# 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:** [May 1, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1102 "2015-05-01T18:11:50Z")

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Away! Away, spirit! And let honest men approach.

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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:** [May 1, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1103 "2015-05-01T22:25:48Z")

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How much?

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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:** [May 2, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1104 "2015-05-02T03:48:00Z")

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Perhaps the unfortunate incident when I was a child…?

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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:** [June 4, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1105 "2015-06-04T03:10:40Z")

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[Pure energy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuXvpkOLmM)

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**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1106 "2015-06-04T17:34:54Z")

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… James _ **Tiberius** _ Kirk.

(from at least one animated episode)

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1107 "2015-06-04T17:35:59Z")

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I swear they said this…

[http://www.funscrape.com/Cheez/97083](http://www.funscrape.com/Cheez/97083)

Or did I imagine it?

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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:** [June 30, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1108 "2015-06-30T15:26:21Z")

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Unreal. Appearances only. They are shadows. Illusions. Nothing but ghosts of reality. They are lies. Falsehoods. Spectres without body. They are to be ignored.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1109 "2015-06-30T16:45:59Z")

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“Get this through your head.”

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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 30, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1110 "2015-06-30T17:24:57Z")

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> [@vivalostwages](#):
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> …Or did I imagine it?

Yes.

I never knew what Spock was doing. When he was a boy, he would disappear for days into the mountains. I asked him where he had gone, what he had done, he refused to tell me. I insisted that he tell me. He would not. I forbade him to go. He ignored me. I punished him. He endured it, silently. But always he returned to the mountains. One might as well ask the river not to run. But secretly I admired him, the proud core of him that would not yield

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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:** [June 30, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1111 "2015-06-30T17:25:05Z")

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After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.

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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 30, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1112 "2015-06-30T17:57:28Z")

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Well, you did kill my ex-husband, and that’s not a bad start.

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**Author:** ![thestrangeness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@thestrangeness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thestrangeness)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1113 "2015-07-04T11:13:57Z")

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“I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer!” Original series episode “Devil in the Dark”

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**Author:** ![Reads\_a\_Lot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@Reads\_a\_Lot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reads_a_Lot)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1114 "2015-07-04T13:54:35Z")

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Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale, and what was in the grain that killed them?

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1115 "2015-07-04T13:59:20Z")

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Picard:

“You go on with the others. Go hold onto my grandson, and watch the damned thing go up… for all the good it’ll do. What is it they’re launching?”

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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:** [July 4, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1116 "2015-07-04T14:57:08Z")

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But he was alone. Can you imagine the mind emptied by that thing? Without even a tormentor for company.

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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 4, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1117 "2015-07-04T18:40:31Z")

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They were giving me a sour stomach.

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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:** [July 4, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1118 "2015-07-04T22:16:36Z")

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Trapped forever with a raging madman at your throat until time itself came to a stop? For eternity. How would it be?

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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:** [July 4, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1119 "2015-07-04T22:32:30Z")

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“Do you wish to SPEAK, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher?”

“No, sir! Commander, sir!”

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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:** [July 5, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1120 "2015-07-05T00:56:05Z")

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What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, that thou, such a prince at a shot so bloodily hast struck?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1121 "2015-07-05T02:35:18Z")

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LORD Garth!

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