# 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:** [November 17, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5244 "2023-11-17T01:35:18Z")

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Wolf 359 was a tragedy. Q exists. Picard is not a hologram, and the Voyager’s EMH _is!_

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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 17, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5245 "2023-11-17T01:48:36Z")

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…take it easy; it’s only a movie.

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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 17, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5246 "2023-11-17T14:32:45Z")

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The doctor gave me a pill, and I grew a new kidney!

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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 17, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5247 "2023-11-17T17:44:25Z")

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Hello, computer!

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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 17, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5248 "2023-11-17T22:21:07Z")

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SISKO: “Major, I gave you a direct order!”  
KIRA: “Court-martial me.”  
SISKO: “I can’t; you’re not in Starfleet.”  
DAX: “If I were a superior officer, I’d court-martial _both_ of you.”

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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 18, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5249 "2023-11-18T01:47:51Z")

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The man we have in charge of a murder investigation is the prime suspect!

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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 18, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5250 "2023-11-18T02:28:17Z")

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Commander, if you’d been there when we liberated that camp. If you’d seen what we saw. You know what Cardassian policy was? Oh, I’m not even talking about the murder. Murder was just the end of the fun for them. First came the humiliation! Mothers raped in front of their children! Husbands beaten until their wives couldn’t recognize them! Old people buried alive because they couldn’t _work anymore!_

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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 18, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5251 "2023-11-18T02:38:51Z")

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Overwhelm and devastate: that’s the way to get power and to hold it, and I mean to do that!

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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 18, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5252 "2023-11-18T02:40:36Z")

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“I love you. And I wish… I wish we could have seen Vance’s dragons…”  
“Oh, David. David, my love… there _are_ no dragons.”

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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 18, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5253 "2023-11-18T14:53:58Z")

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“Baby, I know that Vic’s isn’t a totally accurate representation of the way things were — but it _isn’t meant to be!_ It shows us the way things _could_ have been; the way they _should_ have been.”

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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 18, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5254 "2023-11-18T19:42:26Z")

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Only a fool fights in a burning house!

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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 18, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5255 "2023-11-18T19:50:52Z")

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And absolute power corrupts absolutely. Do you believe I haven’t thought of that, Jean-Luc?

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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 18, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5256 "2023-11-18T23:47:26Z")

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Might we be of assistance?

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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 19, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5257 "2023-11-19T01:39:13Z")

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Yes! Absolutely! I do indeed concur wholeheartedly!

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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 19, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5258 "2023-11-19T08:47:58Z")

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No can do, Tendi Two!

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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 19, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5259 "2023-11-19T14:10:50Z")

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Provided I had a Mark 7 transporter.

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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 19, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5260 "2023-11-19T14:54:37Z")

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Conscious beings have will; the mind endows them with powers that are not necessarily understood, even by you. If my will is strong enough, perhaps I can exist outside this room. Perhaps I can walk into your world right now!

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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 20, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5261 "2023-11-20T01:06:34Z")

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Lunkhead?!?

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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 20, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5262 "2023-11-20T01:18:59Z")

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There was a young lady from Venus  
Whose body was shaped like a…

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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 20, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5263 "2023-11-20T02:14:39Z")

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JAKE: Can I ask you one question? Wouldn’t you rather be doing something else right now?  
BASHIR: No.  
JAKE: No?  
BASHIR: No. This is the first chance I’ve had to get any research done on my prion project in five months. You couldn’t drag me away from here.  
JAKE: Oh.

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