Worst lines of dialogue in Trek?

[Orphalesion]

^I'll take this over the script for Spock's Brain

I mean listening to Archer is painful in any case (imho) and again I wonder whether they purposefully made him act/sound like a dumbass or whether it was just the way Bakula played the character.
But I agree that I take his speeches over Spock's Brain, or Mudd's Women, or Angel One etc.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Doesn't make his dialogue make it any less silly or cringe-worthy to me.

What I find mad is it seemed like they were still playing if for laughs years later in Kelvin movies

 

[at Quark's]

Torres was an amateur. LaForge would have just realigned the deflector and been done in seconds

Still better than Enterprise . While Archer would have said the same as Janeway, that they'd just had to crack it open, t'Pol would have sourly remarked the coordinates were off by 0.05 arcsecond, which Tucker or Mayweather would then have compensated for by polarizing the hull plating.

 

[Mytran]

^I'll take this over the script for Spock's Brain

It's least Spock's Brain was entertaining to watch.

 

[Vaughn Falstaff]

I did see that a thread like this was started in 2013, but we have a lot more material to work with now.

To start, I always want to sink into my chair in embarrassment in TNG’s “The Last Outpost” when Geordi reacts to Riker’s tactical plan with “Ah, I see where you're going. We shift down and then kick hard into warp nine. Yeah! Come back fighting! Whooey!”

It was clear that the writers had no real idea of who Geordi was at that point and were trying to fit him into some kind of action-movie stereotype. LeVar Burton was a talented actor but he really had nothing to work with on TNG other than spewing technobabble and failing at romance.

from TNG Haven
When Wyatt says to Riker "you're they guy who wants to be a starship captain? To each his own, good luck with that endeavour" He sounds like a stuck up prig.

 

[Oddish]

"I've decided not to pursue that commission at this time."
- Riker.

That's the worst thing about Riker's character, in one line.

 

[amp]

PORTAL: Unlike these little ones who close their minds, your mind holds interesting thoughts. Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will always be victorious. Why that thought? And who is this Sun Tzu you revere?

It goes without saying that much of "The Last Outpost" is cringeworthy. But the avatar of an ancient civilization being impressed by a bunch of clichés is just dumb.

And, I wonder if this is one of those thoughts that so impressed the Portal?

RIKER: One final request, sir. Permission to beam a box of Data's Chinese finger puzzles over to the Ferengi. A thank you for all they tried to do.

 

[dupersuper]

Phloxs; "explanation" of why Archer should let a species die out because "evolution" comes to mind...

 

[ChallengerHK]

TSFS, Kruge: "Put him on the screen."

It's not the line, but the delivery. Lloyd is channeling his Reverend Jim character from Taxi for that line. Every time I hear it I think of Andy Kaufman, Marilu Henner and Danny Devito being on the bridge of the Enterprise.

 

[FormerLurker]

TSFS, Kruge: "Put him on the screen."

It's not the line, but the delivery. Lloyd is channeling his Reverend Jim character from Taxi for that line. Every time I hear it I think of Andy Kaufman, Marilu Henner and Danny Devito being on the bridge of the Enterprise.

The irony here is that at one point, Reverend JIm was asked what he wanted most out of life. His answer? "I always wanted to be on Star Trek."

 

[TrekTee]

"Captain I will help you if you let me!!"
Hehe but I forgive Worf just because.

 

[Sgt_G]

It's least Spock's Brain was entertaining to watch.

So are car-crash videos on YouTube. Ya' just can't look away from a bad wreck.

 

[Oddish]

So are car-crash videos on YouTube. Ya' just can't look away from a bad wreck.

I'd put "A Night in Sickbay" in the same category... a bizarre trainwreck, but hilarious nonetheless.

 

[dupersuper]

So are car-crash videos on YouTube.

They are??

 

[Sgt_G]

More so than Spock's Brain was.

 

[Oddish]

Regarding Spock's Brain, I will include Kirk's rationale for making the women go up and live caveman style with the men. "Don't worry, you can just...find other ways to manipulate them." Something like that anyway.

Odds of that civilization surviving: about as high as Spock giving up ambassadorship to pursue a career as a thong-clad hot oil wrestler.

 

[drew]

TOS Season 2, Episode 43, "Bread And Circuses." The entire final scene. I can't believe this wasn't mentioned on the first page of this thread. Upon figuring out that the inhabitants were just learning about jesus, Kirk says something like, "Wouldn't it be great? To see it all over again from the beginning? To be a part of it?" Be part of what? The Crusades? Inquisition? Witchcraft trials? The Dark Ages? Countless documented cases of child molestion? I want to reach through the screen and slap him every time. It's the worst dialogue in ST, objectively and without a doubt in my mind.

Coon probably wasn't the worst writer overall to work on Star Trek, but no one else I can think of just actively tried to enforce the idea that Starfleet was a christian organisation. Makes me sick.

I guess I apologize to anyone reading who might worship a sexist, racist, homophobic, genocidal child killer of a god whose favorite people are pimping mass murderers who commit war crimes.

 

[Oddish]

And I suppose you think that happy atheistic Josef Stalin, who killed 15 million of his own people, was merely misunderstood.

Every faith on earth, including atheism, has produced bad people who do bad things. The pagan Roman Empire gave us Nero, the Muslims produced Al Queda, etc.

 

[1001001]

Okay folks we can drop the religion debate right here and now. This is not the forum for it.

 

[Oddish]

Probably just as well. I've seen too many religious and political discussions turn into the verbal equivalent of back alley knife fights.

I'm counting pretty much anything Archer said in "A Night in Sickbay". I mean, that episode us hilarious and all, but Archer sounded like a sullen 9-year-old instead of a starship captain.