# 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:** ![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:** [October 6, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6364 "2024-10-06T13:46:40Z")

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Maybe I am no father, and you’re no son.

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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:** [October 7, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6365 "2024-10-07T14:00:29Z")

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I’m glad we agree on something.

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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:** [October 7, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6366 "2024-10-07T14:39:55Z")

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What’s a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?

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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:** [October 7, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6367 "2024-10-07T14:54:38Z")

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It was for your own good; it was time for you to stop playing around with holograms, and start playing around with the real thing.

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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:** [October 8, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6368 "2024-10-08T19:01:20Z")

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I was afraid of that, M’Ress.

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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:** [October 8, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6369 "2024-10-08T22:30:57Z")

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Most everybody just calls me “Castillo.” My mother calls me “Richard.”

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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:** [October 9, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6370 "2024-10-09T17:19:18Z")

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It’s been my special pleasure to see many new officers like yourself come through these portals. Your parents must be very proud, my boy.

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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:** [October 9, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6371 "2024-10-09T19:54:18Z")

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These stones are signposts… to help point the way back.

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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:** [October 9, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6372 "2024-10-09T23:55:08Z")

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There are precedents in nature, Captain. The giant eel-birds of Regulus Five: once each eleven years, they must return to the caverns where they hatched. On your Earth, the salmon: they must return to that one stream where they were born, to spawn or die in trying.

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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:** [October 10, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6373 "2024-10-10T02:18:11Z")

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“YOU LIE! On Ceti Alpha Five, there was life! A fair shot–”  
“ **THIS** IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!”

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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:** [October 10, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6374 "2024-10-10T02:30:57Z")

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…so, are you here on business or pleasure?

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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:** [October 10, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6375 "2024-10-10T03:40:23Z")

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Is there a difference?

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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:** [October 10, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6376 "2024-10-10T04:19:44Z")

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Eventually, you may have to let someone die.

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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:** [October 10, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6377 "2024-10-10T14:25:10Z")

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Aren’t you gonna take the chair?

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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:** [October 11, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6378 "2024-10-11T01:06:33Z")

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This apartment, my clothes, weapons, even my valet were provided to me by my government.

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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:** [October 11, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6379 "2024-10-11T16:59:12Z")

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I actually envied that about 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:** [October 11, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6380 "2024-10-11T17:02:29Z")

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Our roles are reversed, aren’t they, Data?

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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:** [October 12, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6381 "2024-10-12T03:10:10Z")

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I think I joined the wrong intelligence service.

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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:** [October 12, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6382 "2024-10-12T13:10:38Z")

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That’s about the saddest story I ever heard.

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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:** [October 12, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6383 "2024-10-12T15:19:39Z")

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I just wanted to fly under the radar.

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