Al's (Quantum Leap) remark to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (StarTrek - The Next Generation): "Oh, really? Well, if your technology is so advanced, how come you haven't figured out some way to keep your hair?"
-- From "LeapTrek", a novel by Katriena Knights
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Al's (Quantum Leap) remarks about Commander William Riker (StarTrek - The Next Generation): "Tell him to loosen up. God, he's stiff even for a military man. Just looking at him makes me uncomfortable. He looks like somebody stuck a broomstick up his ..."
-- From "LeapTrek", a novel by Katriena Knights
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You think that's what I want... to become one of them... become my own enemy?
-- Alexander, "Star Trek, (Plato's Stepchildren)"
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Every time you look at the engine, you're looking at me. Every time you touch it, it's me.
-- The holodeck-simulated Leah Brahms to Geordi, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Booby Trap)"
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I begin to like you earthman, and I saw fear in the Klingon's eyes.
-- A Capellian, "Star Trek, (Friday's Child)"
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You bring this network's rating down... and we'll do a special on you!
-- Captain Jellico, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Chain of Command, Part I)"
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You will die of suffocation, in the icy cold of space.
-- Kang, "Star Trek, (Day of the Dove)"
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A lie is a very poor way to say hello.
-- Edith Keeler, "Star Trek, (City on the Edge of Forever)"
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From Hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
-- Khan, "Star Trek II"
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I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life.
-- Khan, "Star Trek II"
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It is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.
-- Khan, "Star Trek, (Space Seed)"
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Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it is very cold in space.
-- Khan, "Star Trek II"
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... a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Whom Gods Destroy)"
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And now, if you will excuse me, I have a ship to attend to. Au Revoir.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Trouble with Tribbles)"
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Double dumb-ass on you!
-- Kirk, "Star Trek IV"
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Earth. Hitler. 1938.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek VI"
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Everybody remember where we parked.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek IV"
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Galloping around the galaxy is a game for the young.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek II"
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I am from Iowa. I only work in outer space.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek IV"
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I found it an accelerating experience.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Wink of an Eye)"
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I have never questioned the orders or the intelligence of any representative of the Federation... until now.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Trouble with Tribbles)"
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I intend to recommend you all for promotion... in whatever fleet we end up serving.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek III"
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I know you find each other fascinating, but we're not here to conduct a field experiment in human biology.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Apple)"
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I'm going to go sleep this off. Please let me know if there is any other way we can screw up tonight.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek VI"
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I've never trusted Klingons. I never will. I've never forgiven them for the death of my son.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek VI"
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If it weren't for the Catulan ambassador's son, they'd all be in the brig!
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Way to Eden)"
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If we weren't missing two officers... I'd say someone was playing an elaborate trick or treat on us.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Catspaw)"
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In every revolution there is one man with a vision.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Mirror, Mirror)"
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In my cabin there's a device that will make you invincible.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Mirror, Mirror)"
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In some parts of the galaxy, I've seen forms of entertainment which make this look like a folk dance.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Bread and Circuses)"
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Lets get the hell out of here.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The City on the Edge of Forever)"
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No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek IV"
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No, Mr. Spock, I didn't think you would be.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Apple)"
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On the contrary, gravity is the foremost thing on my mind.
-- Kirk, while climbing El Capitan in Yosemite Nat'l Park, "Star Trek V"
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Spock, will you please sit down!
-- Kirk, "Star Trek"
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Umm-huh.
-- Kirk, trying to explain Spock's weirdness as a result of LSD, and confusing his 20th century Earth history, "Star Trek IV"
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We surrender!!
-- Kirk, "Star Trek VI"
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We're going in gentlemen, peacefully I hope, but peacefully or not, we're going in.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (A Taste of Armageddon)"
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What are we looking at, a 20th century Rome?
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Bread and Circuses)"
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What did somebody say... that Paradise must have looked like this...?
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Apple)"
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What does God need with a Starship?
-- Kirk, "Star Trek V"
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Where's that damn torpedo?
-- Kirk, "Star Trek VI"
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Would you mind being careful where you throw your rocks, Mr. Spock?
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (The Apple)"
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You look quite well for a man that's been 'utterly destroyed', Mr. Spock.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Patterns of Force)"
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You're a healer, There's a patient. That's an order.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek, (Devil in the Dark)"
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You're not exactly catching us at our best.
-- Kirk, "Star Trek IV"
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Mind your own business , Mr. Spock. I'm tired of your half-breed interference!
-- Kirks Android Double, "Star Trek, (What Are Little Girls Made Of)"
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I don't trust men that smile too much.
-- Kor, the Klingon, "Star Trek, (Errand of Mercy)"
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I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage.
-- Korax, "Star Trek, (The Trouble With Tribbles)"
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Who knows if we're even dead or alive?
-- LaForge, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Yesterday's Enterprise)"
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I will feel it for both of us... Thank you for my life...
-- Lal, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Offspring)"
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I am for you, James Kirk.
-- Losira, "Star Trek, (That Which Survives)"
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Listen Kiddo, Jim Kirk was many things but he was never a boy scout.
-- Dr Carol Marcus, "Star Trek II"
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Damn medievalism!
-- McCoy, "Star Trek IV"
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Did you see the love light is Spock's eyes? The right computer finally acme along.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (The Ultimate Computer)"
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He's as tight-lipped about it as an Aldebaron Shellmouth.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Amok Time)"
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How long do you think you can keep taking that stuff?
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (The Immunity Syndrome)"
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I don't know if you got the whole picture or not... but he's not exactly working on all thrusters.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek IV"
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I doubt any God that inflicts pain for his own pleasure.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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I like him better before he died.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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I need your advice. Then I need a drink.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Obsession)"
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I'm a doctor! Not a bricklayer!
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Devil in the Dark)"
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Imagine that, a passionate Vulcan.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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It's a miracle these people ever got out of the 21st century.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek IV"
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Jim, you don't go around asking the Almighty for his ID!
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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Not any more! Now we can do both at the same time. According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now watch out! Here comes Genesis, we'll do it for ya in six minutes.
-- McCoy, in Kirk's ready room, after viewing the Project Genesis film, "Star Trek II"
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One more like that and I'm going to lose both these men!
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Journey to Babel)"
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Sounds like the Spanish Inquisition.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek IV"
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Spock's contaminating this boy, Jim.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Who Mourns for Adonais)"
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That spot - I spilled acid there a year ago. Jim, what in blazes is this?
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Mirror, Mirror)"
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That's not very God damn funny, Jim.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek III"
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The first time you've ever asked me for anything and it had to be an occasion like this.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (The Gamesters of Triskelion)"
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They do not. It's like working in a damn computer centre.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek"
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Well it's a new ship - but she's got the right name. Now you remember that, you hear?
-- McCoy, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Encounter at Farpoint, Part I)"
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Well whaddya know... I finally got the last word!
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Journey to Babel)"
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Well, I've heard of reluctant brides but this is ridiculous.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (Elaan of Troyius)"
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Who's been holding up the damn elevator?
-- McCoy, "Star Trek II"
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Would you like to see just how fast I can put you in a hospital?
-- McCoy, "Star Trek, (This Side of Paradise)"
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Yes, but you would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek IV"
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You call this relaxing? I'm a nervous wreck. If I'm not careful I'll end up talking to myself.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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You really piss me off.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek V"
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You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.
-- McCoy, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Encounter at Farpoint, Part I)"
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Note the sinister eyes and the malformed ears... definitely an inferior race.
-- Deputy Fuehrer Melakon, "Star Trek, (Patterns of Force)"
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You are outside. You are a disease. The disease must be destroyed.
-- The Melkotian, "Star Trek, (Spectre of the Gun)"
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Of course I do. It's 2278.
-- Captain Morgan, USS Bozeman, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Cause and Effect)"
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Policemen ... I'd recognize them in any century.
-- Professor Moriarty, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Ship in a Bottle)"
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Spock, you're going to love it here. They all talk just the way you do.
-- Harry Mudd, "Star Trek, (I, Mudd)"
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Nonsequitur... your facts are uncoordinated.
-- Nomad, "Star Trek, (The Changeling)"
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The creation of perfection is no error.
-- Nomad, "Star Trek, (The Changeling)"
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There is a word. Among us there is no corresponding meaning. But it seems to mean something to you humans.
-- Norman (Please), "Star Trek, (I, Mudd)"
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A minstrel boy to the war has gone in the ranks of death ye will find him his fathers sword he hath girded on with his wild harp slung behind him land of song said the warrior bard though all the world betrays thee one sword at least thy rights shall guard one faithful harp shall praise thee.
-- A song sung by O'Brien, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Wounded)"
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And how do I know that someone I might save down there might not be the next Adolf Hitler? Or Khan Singh? I'm willing to take that chance.
-- Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (A Matter of Time)"
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Captain's Personal Log, supplemental. I have just witnessed the total destruction of the USS Enterprise with the loss of all hands. Save one. Me.
-- Picard's log from the future, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Time Squared)"
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Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.
-- Picard, uttering the last line of the TV series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (All Good Things...)"
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I will continue, aboard this ship, to speak for the Borg. While they continue, without further diversion, to Sector 001, where they will force your unconditional surrender.
-- Picard as Locutus, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Best of Both Worlds II)"
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I will just have to trust that you will not let Adm. Pressman put the Enterprise in unnecessary risk and if I find that that trust has been misplaced, I will have to re-evaluate the command structure of this ship. Dismissed.
-- Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Pegasus)"
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Legends... are the spice of the universe, Mr. Data, because they have a way of sometimes coming true.
-- Captain Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Haven)"
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Let's make sure that history never forgets the name... Enterprise.
-- Captain Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Yesterday's Enterprise)"
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Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
-- Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Inner Light)"
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That will be the day!
-- Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Yesterday's Enterprise)"
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We have engaged... the Borg.
-- Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Best of Both Worlds I)"
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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, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Drumhead)"
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Avoid the planet Earth at all costs. Farewell.
-- Federation President, "Star Trek IV"
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Not likely!
-- Dr Pulaski, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Where silence has lease)"
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All good things must come to an end...
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (All Good Things...)"
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But this is the court of the year 2079, by which time all 'United Earth' nonsense had been abolished.
-- Q, presiding in a post holocaust court, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Encounter at Farpoint)"
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Eaten any good books lately?
-- Q, to Worf (Deja-Q)
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If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta 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.
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Q Who?)"
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It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars.
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (All Good Things...)"
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Jean-Luc! It's so good to see you again. How about a big hug?
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Qpid)"
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You're dead, this is the afterlife ... and I'm God.
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Tapestry)"
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You're so stolid. You weren't like that before the beard.
-- Q, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Deja-Q)"
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You are authorized to use all measures available to destroy the Enterprise.
-- Starfleet Command Representative, "Star Trek, (The Ultimate Computer)"
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Earth.
-- Riker, describing the Borg ship's destination, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Best of Both Worlds II)"
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Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise.
-- Riker, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Contagion)"
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Four years. Ever since Captain Picard was killed in the incident with the Borg.
-- Captain Riker, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Parallels)"
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Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship.
-- Captain Riker, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (The Best of Both Worlds II)"
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Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns.
-- Riker, quoting Data's definition of friendship, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Time's Arrow, Part 1)"
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Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur, wholeheartedly!
-- Riker, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Where Silence has Lease)"
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The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere!
-- Alternate Captain Riker, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Parallels)"
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Attention crew... there will be a formal dance in the bowling alley at 1900 hours tonight.
-- Lt Kevin Riley, "Star Trek, (The Naked Time)"
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Humour. It is a difficult concept.
-- Saavik, "Star Trek II"
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At the time it seemed the logical thing to do.
-- Sarek, "Star Trek, (Journey to Babel)"
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Klingon justice is a unique point of view, Mr. President.
-- Sarek, "Star Trek IV"
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Tellerites do not argue for reasons. They simply argue.
-- Sarek, "Star Trek, (Journey to Babel)"
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Captain, you mean my neck is going to have to depend on some spooky mumbo jumbo?
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (Wolf in the Fold)"
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Cold it was, like a stinking draft out of a slaughterhouse.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (Wolf in the Fold)"
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (Friday's Child)"
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I transported the whole kit-and-kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (The Trouble with Tribbles)"
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In four hours the ship blows up.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (The Savage Curtain)"
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Just before they went into warp, I beamed the whole kit and kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all.
-- Scotty, explaining how he got rid of the tribbles, "Star Trek, (The Trouble With Tribbles)"
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Mind your place mister or you'll be wearing concrete golashes.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (A Piece of the Action)"
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President Lincoln indeed!... no doubt to be followed by Louis of France and Robert the Bruce!
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (The Savage Curtain)"
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Synthetic Scotch, synthetic Commanders...
-- Captain (Scotty) Scott, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Relics)"
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The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (A Taste of Armageddon)"
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Unless you people on the bridge start taking showers with your clothes on, my engines can pull us out of anything.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (The Naked Time)"
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Well, it's... ah... it's green.
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (By Any Other Name)"
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Who else would be playing cat and mouse with a starship?
-- Scotty, "Star Trek, (A Private Little War)"
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Why, how do we know he didn't invent the thing?
-- Scotty, "Star Trek IV"
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I am not programmed to respond in that area.
-- Alice & Norman Series, "Star Trek, (I, Mudd)"
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Computer, I caution you... I have little love for Beta 5 snobbery ... OVERRIDE!
-- Gary Seven, "Star Trek, (Assignment: Earth)"
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Some of the colonists objected to having an anatomically correct android running around without any clothes on.
-- Juliana Soong, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Inheritance)"
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An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-- Spock, "Star Trek VI"
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An entrance Captain, but no exit. They go in but they do not come out.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (A Taste of Armageddon)"
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Are you sure this isn't the time for a colourful metaphor?
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Wolf in the Fold)"
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Constant exposure does lead to a certain degree of contamination.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Journey to Babel)"
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Emotional... isn't she?
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Journey to babel)"
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Fascinating... a totally parochial attitude!
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Metamorphosis)"
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Fascinating... If my suspicions are correct, there can be no response to this message.
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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Hardly conclusive Mr. Scott, since Klingons have no tear ducts.
-- Spock, "Star Trek VI"
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I am chasing the Captain, Lt. Uhura, and Ensign Chekov, not some wild aquatic fowl.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Gamsters of Triskelion)"
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I am close to experiencing an unaccustomed emotion.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Requiem for Methuselah)"
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I believe I said that, Doctor.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Doomsday Machine)"
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I believe we're experiencing the psychokinetic manifestations of Parmen's delirium.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Plato's Stepchildren)"
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I don't like that. I don't believe I ever did. Now I'm sure.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (All Our Yesterdays)"
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If I were human, I believe the correct response would be 'Go to Hell'
-- Spock's response to a Starfleet summons, "Star Trek VI"
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Logic is a little chirping bird tweeting in a meadow.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (I, Mudd)"
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Mid 20th century Earth. The nation-state called Nazi Germany.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Patterns of Force)"
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Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures Admiral, so I must make a guess.
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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None that I am conscious of... except, of course, Happy Birthday. Surely the best of times.
-- Spock, "Star Trek II"
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On the contrary, Sir... I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Trouble with Tribbles)"
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One damn minute, admiral.
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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Our friend Trefayne is really quite intuitive. You can rest assured that what he says is absolutely correct.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Errand of Mercy)"
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Stay out of this! We're fighting over a woman!
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Turnabout Intruder)"
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Thank you, Mr. Scott.
-- Spock, "Star Trek VI"
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That much is certain.
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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The mid-1990s was the era of your so-called Third World War.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Space Seed)"
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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
-- Spock, "Star Trek II & III"
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They like you very much but they are not the hell your whales.
-- Spock, "Star Trek IV"
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They regard themselves as aliens within their own world, a condition I am somewhat familiar.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Way to Eden)"
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They seemed to have been spared the agony of your first three World Wars, doctor.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Bread and Circuses)"
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They toil not, neither do they spin. But they seem to eat a great deal.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Trouble with Tribbles)"
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Those who receive rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Cloud-Minders)"
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Verbose, isn't he?
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Who Mourns for Adonais)"
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Very bad poetry, Captain.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Catspaw)"
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We must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Mark of Gideon)"
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We simply must accept the fact that Captain Kirk is no longer alive.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Tholian Web)"
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Well I'm relieved to hear your prognosis, Mr. Scott. Is the doctor there with you, or will I find him in engineering?
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Lights of Zetar)"
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What purpose can be served by the death of our friend except to bring you pleasure?
-- Spock (The Vians), "Star Trek, (The Empath)"
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What you want is irrelevant. What you have is what is at hand.
-- Spock, "Star Trek VI"
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You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (Amok Time)"
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Your logic was impeccable, Captain. We are in great danger.
-- Spock, "Star Trek, (The Changeling)"
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Bridge, this is the captain. How can you have a yellow alert in spacedock?
-- Captain Styles, USS Excelsior, "Star Trek III"
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Alright! We're lost! But we're making good time.
-- Sulu, "Star Trek V"
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I think we ought to give room service another call. That coffee's taking too long.
-- Sulu, "Star Trek, (The Enemy Within)"
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Whoever he is, he sure talks gloomy.
-- Sulu, "Star Trek, (Wolf in the Fold)"
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With an arm full of this stuff, I wouldn't be afraid of a supernova!
-- Sulu, "Star Trek, (Wolf in the Fold)"
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Rock, fire, sky, and water are the four basic elements of the universe.
-- Talur, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Thine Own Self)"
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You don't rank me and you don't have pointed ears so just get off my neck.
-- Lt Tormolen, "Star Trek, (The Naked Time)"
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I'm not "being apprehensive" Tuvok. I'm just nervous as hell.
