Best line in star trek hstory

[skilzkid]

In Deja Q, Worf's response is legendary, and Q's comeback here is cute, making the below exchange my favorite:

"I have no powers. Q, the ordinary."
"Q, the liar. Q, the misanthrope."
"Q, the miserable. Q, the desperate. What must I do to convince you people?"
"Die."
"Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books, lately?"

 

[siskokid888]

Another one of my favorites - and I'm going from memory, so I may not have it exactly: from "The Ultimate Computer":

Spock (to Kirk): "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no desire to serve under them. A starship runs on many things, including loyalty to a man. One man. And nothing can ever replace it. Or him."

 

[sbk1234]

By memory, but you'll get the idea:

"We found intelligent life everywhere in the galaxy, except the programming offices of NBC."

 

[T'Cal]

"In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane." Spock in Mirror, Mirror (I think)

 

[siskokid888]

"In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane." Spock in Mirror, Mirror (I think)

You sure about that one? I don't remember that quote.

 

[Gov Kodos]

"In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane." Spock in Mirror, Mirror (I think)

You sure about that one? I don't remember that quote.

That's Kurt Vonnegut 'Welcome to the Monkey House' I believe. The Mirror Mirror quote according to chakoteya is 'It was far easier for you as civilised men to behave like barbarians, than it was for them to behave like civilised men.'

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Keevan the Vorta's dying words:

"I...HATE...FERENGI."

 

[Xhiandra]

Pretty much every single line of "The Measure of a Man" is quotable, and a lot of it has indeed been quoted here. So I won't.

Another favorite:
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably" TNG - The Drumhead.

 

[Tcsfan]

THERE.....ARE......FOUR.....LIGHTS ( capt Picard) Is my favorit but I also like
Fate protects fools little children and a ship named enterprise ( will riker)

 

[Tcsfan]

Jean-Luc Picard: Q, what is going on?
Q: I told you. You're dead. This is the afterlife. And I'm God.
Jean-Luc Picard: [ You are not God!
Q: Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago, under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
Jean-Luc Picard: No... I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.

 

[Tcsfan]

Is also a good one

 

[Sexy Human]

Jean-Luc Picard: Q, what is going on?
Q: I told you. You're dead. This is the afterlife. And I'm God.
Jean-Luc Picard: [ You are not God!
Q: Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago, under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.
Jean-Luc Picard: No... I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.

Very entertaining

 

[Sexy Human]

"Who is to say, that this history is any less proper than the other"?

"I suppose I am".

"NOT GOOD ENOUGH, DAMNIT, NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

 

[B.J.]

Many good ones in this thread!

Riker (many times): "Rrrrrrred alert!"

Data: "I just *love* scanning for life forms! [singing] Life forms! You tiny little life forms! You precious little life forms! Where are you?"
(Especially loved Riker's reaction to this! )

 

[Sexy Human]

You picked Red Alert as the best line in Star Trek History?

 

[scotpens]

Kirk in "Balance of Terror":

"Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge."

 

[Sexy Human]

The quality of this thread is going down imo...

Cmon guys, elite lines only.

 

[REDrake]

"I'm a doctor, not a commando."

How's that for quality?

 

[Tiberius]

"And you're all astronauts on some kind of a ... star trek..."

"And I will make them pay for what they've done!"

 

[BK613]

From Errand of Mercy:

KIRK: Even if you have some power that we don't understand, you have no right to dictate to our Federation
KOR: Or our Empire!
KIRK: How to handle our interstellar relations! We have the right
AYELBORNE: To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?