Worst Line in all of Trekdom

[Timewalker]

Why? You've never been frightened?

Sure, but I never whined to my commanding officer about it!

Can you imagine if Doohan had been given that line?

I dunno. Suppose Doohan had been given that line to say to a female character. I don't think that would have necessarily been bad. Men and women relate to each other differently than they do to members of their own sex. I see what you're saying, of course, but I also don't think it necessarily means she's less competent or destroys her respectability because she chose to reveal to Kirk that, in an absolutely dire situation, she was legitimately frightened.

But Uhura wasn't only frightened in City on the Edge of Forever... she was also frightened in Plato's Stepchildren, Mirror, Mirror, and one or two others.

Janeway's "A-koo-chee-moya" log entry in The Cloud made me cringe.

That entire phrase makes me cringe, every time anybody -- especially Chakotay -- says it. I realize it's meant to be part of a solemn ritual, but it sounds too much like baby-babble (coochie-coochie-coo).

"Tuvok, has anybody ever told you you're a real freak-a-saurus?"

But Tuvok is a real freakasaurus.

 

[Kpnuts]

"There's coffee in that nebula!". Take your pick.

That one gets my vote!

Wesley Crusher: "I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."

Oh no wait, this one

 

[Commander Rabbit]

Captain Archer: 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, Ambassador. 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. I'm sorry you can't see that.

What's wrong w/ that?

 

[Mach5]

Captain Archer: 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, Ambassador. 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. I'm sorry you can't see that.

What's wrong w/ that?

There's a whole thread about that here

 

[jealousblues]

"I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter of my grandmother's journal."

C'mon. Nothing beats that for so much horror in such brevity.

ack! Where is that horrible line from?

 

[QuasarVM]

Either -- Kara: "Brain and Brain What Is Brain?!" or McCoy: "His Brain is GONE!!!" -- both from Spock's Brain of course!

 

[milo bloom]

ST-TMP

"DamnitBones! I need you. ---Badly...


yes, badly done. bravo.

I can let most of these posts go as personal opinion, but this one just doesn't fit for me. Kirk is hurting, he doesn't have Spock, McCoy is being an a-hole (as is Decker), he needs a friend --- badly.



And I never saw the ep of ENT with the gazelle speech, but just reading it, it doesn't come across nearly as bad as some of the other stuff here. I'm guessing it's the delivery that really sinks it.

 

[judge alba]

"make it so "by picard used to drive me nuts

 

[Alidar Jarok]

And I never saw the ep of ENT with the gazelle speech, but just reading it, it doesn't come across nearly as bad as some of the other stuff here. I'm guessing it's the delivery that really sinks it.

I liked Scott Bakula for the most part, but his "inspirational speeches" always came off as a bit wooden (he almost always paced around with them too).

That being said, I think the fact that Shockwave pt 2 was so underwhelming compared to the first part also hurts it. People like to nitpick bad things and gloss over good things.

 

[omnirad]

ST-TMP

"DamnitBones! I need you. ---Badly...


yes, badly done. bravo.

I can let most of these posts go as personal opinion, but this one just doesn't fit for me. Kirk is hurting, he doesn't have Spock, McCoy is being an a-hole (as is Decker), he needs a friend --- badly.

Sorry, but the delivery of that line made me cringe (30 years ago ?!?!) in the movie theater, and each subsequent viewing of TMP. It is probably the most 'Shatnerific' phrased line in that whole movie.

And I never saw the ep of ENT with the gazelle speech, but just reading it, it doesn't come across nearly as bad as some of the other stuff here. I'm guessing it's the delivery that really sinks it.

And I don't think the Gazelle Speach is all that horrible. A bit trite, and a little long winded, but certainly not in the league of the 'cheese', and 'we don't lie' drek.

 

[Space Cowboy]

I'm throwing my vote in with the "we don't lie" crowd. The first season of TNG did have other god awful lines like Troi's "It's so close to us here... pain, pain..."

 

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Dukat was such an "*^^&*&^%^" and when he tried to rattle Kira's cage, it made me cringe. I can't recall any specific line, however take your pick of all the Dukat/Kira dialogs...