# 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:** 87
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1722 "2016-12-08T00:28:33Z")
Trapped on a barren planet and you’re stuck with the only Indian in the universe who can’t start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1723 "2016-12-08T01:41:01Z")
My people taught me, a man does not own land. He doesn’t own anything but the courage and loyalty in his heart. That’s where _my_ power comes from. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1724 "2016-12-08T11:42:59Z")
Who else are you going to argue with if not your friends? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1725 "2016-12-09T15:02:00Z")
Dax: “You’re becoming more like Curzon all the time.” Sisko: “I’m not sure how to take that.” ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1726 "2016-12-09T15:05:49Z")
Worf: I will feed the cat. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1727 "2016-12-09T15:12:00Z")
\*O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. \* ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1728 "2016-12-09T19:08:47Z")
Quite a lovely animal, captain. I find myself strangely drawn to it. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1729 "2016-12-14T16:54:58Z")
I never saw one before in my life, and I hope I never see one of those fuzzy miserable things again. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1730 "2016-12-15T17:15:14Z")
Why is any object we don’t understand always called a thing? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1731 "2016-12-15T18:09:11Z")
Uhura is busy. I am monitoring. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1732 "2016-12-16T11:10:33Z")
[Klingons] are a bad influence on you. They’re prone to violence, they keep you out 'til all hours… Why don’t you find some nice Vulcan friends? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1733 "2016-12-19T17:33:31Z")
Move, puny human animal! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1734 "2016-12-20T00:10:58Z")
Let me get this straight: trans-dimensional aliens have mistaken your Captain Proton simulation for reality. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1735 "2016-12-20T04:44:02Z")
So _that’s_ when you hit the Klingons? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1736 "2016-12-20T14:17:57Z")
**Dr. Boyce:** A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. **Pike:** Now you’re beginning to talk like a doctor, bartender. **Dr. Boyce:** Take your choice. We both get the same two kinds of customers – the living… and the dying. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1737 "2016-12-20T14:27:49Z")
It’s\* vile!\* ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1738 "2016-12-20T14:30:54Z")
What is it? It is green. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1739 "2016-12-20T14:46:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It’s\* vile!\* More? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1740 "2016-12-20T15:35:54Z")
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I’m his captain. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/1741 "2016-12-21T06:19:39Z")
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