Your favourite line in Trek

[Astraea]

I notice that Garak seems to be being mentioned a lot on here. was he brought in to add humor, or just kind of went that way?

I think the reason for the prevalence of Garak quotes is that you have a lot of Cardassian fans on these boards. (As in, fans who like Cardassians, not fans who are Cardassians...at least, I think...) Plus, Garak is awesome. I don't believe he was added so much for humor as he was to provide an interesting plot point for Past Prologue - he's rather like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in that he was originally only supposed to be brought in for one episode, but that he was interesting enough that they kept bringing him back again and again.

 

[2 of 10]

Not so much my favorite line as one of my favorite speeches:

"Cardassians have never been afraid of war, a fact we've proven time and again over these past two years. 7 million of our brave soldiers have given their lives to fulfill our part of the agreement, and what has the Dominion done in return? Nothing. We've gained no new territories. In fact, our influence throughout the Quadrant has diminished. And to make matters worse, we're not even masters in our own home. Travel anywhere in Cardassia and what do you find? Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and now Breen. Instead of the invaders, we have become the invaded. Our allies have conquered us without firing a single shot. Well, no longer. This morning, detachments of the Cardassian First, Third, and Ninth Orders attacked Dominion outposts on Rondack 3. This assault marks the first step towards the liberation of our homeland from the true oppressors of the Alpha Quadrant. I call upon Cardassians everywhere - Resist. Resist today. Resist tomorrow. Resist till the last Dominion soldier has been driven from our soil."

Legate Damar launching the Cardassian Liberation Front.

That was one helluva speech.

Agreed, this speech almost makes up for Damar killing Zeil...

 

[Thor Damar]

^ It was Damar's (and the Cardassian's) redemption, that's why it was such a powerful speech. I don't think Damar was ever forgiven or that he forgave himself for the brutal murder of Ziyal (hence the heavy drinking).

 

[murmillones]

Spock >Insults are effective only where emotion is present

'Who mourns....'

 

[new_mercury]

"It's a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake"- the only ST line my brother knows

also the scence with Picard and Lilly in the ready room on first contact.
But the lines I quote a lot are Soran's:

"You know there was a time that I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came and they showed me that if there is one constant in this universe, it's death. Afterwards, I began to realize that it didn't matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's only a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Don't you feel time gaining on you? It's like a predator; it's stalking you. Oh,you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies but in the end, time is going to hunt you down and make the kill."

 

[Sky]

Remembered a new one (from the Naked Time):

SULU: I'll protect you, fair maiden!
UHURA: Sorry, neither.

 

[Commander Rabbit]

I notice that Garak seems to be being mentioned a lot on here. was he brought in to add humor, or just kind of went that way?

Garak does have a lot of great -- and funny -- lines, but I've never thought of him as a primarily humorous character.

 

[Too Much Fun]

It's hard to just pick one, here are a few:

"Storage compartments? Storage compartments?"
- Kirk

"I think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month... sir."
- Spock

"Of course, Mr. Spock, your reaction was quite logical...in a pig's eye!"
- Dr. McCoy

"It is...[sniffs drink]...it is green"
- Data (in a very funny line as well as a nice tribute to the original series)

"I grow fatigued".
- Khan

"If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been"
- Dax

I thought Scotty's metaphor/toast about the starships was marvellous.
"It's like the first time you fall in love. You never love a woman quite like that again. To the Enterprise and the Stargazer – old girlfriends we'll never meet again".
- Scotty

Plus anytime Sisko or Picard yells, but especially:

"GET ME A PHASER! I'LL GET RID OF KIRA!"
- Sisko

"Not good enough, dammit! Not good enough!"
"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the GUIDING principle on which Starfleet is based!"
- Picard

I could fill a page with Q quotes, especially his insults to Worf, but I'll limit myself to this one just because I don't think it's been mentioned yet:

"I can't disappear...anymore than you could win a beauty contest"

- Q to Worf

 

[Aretaku]

So many...sticking with DS9 for now, since I'll be here all night if I don't limit myself.

As you'll note, I tend to prefer humor to drama...

Odo: I'll never understand the humanoid need to ... couple.
Quark: You've never "coupled"?
Odo: I choose not to. Too many compromises. You want to watch the Karo-Net tournament, she wants to listen to music, so you compromise: you listen to music. You like Earth jazz, she prefers Klingon opera, so you compromise: you listen to Klingon opera. So here you were ready to have a nice night watching the Karo-net match and you wind up spending an agonizing evening listening to Klingon opera.
- A Man Alone

Quark:You...gold...owe...ME!
- Babel

Odo:Madam, I am not like you! Every eighteen hours, I turn into a liquid!
Lwaxana Troi:I can swim
- The Forsaken

Elim Garak: I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. I don't trust coincidences.
- Cardassians

Bashir: Try not to yell at any more admirals for a while.
Sisko: I wasn't yelling. I was expressing my opinion loudly.
- The Wire

Odo: (Takes the note, reads aloud) 'Dear Quark, I used parts of your disruptor to repair the replicators, will return them soon. -Rom'
Quark: I will kill him!
Odo: With what?
- The Way of the Warrior

Kira: What do Klingons dream about?
Worf: Things that will send cold chills down your spine and wake you in the middle of the night. No, it is better that you do not know. Excuse me. [He leaves]
Kira: I can never tell when he's joking.
- Rejoined

Michael Eddington: I know you. I was like you once, but then I opened my eyes. Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed about the Maquis? We've never harmed you. And yet we're constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands, and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. Why? Because we've left the Federation, and that's the one thing you can't accept. Nobody leaves paradise. Everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. You're only sending them replicators so that one day they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways you're worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious... you assimilate people and they don't even know it.
- For the Cause

Weyoun: Captain Benjamin Sisko. Your psychological profile is required reading for Vorta Field Supervisors. I probably know things about you that you don't know yourself.
Sisko: If you're trying to impress me, you can forget it.
Weyoun: What would you say if I offered to make you absolute ruler of the Federation? No President, no Starfleet Chief of Staff, just you.
Sisko: I'd say your psychological profile of me isn't as good as you think.
- To the Death

Garak: We're running out of options here Quark. You didn't want to be phasered because you need a body. The knife was too savage, the nerve gas smelled bad, hanging took too long, and poison...what was was wrong with poison?
Quark: It doesn't work. If I know the food is poisoned I won't eat it.
Garak: For someone who wants to die you're strangely intent on living.
- Body Parts

Rom: I won't even tell them my name.
O'Brien: Rom, everyone on the station knows your name.
Rom: Well...I won't confirm it.
- The Assignment

[Worf's young descendent is awestruck by him]
Young boy: Are you the son of Mogh?
Worf:Yes.
Young boy: Is it true you can kill someone just by looking at them?
Worf: Only when I am angry.
- Children of Time

Bashir: There's nothing more romantic than a wedding on DS9 in the springtime.
O'Brien:When the neutrinos are in bloom.
- You are Cordially Invited

Martok: [to Worf, before his wedding] We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Do you think Sirella is anything like the woman I thought I'd marry? She is a mercurial, arrogant, prideful woman who shares my bed far too infrequently for my taste. And yet... I love her deeply. We Klingons often tout our prowess in battle and our desire for honor and glory above all else... but how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with. And Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home... and in his heart.
- You are Cordially Invited

Worf:I have a sense of humor. On the Enterprise, I was considered to be quite amusing.
Dax: That must've been one dull ship.
Worf: That is a joke. I get it. It is not funny, but I get it.
- Change of Heart

Sisko: Where's Tolar?
Garak: I've locked him in his room. I've also given him the distinct impression that if he tries to force the door open, it may explode.
Sisko: I hope that's just an impression.
Garak: It's best not to dwell on such minutiae.
- In the Pale Moonlight

Garak: [to Ezri] I don't need someone to walk in here and hold my hand. I want someone to help me get back to work and you, my dear, are not up to this task. Well, look at you; you're pathetic. A confused child trying to live up to a legacy left by her predecessors. You're not worthy of the name Dax. I knew Jadzia. She was vital, alive. She owned herself, and you, you don't even know who you are. How dare you presume to help me? You can't even help yourself. Now get out of here, before I say something unkind.
- Afterimage

Jack: The fact is that the universe is going to stop expanding and it is going to collapse in on itself. We have to do something before it is too late
Patrick: How much time do we have left?
Jack: 60 trillion years. 70 at the most.
Patrick: Oh no.
- Chrysalis

Quark: Let me tell you something about hu-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working... but take away their creature comforts deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same, friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
- The Siege of AR-558

Garak:{as Jem'Hadar soldiers destroy his childhood home} All during the years of my exile I imagined what it would be like to come home. I even thought of living in this house again, with Mila. But now she's dead, and this house is about to be reduced to a pile of rubble. My Cardassia is gone.
Kira: Then fight for a new Cardassia.
Garak: I have an even better reason, Commander: revenge.
Kira: {to herself} ...that works too.
- What You Leave Behind


...and of course, my sig.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Great call on Michael Eddington's speech. That was bitterness personified and a hell of an "eff you" rant. Speaking of great DS9 quotes, whether you like Bashir or not (and he's one of my favourite DS9 characters), you gotta love Dax telling him off in "The Quickening".

"Maybe it was arrogant to think you could find a cure, but it's even more arrogant to say there is no cure just because you couldn't find one"
- Dax

OWNED!

 

[BigMovieGeek]

For me it's gotta be:

"It's a Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake"

Insurrection had an interesting one though:

"Eject the core!"
"I just did"

Thumbsuptastic!

 

[Ghrakh]

"I never kill anyone at the supper table, Mr. La Forge.

- Kurn

 

[Thor Damar]

Speaking of Vreenak, Romulan senator and annoying internet meme, he had a amusing exchange with Captain sisko when the two first met.


"So you're the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary to the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor... and oh yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. Somehow I thought you'd be taller."
"Sorry to disappoint you."
"To be honest, my opinion of Starfleet officers is so low, you'd have to work very hard indeed to disappoint me."

And one from the master (also from the same episode);

That's why you came to me, isn't it captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing. Well, it worked. And you'll get what you wanted: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant, and all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal... and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.


Finally some bickering in the bunker;

"Gul Dukat is a great man."
"Gul Dukat is a preening egotist and a fool."

 

[Thor Damar]

Had to include this; (From "The Reckoning" DS9)

During the reckoning, the Bajorans will either suffer horribly or... eat fruit."
"... Eat fruit?"
"Given the tone of the rest of the inscriptions, I would bet on the horrible suffering."

 

[SFRabid]

From Enterprise:

Setting - Malcolm Reed undergoing physical therapy after an injury to his leg. Phlox is pushing him to work harder towards recovery.

Reed: "It can't be ethical to cause a patient this much pain."
Phlox: "It's unethical to harm a patient. I can inflict as much pain as I like."

...

Phlox: "The wound might heal faster if you allow me to apply a few more Regulan blood worms."
Reed: "You're not putting any more of those things inside my leg. You still have not found the last one."
Phlox: "He'll come out on his own, eventually."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"He's biting that female!!"

From the same episode:

Data: Does the Admiral have children?
Picard: Yes, I believe he does, Data.
Data: I am forced to wonder how much experience he had as a parent, when his first child was born.

Picard (to the Admiral): You acknowledge their sentience but ignore their personal liberties and freedom...Order a man to hand his child over to the state? Not while I'm his Captain.

 

[TS-1838-SWATH]

I have many, but one that i like the most is quoted from Q:
If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed.
It's not safe out here! It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid

Same with me

Off Topic: B & B could learn something from that line

 

[rick]

"hammock time"
"yo"

and bashir in dogs of war
"i hate the carpet...i do"
such bad timing, its great!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"hammock time"
"yo"

Where's that one from?

 

[DeVario]

^ From the DS9 episode "Explorers".