Star Trek Quotes

Star Trek Original Series

    • Romulan Commander: "Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ... Soon enough for even the praetor's taste." (from Balance of Terror)
    • Spock: "On my planet, to rest is to rest — to cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy, instead of saving it." (from Shore Leave)
    • McCoy: "Leonard McCoy: I'm a doctor, not a coal miner." (from The Empath)
    • "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim." - Kirk
    • "This is delightful! I know you! All of you! James Kirk, captain and friend for many years. And Leonard McCoy, ha-ha, also of long acquaintance. And Uhura, whose name means "freedom." She walks in beauty like the night." - Spock
    • "You know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out." - McCoy
    • "It would be interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining." - Spock

Star Trek Next Generation

    • Data: "I am superior, sir, in many ways. But I would gladly give it up, to be human." (from Encounter at Farpoint)
    • Riker: "No... The name of my ship is the Lollipop." (from The Arsenal)
    • Picard: "In the hands of a con artist fear can be used to motivate obedience, capitulation, the exploitation of innocent people - and that is what I believe has happened here and I intend to prove that." (from Devil's Due)
    • Picard: "Q, you have preceded your own standard on self preoccupation." (from Deja Q)
    • Worf: "Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!" (from Q-pid)
    • Picard: "So, five-card stud, nothing wild... and the sky's the limit." (from All Good Things)
    • "Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours." - The Borg
    • "I've got an idea. How about a phaser? A low-stun setting at just the right moment might do the trick." - LaForge
    • "Humans. I'd have thought by now you would have scampered back to your own little star system." - Q
    • "Wishing for a thing doesn't make it so." - Picard
    • "But this is the court of the year 2079, by which time all 'United Earth' nonsense had been abolished." - Q
    • "Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise." - Riker
    • "Legends...are the spice of the universe, Mr. Data, because they have a way of sometimes coming true." - Picard

Star Trek Deep Space Nine

    • Vash: "It's over Q, I want you out of my life. You are arrogant, you're overbearing and you think you know everything." (from Q-less)
    • Jake: "I need some advice. See, there's this older woman and I think we're perfect for each other." (from Fascination)
    • Sisko: "I finally realized that it wasn't Starfleet that I was trying to get away from. I was trying to escape the pain I felt, after my wife's death." (from The Way of the Warrior)
    • "Commander, there is no careful way to question a Klingon." - Odo
    • "All I ask is a tall ship, and a load of contraband to fill her with." - Quark
    • "I do not smirk--but if I did, this would be a good opportunity." - Worf
    • "There's an old saying, 'fortune favors the bold.' Well, I guess we're about to find out." - Sisko

Star Trek Voyager

    • Janeway: "Mr. Kim, at ease, before you sprain something." (from Caretaker)
    • Tuvok: "I am curious: have the Q always had an absence of manners, or is it the result of some natural evolutionary process that comes with omnipotence?" (from Death Wish)
    • The Doctor: "You're in perfect physical shape, Mr. Paris. You may go ahead and engage in this reckless activity." (from Real Life)
    • Janeway: "There are three things to remember about being a Starfleet captain: keep your shirt tucked in; go down with the ship; and never abandon a member of your crew." (from Dark Frontier)
    • "As appealing as that sounds, I'm a doctor, not a dragonslayer." - The Doctor
    • "You would deny us the choice as you deny us now. You have imprisoned us in the name of humanity yet you will not grant us your most cherished human right - to choose our own fate. You are hypocritical, manipulative. We do not want to be what you are. Return us to the Collective!" - Seven of Nine
    • "If you hear muffled screams, consider that a request for a beam out." - Tom Paris
    • "They've left behind their trivial selfish lives and been reborn with a greater purpose. We've delivered them from chaos into order." - Borg Queen
    • "Harry Kim: Holographic Americans are invading deck 7!" - Harry Kim
    • ""I don't like threats, I don't like bullies, and I don't like you!" - Janeway
    • "Your first command together was less than successful. You are all dead." - Tuvok
    • "Dismissed...That's Starfleet for 'get out.'" - Janeway

Star Trek Enterprise

    • "There are 400 billion stars in our galaxy. We've only explored a tiny fraction of them. We have a lot to do."
    • "Remind me to stop trying to help people."
    • "Up until about 100 years ago, there was one question that burned in every human, that made us study the stars and dream of travelling to them. Are we alone?"
    • "Have you been having daydreams about me?"
    • "You humans claim to be enlightened, yet you still consume the flesh of animals."
    • "How difficult can it be? Up, down, forward, reverse. I'll figure it out."
    • "It can laugh all it wants, the galaxy's not getting any of our bourbon."
    • "They have two settings: stun and kill... It'd be best not to confuse them." - Lt. Reed
    • "Tell me, did your visit to the Xyrillian ship involve any... uh... romance?" - Phlox
    • "I'm not certain what this means but Admiral Forrest asked me to inform you that "Cal beat Stanford seven to three." - Vulcan captain
    • "Dr. Phlox: Place one on your chest and one on your abdomen an hour before going to bed. Their secretions act as a natural sedative." - Phlox
    • "You're obviously unable to have a physical relaionship without developing an emotional attachment." - T'Pol