T-H-X eleven-thirty-eight will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure. Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.
The only joy is the joy of duty. Work… work… work.
He wanted ship duty. They all did.
“I understand.” Honor hesitated a moment longer, then sighed. “You know the buttons to punch, don’t you, High Admiral?” Her voice was amused, not accusing, and Matthews shrugged and smiled back at her, acknowledging the truth of her statement. “All right. If you really need one somewhat less than mint-condition captain, I suppose you’ve got her. What were you planning to do with her?”
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
Violent Passion Surrogate. Regularly once a month. We flood the whole system with adrenin. It’s the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconvenience.
People have been trying to create new art forms for a long time, sir. Almost all fell by the wayside. People just didn’t like them.
The #1 movie in America was called “Ass.” And that’s all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.
Get back you eight-legged freaks!
…A web would indicate an arachnoid presence.
Mr. Spock: [regarding the Tholian filaments] There is no analog to this structure in Federation technology. It is, however, an energy field. And if the Tholians are successful in completing this structure before we have completed our repairs, we shall not see home again.
He looked nicely invalidish, with his leg propped up conspicuously, the better to persuade the ImpSec fellows to carry him to his bunk, when they arrived topside. For the first time in his life, he was going home.
My heart turns home in longing
Across the voids between,
To know beyond the spaceways
The hills of Earth are green
“The task will last your lifetime,” Agzaral said. “Captain Galloway, surely it must be obvious to you that you and your men will never return to Earth.”
We’ve decided to keep you here for another 50 cycles! With endless options for renewal!
I’m gonna be a science-fiction hero, just like Uhura, or Captain Janeway, or Xena!
“Wait a minute, Xena can’t fly!”
“I told you, I’m not Xena. I’m Lucy Lawless.”
Professor Norman, my name’s Lucy, I just read all your research on the human brain — we need to meet.
Where are you going to look for Spock’s brain? How’re you gonna find it?
So, I’m supposed to tell you how I became a brain in a box.