After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
REED: If you really want to improve tactical readiness, why don't you help me with this protocol? TUCKER: I'm a little busy right now, Malcolm. REED: It's a chair. TUCKER: It's the Captain's chair. It's just as important as your... Reed Alert. REED: Reed Alert. That's not bad. (ENT: "Singularity")
"Apparently, instead of building an empire, Earth became part of some... inter-species... alliance..." "Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan?" "A god cannot survive as a memory."
"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." -Bones, "The Devil In The Dark" "Ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left are my bones." -Bones, STXI "Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight-hundred lives, including your own. I dare you to do better." -Captain Pike, STXI "Hi Christopher. I'm Nero." -Nero, STXI "Resistance is...not...futile." -Hugh, "I, Borg" "No, he...he tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and through perdition's flames before I give him up!" -Khan, "The Wrath of Khan" "I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!" -Scotty, STXI "The best diplomat I know is a fully loaded phaser bank." -Scotty, "A Taste of Armageddon" "We are the Borg. Screw you." (Okay, so that's not an actual Trek quote. Someone, I don't remember who, used it to describe the attitude of the Borg around the time the Destiny trilogy takes place.)
'The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.' -Garak I don't think this one has been posted yet.
Bashir: What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me which ones were true and which ones weren't? Garak: My dear doctor... they're all true. Bashir: Even the lies? Garak: Especially the lies.
Yet strangely enough, they didn't appreciate that when I shouted it at my 7-year-old daughter's soccer game.
You'd better watch it. In this day and age that might be considered as bullying and they might call the cops on you. You know "Just to be on the safe side".
Sad, but true. Actually, I was smart enough to say it only loud enough so my family could hear it. It sucks that people just don't have a sense of humor. But just to keep this thread from going off track: "I sent the whole kit and kaboodle to the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."
And on a related note: Kirk: "Will somebody please close that door?" Gets hit in the head with a tribble.
This is the phrase that probably saved my life. As a teenager I became suicidal, because of physical abuse and self-hatred for being gay. One afternoon, that episode of TOS came on... it made me pause... and realize that I really am special... and just maybe I'm worth living. So for me, IMHO, this is the "best line in Star Trek history" and always will be. More recently, I also like nuMcCoy's background [Karl Urban had to be channeling Dee Kelley when he ad-libbed this line]: I love this line from McCoy, too:
There are many great lines. One of my favorites is the exchange between Kirk and Scotty in "Trouble with Tribbles". Kirk slowly coming to realize that the integrity of the Enterprise means more to Scotty then the integrity of its captain. Plus, Scotty's delight at his "punishment".