# 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:** [April 21, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5824 "2024-04-21T13:56:07Z")

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I’m pretty much unbeatable at tongo.

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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:** [April 21, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5825 "2024-04-21T14:52:30Z")

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Maybe you should challenge Kolrami to Strategema.

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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:** [April 22, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5826 "2024-04-22T18:28:11Z")

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I believe that answers your question.

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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:** [April 22, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5827 "2024-04-22T18:49:16Z")

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It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.

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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:** [April 22, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5828 "2024-04-22T21:39:25Z")

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Have I got this sport all wrong?

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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:** [April 23, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5829 "2024-04-23T18:32:14Z")

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I will send you my mother’s recipe.

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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:** [April 24, 2024, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5830 "2024-04-24T09:37:25Z")

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This is not an efficient method for the preparation of sustenance.

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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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5831 "2024-04-24T17:36:31Z")

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This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5832 "2024-04-25T00:24:31Z")

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I still can’t believe Starfleet saw fit to give a thief, a pirate, and a spy their own ship.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5833 "2024-04-25T03:54:36Z")

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Clearly, we still possess certain skills — it would seem we know how to operate this ship — but our identities have somehow been erased, or suppressed.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5834 "2024-04-25T15:23:00Z")

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For the good of the Skorr, this must be forever secret.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5835 "2024-04-25T15:32:47Z")

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No, no, we don’t have time for that; we’ve encountered a minor mystery, one that has been solved to my satisfaction.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5836 "2024-04-25T18:21:57Z")

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You were such a rotten swimmer, Louis.

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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:** [April 25, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5837 "2024-04-25T20:58:42Z")

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I can think of nothing I’d rather do than stay with you. Except staying alive.

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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:** [April 26, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5838 "2024-04-26T15:42:28Z")

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You saved this entire base, Kirk. Millions of souls. Thank you.

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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:** [April 26, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5839 "2024-04-26T17:33:01Z")

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I have all the specs and diagrams at home!

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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:** [April 27, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5840 "2024-04-27T10:10:21Z")

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**“It is exactly as they left it, Number One: in the _bottle!_”**

[receives no response]

**“…the _ship_ in the bottle.”**

[receives no response]

**“Good Lord, didn’t _anybody_ here build _ships in bottles_ when they were boys?”**

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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:** [April 27, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5841 "2024-04-27T19:14:08Z")

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Nevertheless, a brave act, Captain.

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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:** [April 27, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5842 "2024-04-27T21:37:12Z")

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And, because anti-time operates _opposite_ the way normal time does, the effects would travel backwards through the space-time continuum!

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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:** [April 28, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5843 "2024-04-28T04:07:00Z")

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All the close calls he had flying warp trials, and he gets himself killed climbing Mount McKinley.

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