# 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:** 325
**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:** [November 17, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6484 "2024-11-17T03:43:07Z")
A hundred years or so from now, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He’ll recommend those three words [“Let me help”] even over “I love you.” ---
**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:** [November 17, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6485 "2024-11-17T12:18:44Z")
Right now, I want you to buy me a drink; we can play footsies under the table. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6486 "2024-11-17T19:30:40Z")
I am surprised a Terran is surprised at anything. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6487 "2024-11-17T20:51:32Z")
To be honest, my opinion of Starfleet officers is so low that you’d have to work very hard indeed to disappoint 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:** [November 18, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6488 "2024-11-18T03:58:37Z")
Killers! Assassins! I won’t let you! I’ll kill you first! I won’t let you! You won’t get me! Murderers! Killers! ---
**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:** [November 18, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6489 "2024-11-18T11:01:02Z")
Maybe I should have said, _“Thank you very much for your input, Mister Garak; I will take your suggestion under advisement,”_ and gone back to my office and forgotten about the whole thing. But I didn’t. Because — in my heart — I knew what he was saying made sense. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6490 "2024-11-18T21:32:28Z")
Will she fly? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6491 "2024-11-19T03:53:49Z")
We’ll have Warp One for about … just under two seconds. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6492 "2024-11-19T19:52:54Z")
I refuse to be mocked by someone of your reputation. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6493 "2024-11-19T20:11:30Z")
How do we know he didn’t invent the thing? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6494 "2024-11-19T20:29:54Z")
Basic Warp Design is a required course at the Academy; the first chapter is called _“Zefram Cochrane.”_ ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6495 "2024-11-20T04:59:14Z")
It’s _vile_. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6496 "2024-11-20T05:12:15Z")
I suppose it is a factor in the human desire to procreate. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6497 "2024-11-20T18:29:16Z")
The word, 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:** [November 20, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6498 "2024-11-20T18:36:40Z")
“Darmok.” ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6499 "2024-11-20T22:11:48Z")
Then tear the skin from your limb as you would a defective circuit. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6500 "2024-11-21T00:17:03Z")
He says, _“Doctor, it hurts when I raise my arm like this.”_ The Doctor says, _“Then don’t raise your arm like that.”_ ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6501 "2024-11-21T03:12:34Z")
Yeah, about that - don’t quit your day job. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6502 "2024-11-21T03:15:29Z")
I am not less perfect than Lore. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6503 "2024-11-21T15:51:22Z")
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