Worst. Line. Ever.

[Elemental]

You guys are too harsh. I like most of the lines on this page (except Data's song).

Wait, so you really liked "I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie"? Seriously????

And you really liked "Captain, I'm frightened"?

Both of those sucked beyond belief.

Special mention goes to all the sexist lines from TOS, like Spock's explanation that women are victims of Jack the Ripper because they are weaker and more afraid (I don't know it by heart, but it's not like I've tried to remember).

Yeah, I can't deny "Captain, I'm frightened" is kind of lame and sexist, but I enjoy it in more of a 'so bad it's good' campy way...those poor saps back then unable to come up with a better line for a woman because of society's silly, (now outdated) perceptions of them. Oh well, at least Nichelle made it sound kinda cute...I guess.

This line actually makes me hesitate a bit about showing this otherwise mostly excellent episode to non-fans.

 

[Anwar]

Yeah, there's also that "your property" stuff from "Amok Time" and T'Pring.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I never picked up on any sexism in "Star Trek" until people on this forum pointed it out to me. I just saw "Miri" for the first time today (I've seen most of the series, but there are a handful of episodes in each season that I still haven't seen) and was SHOCKED when Kirk actually said something like, "Miri, go clean up that desk for me". WTF.

 

[plynch]

I never picked up on any sexism in "Star Trek"

Miniskirts? No female captains (in TOS)? Female regulars are a nurse and a switchboard operator? Men refer to woman as "the girl" throughout the show? A product of its times as are we all more or less.

Back on topic -- I am watching TNG in order now and just encountered Weley's "We don't lie" line. It is very appropriate coming from that age person who just got a "commission" and is now gung-ho for this new tribe he belongs to. Very important for an adolescent male! That line actually is fine. If Riker said it, that'd be another thing (unless he were smiling in his devilish way).

I HAVEN"T read all bazillion posts, but I will nominate Spock telling Rand she found Kirk's emotional half "intriguing" after almost being raped by it. And he leers. Awful!

 

[KayArr]

Nothing beats:

DATA (to Worf): Have you noticed your boobs have started to firm up?

TORRES: "Get the cheese to Sickbay!"

That's my choice, too.

 

[euphorik]

We all know Trek has had its share of shitty lines. Which lines take the cake? I nominate Wesley Crusher's "I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie"

"please believe me, ten-forward is not an illusion."

 

[03myersd]

The Outrageous Okaona;

Wesley "Say goodbye Data"
Data "Goodbye Data"
Forced false laugh by all bridge officers except Worf

Cringeworthy. I know there was a writers strike in season two of TNG, but come on!!

Oh god... I had forgotten about that one... Those were much happier times when I couldn't remember that one.

 

[Myasishchev]

TOS: Catspaw...
Kirk refering to the Macbeth witches...
Kirk: Opinion, Spock?
Spock: Very bad poetry, Captain.

LOL

I really liked that one!

One that makes me cringe is the woman from Venus being shaped like a penis poem that Picard interrupts Data in the middle of. So awkward.

Aw, I thought that was hilarious.

 

[bluedana]

From ENT:TATV, as T'Pol and Archer try to deal with their grief over Trip's death. T'Pol expresses confusion over what she's feeling, and Archer delivers this gem:

"Time heals all wounds, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. I guess it's a little tricky. Emotions have a way of contradicting themselves."

That line makes me want to murder myself.

 

[McBastard44]

Not really a line, more of a strange "grunt".

In "The Naked Now" when Crusher is coming on to Picard, Picard trys to back away, feeling uncomfortable, and makes the strangest sound like he's clearing his throat and yelping at the same time. That always amused me

 

[FormerLurker]

I never picked up on any sexism in "Star Trek"

Miniskirts?


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I am continually amazed at the lack-wittednes of calling the miniskirts on TOS sexism on the part of Gene Roddenberry/the producers/ the studio. Nichelle Nichols has gone on record time and again in interviews, and at conventions, that the miniskirts were her idea. To the point that she has stated she dragged Majel and Grace into Gene's office and DEMANDED that the women be put in miniskirts, or they would quit the show! She considered the miniskirt to be exactly the opposite of men showing their sexist tendencies, and wanted to be seen as a newfangled, liberated woman who would wear a miniskirt. Don't take my word for it. Read her autobiography. It's in there.

 

[CorporalClegg]

^
Because we all know Nichelle Nichols interpretation of past events is always spot on.

 

[JustKate]

^ Yeah. [ sarcasm ]Actresses - non-star actresses - always have SO much say in what costumes they wear.[ /sarcasm ]

I'm sorry, Lurker, I like Nichelle just fine but I don't buy it. Maybe she's convinced herself this is the truth, but there is no damn way TPTB in general, and GR in particular, would accept this sort of "demand" from actresses or actors, for that matter, unless maybe they were the stars.

And speaking as someone alive and wearing miniskirts back then, we all - at least everybody I know - considered slacks far, far, far more liberating. And they were, believe it or not, more ultra-modern and controversial, too. (I, for example, wasn't allowed to wear slacks to school until part way through junior high.) Miniskirts were a pain in the...well, in the butt, really. And drafty.

 

[FordSVT]

This is not the worst line, however, it's the one that makes the least sense "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" From TNG ep 102 "Darmok" loved the ep, but the dialog lost me...

Wow, way to miss the point of one of the best TNG episodes ever....

Did you love it because people told you that you should or....? The entire episode focused around communication, and if you didn't get the communication, how could you love the ep?

The episode explained what Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra meant!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm reminded of two more corny lines:

From Star Trek IV:

Kirk: Why don't they answer?! Why don't they SING??!


And a throwaway line from the end of DS9's The Way of the Warrior":

Martok: We will NEVER surrender!

 

[Finnegan]

From "Miri": Bonk! Bonk! on the head!!!

 

[Cuhl]

I just saw "Cold Front," and a new line has rocketed to the top of my list. Daniels tells Archer why he should believe his claim that he's a time-travelling agent from 900 years in the future:

"You like your scrambled eggs soft. Have I ever brought them to you any other way?"

That's so bizarre I actually thought I heard it wrong. I had to rewind to make sure. Then I had to lie down for a minute.

 

[propita]

Better question: Why is it that whenever good guys die, they always get to lie on their back and utter one melodramatic last line before they flatline? I hate that cliché!

Great Bad Guy death line from "Big Jake"--with a better line right afterwards:

Richard Boone: "Who are you?"
John Wayne: "Jacob McCandles."
Richard Boone: "I thought you was dead."
**dies**
John Wayne: "Not hardly."

 

[propita]

"I fell asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter from my gradmother's journal."

Ick. Just... Ick.

That whole episode was uncomfortable to watch--and a complete rip-off of Anne Rice.

I read further posts--didn't mean to bogart on you, AdmiralGarak.

 

[nickyboy]

get the cheese to sickbay. from a voyager season 1 episode