Reasons Why Star Trek is Awesome.Just For Fun
"Mr. Spock, you said a while ago that there were always alternatives."
"Did I? I may have been mistaken."
"Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that." - Chief Medical Officer McCoy & Spock, 'Galileo Seven'
"I made an error in my computations."
"Oh? This could be an historic occasion." -Spock & Dr. McCoy, 'Tomorrow is Yesterday'
"Now you're starting to sound like Spock."
"If you're gonna get nasty, I'm gonna leave." - Captain Kirk & Dr. McCoy, 'Tomorrow is Yesterday'
"I need your advice."
"Then I need a drink." -Spock & Dr. McCoy, 'Obsession'
"You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock."
"That is very kind of you, Captain!" - Capt. Kirk & Spock, 'Return of the Archons'
"Must we?"
"It's faster than walking."
"But not as safe."
"Are you afraid of cars?"
"Not at all, Captain. It is your driving that alarms me." - Spock & Capt. Kirk, 'A Piece of the Action'
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********* Star Trek The Next Generation ***********
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"As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated. And even 'missed' when absent. When something once expected is no longer there." -Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Legacy'
"It's just that 'our mental pathways have become accustomed to you.'"
"I am fond of you as well, Commander. And you too, Counselor." -Cmdr. Riker & Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Time's Arrow Part I'
"'The anomaly...my ship...my crew...' I suppose you're worried about your fish, too." -Q (to Captain Picard)
"You know, Wesley should really be doing this on his own."
"But he needs his study time."
"Huh, I can't believe you fell for that." -Lt.Cmdr. Geordi LaForge & Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'The Icarus Factor'.
"Jean-Luc, it's wonderful to see you again. How about a big hug?"[Puts his feet up on Picard's desk] "Well don't just stand there. Say something."
"Get out of my chair." -Q and Captain Picard
"I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan!"
"No, sir. I am an android."
(grunts) "Almost as bad..." -Admiral McCoy to Lt. Commander Data, 'Encounter at Farpoint.'
[talking about Data training his cat]
"Unfortunately, I have been less than successful."
"I've got an idea. How about a phaser? A low-stun setting at just the right moment might do the trick."
"Geordi, I cannot stun my cat."
"I was kidding, Data." -Lt.Cmdr. Data & Lt.Cmdr Geordi LaForge,
"Present context, what did she mean by 'bust him up'?"
"In her own way, Dr. Pulaski was instructing you to take the shortest route to victory."
"As opposed to what?" - Data and Counselor Troi, ' Peak Performance'
"No. I was playing only for a standoff – a 'draw.' While Kolrami was dedicated to winning, I was able to pass up obvious avenues of advancement and settle for a balance. Theoretically, I should be able to challenge him indefinitely."
"Then you have beaten him."
"A matter of perspective doctor. In the strictest sense I did not win."
(Group together) "Data!"
"...I busted him up." -Data & Dr. Pulaski, ' Peak Performance'
"We are more alike than unlike, my dear captain. I have pores. Humans have pores. I have fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me, do I not... leak?" -Lt. Commander Data, 'The Naked Now.'
"Data, what are you doing?"
"Appoliogies Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am- uh... stuck."
"Then get unstuck and continue with the briefing."
"Yes, sir. That is what I am trying to do, sir. But the... solution... alludes me." -Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lt. Commander Data (who is caught in a Chinese finger trap.)
"It's elementary, my dear Riker... sir." -Lt. Commander Data, 'The Lonely Among Us'
"It was probably unwise of us to attempt to place a human colony in this area. Of course, there are three thousand four other planets in this star cluster in which we could have colonized. The largest -- and closest --"
"Data! Don't babble."
"Babble, sir? I'm not aware that I ever "babble", sir. It may be that from time to time I have considerable information to communicate, and you may question the way in which I organize it --"
"Please -- organize it into brief answers to my questions. We have very little time. Do they...accept our presence at their planet?"
"Undecided, sir."
"..."
"..."
"Data...please...feel free to volunteer any important information." - Lt. Commander Data and Captain Picard, 'Justice.' ST:TNG
"My hair does not require trimming, you lunkhead."
"What?"
"My hair does not require trimming, y--"
"Lunkhead?"
"I am experimenting with friendly jibes and insults. It was not meant as a serious disparagement."
"Well... Just don't try it on the captain."
"No." -Lt.Cmdr. Geordi LaForge & Lt.Comdr. Data, 'Data's Day'
"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause." -Lt.Comdr. Data, 'Data's Day'
"Q!"
"But I feel like celebrating!"
"I DON'T!" -Captain Picard and Q, in response to lit cigars and the mariachi band
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Humanity
"I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert. - Lt. Cmdr. Data, 'Hero Worship'
"I watch them, and I can do the things they do, but I will never feel the emotions. I'll never know love."
"It is a limitation we must learn to accept, Lal."
"Then why do you still try to emulate humans? What purpose does it serve except to remind you that you are incomplete?"
"I have asked myself that, many times, as I have struggled to be more human. Until I realized, it is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards."
"You are wise, father."
"It is the difference between knowledge and experience." -Lal and Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'The Offspring'
"I chose to believe that I was a person, that I had the potential to become more than a collection of circuits and subprocessors. I took a leap of faith." -Lt. Commander Data, 'The Rightful Heir'.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." -Captain Picard to Data, ' Peak Performance'
"Friendly insults and jibes- another form of human speech that I am attempting to master. In this case with the help of Commander Geordi LaForge. I consider Geordi my best friend." -Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Data's Day'
"You're worried about Geordi aren't you?"
"I am an android; it is not possible for-"
"...you to feel anxiety."
"Starfleet personnel have vanished. Others may be at risk. We must do the best we can to find out why. However, I am... strongly motivated to solve this mystery." -Dr. Crusher & Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Identity Crisis'
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"The risks aboard a starship are accepted by all who serve. But I have never failed to observe a deep emotional response to the loss of a comrade. It is at times like this that I greatly miss the ability to share human feelings." -Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Data's Day'
"Goodbye, Data..."
"Goodbye... Father." - Dr. Soong & Data, calling his creator Father for the first and only time as was dieing., 'Brothers'
"If being human is not simply a matter of being born flesh and blood - if it is instead a way of thinking, acting and...feeling, then I am hopeful that one day I will discover my own humanity... Until then, Cmdr. Maddox, I will continue learning, changing, growing, and trying to become more...than what I am." -Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Data's Day'
"What are you looking at?"
"I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth, that you really are Human."
"It's the ghastly truth, Mr. Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of them."
"An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be." -Q & Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Deja Q'
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"Data, why are you laughing?"
"I do not know. But it was a wonderful... feeling." -Lt.Cmdr. Geordi LaForge and Lt.Cmdr. Data, 'Deja Q'
"There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions, no pain – and yet you covet those qualities of Humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you, you're a better Human than I." -Q to Data, 'Deja Q'
Civil Rights
"Consider that in the history of many worlds there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do, because it's too difficult or too hazardous. And an army of Datas, all disposable? You don't have to think about their welfare; you don't think about how they feel. Whole generations of disposable people."
"You're talking about slavery."
"I think that's a little harsh."
"I don't think that's a little harsh, I think that's the truth. But that's a truth that we have obscured behind a... comfortable, easy euphemism. ' Property.' But that's not the issue at all, is it?" -Guinan and Captain Picard, 'Measure of a Man.'
"Now tell me, commander, what is Data?"
"I don't understand."
"What is he?"
"A machine."
"Is he? Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"You see, he's met two of your three criteria for sentience. So, what if he meets the third, consciousness, in even the smallest degree? What is he then? I don't know. Do you? (to Riker) Do you? (to Louvois) Do you?" -Captain Picard and Commander Maddox in court deciding if Data should have the rights of a sentient being, 'Measure of a Man.'
"There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge they are sentient, but ignore their personal liberty and freedoms. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I am his captain." - Picard to Admiral Haftel (after Haftel orders Data to turn over Lal, his android daughter to Starfleet Command for scientific research), 'The Offspring'
"Then he is questioning my ability as a parent."
"In a manner of speaking..."
"Does the Admiral have children, Sir?"
"I believe he does. Why?"
"I am forced to wonder how much experience he had as a parent when his first child was born." - Data and Picard
Morality
"There are no options. The Prime Directive is not a matter of... degrees, it is an absolute."
"I have a problem with that kind of rigidity. It seems callous, and even a little cowardly."
"Doctor, I'm sure that is not what the lieutenant meant but in a situation like this, we have to be cautious. What we do today, may profoundly affect the future. If we could see every possible outcome..."
"... we'd be Gods, which we are not. If there is a cosmic plan, is it not the height of hubris to think we can or should interfere?" -Lt. Worf, Dr. Pulaski, Captain Picard, and Commander Riker {discussing how to proceed after Data's revelation that he's been in contact with an alien species who were previously unaware of other life off-world.], ' Pen Pals'
"I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings, those longings, all of my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need, is your understanding. And your compassion. We have not injured you in any way. And yet we are scorned and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh. We complain about work. And we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about the future. And we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other - that is what we do. And for that we are called misfits, and deviants and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?" -Soren,'The Outcast'
"I suspected you would attempt to operate the interface alone."
"Did you?"
"I am familiar enough with your behavior patterns to depict certain... decisions."
"Well I guess you know my pretty well."
"You are disobeying the captain."
"I can't just sit back and do nothing when I know that my mother may be down on that planet."
"I can not allow you to endanger your well-being."
"Data... If I leave without knowing for sure then I'll have to live with that for the rest of my life. Wondering if I left her to die... I couldn't do that. That's why I've got to do this."
"I could have you confined to quarters for the duration of the mission."
"If that's what you need to do, Data then do it because nothing short of that is going to stop me from trying to save my mother."
[Data walks over to panel]
"What are you doing ?"
"I will monitor the interface and attempt to keep you safe. I can not have you confined to quarters for something you have not yet done."
"You know we could both get into a lot of trouble for this."
"There is a high degree of probability that you are correct."
"... Thanks Data." -Data & Geordi (disregarding direct orders in an attempt to save Geordi's mother), 'Interface'
********* Star Trek Deep Space Nine ***********
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********* Star Trek Voyager ***********
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********* Star Trek Enterprise ***********
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"They have two settings: stun and kill... It'd be best not to confuse them." -Lt. Reed (regarding phaser pistils)
"You missed T' Pol's latest battle with chopsticks."
"Darn. Dinner and a show." -Captain Archer and Commander Tucker
"I don't like pushing the engines at 110%"
"They are rated for 120"
"My underwear's flame-retardant, but it doesn't mean I want to set fire to myself to prove it." - Commander Tucker to T' Pol.
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********* Star Trek Movies ***********
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"Admiral. There be whales here!" -Scotty ST:IV
"Are you sure now would not be the appropriate time for a colorful metaphor?" -Spock ST:IV
"Hello computer." -Scotty (speaking into a computer mouse in the 1980's) ST:IV
"That green blooded son of a bitch... It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost." -Dr. McCoy
"I like this ship! S'exciting." -Scotty ST:2009
"Who was that pointy-eared bastard?"
"I don't know. But I like him." - Kirk and McCoy ST:2009
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." -McCoy ST:2009
"They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales."
"I suppose they told you that."
"The hell they did." - Spock (attempting to use profanity.)and Dr.Taylor ST:IV
"A keyboard. How quaint." - Scotty ST:IV
Dr. Gillian Taylor: "Do you guys like Italian?"
Kirk: "Yes."
Spock: "No."
Kirk: "Yes."
Spock: "No."
Kirk: "I love Italian."
[looks at Spock]
Kirk: "And so do you."
Spock: "...Yes." -ST:IV
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Pleased
Enjoying The Show
Zeal
Big Grin
