Worst Line in INS

[c0rnedfr0g]

Insurrection has always struck me as a film full of terrible dialogue, even for a Star Trek movie. Nearly every other line is just awful, imo.

So, which single line stands out to you as one of the worst?

I'll start us off:

Riker: "No uniform, no orders."

Oh, really, since when, Will? We've seen countless examples of uniformed officers obeying orders of higher ranked, non-uniformed officers. Is this "no uniform, no orders" something current militaries follow?

 

[Praetor]

"No uniform, no orders"?

Oh please.

"And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up..." delivered by either Troi or Data - that's twice, double the mistake!

Top that.

 

[Saga]

when Data stated he was a flotation device. though the boob lines were almost as bad IMO.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The flotation device line was at least tied to a funny sight gag.

For me, it's always been a toss-up between "Saddle up... lock and load." and the "boobs" line.

 

[TenLubak]

Its has got to be "And have you noticed how your boobs have....firm up lately?"
Troi: "Not that we care about such things in this day in age."

Oh that is so clever! Admit we do care, and its a shit movie all at once. Plus some girls never do grow pefect boobs so i hate that line.

 

[Wally]

"No uniform, no orders"?

Oh please.

"And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up..." delivered by either Troi or Data - that's twice, double the mistake!

Top that.

Easily. Forget, INS- I think this a serious contender for worst line in ALL Trek movies. I'm counting the upcoming STXI, too. And no, I haven't seen it. But how can you top that awfulness?

 

[EnsignRicky]

Paramount Pictures Presents:

 

[cardinal biggles]

Paramount Pictures Presents:

I think that one might have some competition from "A Rick Berman Production"

 

[SmoothieX]

Pretty much all the campy, out of character lines that were in the script for the soul purpose of sounding exciting in a trailer.

'Definitely feeling aggressive tendencies' always pissed me off. So does the singing in the shuttlecraft scene.

 

[Saga]

i must admit the singing always amused me. guilty pleasure i guess.

 

[Praetor]

I didn't mind the singing or even the flotation device bit - except that they'd established in TNG already that Data couldn't float. He fell out of a boat and had to walk to shore underwater or something like that - much as he did in the film when he was looking for the holoship.

 

[Jbarney]

The flotation device line was at least tied to a funny sight gag.

For me, it's always been a toss-up between "Saddle up... lock and load." and the "boobs" line.

"Saddle up....lock and load." God I hated that line. If I remember correctly that was used in an ad and I hated it even before I saw the film. It was just so.....awful.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

The flotation device line was at least tied to a funny sight gag.

For me, it's always been a toss-up between "Saddle up... lock and load." and the "boobs" line.

"Saddle up....lock and load." God I hated that line. If I remember correctly that was used in an ad and I hated it even before I saw the film. It was just so.....awful.

Agreed. I was only 12 when I first saw that trailer, and that line was so awful I remember even then it made my stomach turn. I have no idea what age group that line was targeted to appeal to.... 7 year olds, perhaps?

 

[Iamnotspock]

Riker: "No uniform, no orders."

Oh, really, since when, Will? We've seen countless examples of uniformed officers obeying orders of higher ranked, non-uniformed officers. Is this "no uniform, no orders" something current militaries follow?

It's really not meant that literally. Picard wasn't just out of uniform, he'd turned his back on the fleet. Riker really means; "Well, clearly you've put your career on the line by rebelling against Starfleet and since you have, don't think you can order me back to my quarters because I'm damn well not going to let you do this alone." Don't forget Riker's youthful rebellious instincts were being stimulated by the radiation at this point.

But yeah, "Sadle up. Lock and load." is a pretty awful line. Bruce Willis could carry it off but Data? Um, no.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I didn't mind the singing or even the flotation device bit - except that they'd established in TNG already that Data couldn't float. He fell out of a boat and had to walk to shore underwater or something like that - much as he did in the film when he was looking for the holoship.

Well, obviously he had his ass upgraded for inflation at some point. Probably after he slept with Yar.

 

[Praetor]

I didn't mind the singing or even the flotation device bit - except that they'd established in TNG already that Data couldn't float. He fell out of a boat and had to walk to shore underwater or something like that - much as he did in the film when he was looking for the holoship.

Well, obviously he had his ass upgraded for inflation at some point. Probably after he slept with Yar.

 

[RyuRoots]

The flotation device line is the single worst one in the film, I'd say. And one of the worst unfunny lines to ever come from Data.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

What about Geordi's "I wouldn't be surprised if history remembered this as the Riker Maneuver."

That line only makes sense if Geordi was saying it in jest.

Let's see, the Riker maneuver.... almost getting another starship destroyed by vastly undermatched foes, then ejecting the warp core and taking a 50/50 chance of perhaps destroying them all... (not to mention buzzard collectors and the joystick)

 

[GeorgeKirk]

What about Sojef's horribly simplistic line: "We come from a solar system where technology had created weapons that threatened to destroy all life." The way he said it, it was like these people just woke up one morning and discovered that their toaster ovens and iPhones had created a WMD arsenal while everyone was asleep.

 

[Sykonee]

Yeah, some real classic stinkers. It's been a long time since I last saw this flick, so I can't even confirm this one. However, The Agony Booth pointed this one out as a "gem of a line":

"do you remember where you were on the day of lightning when the artificial life form appeared to us?"

Apparently this was said by the father of the boy that Data befriend? I seem to vaguely remember something really corny being asked of to the boy along these lines though.