# 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:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/161 "2014-09-12T09:39:33Z")

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“Well, I’m a trained psychologist. Perhaps I can help.”

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/162 "2014-09-12T09:40:48Z")

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“You cow! A _chair_ could sense ‘hostility’!”

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/163 "2014-09-12T09:43:25Z")

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My all-time favorite, as I remember it:

“A thousand throats can be cut in one night by a running man!”

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/165 "2014-09-12T09:52:32Z")

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“Oh, this? Just something I … slipped on.”

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/166 "2014-09-12T10:34:27Z")

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If you were any other man I’d kill you where you stand.

Ramming speed!

Tough little ship…  
_Little?_

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/167 "2014-09-12T10:35:42Z")

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By Grabthar’s hammer…

You managed to get your shirt off I see.

(Maybe we need another thread for these?)

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/168 "2014-09-12T10:36:58Z")

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That’s not what he said, farm boy. _“Admiral, if we were to assume those whales are ours to do with as we please, we would be as guilty as those who caused…”_ – past tense! – _“…their extinction.”_ I have a photographic memory. I see words.

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**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/169 "2014-09-12T13:36:43Z")

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Why can’t I blow off just one of his ears?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/170 "2014-09-12T13:50:14Z")

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I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/171 "2014-09-12T14:38:49Z")

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

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/172 "2014-09-12T14:39:43Z")

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Remember…

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/173 "2014-09-12T14:40:53Z")

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How many fingers am I holding up?

Dammit, Jim, that’s not funny!

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/174 "2014-09-12T14:42:09Z")

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Carbon unit infestations.

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/175 "2014-09-12T14:51:01Z")

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Lucky his heart’s where his liver should be, or he’d be dead now.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/176 "2014-09-12T15:59:08Z")

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“Dammit Jim, I’m a proctologist, not a homosexual!”

ok I cheated

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/177 "2014-09-12T16:25:15Z")

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Apparently you can’t teach an old god new tricks.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/178 "2014-09-12T16:44:33Z")

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I’ll call you the next time I pass through your star system.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/179 "2014-09-12T16:46:24Z")

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“Goin’ back to Eden…”

Regards,  
Shodan

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/180 "2014-09-12T17:31:14Z")

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“Oh, on the Starship _Enterprise_ There’s someone who’s in Satan’s guise, Whose devil’s ears and devil’s eyes Could rip your heart from you! At first his look could hypnotize, And then his touch would barbarize. His alien love could victimize… And rip your heart from you! And that’s why female astronauts Oh very female astronauts Wait terrified and overwrought To find what he will do. Oh girls in space, be wary, be wary, be wary! Girls in space, be wary! We know not what he’ll do.”

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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:** [September 12, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-star-trek-quotes/698112/181 "2014-09-12T17:42:14Z")

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No, Captain, some… thing. Cold, it was, like a… stinking draft out of a slaughterhouse, but it wasn’t… really there. Like a… if you know what I mean.

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