# 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:** [August 23, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7284 "2025-08-23T01:31:39Z")

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You obtuse piece of flotsam.

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7285 "2025-08-23T02:11:58Z")

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“Sir, our shields are dropping!”

“Raise them!”

“I can’t!”

“Where’s the override? The override?!”

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7286 "2025-08-23T02:30:45Z")

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It will be interesting to see if his brain matches his body.

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7287 "2025-08-23T02:38:18Z")

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“You will tell me the secret of the Genesis torpedo.”

“I have no knowledge.”

“Then I hope pain’s something you enjoy.”

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7288 "2025-08-23T02:50:20Z")

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“A pity you wasted your life on command, Jim; you’d have made a fair psychologist.”

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7289 "2025-08-23T12:54:06Z")

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Do you have a mirror?

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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:** [August 23, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7290 "2025-08-23T13:06:25Z")

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My ancestry is French, yes.

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7291 "2025-08-24T01:18:48Z")

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Dr. McCoy said you were here. I should have felt it in the air, like static electricity.

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7292 "2025-08-24T01:26:23Z")

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You know, it’s a good thing you’re an engineer. With tact like that, you’d make a lousy psychiatrist.

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7293 "2025-08-24T01:33:17Z")

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And the same to you, Miss Lincoln.

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7294 "2025-08-24T13:02:14Z")

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It is more aptly described as a pocket in the garment of 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:** [August 24, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7295 "2025-08-24T15:19:11Z")

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Yes. That’s why it gets larger in the past.

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7296 "2025-08-24T17:27:50Z")

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“I have never before met a Vulcan, sir.”

“Nor I a work of art, madam.”

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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:** [August 24, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7297 "2025-08-24T17:42:59Z")

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I had to get everyone’s attention. It was the quickest way.

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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:** [August 25, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7298 "2025-08-25T01:35:41Z")

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You be careful with that thing.

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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:** [August 25, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7299 "2025-08-25T02:57:53Z")

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It’s not real booze. You’re in a holosuite, remember?

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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:** [August 25, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7300 "2025-08-25T12:38:49Z")

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You want me to pilot the shuttle.

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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:** [August 26, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7301 "2025-08-26T03:11:26Z")

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You want to hurt us.

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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:** [August 26, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7302 "2025-08-26T03:12:14Z")

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He was more than a hero. He was a union man!

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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:** [August 26, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7303 "2025-08-26T03:13:15Z")

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I suspect even my attorney has begun to doubt me.

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