• SSTF
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    Star Trek 6 is really good.

    Two exchanges I always liked not from ST6:

    DS9, It’s Only A Paper Moon:

    “When the war began… I wasn’t happy or anything, but I was eager. I wanted to test myself. I wanted to prove I had what it took to be a soldier and I saw a lot of combat. I saw a lot of people get hurt. I saw a lot of people die. But I didn’t think anything was going to happen to me. And then, suddenly Dr. Bashir is telling me he has to cut my leg off. I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. If I could get shot, if I could lose my leg, anything can happen to me, Vic. I could die tomorrow. I don’t know if I’m ready to face that. If I stay here, at least I know what the future is going to be like.”

    “You stay here, you’re going to die. Not all at once, but little by little.Eventually, you’ll become as hollow as I am.”

    -Nog and Vic Fontaine


    Voyager, Living Witness:

    “ When diplomacy fails, there’s only one alternative: violence. Force must be applied, without apology. It’s the Starfleet way.”

    -Janeway


    Obviously very different reasons that I like each.

  • Jean-Luc Skywalker
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    This one from DS9: Rocks and Shoals has always stuck with me.

    Sisko: And when they’ve reached this point, we’ll have them in a crossfire.

    Gordon: They won’t have a chance.

    Garak: That is the point. In case you’ve forgotten, we’re in a war.

    O’Brien: There are rules, Garak, even in a war.

    Garak: Correction. Humans have rules in war. Rules that tend to make victory a little harder to achieve, in my opinion.

    Gordon: So we just shoot them down?

    Neeley: They wouldn’t hesitate if the situation was reversed.

    Nog: But we’re not the Jem’Hadar. It is our duty to —

    Sisko: THIS ISN’T A VOTE!

    (stunned, everyone turns and looks at Sisko)

    Sisko: The decision’s mine. And Mister Garak is right. We are at war. Given the choice between us or them, THERE. IS. NO. CHOICE. Let’s move out.

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    SNW S01E04

    Context is important on this one, but even without the rest of the episode around it I still really like it.

    Spock: “The lower decks are beginning to buckle.”

    Noonien-Singh, urgently: “The evacuation isn’t complete there’s still crew down there!”

    Pike, with intensity: “Get them out.”

    Spock: “Decks are collapsing, if we do not seal them off now loss of pressure could spread to the whole ship.”

    Pike, pained resignation: “…Seal the bulkheads.”

    Noonien-Singh: “Structural collapse on deck 22, we’ve lost one crew person.”

    Spock, to Pike: “You made the logical choice…”

    Pike, to Spock, quietly: “Why doesn’t it feel like that?”

    Spock, to Pike: “For the same reason you made it: because you value life.”

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    Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden.

    Uhura: Sorry, neither.

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    Some good examples here. I’d just mention a few other memorable dialogue scenes:

    • all the scenes of McCoy with Spock’s Katra in ST:III, including lines like “Yes, Genesis! How can you be deaf with ears like that?” and “Where’s the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot? If I wanted a ride home, would I be trying to charter a space flight?”
    • in Star Trek IV, the scene with Kirk and Spock in Gillian’s pickup, with Nimoy doing his best Gracie Allen impression. Also, the “No dipshit” bit in the restaurant.
      • @[email protected]
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        Nimoy was a very funny guy! Great comedy instincts! You get another tiny glimpse of it with Spock’s line “I’ve been dead before” in ST:VI. It’s almost a throwaway, and said without emotion, but it’s pretty funny!

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          My favourite deadpan funny line delivery of Nimoy’s is this exchange from The Wrath of Khan:

          Kirk: I would not presume to debate you.
          Spock: That is wise.

  • @reddig33
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    I would agree about the dinner scene. I also think the ST II genesis debate between Spock, Bones, and Kirk is great. I especially like Bones’ lines comparing God making the world in seven days to man’s hubris of the genesis device.

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    “Well double dumb ass on you!”

    –Captain James T. Kirk

    Seriously though there are so many scenes with Picard laying down some wisdom that it is difficult to pick one. I suppose I would go with:

    “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life.”

    –Captain Jean Luc Picard