Worst lines of dialogue in Trek?

[BlueStuff]

I did see that a thread like this was started in 2013, but we have a lot more material to work with now.

To start, I always want to sink into my chair in embarrassment in TNG’s “The Last Outpost” when Geordi reacts to Riker’s tactical plan with “Ah, I see where you're going. We shift down and then kick hard into warp nine. Yeah! Come back fighting! Whooey!”

It was clear that the writers had no real idea of who Geordi was at that point and were trying to fit him into some kind of action-movie stereotype. LeVar Burton was a talented actor but he really had nothing to work with on TNG other than spewing technobabble and failing at romance.

 

[Farscape One]

From the same episode...

"Pygmy cretins!"

Coming from Worf, it was just so... odd.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Kirk's was ridiculous and hammy but okay, Spock's was pure cringe and took me out of an otherwise amazing movie for a few minutes.

 

[Tenacity]

It was clear that the writers had no real idea of who Geordi was at that point

Oh I think it was perfectly clear what they were doing with Geordi. Geordi was a young man with bountiful enthusiasm, and a love for what he was doing.

Unfortunately in the second season the decision was made to have Geordi be mature and serious and the young and individualistic Geordi disappeared and basically turned into a verison of everyone else.

Star Trek lost something important with that decision.

 

[Brennyren]

I feel like this thread would be incomplete without one of Voyager's most infamous lines. From the episode "Learning Curve":

Torres: Get the cheese to Sickbay.

Cheese, indeed.

 

[Farscape One]

I actually always find that line amusing, not bad.

A VOYAGER one, from "THE SWARM"... every time they used the term 'interferometric pulse'. It wasn't until many years later that I found out it's a real thing. But damn, did it sound like THE worst technobabble ever said on screen.

 

[frankieteardrop]

"I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in my grandmother's journal." - Crusher, "Sub Rosa"

"And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up?" - Troi, Insurrection

 

[ananta]

"I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in my grandmother's journal." - Crusher, "Sub Rosa"

ALL kinds of wrong! Really, what in the Prophets’ name were the writers thinking on that one?

 

[ananta]

I still love the old “Brain and brain! ...what is brain?!”

 

[thribs]

“Yum yum”

 

[The Wormhole]

ALL kinds of wrong! Really, what in the Prophets’ name were the writers thinking on that one?

I think that question is applicable to the entire episode Sub Rosa.

Anyway, as for worst dialogue, can't go wrong with Abraham Lincoln calling Uhura an "enchanting negress" in The Savage Curtain. Compounded with Uhura saying that it's okay to talk like that in the 23rd century.

 

[Ralphis]

Brain and brain! What is brain?

 

[JoseNoodles]

"Lieutenant, if you can learn to bend the rules, I guess we can learn to follow them."

- Dalby, VOY "Learning Curve"

 

[David cgc]

"The... 'impostor' had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?"

 

[Mudd]

"What am I doing? Crying?"

 

[Vger23]

I did see that a thread like this was started in 2013, but we have a lot more material to work with now.

To start, I always want to sink into my chair in embarrassment in TNG’s “The Last Outpost” when Geordi reacts to Riker’s tactical plan with “Ah, I see where you're going. We shift down and then kick hard into warp nine. Yeah! Come back fighting! Whooey!”

It was clear that the writers had no real idea of who Geordi was at that point and were trying to fit him into some kind of action-movie stereotype. LeVar Burton was a talented actor but he really had nothing to work with on TNG other than spewing technobabble and failing at romance.

From the same episode...

"Pygmy cretins!"

Coming from Worf, it was just so... odd.

I actually really like "The Last Outpost " but some of the dialogue is truly horrendous. These are good examples


Burnham to Saru in "An Obol for Charon" - "Is it truly inevitable??"

Ugh

 

[1001001]

The whole anti-drug conversation between Wesley and Tasha was pretty bad. Bad dialogue, delivered poorly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Anything having to do with "no money" or "humanity has evolved".

Also Wesley's line about "I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."

 

[FormerLurker]

I feel like this thread would be incomplete without one of Voyager's most infamous lines. From the episode "Learning Curve":

Torres: Get the cheese to Sickbay.

Cheese, indeed.

Terrible, yes. But it was Janeway, not Torres, which actually makes it worse.

"And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up?" - Troi, Insurrection

This line, and Crusher's response, were only cringy until Data, in the very next exchange, to Worf, said exactly the same thing. Then it became comedy gold.

 

[Angry Fanboy]

Terrible, yes. But it was Janeway, not Torres, which actually makes it worse.

No. It was Torres.