Interesting. I vividly remember it being Janeway. But I checked, and you are correct.
Worst lines of dialogue in Trek?
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Interesting. I vividly remember it being Janeway. But I checked, and you are correct.
Also Wesley's line about "I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."
Especially considering there was a really great episode of DS9 that was all about Sisko lying in order to get the Romulans to join the war.
And considering that Wesley himself would later be caught in a pretty damning lie, in "The First Duty."
The line by Nog, I always laughed at it. I thougt it was funny, not bad.
Now, the Martok one... that is just bad. I even used the same line in another post somewhere on the ridiculously obviousness of that line.
(Made even worse, and actually funny depending on your age, by the fact it was used in the trailer for that episode.)
"I'm sure you need to get back to your snake pit." - "Sssss."
"Do not refer to me as chancellor, for I deserve a fiercer title. From this point forth, you may call me... MOTHER!!"
"Don't be so binary. In my universe, he was pansexual, and we had DEFCON-level fun together. And you too, Papi."
"Leland. We were just talking about you. Everybody hates you. Congratulations."
"Allamaraine, count to four. Allamaraine, then three more. Allamaraine, if you can see. Allamaraine, you'll come with me." - "Come on! Just say the rhyme." - "Allamaraine, count to four. Allamaraine, then three more. Allamaraine, if you can see. Allamaraine, you'll come with me." - "Allamaraine. Third shap." - "Allamaraine!"
"Do not refer to me as chancellor, for I deserve a fiercer title. From this point forth, you may call me... MOTHER!!"
"Don't be so binary. In my universe, he was pansexual, and we had DEFCON-level fun together. And you too, Papi."
"Leland. We were just talking about you. Everybody hates you. Congratulations."
"Allamaraine, count to four. Allamaraine, then three more. Allamaraine, if you can see. Allamaraine, you'll come with me." - "Come on! Just say the rhyme." - "Allamaraine, count to four. Allamaraine, then three more. Allamaraine, if you can see. Allamaraine, you'll come with me." - "Allamaraine. Third shap." - "Allamaraine!"
The outtake is hilarious: "we drop... shit."
I never saw the problem there. If the cheese spreads an infection, how would you proceed?
Wizard of Oz.
"Don't get smart, tiny."
It's not the line, necessarily, just the awkward timing and totally bland performance.
It's not the line, necessarily, just the awkward timing and totally bland performance.
Oh, I can't agree with that one at all. I still remember the packed theater getting a huge kick out of that (people going "ooooooohhhhh" ) and the payoff scene of Sulu kicking the guy's ass and saying "Don't call me tiny. "
I think in this case, it's more that there should ever be a need for this line in the first place. Especially since said cheese broke the ship.
Here's another from a Voyager episode ("Alice") that made me drop my jaw.
Chakotay: "We have a full complement of shuttles."
I know, it doesn't sound that bad. But when you consider how many shuttles were crashed, smashed, or generally broken by that point in the series, a number of them actually taken out by Chakotay himself -- and that we only ever saw them build one, the Delta Flyer -- the idea that Voyager could possibly still have a full complement seemed vanishingly unlikely.
"To boldly go where no man has gone before."..
(P.S The female crew are dropped off at Risa)
(P.S The female crew are dropped off at Risa)
"I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie!"
Back then, it meant all people. Just like "for all mankind".
Changing it to "no one" made it incorrect, cause whatever aliens live there, and whatever alien ships traveled there, certainly went there.
ENT finally got it right when they changed it to "no human".
Yeah, I know what it meant in the 1960's, I am being sarcastic and silly
ENT got it wrong since they had Phlox and T'Pol on board
Yeah, how did T'Pol the Vulcan know Risa 'eased tensions'?
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Very true, but on occasion they did use nomenclature defining the sexes more literally than others. Conflation would be inevitable and there were lines in TOS, like the team of engineers ("The Apple") being stated as all being men, that start to seal the deal. I can't disagree as to why it was changed to "no one".
Great point regarding "no human" - TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, the Professor, Mary Ann, and the rest all went to so many places where lots of ones and men and women and smizmars already were... and as the show isn't "Red Dwarf", Trek has to go where there are people since week after week of keeping up entertaining scripts in a constant bottle show format gets increasingly difficult. Even Red Dwarf found new avenues to utilize...
