Best quote from Star Trek - The Original Series:

[Deja Q]

Bones, confronting 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. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine warm decent feeling."

[mtnester]

1. Trouble with Tribbles episode...

Scotty: "The Klingons called you a 'tin-plated, overbearing, swaggering dictactor with delusions of godhood!'"
Kirk: "Is that all?"
Scotty: "No sir, they also compared you with a Denebrian Slime Devil."
Kirk: "I see."
Scotty: "And then they said that you were..."
Kirk: "I get the picture, Scotty."



I guess that was more like an exchange...sorry

I loved Scotty :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. "And that's when you hit him?"

"Oh, no, sir, you told us not to fight."

"Well, when did you hit him?"

"He insulted the Enterprise, sir!"

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. 'Well, sir

This was a matter of pride."

:rofl:




Technical journals technical journals technicaljournalstechnicaljournalstechni...

[chknltl]

43. "Called her a garbage scow" (if memory serves...) nt

[mtnester]

68. Yep...

Scotty - as of this posting, his Legacy Flight into space is projected (been pushed back) to some time in the first quarter of 2007.

I wish he would have been able to go when he was still alive.

[Twillig]

78. No, Incorrect!

The Klingon at first said that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage (garbage scow). But then apologized for his mistake. He then said the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage.

So Scotty hit him.

Too right!

[Orsino]

77. Once at a gaming convention...

...a charity auction prize was participation in a Star Trek RPG reenactment of the bar fight, alongside players James Doohan and Walter Koenig. The word is that Doohan remembered all his lines.

[Book Lover]

2. Best quote in context:

"Roger Corby was never here"

Best quote out of context: "(War) is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill ... today!"

on edit: formatting correx

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Mine

Bones, in "The City on the Edge of Forever":



"YOU! What planet is this?"



:rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

5. Murderers! Thieves!! Assasins!....nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. With a bit of liberal editing...

"Good cranial development... right down to the cement beams."

:rofl:

[Az]

4. Na, I have two faves

I used this one recently.

McCoy: I've found that good seldom triumphs over evil unless good is very good.

THe other is my more frequently used quote and comes from one of the Mudd episodes.

Spock: Logic is a lovely boquette of flowers that smells bad.

[Book Lover]

9. Careful

"... unless good is very careful."

How red-faced should I be over this detailed knowledge of the dialogue..... :-)

[Az]

10. I was trying to fact check that one cuz I knew it was wrong

But I couldn't find it anywhere. Now I know where to go when I need to know any minutia about Star Trek. One should always know where their Uber Geeks are at all times. They are a valuable asset.

[Book Lover]

12. Now I'm even more red-faced!!

[YankeyMCC]

13. Harcort Fenton Mudd

the most underrated character in TOS.

[Blue-Jay]

14. HARCOOOOOOORT!

EDIT: I'm such a fucking geek.

[Deja Q]

22. You're lucky. I'm just a geek.

:spray:

[Az]

24. HA!

Captain Harris: Nobody fucks with me!
Mahoney: You must be very lonely.

[Generic Brad]

36. Wasn't he in two episodes?

I always thought they should have made a movie featuring him. Star Trek: The Wrath of Mudd.

[Az]

38. Yep

Mudd was one of the most underrated characters in the original series. He did manage to get two episodes and even an animated series episode. So he got some cred but I still say he needed more.

[JVS]

57. Mudd is too much of a Pimp to have wrath

[Az]

60. Ya know, I think Mudd may have been the first TV pimp

Can anyone fact check that?

[JVS]

61. Space Pimp: the new TV series!

[Deja Q]

69. WOuld have been three...

But Roger C Carmel (Mudd) was unavailable to do "The Trouble with Tribbles".

Carmel also died in the early 1980s. :(

[Blue-Jay]

6. Brain and brain! What is brain?

or...

Keptin!

or...

I AM KIROK!!!


(I could do this all day)

[deucemagnet]

80. LOL!

I really believed her when she delivered that line, too. :rofl:

[YankeyMCC]

11. That is a good one

There's also "Grrrkkkzzzkkkrrr" Gorn in Arena
:)

[yurbud]

66. you can see the rocks where he fought the gorn from one of the freeways here.

[Twillig]

81. The Vasquez rocks

I was searching for a pic for a DU post of 'Vasquez' from the movie Aliens at the point where she opens up with her pulse rifle and yells (famously) 'Let's Rock!!'

neato. I'd have never have known the name.



http://www.answers.com/topic/vasquez-rocks

[yurbud]

88. I went climbing around on them, it's pretty cool.

[Twillig]

79. "I weary of the chase. "

"I shall be merciful and SWIFT!

[spillthebeans]

15. hmmm

Leonard McCoy: The release of emotions, Mr. Spock, is what keeps us healthy-- emotionally healthy, that is.
Spock: That may be, Doctor. However, I have noted that the healthy release of emotion is frequently very unhealthy for those closest to you.


thank you wiki http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series

[Alexander]

16. McCoy: "I could've saved her, Jim! Do you know what you just did??"

Spock: "He knows, Doctor. He knows."

Quite possibly the saddest, and best, part in the entire Original Series.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Spock betrayed a bit of emotion

with his inflection in the second "He knows."



I love that ep best of all, though. All kinds of funny lines.

[Alexander]

23. Indeed. Subtleties like that cause me to love Star Trek TOS.

TNG was so heavy-handed and weighed down by technobabble that I have to chime in supporting TOS whenever someone says TNG is the "best ever" Star Trek series.

TOS cranked out (usually) better stories, using obscure actors, on a shoestring budget. And it was brilliant.

[Deja Q]

25. Thank you!!

TNG had a smoother feel to its production, but it's all gloss-coated balsawood. The plots are heavy handed and prachy, smothered in technobabble. TOS may not be glossy, but it's solid oak by comparison.

While TOS has its clunkers and heavyhanded moments as well, TOS remains a rounded storyteller. Not a pseudo-religious emotional soap opera on how to live.

TOS played on the human condition. To compare: The only human in TNG is Commander Data.

Even the quirky ones such as "Bread and Circuses" have a level of intellect often absent in TNG.

TOS was also ahead of its time: Multi-racial, an ensemble piece (the first attempt to be a real ensemble-piece series), treated people wqually, expounded on the human condition without taking sides... highly underrated and often belted because it's "old" or "cheap looking" or "has some hammy acting". The meaning behind the story, and often the acting, is why TOS is less dated than TNG.

This isn't to say I'm pissing on TNG; stories like "The Ensigns of Command", "Booby Trap", "First Contact" (the season 4 episode, not the movie) and a handful of others are more than the sum of their parts. Indeed, Q is one of the few things that makes TNG worthwhile.

[skygazer]

17. I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

From Devil In the Dark. And all the other, "I'm a doctor, not a..." quotes from Bones. :rofl:

[NMDemDist2]

31. that was what Hubby said too

:applause:

[trackfan]

20. Whose engrams?

Daystrom: Mine, of course.


-----------
Brain and brain! What is brain!?
-----------

"Ah, the holding, the touching. Vaal has forbidden this."

"There goes paradise."

[hfojvt]

21. "I am attempting to build a mnemonic memory circuit

using stone knives and bear skins."

"You know what I think? I think this phaser works, and it just blew a hole in that wall. You want me to test my theory out on your head?"

[blogslut]

26. "I'd advise ya ta keep dialin'...

Oxmyx!"

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. 'Right?'

"Check."





"The odds of getting a royal fizzbin are astronomical! Spock, what are the odds of getting a royal fizzbin?"

"I have never computed them."





"Are you afraid of cars, Mr. Spock?"

"Not at all, Captain. It is your driving that alarms me."

[blogslut]

37. yep

I loved the OG Trek. I don't remember quotes so well but I remember the ideas put forth by some of the best sci-fi authors of the time. Good stuff.

[JVS]

58. "Don't knock the Book"

[pokerfan]

27. Favorite quotes from the original series

After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. -- Spock, "Amok Time”

Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business. -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon"

Conquest is easy. Control is not. -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"

Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon”

Each kiss is as the first. -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome"

Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders"

I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. – Spock, "This Side of Paradise"

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose. -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos"

It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six. -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven"

[hedgehog]

28. "Conquest is easy. Control is not."

Why couldn't Bush have been a Trekkie!?!?!

[pokerfan]

29. That's pretty much why it was in the list

[pokerfan]

30. Typical quote from TNG

If we re-align the transverse phase variances to generate a pulse of point twenty-six milicochranes, we should be able to decrease the quantum slipstream." --Geordi LaForge

[petronius]

33. Don't forget insights like: "It's not at all uncommon for humans to feel sad

when a loved one dies." -- Deanna Troi 'Counselor' :eyes:

[pokerfan]

35. Deanna always had a firm grasp of the obvious

Sirtis did have a greak drunk scene in First Contact:

"Look. He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then, it took three shots of something called 'tequila' just to find out that he was the one we're looking for! And I've spent the last twenty minutes trying to keep his hands off me! So don't go criticizing my counseling techniques!"

[Deja Q]

70. Now THAT is worthy of an emmy.

:spray:

Unless she was talking to Data. Or a 7 year old. (Which episode was that from, "The Bonding"?)

[Orrex]

41. You're making a sort of unfair claim, though

In TNG the burst of technobabble was never central to resolving the episode's conflict, nor was it ever the answer to the question contronting the particular episode's central character. The technobabble was window-dressing, a backdrop against which the story is developed; it may have been an important aspect of a plot, but it was never the essential focus of the show. If you can cite an exception I'd be happy to learn of it.

ST:TOS benefits from the fact that it preceded the real awakening of "hard" science fiction among the larger fanbase. Sure, hardcore s/f geeks had thrilled to Clarke and Asimov for decades, but the average tv watcher wouldn't bother with anything more technical than "mercury is liquid at room temperature." Twenty years later, when TOS hit the air, a more technophilic (though not necessarily tech-knowledgeable) audience was waiting for it, and so the show was developed with that in mind. It was also necessary to distinguish Trek (intended as science fiction) from Star Wars (intended as science fantasy). The inclusion of "Heisenberg compensators" and "variable phase inverters" et al is meant to fill this niche which was left entirely empty by the original series.

Some fans of the original may have preferred the don't ask/don't tell attitude toward s/f, but clearly Roddenberry and company decided that a greater nod toward pseudo-technical jargon, and it's inaccurate to caricature the series as being one long string of technobabble.

However, if you'd make that same claim about Voyager, then I'd agree with you.

[lumberjack_jeff]

45. The technobabble came from the guys which had the technobabble job.

The thing I hated most about Voyager was:

Chief Engineer Torres: "Oh My God! We're all gonna die! I can't fix this!"
Captain Janeway: "what if you realign the warp concentrators using the deflector dish in the 15th level Jefferies tube?"
Chief Engineer Torres: "You know, that just might work!"

It points out two things, 1) Torres is a shitty engineer 'cuz she should have know that and 2) Janeway is a shitty captain 'cuz she didn't say "you're fired".

[pokerfan]

63. WTH? I wasn't making any form of claim

Just quoting some silly trecknobabble from TNG. this was a quote thread, right?

You TNG fans are a sensitive lot.

[Orrex]

74. Sensitive? Not at all, if the criticism is well founded

And a citation of technobabble seems very much like a criticism, whether in a quote-thread or otherwise.

If I've misread your intent, then I apologize, but my point still stands. And if you do want to criticize Voyager, I'm right there with you.

[pokerfan]

75. Seriously

I am not getting dragged into a TOS/TNG fight.

I cited some TNG treknobabble in a ST quote thread.

You came back with, "In TNG the burst of technobabble was never central to resolving the episode's conflict, nor was it ever the answer to the question contronting the particular episode's central character."

I never made any such statement.

Let it go.

Please.


Besides, Babylon 5 was better than any Trek.

:) :)

[Orrex]

84. But you made up your "quote," and in so doing added commentary

Your commentary--a caricature of how you perceive TNG's technobabble--is the criticism that I'm addressing.

I'll let it go now.

And B5 was fantastic IMO except for the plot, characters, acting, and effects...

[pokerfan]

86. Whatever, dude

Get a life.

Seriously.

[jobycom]

49. I'll match this episode against anything from the original series:

Picard: 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 diffcult and too hazardous. With an army of Datas, all disposable, you don't have to think about their welfare, or you don't think about how they feel. Whole generations of disposable people."
Guinan: "You're talking about slavery."
Picard: "I think that's a little harsh."
Guinan: "I don't think that's a little harsh, I think that's the truth. That's the truth that we have obscured behind...a comfortable, easy euphemism. 'Property.' But that's not the issue at all, is it?"

----
PICARD: A single Data, and forgive me Commander, is a curiosity, a wonder even. But thousands of Datas-- isn't that becoming a race? And won't we be judged by how we treat that race?

-------

PICARD: You see he has met two of your three criteria for sentience. What if he meets the third, consciousness, in even the slightest degree? What is he then? I don't know. Do you? Do YOU ? Well that's the question you have to answer. Your Honor, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth, for all time. Now sooner or later this man (MADDOX) or others like him will succeed in replicating Commander Data. Your ruling today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of people we are, what he is destined to be. It will reach far beyond this courtroom and this one android. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty. Expanding them for some, savagely curtailing them for others. Are you prepared to condemn him, and all those who come after him, to servitude and slavery? Your honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life -- well there it sits. Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well here's your chance, make it a good one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. He's dead, Jim.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. You can hate me later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GA1zCH0tvc

:7

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. How about if I hate you now?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Yeah, that'll work

[lumberjack_jeff]

42. Too much smack talking about TNG.

I liked it. So there.

Alien: (pointing at a liquor bottle) "what is that?"
Mr Scott: "It's.... It's green"

:)

[Deja Q]

71. I made a separate thread for TNG as it's a separate series...

Must've gone into the archives, but oh well...

[Skittles]

44. Sir, there is a multi legged arthripod crawling on your shoulder.(Spock)

yes INDEED

[Broken_Hero]

47. another one...

"I'm trying to thank you, you pointy earred hobgoblin!"-Bones, to Spock.

[tuvor]

48. "Let's get the hell out of here."

Ooooh, Cap'n Kirk swoooooore!

:wow:

[Downtown Hound]

50. KHAAAAANNNN! KHAN!

Okay, I know it's from one of the movies but still...best line ever.

[Broken_Hero]

51. You mean this?? :)

[Downtown Hound]

52. That's the one, but a little more like this:

http://www.khaaan.com/ ;)

[Broken_Hero]

53. Ha, I like yours better....:) nt

[Floogeldy]

54. "Code 2. That's an order."

You figure it out. ;)

[usregimechange]

55. This is the best one, imo

Spock raised one eyebrow in the McCoy's direction. "I would hope you do not frighten the commander too badly with your beads and rattles."

[sakabatou]

56. From the Doomsday Machine

Spock: Random chance seems to have operated in our favor.
Leonard McCoy: In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky.
Spock: I believe I said that, Doctor.

[BreweryYardRat]

59. This one hits close to home.

Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."

Intended to be funny, but when you're me... :(

[Deja Q]

72. That one bothered me too.

TOS is a bit sexist at times; and even Gene Roddenberry eventually admitted as much. (Future ST movies start to remedy the situation by having women make sexist comments about men (e.g. "You boys") or be starship captains (e.g. Star Trek IV).)

Still, considering the original ST pilot was pissed on by the suits for having a female #1 who was intelligent, some writers felt they had to appease the suits at the time. Doesn't make sexism right, but the 1960s was a very different time and place and the original Trek was a daring groundbreaker for MANY reasons. (40 years later and looking back, many wouldn't even know of the circumstances of the 1960s and take today's lifestyle for granted.)

[rockymountaindem]

82. I remember your other thread

Yeah, it seems that way sometimes. I was talking to a friend of mine last night about that very thing. Apparently all my attempts to be nice are interpreted as "desperate". But, I refuse to act like a jerk (which evidently works) to get girls. Doing that would only net me the kind of person I wouldn't want to be with anyway. So, maybe we should both buck up.... oh what am I saying? I've felt like crap all day.

[CanuckAmok]

62. my favourite:

"Goddammit, Checkov, what's with all the florid prose? Can you not just tell a fucking story without all the extra adjectives?"

[Porcupine]

64. "Scotty, beam us up NOW!!"

I loved the fact that despite the fact that getting into the transporters could earn you an involuntary sex change at any time they kept getting into them.

[yurbud]

65. the givers of pain...and delight

[Hardrada]

67. Spock, discussing an antique (to him) pistol

someone has just gotten shot with, "Crude...but effective."

I've used that line a lot in all sorts of contexts.

[yurbud]

90. like a fart joke

[NewJeffCT]

73. Uhura, "Sorry, neither!"

when Sulu (I think) makes a comment to her about being a "fair maiden"

[Coventina]

83. That's what I was going to nominate also! A hearty second from me!!

:thumbsup:

[NewJeffCT]

87. Considering it was from the 60s

Uhura acknowledging that she is not a maiden (i.e. virgin) might have been a bit racy for the day - especially since she had no apparent husband or b/f on the show.

[Orsino]

76. Faux Lincoln:

"There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its ending." ("The Savage Curtain")

[yurbud]

89. I thought you were going to say "What an echanting negress," then apologizes and Uhura says

something about those words not having any impact anymore.

[Connonym]

85. "No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space."

From the movie not the series. And I only like it because I'm a dork from Iowa.

[Montauk6]

91. oh COME ON!!! You're missing the BEST ONE!!!

Hail hail, fire and snow.
Call the angels, we will go.
Far away and far to see,
Friendly angel, come to me.

And coming in second by a hair...

Headin' out to Eden
Yayyyyy brother
Headin' out to Eden,
No more trouble
In my body or my mind,
Gonna live like a king
On whatever I find.
Eat all the fruit
And throw away the rind.
Yayyyyyy brother, yayyy.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

92. "It's only a model."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSaM5gQ9vo