The Single Worst Line of Dialogue in the entire Star Trek Franchise

[2takesfrakes]

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Anytime L'waxana Troi gets sexual, at all is dialogue that should've ended up on the Cutting Room Floor.

 

[Danny99]

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For me is got be this exchange from every star trek incarnation ever:

random crewmember: 'bridge to captain'

Captain: 'go ahead'

random crewmember: 'there's something here you should see'

Whilst i get it's a conceit so the audience doesn't know what to expect but it just annoys me. The Captain never does what any normal person would do and say 'what is it'.

Good call! Seven seemed to use this one constantly, I think Janeway gave at least one of those "Seriously" looks in response.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

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Whoever designed the fail safes on the anti-matter containment should be shot.

Not to mention the shoddy design of the always-failing starboard power coupling.

And auxiliary power. Why the hell did the backup systems always seem to fail at the same time that the primary systems went offline? Isn't the purpose of a secondary system to ensure that a ship keeps functioning even if several primary systems have failed?

Warp plasma coolant is another problem I've noticed a lot. Why is always leaking? Why can't Starfleet engineers design a better storage space for it?

--Sran

 

[BigJake]

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L'waxana Troi in general should've ended up on the Cutting Room floor.

The "starboard power coupling" did get noticeable as time went on... and noticeable that the characters never seemed to notice how often that same damned power coupling was screwing them. Like, why not try taking some design tips from the port power coupling? That one seems to hold up relatively well...

 

[Nine of Four]

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^ yeah I always wondered that too....

 

[austen_pierce]

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Spock's "Khan!"

The only time I;ve ever been embarrassed about being a Trekker.

I thought so too at first watch. The second time I watched, I noticed ha Quinto's yell sets up the next shot, in which Khan and Vengeance plummet past Enterprise on their way to the San Francisco crash sequence. It's actually very well done... we'd almost forgotten they were still out there.

 

[Johnny Rico]

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"You're all astronauts on some kind of star trek...!"

"You're all Millionaires...you just gotta get it out of the ground."

Whoops sorry....wrong series.

 

[Commishsleer]

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Riker "You do an end run around me again, I'll snap you back so hard, you'll think you're a first year cadet again." - Best of Both Worlds

 

[BigJake]

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Spock's "Khan!"

The only time I;ve ever been embarrassed about being a Trekker.

I thought so too at first watch. The second time I watched, I noticed ha Quinto's yell sets up the next shot, in which Khan and Vengeance plummet past Enterprise on their way to the San Francisco crash sequence. It's actually very well done... we'd almost forgotten they were still out there.

Honestly, the major problem with the "KHHAAAN!" yell wasn't that it was Spock doing it... but that the whole character arc was unearned, since Kirk and Spck in the setting have known each other for barely more than a year. As a Clever Touch and piece of dramatic timing it's otherwise fine.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

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^I never had a problem with that line. Shelby was wrong to go around Riker to Picard. Every ship's chain of command differs slightly, but on the Enterprise, it was clear that any and all matters went to Riker before he took them to Picard himself. That Shelby refused to listen to Riker's earlier warning was her fault, not Riker's. He was completely justified in what he said and how he said it.

--Sran

 

[BigJake]

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^I never had a problem with that line. Shelby was wrong to go around Riker to Picard. . . He was completely justified in what he said and how he said it

I know this wasn't actually meant for me, but I totally agree with this.

 

[Commishsleer]

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^I never had a problem with that line. Shelby was wrong to go around Riker to Picard. Every ship's chain of command differs slightly, but on the Enterprise, it was clear that any and all matters went to Riker before he took them to Picard himself. That Shelby refused to listen to Riker's earlier warning was her fault, not Riker's. He was completely justified in what he said and how he said it.

--Sran

I agree with you that Riker was completely justified (and if they weren't in crisis mode - he should have had her cleaning bathrooms) but I just wish that the line had been cleverer or Riker's delivery less pompous. It makes me cringe but I understand how to others that might be their favourite line.

 

[Forbin]

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Not to mention the shoddy design of the always-failing starboard power coupling.

Once again, the T-shirt I designed sometime in the middle of TNG's run. Note the lower right corner:

 

[siskokid888]

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In TMP, (a movie I love BTW) we get this exchange when Spock returns to the ship and is lying in sickbay:

Shatner: Spock

Kelley: Jim

Shatner: Bones!

That's dialogue?

An economic translation of;

Kirk: "Spock, I need to know what happened out there."

Bones: "Jim, he's in no fit state to answer questions."

Kirk: "Bones, this is an emergency! I don't have time to coddle him..."

Most likely true, but it still sounded and looked silly in the film. To me anyway

 

[Jonesy]

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Probably been mentioned but...

"I bet that Klingon b&#@# killed her father!"

 

[R. Star]

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Probably been mentioned but...

"I bet that Klingon b&#@# killed her father!"

From what we saw of Klingon politics during the K'mpec, Duras and Gorwon eras, it's not an unreasonable hypothesis.

 

[BigJake]

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Probably been mentioned but...

"I bet that Klingon b&#@# killed her father!"

Don't remember this one! Is it from STVI?

 

[R. Star]

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Yeah, Scotty said that when they found she was named Chancellor.

 

[Captain Rob]

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Not to mention the shoddy design of the always-failing starboard power coupling.

Once again, the T-shirt I designed sometime in the middle of TNG's run. Note the lower right corner:

Should I be worried that I know what half of those things are?

 

[Iamnotspock]

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Probably been mentioned but...

"I bet that Klingon b&#@# killed her father!"

Don't remember this one! Is it from STVI?

Yes, but it's from a scene that was cut from the theatrical release.