Favorite Star Trek quotes.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-03-15 02:04pm

Tomorrow Is Yesterday wrote:US Air Force colonel: "I am going to lock you up for 200 years."
Kirk: "That ought to be just about right"

ST:VI wrote:Spock: "If I were human, I believe my response would be 'go to hell'... If I were human"

Burak Gazan · Post by **Burak Gazan** » 2004-03-15 02:24pm

"The Naked Time"

Sulu: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!"
Uhura: "Sorry, neither!"

and after Sulu nerve pinched...

Spock: "Take D'Artagnan here to sickbay"

Metrion Cascade · Post by **Metrion Cascade** » 2004-03-15 09:29pm

Burak Gazan wrote:"The Naked Time"

Sulu: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!"
Uhura: "Sorry, neither!"

HOLY SHIT! I didn't remember that! They got away with that in the late 1960s?

<---neither fair nor a maiden

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-15 09:46pm

HOLY SHIT! I didn't remember that! They got away with that in the late 1960s?

Well, it was a subtle delivery. The fact you missed it might mean other people did as well.

Besides, it doesn't strike me as a particularly controversial line. I mean, she's essentially saying she's not a virgin. What's the big deal?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-03-15 09:58pm

Stofsk wrote:
HOLY SHIT! I didn't remember that! They got away with that in the late 1960s?
Well, it was a subtle delivery. The fact you missed it might mean other people did as well. Besides, it doesn't strike me as a particularly controversial line. I mean, she's essentially saying she's not a virgin. What's the big deal?

It's both.

Fair as in alluding to her skin color.

Maiden as refering to her being a virgin.

Either way...I don't think even most the writers realized what they wrote and probably more alluded that she didn't require protection.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-03-15 10:14pm

Stofsk wrote:
HOLY SHIT! I didn't remember that! They got away with that in the late 1960s?
Well, it was a subtle delivery. The fact you missed it might mean other people did as well. Besides, it doesn't strike me as a particularly controversial line. I mean, she's essentially saying she's not a virgin. What's the big deal?

TV was still heavily censored in 1966. It was the practise up to about that point to always depict a married couple sleeping in seperate beds. You were playing with fire if you attempted to make any even remotely overt reference to anybody's sexuality in a TV script or do anything beyond what could be gotten away with in movies with the Hayes Office restrictions. So for the time, it was pushing the envelope.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-15 10:21pm

Patrick Degan wrote:TV was still heavily censored in 1966. It was the practise up to about that point to always depict a married couple sleeping in seperate beds. You were playing with fire if you attempted to make any even remotely overt reference to anybody's sexuality in a TV script or do anything beyond what could be gotten away with in movies with the Hayes Office restrictions. So for the time, it was pushing the envelope.

Married couples in separate beds?

Well I knew ST was pushing the envelope. I didn't know about the TV censorship thing - you seem to know a great deal about film and TV history.

Did you major in it or something? Do you work in it?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-03-15 10:29pm

Stofsk wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:TV was still heavily censored in 1966. It was the practise up to about that point to always depict a married couple sleeping in seperate beds. You were playing with fire if you attempted to make any even remotely overt reference to anybody's sexuality in a TV script or do anything beyond what could be gotten away with in movies with the Hayes Office restrictions. So for the time, it was pushing the envelope.
Married couples in separate beds?

Well I knew ST was pushing the envelope. I didn't know about the TV censorship thing - you seem to know a great deal about film and TV history. Did you major in it or something? Do you work in it?

That's pretty common knowledge. Watch TV Land sometime.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-03-16 03:02am

Hell, they censored the word pregnant.

Heh, I remember reading Inside Star Trek, and they were talking about how there was a shot of some woman from behind which showed her to be topless... and you could see the bottom of her breasts.

One of the producers was freaking out about how Standards was going to censor it right out. (Following is a paraphrase)

"How much footage is in the cut right now?"
"About four seconds."
"How much do we have?"
"About seven seconds worth."
"Put all seven in. Then they'll cut it down to four."

I also remember, listening to the bonus disc that came with the special edition soundtrack of Star Trek TMP, that Gene Roddenberry had to fight the network over the ratio of men to women on the Enterprise. They thought a 50/50 mix would imply that there was "a lot of fooling around up there." They finally compromised on 70% male, 30% female... with Gene later saying he figured those 30% being young healthy women could probably handle the rest of the crew.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-03-16 08:00am

Star Trek under Roddenbery always pushed the limit.

Star Trek's Uhura kissing Kirk for example...
And Star Trek TNG's Picard painting a naked woman.

Wonder how he managed to get through the censors for all of what he did.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-16 08:21am

It's sci-fi. No-one pays attention to sci-fi. That's why you can get away with all sorts of shit.

airBiscuit · Post by **airBiscuit** » 2004-03-16 11:59am

ST II:
Kirk to Sulu: "Well, I for one am glad to have you at the helm for three weeks. I don't think these kids can steer."

ST II:
Kirk: "We tried it once your way, Khan. Now you're game for a rematch. Khan...I'm laughing at the superior intellect."

Khan: "Fffffull Impulse Power."

Joachim: "No! You have Genesis. You can have whatever you--"

Khan: "Full Power! Damn you!"

Khan: "I must say this for him, he's consistent."

ST: FC
Worf: "Assimilate this..."

airBiscuit · Post by **airBiscuit** » 2004-03-16 03:31pm

ST III:

McCoy: "What's that?"

Kirk: "Lexorin."

McCoy: "Lexorin?"

Kirk: "You're suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, Doctor."

McCoy: "That green-blooded sunofabitch. It's revenge for all those arguments he lost."

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-03-16 04:52pm

from Devil in the Dark
Well I guess I am a bricklayer.-Mc Coy (after all of those im a doctor not a ____ it was nice to see a change)

No Kill I-written in english on the floor by a Horta

From Journey to Babel
We both have our duty-Orion spy

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-03-16 05:56pm

From Trouble With Tribbles

Kirk: Where did all the tribbles go?
(Some hemming and hawing from Spock, Bones, and Scotty, and Kirk wondering if they'd beamed the tribbles into space.)
Scotty: Oh no, Captain, we gave them a good home. I transported the whole kit 'n kaboodle inta the Klingon's engine room b'fore they went to warp... and they'll be no 'tribble' at all....

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-03-16 07:07pm

Kirk: MALZ!! CHOL 'Y CHU!!

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-03-16 07:51pm

ST VI:

Spock: Jim, they're dying.

Kirk: Let them DIE!

Deathstalker · Post by **Deathstalker** » 2004-03-17 01:41am

Last episode of DS9 if iirc.

Founder
"Pity, that was the last Weyoun clone."
Garrack
"I was hoping you would say that."

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-03-17 01:55am

Odo: You'd shoot a man in the back?
Garak: Oh, it's the safest way.

Thag · Post by **Thag** » 2004-03-17 02:10am

It's not exactly official, but it's a speech I liked:

New Frontier-Gods Above:

Calhoun to Shelby, right after the near-destruction of the Excalibur:

'I don't care if they're some advanced species. I don't care that they claim they can present us with some sort of golden age. I don't want to study them, or understand their point of view, or try to comprehend their alien thought process. I don't care that our mandate is to seek out new life and new civilizations, because we sought out that new life, and it wasn't civilized, and it killed us, and I'm going to kill it back. And don't you for a moment think you're going to talk me out of it.'

Burak Gazan · Post by **Burak Gazan** » 2004-03-17 02:30am

DS9 - "Way of the Warrior"

In the midst of a raging fight in the corridor...

Garak: "You know, I must say I find this hand to hand combat most distasteful!" (as he keeps blasting away while Dukat slugging it out with Klingons the hard way

)

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-03-17 09:52pm

"Tuvok, you're a real freakosaurus." -Tom Paris. Worst line ever, horribly delivered. Fucking Hilarious.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-03-23 10:26pm

"It never happened" -- Yar to Data (The Naked Now) - And pretty much every other episode, of every other series...

"Dad, I'm fourteen" -- Jake Sisko
"I'm glad we agree on something" -- Commander Benjamin Sisko (Move Along Home) - Heard this from my Dad...coincidence?

"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain" -- Tuvok (Elogium) -ACK!

"Computer, abort self destruct sequence; authorization Janeway, pi, 1, 1, 0" -- Janeway - what a dumbass command code...don't they all have pi in them?

"You're in love with a computer subroutine." -- Tuvok
[awkwardly] "That's the problem." -- Kim
[long pause] "Interesting." -- Tuvok (Alter Ego) - the Barclay Phenomenon has spread...

Your uniform is very... informative." -- The Doctor, to Seven of Nine - Hell yeah...

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-03-23 10:51pm

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-03-23 10:52pm

Omet'iklan: I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, victory is life.

O'Brien: I am Miles O'Brien and I am very much alive. And I wish to stay that way.