Working TOS Dialogue Into Everyday Situations

[Herbert]

I just remembered I once used the line by Samuel T Cogley, "Books, young man! Books!"

 

[Phaser Two]

Nice. Cogley has some good ones. Another is "Nooooo . . . but I may be GETTING ready . . . ? Works well in response to any tiresome "are you ready" inquiries.

 

[johnnybear]

"Are they enemies, Captain?" "I'm not sure they're sure!" Never having used that one doesn't mean you can't use it in a text about two guys that don't get on!
JB

 

[Forbin]

There was the occasional late evening at friends' houses when somebody brought up calling it a night, and one of would say "I wanna STAY. STAY. stay. stay..."

 

[alensatemybuick1]

Memory was jogged once again after puttering around in my backyard the other day...

I was mowing the lawn one esp. dry, hot summer many years back, and a lot of dirt got kicked up, which apparently drifted over to my neighbor's property and through his screen door. He came running out like a lunatic, screaming and waving his hands in the air and yelling "whatsamatter witchoo, all this dust coming into my house, blah blah blah...". I turned the mower off and listed to him finish ranting and raving, and responded "don't mince words, what do you really think?"

 

[Lance]

One that isn't spoken, but which I use semi-frequently in speech, is Trelane's initial written message to the Enterprise in "The Squire of Gothos": Greetings and felicitations! Hip hip hoorah, Tally ho!

Nobody knows it's a Star Trek reference, they just assume I'm a jolly chap.