# 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:** 372
**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 9, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7424 "2025-11-09T14:40:08Z")
Kingdoms conquer without fear. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7425 "2025-11-10T00:15:43Z")
That is not our way. _Cowards_ take hostages. _Klingons_ do not. ---
**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 10, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7426 "2025-11-10T00:48:42Z")
I want you to stop treating this like a game where everything’s going to turn out all right in the end. Real spies have to make hard choices. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7427 "2025-11-10T01:05:11Z")
“Do you wish to SPEAK, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher?” “No, sir! Commander, sir!” ---
**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 10, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7428 "2025-11-10T14:59:06Z")
Reroute main power through the secondary coupling. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7429 "2025-11-10T15:18:52Z")
Captain, we’re having trouble with the inertial dampeners, or the phase inducers… or some other damn thing. ---
**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 11, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7430 "2025-11-11T19:31:31Z")
There’s two? ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7431 "2025-11-11T20:12:22Z")
You know, at the rate we go through runabouts, it’s a good thing the Earth has so many rivers. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7432 "2025-11-11T20:20:24Z")
She knew you couldn’t resist opening it. ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7433 "2025-11-11T22:31:58Z")
I’m posing as a wealthy jet-setter, so I have to act like one. ---
**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 14, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7434 "2025-11-14T00:19:34Z")
Do you know what you’re going to say to them, Captain? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7435 "2025-11-14T01:34:13Z")
“It has been suggested that Spock may have defected.” “NEVER! I will accept many things, but never that.” ---
**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 14, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7436 "2025-11-14T16:02:32Z")
It is done. ---
**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 14, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7437 "2025-11-14T18:17:35Z")
I’ll discuss what I like. And who in the hell are 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 15, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7438 "2025-11-15T00:39:13Z")
A man in a 20th-century business suit. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7439 "2025-11-15T00:41:51Z")
Baseball, sir. It was a national obsession at the time. ---
**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 15, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7440 "2025-11-15T05:05:07Z")
Look, brother, the latinum tooth sharpener I used when we were children! ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7441 "2025-11-15T15:10:20Z")
Curiosity. We’ve never been there. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7442 "2025-11-15T23:23:59Z")
“How do you do that?” “Do what?” “Say exactly the right thing.” “No one’s ever told me that before.” “There you go again.” ---
**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 16, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/7443 "2025-11-16T00:17:29Z")
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