram Cochrane High School.

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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:** [November 6, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5192 "2023-11-06T18:12:45Z")

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They pose no threat.

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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:** [November 6, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5193 "2023-11-06T18:21:13Z")

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If we do not allow ourselves to believe that the bullets are real, they cannot kill us!

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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:** [November 6, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5194 "2023-11-06T20:53:08Z")

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Resistance is _not_ futile.

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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:** [November 7, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5195 "2023-11-07T00:54:31Z")

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Who _cares_ if revenge is pointless? It feels _really_ fucking good!

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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:** [November 7, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5196 "2023-11-07T04:23:52Z")

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VENDORIAN: “Rather than work together to escape, you have chosen to denigrate and bicker. You shall be punished.”

BOIMLER: “Uh, I-I’m already feeling pretty punished.”

LEVY: “They’re gonna tie us together face-to-face and lay brood pods in our necks so we have to look at each other in the eye while their young burst out of our chests.”

VENDORIAN: “You know of our customs?”

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5197 "2023-11-07T04:33:10Z")

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In other words, if we shoot him, we have to use a .45 automatic, and not a phaser.

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5198 "2023-11-07T04:42:30Z")

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McCOY: Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that’s in there!  
SPOCK: But, as you are so fond of observing, Doctor, I’m not human.  
McCOY: You’re not going in there!  
SPOCK: Perhaps you’re right. What is Mister Scott’s condition?  
McCOY: Well, I don’t think that he…  
(Spock administers a Vulcan nerve pinch on McCoy)  
SPOCK: I’m sorry, Doctor. I have no time to discuss this logically. …Remember!

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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:** [November 7, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5199 "2023-11-07T15:45:28Z")

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How many fingers?

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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:** [November 7, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5200 "2023-11-07T20:00:53Z")

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Everybody out! Now! Move it!

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5201 "2023-11-07T22:24:28Z")

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“Where are we going?”  
“Where they went.”  
“Suppose they went nowhere?”  
“Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all.”

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5202 "2023-11-08T00:28:57Z")

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KIRK: “Forego the tractor beam, and fly her in manually.”  
McCOY: _“Manually?”_  
SYBOK: “How often have you done this?”  
SULU: “…actually, it’s my first attempt.”

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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:** [November 8, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5203 "2023-11-08T04:41:04Z")

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Yes, sir, I guess it is.

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