Worst lines of dialogue in Trek?

[Mytran]

You are correct and I'm not sure why I remembered that line as being the guard's especially when I've only seen the movie about a thousand times.

But going back and watching that clip now I do see some merit about Kirk testing him, since the guard gets a funny look on his face and hesitates before he says "Two minutes". Then again, I also got the impression the prison guards just act like a bunch of obnoxious smart-asses to any visitors given one was so quick to threaten Sulu and ridicule his height (which also doesn't seem very enlightened for a society supposedly accepting of physical differences).

The guards are even more obnoxious in the novelisation.
One of them...cheats at cards!!!

 

[Oddish]

I'm trying to remember... did Alexander ever say anything that wasn't cringeworthy?

 

[Alice_27]

Once he got the beard he had no chance. Jean Luc, jack, trill guy, highlander ghost Bev liked a clean shaved man.

Not according to this outtake:

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I'm trying to remember... did Alexander ever say anything that wasn't cringeworthy?

NOPE!

 

[Trelane_Squire_of_Gothos]

Campy and poorly delivered...

https://ew.com/tv/2017/10/16/star-trek-discovery-fuck/

 

[Oddish]

Agreed. Since a PG13 movie only gets one F word, they often work to place it just right. X Men First Class still holds the benchmark, I think, with a certain unexpected cameo. Trek's first F bomb was... whatever. Their first S word was actually better.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Agreed. Since a PG13 movie only gets one F word, they often work to place it just right. X Men First Class still holds the benchmark, I think, with a certain unexpected cameo. Trek's first F bomb was... whatever. Their first S word was actually better.

Is that real ? Is that actually how sad the ratings people are that the count the swear words ?
Ah Jeysus feckin Christ as Myles O'Brien would say

 

[Oddish]

Is that real ? Is that actually how sad the ratings people are that the count the swear words ?

Yes, and it's apparently strict. Consider the Sixth Day...

ARNOLD: "You should clone yourself while you're still alive... so you can go f*** yourself."

Later, the guy falls on top of his own clone. Arnold finds them together...

ARNOLD: "When I said you should go screw yourself, I didn't mean for you to take it literally."

If he had been allowed a second F bomb, I think he would have used it.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Yes, and it's apparently strict. Consider the Sixth Day...

ARNOLD: "You should clone yourself while you're still alive... so you can go f*** yourself."

Later, the guy falls on top of his own clone. Arnold finds them together...

ARNOLD: "When I said you should go screw yourself, I didn't mean for you to take it literally."

If he had been allowed a second F bomb, I think he would have used it.

I'm gonna hope in my head this is just a USA thing in English speaking terms.

 

[Oddish]

It's the MPAA, which is what we use here. Other countries presumably use their own systems, which might have different tolerances.

 

[Trelane_Squire_of_Gothos]

Agreed. Since a PG13 movie only gets one F word, they often work to place it just right. X Men First Class still holds the benchmark, I think, with a certain unexpected cameo. Trek's first F bomb was... whatever. Their first S word was actually better.

Exactly. There were some classics in the films like "double-dumbass on you" (Kirk in The Voyage Home) and "Oh, shit" (Data in Generations).

 

[Tim Thomason]

The first F-bomb in Star Trek was given by Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) in the 2009 film Star Trek, in the lyrics to the song Sabotage.

 

[Trelane_Squire_of_Gothos]

The first F-bomb in Star Trek was given by Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) in the 2009 film Star Trek, in the lyrics to the song Sabotage.

I don't recall it, but I already know it was a much better delivery.

 

[Oddish]

Like I said, Trek's first S-bomb. Back in the 80's, it was one of the "bad ones", the ones you couldn't say on television.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Like I said, Trek's first S-bomb. Back in the 80's, it was one of the "bad ones", the ones you couldn't say on television.

1986, in a PG movie:

GILLIAN: You're not one of those guys from the military, are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes, or some dipshit stuff like that?
KIRK: No, ma'am. No dipshit.

 

[Oddish]

Well damn, shows how much I know...

 

[dupersuper]

I'm trying to remember... did Alexander ever say anything that wasn't cringeworthy?

The higher, the fewer.

 

[Oddish]

I found this one just a bit appalling...

PICARD: "Doctor, the sperm whale on Earth devours millions of cuttlefish as it roams the oceans. It is not evil. It is feeding. The same may be true of the Crystalline Entity."

Comparing humans to cuttlefish?

 

[Orphalesion]

I found this one just a bit appalling...

PICARD: "Doctor, the sperm whale on Earth devours millions of cuttlefish as it roams the oceans. It is not evil. It is feeding. The same may be true of the Crystalline Entity."

Comparing humans to cuttlefish?

The comparison fails even more than that. A sperm whale doesn't swim around sterilizing entire eco-systems. The planets the Crystalline Entity visited were *dead*, stripped of all life, very likely driving all the organisms on them to extinction.
That's not comparable to any other thing in nature, and gluttony on an unacceptable level.

Also it would have been interesting to say what Picard would have said if the Crystalline Entity had been homing onto Earth...I bet he would have changed his tune then...

 

[Farscape One]

Speaking of the Crystalline Entity, we have heard over and over again that there are no natural phenomenon that goes faster than light. (Except tachyons, which we see in DS9's "EXPLORERS".)

So that always made me wonder... was the Crystalline Entity artificially created? And if so, by who? Because it clearly moves at warp... fairly high warp, too.

 

[MacLeod]

It's the MPAA, which is what we use here. Other countries presumably use their own systems, which might have different tolerances.

One example of differences between the US MPAA and the UK BFCC can be found in "The Kings Speach" with the F-bomb secene, whilst origanlly rated 15 in the UK on appeal is was lowered to 12A (Person under the age 12 may see it if accompined by an adult) It got an R rating the US, an edited version was released in the US so it could get a PG-13. Seems bizzare to me that you can show voilence and get a lower rating but a few swear words and it's the end of the world.