# 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:** [March 1, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6824 "2025-03-01T15:06:41Z")

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Sensors didn’t detect the phenomenon until we were almost on top of it.

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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:** [March 1, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6825 "2025-03-01T15:33:03Z")

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I’m sure whatever it is seems very important to you, but my situation is far more critical.

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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:** [March 2, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6826 "2025-03-02T04:57:39Z")

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And now, crew, I will render ‘Kathleen’… _one more time!_

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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:** [March 2, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6827 "2025-03-02T06:13:17Z")

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It is the most important one, and — for me — the only one that matters.

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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:** [March 2, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6828 "2025-03-02T14:22:38Z")

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What’s wrong with it?

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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:** [March 2, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6829 "2025-03-02T15:54:08Z")

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It has described a great monstrous shape on which I am like a fly, stuck on a turtle’s back, adrift in a great emptiness.

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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:** [March 3, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6830 "2025-03-03T16:08:44Z")

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I helped decorate the tree.

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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:** [March 6, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6831 "2025-03-06T19:04:02Z")

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You’re one of us, now.

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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:** [March 6, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6832 "2025-03-06T19:14:29Z")

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Sir, do you mock me?

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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:** [March 7, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6833 "2025-03-07T12:24:43Z")

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Really?

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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:** [March 7, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6834 "2025-03-07T18:58:32Z")

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What sort of meaningless doubletalk is this?

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6835 "2025-03-08T02:28:27Z")

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Didn’t you order Scotch?

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6836 "2025-03-08T02:46:01Z")

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The tricky part is what happens afterwards.

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6837 "2025-03-08T03:44:09Z")

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What’s the first thing you’d do if you had your ship back?

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6838 "2025-03-08T15:28:11Z")

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He’s so mean!

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6839 "2025-03-08T20:20:00Z")

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Take care, woman: I am convinced of your guilt; do not compound it with false accusation…

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6840 "2025-03-08T22:54:54Z")

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Your sanctuary, remember?

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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:** [March 8, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6841 "2025-03-08T23:07:31Z")

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Well, if you don’t take advantage of your opportunities…

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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:** [March 9, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6842 "2025-03-09T03:03:16Z")

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Aren’t you dead?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/6843 "2025-03-09T03:10:21Z")

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Oh, no, no, no. Merely deserted. You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.

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