Prophetic Trek lines?

[Guartho]

I always liked the fact that in TNG's "New Ground" Geordi says being present for the Soliton wave test is "like being there to see Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier, or Zefram Cochrane engage the first warp drive," and he's later present for Zefram Cochrane engaging the first warp drive.

Are there any other prophetic lines like that? I'm not talking about after-the-fact wink-wink nudge-nudge lines like Archer's "Sounds to me like we've only postponed the invasion until what, the 24th century?"

I'm looking for lines that were never intended to foreshadow. Are there any others?

 

[TeutonicNights]

from Broken Bow:
SOVAL: Listen to me. You're making a mistake!

 

[ToddPence]

Spock's line at the end of "Space Seed".

 

[Guartho]

Ooh, that's a good one.

 

[ChristopherPike]

From Shockwave...

Archer: "The mission's been cancelled."

Trip: "CANCELLED?"

Almost three years before the official announcement.

 

[toughlittleship]

"If the Changelings want to destroy what we've built here, they'll have to do it themselves. We're not going to do it for them". Replace Changelings with extremists and you've got whats happening in the world right now, although we're going the other way.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

From Shockwave...

Archer: "The mission's been cancelled."

Trip: "CANCELLED?"

Almost three years before the official announcement.

That wasn't quite prophetic. It seemed to imply gazelle speeches would save you from cancellation. In the real world, gazelle speeches have no such positive result.

 

[Red Ranger]

I'd say Kirk's statement to Mirror-Spock when he says, "But one man can change the present." As indicated in the DSN Mirror-verse eps, his decision to take the Empire in a different direction led to the Alliance enslaving the Terrans and the replacement of one despotic organization with another, an unintended consequence. -- RR

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd say Kirk's statement to Mirror-Spock when he says, "But one man can change the present." As indicated in the DSN Mirror-verse eps, his decision to take the Empire in a different direction led to the Alliance enslaving the Terrans and the replacement of one despotic organization with another, an unintended consequence. -- RR

Maybe, maybe not:

Spoiler: Sorrows of Empire

In the recent MU stories, Spock knew *exactly* what would happen. His whole plan was for the Empire to fall. He reasoned that the citizens should know what it was like to be enslaved and oppressed - to make sure that they would never want to be an Empire again. Spock's further plan is for the Klingon/Cardassian Alliance to be permanently destroyed - 'The end of my empire will mean the end of all of yours.'

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

In Coming of Age, there is an exchange between Riker and Picard that goes like this:

"Sir, am I under investigation?"
"I don't know."
"And if you did?"
"I couldn't tell you."
"I don't understand sir. This is extremely frustrating."

What's interesting is Riker is angry, but he also looks slightly worried too when saying this. I know they didn't have The Pegasus backstory planned all those years ago so it's an interesting coincidence.

 

[Guartho]

Yep, I'm resurrecting my own month-old list.

My wife and I just watched "Sons of Mogh," a fourth season DS9 episode. In that episode Kurn says that before Worf's decision to not support Gowron's invasion of Cardassia, it was likely that someone from the house of Mogh would be the next Chancellor.

Later on in the series (I'm rewatching in order so I don't know exactly when) Worf is given the Chancellorship after killing Gowron. He then hands it off to Martokk, but Worf, formerly of the house of Mogh, could've succeeded Gowron if he had chosen to.

 

[Hermiod]

There's always the line in DS9's "Past Tense" (from 1995) about the 1999 New York Yankees side being considered one of the best ever. They ran away with the World Series that year, did they not ?