Star Trek Quotations

[tree_and_leaf]

As ellid pointed out, it's forty years since the debut of Trek on television. In its honour, I have compiled a small list of Memorable Quotes, to which anyone who wishes is welcome to add.



Spock: "Random chance seems to have operated in our favor"
McCoy: "In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky"
Spock: "I believe I said that, Doctor" (The Doomsday Machine)

"Please, Spock, do me a favor ... don't say it's `fascinating'..." -- Dr. McCoy
"No... but it is... interesting..." -- Spock (The Ultimate Computer)

Spock: "I'm attempting to construct a mnemonic memory circuit, using stone
knives and bearskins." (City On The Edge Of Forever)

"You! What planet is this?" -- McCoy, to a homeless person upon appearing in 1930's Chicago (City on the Edge of Forever)

McCoy: I'm just an old country doctor." (The Deadly Years)

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" (Devil in the Dark)

Spock: "Sir, you are a superb starship captain. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired." (A Piece Of the Action)

Spock: "I have been, and ever shall be, your friend. Live long, and prosper." (Star Trek II)

McCoy, discovering that he's hosting Spock's soul: "That green-blooded son of a bitch. It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost to me." -- McCoy (Star Trek III)

Kirk: "My God, what have I done?"
McCoy: "What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live." (Star Trek III)

Kirk: "No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space." (Star Trek IV)

Spock: "If I were human, I believe the correct response would be 'Go to Hell' [Pause] If I were human." (Star Trek VI)

Chang: Ah, captain, you've never experienced Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon." (Star Trek VI) (as a result of seeing this film at an impressionable age, I tend to think of the source text in translation as the original Klingon)

Picard: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -- Captain Picard (The Drumhead) Timely, somehow.

Scotty in Relics, demanding a holographic replica of his Enterprise: "Nae bluidy A, B, C, or D"

Picard: If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are" (Encounter At Farpoint)

Garak: "The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination." (Improbable Cause)

Bashir: What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me which ones were true and which ones weren't?
Garak: My dear doctor...they're all true.
Bashir: Even the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies. (The Wire)

Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavical.
Garak: Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos. (Way of the Warrior)

Quark: "All I ask is a tall ship, and a load of contraband to fill her with..." (Little Green Men)

Sisko, to his son: "You've got a good start on a novel here, Jake. The dialog is sharp, the story is interesting, the characters are real... the spelling is terrible." (Muse)

Worf: "Constable, why are you talking to your beverage?!?"
Odo: "It's not a beverage. It's a changeling." (The Begotten)

Kira, after clouting Lancelot, and walking angrily out of Dax's Arthurian-themed holo-novel: "He kissed me! I was a married woman!"

Kira Nerys: That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it, and if you do have it, no explanation is necessary. (No idea which episode either of those came from...)

B'Elanna Torres: "Get the cheese to sickbay!" (Learning Curve)

Seven of Nine "Unacceptable!" (passim)

I seem to have a much better memory for TOS than the rest, for whatever reason. Possiby it's simply because the snipey relationship between Spock and Bones made for memorable one liners?

Comments

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I've never been a Trekkie, only a very haphazard viewer of TOS and TNG during my teens (and I always mean to redress that and watch at least one of the Star Trek shows properly, with all episodes and everything). So, only two quotes are forever stuck in my memory (three, if you count "he's dead, Jim."):

The first of them is the "Shakespeare in the original Klingon" phrase from Stark Trek VI, one of my favourite sci-fi quotes ever. (And the Munich Shakespeare Library does own the Klingon version of Hamlet, by the way.)

And the second one is from Hollow Pursuits: "I am the Goddess of Empathy! Cast off your inhibitions, and embrace love, truth, joy."

(It sounds even better in the 'original' German as I heard it first: "Ich bin die Göttin der sinnlichen Freuden. Leg all deine Hemmungen ab und lass dich von Liebe, Wahrheit und Freude entführen." Na denn...)

Wie kann man das ablehnen?

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't think I count as Trekkie anymore, but I do still love the show (not so sure about Voyager, though) and the characters from TOS and DS9 in particular. You should definitely give the latter a try: it's the most consistent in terms of quality, has an excellent ensemble cast with some fascinating characters, and it's the only Star Trek series with an overarching plot - not that you need to see every episode, and there are loads that stand alone, but there is a sense of things developing rather than the status quo returning at the start of the next episode. The writing was sharp, and there were a lot of interesting ideas.

I really, really need to watch some DS9 now...

Re: Wie kann man das ablehnen?

[aervir.livejournal.com]

You're not the first one to sing the praise of DS9 in such an enthusiastic manner, so maybe this is really the one Star Trek show I should be going for.

But to commemorate the anniversary, it's probably easier just to watch Galaxy Quest. ;)