# Random Star Trek Quotes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 294
**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:** [May 4, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5864 "2024-05-04T20:51:56Z")
And you have the _gall_ to make love to that girl! ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5865 "2024-05-05T00:21:08Z")
When it is morally _praiseworthy,_ but not morally _obligatory._ ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5866 "2024-05-05T00:22:47Z")
You get on my nerves. And I _don’t_ like your hat. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5867 "2024-05-05T00:30:29Z")
I was like you once: so completely blinded by duty and obligations that I couldn’t see anything past this uniform. And, in the end, what did it get me? ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5868 "2024-05-05T02:29:42Z")
Permission to speak freely, sir? ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5869 "2024-05-05T13:40:05Z")
We’ve no fear of what the true facts about us will reveal. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5870 "2024-05-05T20:26:48Z")
Look to the stars. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5871 "2024-05-05T20:48:42Z")
You go in a straight line: competent, yes — and perhaps even _innovative,_ in a minimalist way — but what I do here is not the end of the process; it is the beginning. So, what do I do? ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5872 "2024-05-06T15:27:20Z")
Oh, forgive. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5873 "2024-05-06T15:38:58Z")
…oh, Herbert, you are _stiff!_ ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5874 "2024-05-07T02:22:59Z")
Away, spirits, and let honest men approach! ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5875 "2024-05-07T02:36:04Z")
For what reason? Why all the mumbo-jumbo? ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5876 "2024-05-07T19:20:46Z")
Your truth, of your world. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5877 "2024-05-07T23:54:12Z")
There will be an important assassination today, an equally dangerous government coup in Asia, and — this could be highly critical — the launching of an orbital nuclear warhead platform by the United States, countering a similar launch by other powers. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5878 "2024-05-08T17:54:35Z")
Here’s to the next generation. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5879 "2024-05-08T18:11:59Z")
A new age was born. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5880 "2024-05-08T18:26:17Z")
Our ambassador is still delusional. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5881 "2024-05-09T13:33:23Z")
My ancestors knew that power is virtue, and there is no nobility in suffering. You do what it takes to get what you need, or you don’t. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5882 "2024-05-09T16:13:02Z")
That aperture is scrambling my readings. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/5883 "2024-05-09T19:56:30Z")
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