Favorite Trek quotes

[Arancia a Orologia]

"There's a fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? Bu ... KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!"

Sorry, I had to insert a Family Guy reference in here, somewhere.

[FedRebel]

Star Trek really changed everything, these conventions really are great aren't they...
*Looks around and pulls out a piece of paper*
"Dear mister Shatner....We'd like you to open for... 'Star WARS'"
*Stormtroopers appear on stage*
No wait! I can do Star Wars!
-William Shatner opening for the AFI Tribute to George Lucas

[Patrick Degan]

More TOS examples:

We're immortal, we gods. But the Earth changed. Your fathers changed. They turned away, until we were only memories. A god cannot survive as a memory. We need love, admiration, worship, just as you need food. We could have struck out from Olympus and destroyed, but we had no wish to destroy. So we made the long journey home. It was an empty place without worshippers, but we no longer had the power to leave. So we simply waited for the end to come... Hera was first. She stood at the edge of the temple, and spread herself upon the wind. Thinner and thinner, until only the wind remained.
—Apollo describing the end of his race, "Who Mourns For Adonais"



No sir, I shall not withdraw a single charge I have made. You are not Captain Kirk. You have ruthlessly appropriated his body but the life-entity within you is not that of James Kirk, you do not belong in charge of the Enterprise and I shall do everything in my power to stop you.
—Spock's defiance of Kirk/Janice Lester, "Turnabout Intruder"



We must always remember that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
—Spock's rueful observation of diplomacy, "The Mark Of Gideon"



Gentlemen, you have eyes, but you will not see! Limitless vistas surround us. And yet the Federation would have us grub away like ants on some...slightly larger than normal anthill. But I am not an insect! I am...Master of the Universe, and I shall claim my domain.
—Garth of Izar, "Whom Gods Destroy"



Physical reality is based upon universal law. Where the law does not apply, there can be no reality.
—Spock, "Spectre Of The Gun"



They sacrificed hundreds just to draw us out. And then they came. And they came. And. They. Came. We drained four of our phasers and they still came. We killed thousands, and they still came.
—Capt. Ronald Tracy after the Yang attack, "The Omega Glory"



One more thing, gentlemen. We fight on their level. With trickery, brutality, finality. We match their evil. I know I was reputed to be a gentle man, James. But during the four bloodiest years of my country's history, I gave orders that sent a hundred thousand men to their deaths at the hands of their brothers. There is no gentle way to kill. No easy way to destroy. There is nothing good about war except its end.
—"Abraham Lincoln" advising Kirk on Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain"



Stop this nonsense AT ONCE! Or you'll not be allowed to make any more planets.
—Trelaine's father laying down the law, "The Squire Of Gothos"



You should have killed me while you could, James. Command and compassion is a fool's mixture.
—Gary Mitchell transforming into a mad god, "Where No Man Has Gone Before"



Give us some more blood, Chekov. The needle won't hurt, Chekov. Take off your shirt, Chekov. Lie down, Chekov. Roll over, Chekov. Breathe deeply, Chekov. Marrow sample, Chekov. Skin sample. If —IF— I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples.
—Chekov grumbling about being a human guinea-pig, "The Deadly Years"



In every revolution, there's one man with a vision.
—Capt. James T. Kirk, "Mirror Mirror"

[Kuja]

"You attacked us without cause! You murdered hundreds!"

"You are invaders! We were justified!"

-paraphrased dialog from 'Arena' between Kirk and the Gorn captain.

[Uraniun235]

Intriguing. It's trilling noise seems to produce a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system. Fortunately, I am, of course, immune.
-Spock, on tribbles, from "The Trouble with Tribbles"

In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us.
-Bones, from "Balance of Terror"

I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend.
-Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror"

"Gentlemen. Gentlemen. This, uh, this card game is a kid's game."
"You think so?"
"Oh, yes. I wouldn't waste my time."
"Who's asking you?"
"On Beta Antares IV, they play a real game. It's a man's game, but a little beyond you. It requires intelligence."
"Listen, Kirk, I can play anything you can figure out. Take the cards, big man. Show us how it's played."
[Spock]"I'm familiar with the culture on Beta Antares. There aren't games --"
"Spock. Spock. Of course the cards on Beta Antares IV are different, but not too different. The name of the game is called, uh ... fizzbin."
"Fizzbin?"
"Fizzbin. It's, uh ... not too difficult. Each player gets six cards, except for the player on the dealer's right, who gets seven."
"On the right?"
"The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays."
"On Tuesday."
"Mm-hmm. Oh, look what you got, two jacks. You've got a half fizzbin already."
"I need another jack."
"No. If you got another jack, why, you'd have a shronk."
"A shronk?"
"Yes. You'd be disqualified. You need a king and a deuce, except at night, when you'd need a queen and a 4."
"Except at night."
"Right. Oh, look at that. You've got another jack! Ha ha ha! How lucky you are! How wonderful for you. Now, if you didn't get another jack, if you'd gotten a king, why, then, you'd get another card, except when it's dark, you'd give it back."
"If it were dark on Tuesday."
"But what you're after is a royal fizzbin, but the odds in getting a royal fizzbin are astron -- Spock, what are the odds in getting a royal fizzbin?"
"I have never computed them."
"Well, they're astronomical, believe me. Now, for the last card. We'll call it a kronk. You got that?"
"What?"
-Kirk explaining "fizzbin" to Oxmyx's henchmen in "A Piece of the Action"

[Vicious]

Pretty much anything by Q. He has to be my favorite character from TNG, just on dialogue alone. He's also the only person on the show who apparently has utterly no respect or admiration for the Federation. Haven't seen very much TOS, unfortunately, haven't watched DS9 at all and what Voyager I have seen has burned it's way out of my brain. So, I'm left with Q. Oh, and Khan, just 'cause he's cool.

[Bounty]

"In range ?"
"Not yet, Sir."
"Come on, come one..."
"She'll fly apart."
"FLY HER APART THEN !"

Best Sulu moment ever.

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(discussing the Klingons)

Kirk: "They're animals."
Spock: "Jim, there is an historic opportunity here."
Kirk: "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!"
Spock: "They're dying."
Kirk: "Let them die."

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Riker: "Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make its own judgments.""
Cochrane: "That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?"
Riker: "You did, 10 years from now."

[Jarl Sven]

"We have him! Move towards him!" Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror"

“Well, it's, um... it's green.” A drunken Scotty in “by any other name”

[El Moose Monstero]

Most of the good ones are spoken for, but I've always liked the bits from Generations and from All Good Things.

"You just don't get it, do you, Picard? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons, and for one brief moment, you did."

"When I realised the paradox?"

"Exactly, for one fraction of a second, you were open to options that you had never considered. THAT is the adventure that awaits you, not mapping stars or studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."

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"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion that goes with us on the journey, reminds us to cherish every moment. Because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all No.1, we're only mortal."

"Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to live forever... ...always thought I'd get a shot at this chair someday."

"Perhaps you still will. Somehow, I doubt that this will be the last ship to carry the name Enterprise...

...Picard to Farragut. Two to beam up."

[Lord Pounder]

Scotty "Hello Computer" - Star Trek - The Voyage Home

Q "You Hit Me! Picard Never Hit Me!"
Sisko "I'm Not Picard" - Deep Space Nine Q-Less

Kirk "Second star to the right...and straight on till morning" - Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country

[Trogdor]

"Target that explosion and fire."

[Chmee]

The 'baseball' (DS9 vs. the Vulcans) episode of DS9 is on today and produced this gem:

Everyone is yelling at Nog (playing catcher) that the Vulcan who just passed him didn't tag home plate. "What should I do?" he asks in confusion.

"Find him and kill him!" Worf yells.