# 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:** 311
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6204 "2024-08-18T16:01:21Z")
Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here, whether or not I might have something to contribute? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6205 "2024-08-18T21:11:24Z")
Perhaps another time. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6206 "2024-08-19T00:21:48Z")
Which means that, in some fashion, I am going to be the cause of the destruction of humanity. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6207 "2024-08-19T13:31:13Z")
Negative, 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:** [August 19, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6208 "2024-08-19T22:01:04Z")
I have given you the facts, Captain: the entire magnetic field in this solar system simply _blinked._ The planet below — the mass of which we’re measuring — attained _zero gravity._ ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6209 "2024-08-19T23:44:33Z")
BASHIR: Some of these people are mentally ill. They need proper medical treatment. SISKO: I know, but they’re not going to get it. Not now anyway. BASHIR: What? What is it? SISKO: That calendar over there. It says August 30, 2024. BASHIR: I’m not sure I understand. SISKO: You ever hear of the Bell Riots? BASHIR: Vaguely. SISKO: It was one of the most violent civil disturbances in American history, and it happened right here. San Francisco, Sanctuary District A, the first week of September, 2024. BASHIR: That’s only a few days from now. SISKO: Which means if we don’t get out of here soon, we’ll be caught right in the middle of it. BASHIR: Just how bad are these riots going to be, Commander? SISKO: Bad. The Sanctuary residents will take over the District. Some of the guards will be taken hostage. The government will send in troops to restore order. Hundreds of Sanctuary residents will be killed. BASHIR: Hundreds? And there’s nothing we can do to prevent it. Starfleet’s temporal displacement policy may sound good in the classroom, but to know that hundreds of people are going to die and to not be able to do a thing to save them SISKO: I sympathise, Doctor, but if it will make you feel any better, the Riots will be one of the watershed events of the twenty first century. Gabriel Bell will see to that. BASHIR: Bell? SISKO: The man they named the Riots after. He is one of the Sanctuary residents who will be guarding the hostages. The government troops will storm this place based on rumours that the hostages have been killed. It turns out that the hostages were never harmed, because of Gabriel Bell. In the end, Bell sacrifices his own life to save them. He’ll become a national hero. Outrage over his death, and the death of the other residents, will change public opinion about the Sanctuaries. They’ll be torn down and the United States will finally begin correcting the social problems it had struggled with for over a hundred years. BASHIR: And all of this is going to happen in the next few days. SISKO: Which means if we warn these people about what’s coming, if we try to help them in any way, we risk altering a pivotal moment in history. And we can’t let that happen. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6210 "2024-08-20T00:04:56Z")
I can’t be concerned about that right now; I have a company to run, and a whole world full of people waiting for me to make their lives a little bit better. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6211 "2024-08-20T13:13:32Z")
While the exact classification of this space entity eludes us, we believe it to be peaceful, in search of a home. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6212 "2024-08-20T14:28:09Z")
CHANG: “Dr. McCoy, would you be so good as to tell us - what is your current medical status?” MCCOY: “Aside from a touch of arthritis, I’d say pretty good.” RANDOM KLINGON IN THE AUDIENCE: “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6213 "2024-08-20T16:31:49Z")
Shame on you. Shame on you. How neatly you rationalize your capabilities. How can you just casually accept your role in murder? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6214 "2024-08-21T20:25:54Z")
You are _not_ Fek’lhr! ---
**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:** [August 21, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6215 "2024-08-21T20:33:21Z")
Without me, there would be no laptops! No internet! No barcode readers! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6216 "2024-08-22T13:56:19Z")
I’ve only seen snow twice in my life. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6217 "2024-08-22T18:06:13Z")
Oh, right; I forgot. But you said “secret agent,” and _nobody_ says “secret agent.” And you do that a lot: you get things not quite right, like you don’t belong here… ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6218 "2024-08-23T21:00:51Z")
Our futures look different. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6219 "2024-08-24T00:47:59Z")
A lot’s happened to me since I was you. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6220 "2024-08-24T03:23:27Z")
I’m from Iowa. I only work in space. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6221 "2024-08-24T09:39:30Z")
“That was the mission where James Kirk was killed.” ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6222 "2024-08-24T15:16:22Z")
Look at the math of it, is all I’m saying. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6223 "2024-08-25T00:01:33Z")
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