# 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:** ![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 25, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5664 "2024-02-25T14:59:53Z")

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In all those years, I only heard from you once. A stargram when my husband died.

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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 25, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5665 "2024-02-25T15:17:00Z")

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Three weeks later, instead of a novella, you come back with six stories: six sequels to a story I refused to publish in the first place!

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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 26, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5666 "2024-02-26T15:06:48Z")

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He must be the only engineer in Starfleet who doesn’t go to Engineering!

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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 27, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5667 "2024-02-27T03:08:38Z")

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You mean he never knew he hadn’t left the holodeck?

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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 28, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5668 "2024-02-28T14:11:40Z")

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_Three_ barrels?

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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 28, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5669 "2024-02-28T14:31:49Z")

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I’ve only been there once, but they’ve got this great club; I don’t remember the name of it; they serve these blue concoctions…

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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 29, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5670 "2024-02-29T15:47:44Z")

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Do you even know what a compressor looks like?

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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 29, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5671 "2024-02-29T20:32:11Z")

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It’s a children’s toy on Earth; you wind it up, and a figure jumps out and goes _Boo!_

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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 29, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5672 "2024-02-29T20:35:00Z")

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Aren’t you dead?

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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 29, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5673 "2024-02-29T20:59:03Z")

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“I don’t see what’s so pretty about it.”  
“I think they mean the trees and stuff.”

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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 29, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5674 "2024-02-29T21:36:45Z")

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“Why has everything become a _something,_ or a _whatever?”_

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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:** [March 1, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5675 "2024-03-01T16:06:39Z")

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I’m trying to thank you, you pointy-eared hobgoblin!

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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:** [March 1, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5676 "2024-03-01T16:35:26Z")

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Man, you sound just like my ex-wife. All right, time to get back to business!

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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:** [March 1, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5677 "2024-03-01T16:45:21Z")

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Talk it over with your counsel.

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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:** [March 1, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5678 "2024-03-01T17:23:24Z")

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The chain of command is often a noose.

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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:** [March 1, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5679 "2024-03-01T18:41:40Z")

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All the others before me have failed: Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan, Krotus — all of them are dust! But I will triumph! I will make the ultimate conquest!

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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:** [March 2, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5680 "2024-03-02T22:25:35Z")

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Do you guys like Italian?

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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:** [March 2, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5681 "2024-03-02T22:40:33Z")

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Ah, the giants.

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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:** [March 3, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5682 "2024-03-03T02:47:14Z")

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“They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales.”  
“I suppose they told you that, huh?”  
“The hell they did.”

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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:** [March 3, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5683 "2024-03-03T15:06:10Z")

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I thought you were a test pilot.

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