# 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:** ![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:** [June 22, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7184 "2025-06-22T00:59:22Z")

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Asking favors of the Vulcans usually ends up carrying too high a price.

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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:** [June 22, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7185 "2025-06-22T06:12:21Z")

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Listen to me! You can’t have a runabout, you cannot get your medical supplies, and I don’t give a DAMN about the colonization schedule! Those colonists can make do with a box of _bandages,_ for all I care!

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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:** [June 22, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7186 "2025-06-22T17:29:30Z")

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But I don’t know how to nerve pinch.

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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:** [June 22, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7187 "2025-06-22T17:53:18Z")

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It’s more like remembering an emotion.

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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:** [June 23, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7188 "2025-06-23T02:29:04Z")

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Perhaps another time.

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**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7189 "2025-06-23T02:57:23Z")

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Jim, he’s on the edge of a nervous breakdown, if not insanity.

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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:** [June 23, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7190 "2025-06-23T15:09:33Z")

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In academic vernacular, you cheated.

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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:** [June 26, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7191 "2025-06-26T14:16:03Z")

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Doing the best I can.

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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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7192 "2025-06-27T00:03:37Z")

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The knowledge and experience of the human, Picard, is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless… Number One.

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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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7193 "2025-06-27T12:55:17Z")

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Captain, you need to see this!

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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:** [June 28, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7194 "2025-06-28T04:21:24Z")

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The safety of the _Enterprise_ should be your paramount concern.

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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:** [June 29, 2025, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7195 "2025-06-29T07:45:57Z")

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Captain James T. Kirk, Doctor Leonard McCoy, in the interest of fostering amity for the forthcoming peace talks, the sentence of death is… commuted. It is the judgement of this court that without possibility of reprieve or parole, you’ll be taken from this place to the dilithium mines on the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, there to spend the rest of your natural lives.

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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:** [June 29, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7196 "2025-06-29T13:04:48Z")

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But now there’ll be no more Picards.

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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:** [June 29, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7197 "2025-06-29T18:11:16Z")

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No, I’m from Chile.

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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:** [June 29, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7198 "2025-06-29T21:52:10Z")

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“We had no choice! We were fighting for survival!”

“So were we! We had an empire to protect! We needed your resources! Everything I did was for the greater glory of Cardassia! And if you spineless scum had to be ground under, so much the better. All that mattered was Cardassia. I loved my homeland. That’s what justified my actions. That’s what gave me strength.”

“Nothing justifies genocide!”

“What you call genocide, I call a day’s work.”

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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:** [June 30, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7199 "2025-06-30T15:35:53Z")

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Isolinear tags.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7200 "2025-07-01T00:42:47Z")

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I’m from Iowa

I work in outer space

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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:** [July 1, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7201 "2025-07-01T21:18:06Z")

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Pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat?

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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:** [July 4, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7202 "2025-07-04T15:34:31Z")

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It sounds like you want to summon Q.

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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:** [July 4, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7203 "2025-07-04T21:37:28Z")

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Jean-Luc never hit me!

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