50 Best Trek Quotes (list for a video)
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I've got a few Voyager ones for you:
"We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job." (Janeway in Deadlock.)
"There's coffee in that nebula." (Janeway in The Cloud.)
CHAKOTAY: Can I ask you to be honest with me, Lieutenant?
TUVOK: As a Vulcan, I am at all times honest, Commander.
CHAKOTAY: That's not exactly true. You lied to me when you passed yourself off as a Maquis to get on my crew.
TUVOK: I was honest to my own convictions within the defined parameters of my mission.
CHAKOTAY: You damned Vulcans and your defined parameters. That's easy for you.
TUVOK: On the contrary. The demands on a Vulcan's character are extraordinarily difficult. Do not mistake composure for ease. How may I be honest with you today?
(State of Flux)
"We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job." (Janeway in Deadlock.)
"There's coffee in that nebula." (Janeway in The Cloud.)
CHAKOTAY: Can I ask you to be honest with me, Lieutenant?
TUVOK: As a Vulcan, I am at all times honest, Commander.
CHAKOTAY: That's not exactly true. You lied to me when you passed yourself off as a Maquis to get on my crew.
TUVOK: I was honest to my own convictions within the defined parameters of my mission.
CHAKOTAY: You damned Vulcans and your defined parameters. That's easy for you.
TUVOK: On the contrary. The demands on a Vulcan's character are extraordinarily difficult. Do not mistake composure for ease. How may I be honest with you today?
(State of Flux)
Q Who?
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires, both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
"Logic! Logic! I'm sick to death of logic! Do you want to know how I feel about your logic?"
"She has always been that way."
"Indeed – why did you marry her?"
"At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do."
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires, both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-- Q to Picard
The Drumhead"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
-- Picard quoting Judge Satie
This Side of Paradise"All right you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed, we'll see about you deserting my ship."
-- Kirk to Spock
"I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's."-- Spock
"... for the first time in my life, I was happy."
-- Spock
Amok Time"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."
-- Spock
Journey to Babel"Logic! Logic! I'm sick to death of logic! Do you want to know how I feel about your logic?"
-- Amanda
"Emotional, isn't she?""She has always been that way."
"Indeed – why did you marry her?"
"At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do."
-- Spock and Sarek, discussing Amanda
Mirror, Mirror
It's your play, I hope you succeed. Because the order would fall on me next, and you know how Captain Kirk's enemies have a habit of ... disappearing."
It's your play, I hope you succeed. Because the order would fall on me next, and you know how Captain Kirk's enemies have a habit of ... disappearing."
-- MU Sulu
"If I am successful, you see yourself a step nearer to the captaincy. I do not want to command the Enterprise, but if it should befall me, I suggest that you remember that my operatives would avenge my death ... and some of them are Vulcans."
-- MU Spock
No, I don't like it. I LOVE IT!
But how???? Its SO unnatural and stagy and hammy. Its just freaking awful.
When have you EVER seen someone act like that in real life?
Yes. One might prefer to be fortunate enough to never see someone have a nervous breakdown, but I've seen it before (hell, I've done it before, and I sounded plenty worse than Avery).
kitsune
Captain
One seven three four six seven three two one four seven six charlie three two seven eight nine seven seven seven six four three tango seven three two victor seven three one one seven eight eight eight seven three two four seven six seven eight nine seven six four three seven six. Lock. - Data (in Picard's voice), Brothers
Actually, it's "If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been"...but good call. You stole my favourite, right before I was about to make a post here. Great minds think alike and all that jazz.
That Data reciting Picard's code is an absolute must for the compilation. Freaked me out as a kid and still does. Maybe the creepiest thing I've ever seen on Star Trek. I guess it's too popular to not be included, but that "Far Beyond the Stars" breakdown makes my cringe so much, I really wish it would be excluded. I don't ever want to see it again. One over-the-top Brooks moment that I do love is his sudden top-of-the-lungs vow to murder Kira in "Dramatis Personae" - "NEVER! GET ME A PHASER! I'LL GET RID OF KIRA!". Probably the hardest I've ever laughed at DS9.
There are a lot of lines in Star Trek that are memorable for the repetition involved too (much like in things written by David Mamet). For example, Kirk's "Storage compartments? Storage compartments?" and Spock and Kirk's brilliant snappy "Italian food" exchange would be great additions too.
"Do you like Italian food?"
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"I love Italian, and so do you."
"Yes."
Shorter fun lines from Star Trek IV:
"Hello, computer!"
- Scotty
"NUCLEAR WESSELS"
- Chekov
"May fortune favor the foolish"
- Kirk
"It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question"
- Sarek
"A joke... is a story with a humourous climax"
- Spock
I also vote for Spock's "Edith Keeler must die". Does anybody else think that would make an awesome name for a song?
One of my favourite lines that I don't see mentioned very often is Riker's "They're carving us up like a roast", which I believe was in "Q Who" when the Borg are attacking them. That line always cracks me up, even though it was delivered in a serious context. There are a surprising amount of funny lines in the generally serious Borg episodes. Other gems are Worf's "THE KLINGON EMPIRE WILL NEVER YIELD" and "I like my SPECIES the way it is." Also, I watched "Star Trek: First Contact" again the other day and was surprised by how many lines made me laugh, especially from Cochrane. For example..."Hot damn, you're heroic!"
"I don't want to be a statue!"
- Zephram Cochrane
"You son of a bitch!"
"BULLSHIT!"
- Lily (hearing someone swear that much in a TNG production was so fun)
And of course, no discussion of fantastic First Contact lines is complete without mentioning that immortal awkwardly funny "some kind of Star Trek" line
. There should me a few McCoy "I'm a doctor..." lines in there too. A few that spring time to mind are "I'm a doctor...not a bricklayer", "I'm a doctor...not an engineer", and perhaps my favourite - "I'm a doctor...not an elevator". 
kitsune
Captain
Ah, I copy-pasted from Memory Alpha, I assumed they would have the correct wording...guess not
Actually, it's "If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been"...but good call. You stole my favourite, right before I was about to make a post here. Great minds think alike and all that jazz.
I remember the first time I saw that. I think it was December, 1990. The whole "Data has gone berserk" sequence is one of my favorite TNG moments.
Nomad, M-4, and the Planet Killer from TOS creeped me out the most. And the early Borg, when they're first magnified on the viewscreen in The Best of Both Worlds, part I and the epic music starts playing.
I'm a doctor, not a doorstop! -- The EMH program, First ContactThere should me a few McCoy "I'm a doctor..." lines in there too. A few that spring time to mind are "I'm a doctor...not a bricklayer", "I'm a doctor...not an engineer", and perhaps my favourite - "I'm a doctor...not an elevator".
Yeah, that one made me laugh during "Star Trek: First Contact" too...I think I didn't get it the first time I saw the movie, because at the time I hadn't watched the original "Star Trek" before. I love when the characters on other series pay tribute to "Star Trek" like that. Bashir's "I'm a doctor, not an historian" in "Trials and Tribble-Ations" was another nice moment in the same spirit.
and women wore less...
what's that from?
and what happened to him? did he have a heart-attack because of the new movie?
kitsune
Captain
Spock in Miri, referring to a potential cure for the disease that slows human metabolisms until the age of puberty, at which point rapid aging kicks in.
Was there any writer or story editor who specialized in Garak lines, that anyone knows of? His character is SO good. Weyoun also. Anybody know?
Garak wasn't just well written, he was sublime.
I tell you Worf, war is much more fun when you're WINNING!
I think a fair amount of the credit has to go to Andrew Robinson himself, who was closely involved in creating the character, constantly making suggestions as to how Garak ought to say this or do that and providing feedback on whatever was written for him. It's my understanding that the claustrophobia Garak suffers is a real-life thing for Robinson. The part about Garak having been a gardener is another.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find that Jeffrey Combs also provided input himself for Weyoun and the other characters he played.
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