Best lines of dialogue in Trek
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Picard has all of the best lines.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform.
The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
There are four lights!
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform.
The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
There are four lights!
Spock from “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.”
Kirk from “Where No Man Has Gone Before”:
“You were a psychiatrist once. You know the ugly, savage things we all keep buried, that none of us dare expose. But he'll dare. Who's to stop him? He doesn't need to care. Be a psychiatrist for one minute longer. What do you see happening to him? What's your prognosis, Doctor?”
“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.”
Kirk from “Where No Man Has Gone Before”:
“You were a psychiatrist once. You know the ugly, savage things we all keep buried, that none of us dare expose. But he'll dare. Who's to stop him? He doesn't need to care. Be a psychiatrist for one minute longer. What do you see happening to him? What's your prognosis, Doctor?”
First thoughts:
"Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain." - James T. Kirk
"Time's up!" - Kathryn Janeway
"Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain." - James T. Kirk
"Time's up!" - Kathryn Janeway
Picard "There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute."
PICARD: "Considering the marvellous complexity of our universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that, matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond Euclidian and other practical measuring systems and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality."
"Sir, there's a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." (right before the neck pinch)
Commander Spock, "A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON"
"I have never questioned the orders or the intelligence of any representative of the Federation. Until now."
Captain James T. Kirk, "THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES"
"Let's make sure that history never forgets... the name... Enterprise."
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Yesterday's Enterprise"
"Captain, I protest. I am NOT a Merry Man!"
Lt. Worf, "Qpid"
"I finally realized that it wasn't Starfleet that I wanted to get away from. I was trying to escape the pain I felt after my wife's death. I thought I could take the uniform, wrap it around that pain, and toss them both away. But it doesn't work like that. Running may help, for a little while – but sooner or later the pain catches up with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground and face it."
Captain Benjamin Sisko, "THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR"
"Lions and Gigers and bears."
Cadet Nog, "IN THE CARDS"
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain."
Lt. Tuvok, "ELOGIUM"
"You destroy lifeforms to attain your goals then claim that they left you no choice. Does that logic comfort you?"
Seven of Nine, "EQUINOX, PART II"
"The Andorian Mining Cosortium runs from no one."
Commander Shran, "PROVING GROUND"
"Up until about a hundred years ago, there was one question that burned in every Human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. A final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together."
Captain Jonathan Archer, "TERRA PRIME"
Commander Spock, "A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON"
"I have never questioned the orders or the intelligence of any representative of the Federation. Until now."
Captain James T. Kirk, "THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES"
"Let's make sure that history never forgets... the name... Enterprise."
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Yesterday's Enterprise"
"Captain, I protest. I am NOT a Merry Man!"
Lt. Worf, "Qpid"
"I finally realized that it wasn't Starfleet that I wanted to get away from. I was trying to escape the pain I felt after my wife's death. I thought I could take the uniform, wrap it around that pain, and toss them both away. But it doesn't work like that. Running may help, for a little while – but sooner or later the pain catches up with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground and face it."
Captain Benjamin Sisko, "THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR"
"Lions and Gigers and bears."
Cadet Nog, "IN THE CARDS"
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain."
Lt. Tuvok, "ELOGIUM"
"You destroy lifeforms to attain your goals then claim that they left you no choice. Does that logic comfort you?"
Seven of Nine, "EQUINOX, PART II"
"The Andorian Mining Cosortium runs from no one."
Commander Shran, "PROVING GROUND"
"Up until about a hundred years ago, there was one question that burned in every Human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. A final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together."
Captain Jonathan Archer, "TERRA PRIME"
"When I was in my early twenties, on a trip to East Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth. It was truly amazing. Within minutes the baby was standing up. Standing up on its own. A few more minutes and it was walking, and before I knew it, it was running alongside its mother, moving away with the herd.
"Humans aren't like that. We may come from the same planet as those gazelles, but we're pretty much helpless when we're born. It takes us months before we're able to crawl. Almost a full year before we can walk. Our deep space mission isn't much different. We're going to stumble, make mistakes, I'm sure more than a few, before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being human is all about."
- Captain Jonathan Archer in the Greatest Speech of All Time, February 2152
"Humans aren't like that. We may come from the same planet as those gazelles, but we're pretty much helpless when we're born. It takes us months before we're able to crawl. Almost a full year before we can walk. Our deep space mission isn't much different. We're going to stumble, make mistakes, I'm sure more than a few, before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being human is all about."
- Captain Jonathan Archer in the Greatest Speech of All Time, February 2152
Worf has some gems...
"I will feed him." ["Phantasms"]
"Perhaps today IS a good day to die. PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!"
"Assimilate this!" [both from "Star Trek First Contact"]
"I am going to kill him. I will grab him by the throat and rip out his esophagus..." [from "Liasons"]
"Die." [to Q, in "Deja Q"]
"I will feed him." ["Phantasms"]
"Perhaps today IS a good day to die. PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!"
"Assimilate this!" [both from "Star Trek First Contact"]
"I am going to kill him. I will grab him by the throat and rip out his esophagus..." [from "Liasons"]
"Die." [to Q, in "Deja Q"]
It doesn't matter how old I get, or how much time has passed. It's been literally 20 years already, and I'm still laughing my @ss off about it. When I'm 100 year old woman on my deathbed, I'll still be giggling about:
"If anything happens to Porthos, I'll be the one watering their (holy) trees!"
~ Trained Diplomat Archer
"If anything happens to Porthos, I'll be the one watering their (holy) trees!"
~ Trained Diplomat Archer
Some lines on the subject of medical ethics...
"It's unethical to harm a patient. I can inflict as much pain as I like." [Phlox, "Dead Stop"]
"You scare me, Doctor. You risk your patient's lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time. Sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you. You take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patient's lives, and as far as I'm concerned that's a violation of our most sacred trust." [Beverly, "Ethics"]
"I'm sorry, Captain, but I cannot perform the surgical separation. I am a physician, and a physician must do no harm. I will not take Mister Tuvix's life against his will." [EMH, "Tuvix"]
"It's unethical to harm a patient. I can inflict as much pain as I like." [Phlox, "Dead Stop"]
"You scare me, Doctor. You risk your patient's lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time. Sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you. You take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patient's lives, and as far as I'm concerned that's a violation of our most sacred trust." [Beverly, "Ethics"]
"I'm sorry, Captain, but I cannot perform the surgical separation. I am a physician, and a physician must do no harm. I will not take Mister Tuvix's life against his will." [EMH, "Tuvix"]
"I disappoint him, he disappoints me. The sun sets, a new day begins."
Disco Spock fucking hates his dad
Disco Spock fucking hates his dad
Say what you want about "Shades of Gray", but the ending was cute...
RIKER: "Of course I know who I am. I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise."
PICARD: "I'm delighted that you're feeling better, Captain." (indicates Data) "The Admiral and I were worried about you."
DATA: "Captain, I do not believe you have the authority to promote me to the rank of Admiral."
RIKER: "Of course I know who I am. I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise."
PICARD: "I'm delighted that you're feeling better, Captain." (indicates Data) "The Admiral and I were worried about you."
DATA: "Captain, I do not believe you have the authority to promote me to the rank of Admiral."
I mean, this is just scratching the surface....
Kirk: "We reach, Mister Spock."
("The Way to Eden")
Kirk: "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.' No matter how long it took, he came out with multitronics, the M-5."
("The Ultimate Computer")
Kirk: "The only way you'll use that device again is on one of us."
("The Cloud Minders")
Tamarian First Officer: "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel."
("Darmok")
Jadzia Dax: "And women wore less."
("Trials and Tribble-ations")
Universal Translator: "intruder unidentified believe luminescent cloud to be enormous power field surrounding alien vessel our sensor scans unable to penetrate imperial klingon cruiser amar continuing to attack"
(The Motion Picture)
Kirk: "Double dumb ass on you!"
(The Voyage Home)
Kirk: "We reach, Mister Spock."
("The Way to Eden")
Kirk: "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.' No matter how long it took, he came out with multitronics, the M-5."
("The Ultimate Computer")
Kirk: "The only way you'll use that device again is on one of us."
("The Cloud Minders")
Tamarian First Officer: "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel."
("Darmok")
Jadzia Dax: "And women wore less."
("Trials and Tribble-ations")
Universal Translator: "intruder unidentified believe luminescent cloud to be enormous power field surrounding alien vessel our sensor scans unable to penetrate imperial klingon cruiser amar continuing to attack"
(The Motion Picture)
Kirk: "Double dumb ass on you!"
(The Voyage Home)
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