10 Star Trek Quotes That Made Us Trekkies

live long and all right okay you you know the drill you know the drill but there are those quotes in Star Trek that we tend to live by the ones that we can mold ourselves around the ones that quite frankly help us to be better people without too much Preamble let's get right into it I'm Sean Ferry for TR culture and here are 10 Star trick quotes that made us trekkies number 10 risk is our business if we're talking making trekkies or trekers if you prefer we first have to go back to the makings of Trek in the original series episode return to tomorrow the crew of the Enterprise get a strange call from an unexplored region of space when they arrive at the source they find a devastated planet and beneath the surface the remnants of a once powerful species who might have seeded life on Earth and a Vulcan they are Sargon and Co the etttin now living as energy in Big Balls asked by the etttin if they might lend out their bodies for a bit Kirk gives his now legendary rousing speech to reassure those crew members assembled in the briefing room what this Starship is all about is by extension what Star Trek and its fandom are all about too Kirk is not asking anyone crew or audience to take Reckless risks without proper consideration but to dare to dare to move beyond our trepidations and to make choices that just might lead to new possibilities knowledge and advancement risk is the business of every Explorer whether you've got a Starship to do it or not risk is also part of Star Trek's very existence no one had to take a punt on that second pilot after all number nine live long and prosper everyone knows and can celebrate the wonderfully ubiquitous live long and prosper all the while practicing the Dex it defying hand gesture that goes with it trekkies around the world are united by four letters alone L LA a p what a Star Trek fan will also know is that there exists a less familiar but equally quotable counterpart to the Vulcan greeting peace and long life there are parts of the internet that suggests that peace and long life was first said in a Muk time but this is not true only live long and prosper and variation on is given in that episode by Spar and toow the first time peace and long life was set on screen was in fact not by a Vulcan at all but a human Dr Miranda Jones played by Diana mald the doctor says the line to spock as a form of goodbye on the transporter pad at the end of is there in truth no Beauty and he then replies live long and prosper of course what also makes the Trey a Trey is not just knowing those Vulcan sayings and Federation standard but being able to give your best live long and prosper in the Vulcan language that transliterated and transcribed is naturally dor hmma first heard in Star Trek the motion picture number eight technno trob bubble the word's got bubble in it so unless we're talking about a brook we're off to a bad start this is also not one quote but an entire quote concept okay now I'm bobbling I think there's been a phase shift in my bilateral katal I'll try re-rooting the primary heisen Fram terminals technobabble also known as technobabble and technos speak really is one of those hate to love love to hate type phenomena writers and actors over the years have certainly had a few non-technical words to say about it and yet there's something so quintessentially Star Trek to a string of vaguely scientific words all on the surface at least a glorious nonsense that can be used to Jive and jargon your way out of anything there are those actors who also get into the fun of it Robert Bardo for example does his delightfully silly series techno Babble al fresco on social media don't pretend you haven't either we've all tried to memorize some of these seemingly interminable lines from the secondary gyro relays and the propulsion field inter Matrix to the there's a thermal inversion in the power coupling quick cross connect to the transfer coil having this unique distinct and intricate shared vocabulary is ultimately part and parcel of what makes us and unites us as truckies to an outsider it may all sound like impenetrable gibberish but to us it's the codified Lexicon with which we communicate about our favorite show number seven there it sits the rather middling to disastrous first and second seasons of Star Trek next Generation still managed to provide us with an episode that was A Cut Above the Rest The Measure of a Man voted number one courtroom Episode by Tre culture and my parole officers in it we got the bicard speech to end all bicard speeches although obviously there were quite a few more after see children Shakespeare is useful after all way back before Bruce Maddox was hitting up the clubs and being murdered he was hopping aboard the endro D looking for an Android to disassemble fortunately for data and much beyond the abilities of madx at the time Captain bicard was there to back him up a hearing is called with poor commander rker shoehorned in to represent Maddox the debate over dat his personhood and freedom whether he is a machine just like any other human or simply just a machine or if he has a soul like we don't know we do are all summarized and put to rest by Picard's closing argument your honor Starfleet was founded to seek out new life well there it sits waiting it doesn't matter what data is it matters that he is what makes Starfleet Starfleet and trees trekkies is to embrace his existence number six we may lose a little weight gentlemen but we won't lose who we are some have found fault with Star Trek Voyager for not making the most of it alone on the other side of the Galaxy premise the void however is one of those episodes in which Starship and crew must truly face The Perils of the delta a quadrant when they are flung into a practically empty pit of space and forced to survive we know Voyager is going to make it or they'd have had to stop at least rename the show right there but it's rarely the what but the how that makes for a good quote Jame Way's Resolute approach that some principles are worth dying for especially those of the Federation and especially if the alternative means theft and murder provides the moral core of the Void we won't lose who we are is a powerful way of saying that for Jane way the ends will never justify the means if we cont this with episodes of Star Trek Enterprise that aired hardly 3 years later but post 9/11 the difference is striking Captain Archer's actions in the expanse were highly divisive at the time and suggested a moral ambiguity the void had avoided Captain Archer would say that I can't try to save Humanity without holding on to what makes me human but he'd already broken that adage in anomaly and would do so again in damage neither Captain has a monopoly on the truth however as trekkies we must as F Scott Fitzgerald would say hold the two opposing ideas is in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function number five I would like the ship to go now warp commands are all the rage they are one way to leave a legacy after all we were teased with newly appointed captain 7even of n's phrase for going forward and for posterity in the last generation and in the broken Circle Spock gave us his hilarious take on the thing that everyone in the chair has I would like the ship to go now had all the required information but it was certainly less laconic than what is undoubtedly the most well known and Best Loved warp catchphrase there has ever been Captain Bard's engage all of us trekkies of a certain age have uttered those two syllables a thousand times probably whilst playing captain and maybe even whilst pretending our house was a Starship throwing in the equally iconic make it so for good measure no just Ju Ju Just Me and Jack okay all right also a fun fact it was Captain Pike who first used engage As Time Warp for a command in the cage Star Trek quotes don't always have to be py or Cosmos shatteringly profound they often just a lot of fun and a fine sense of that also makes for a good treky nevertheless a warp command can still be packed full of feeling Captain Jane ways set a course for home certainly stirred emotion especially the last time it was said number four never tell the same lie twice you might be wondering why this quote of all quotes makes it to this list well first of all it's Garrick and if he hasn't made you a Die Hard trky then there's little else that will second in a contradiction that we should all be able to cope with the opposing morality of deep space 99's crafty tailor is exactly what started is all about and it made us all fall fly in love with the character what the writers and producers of Star Trek Deep Space 9 realized brilliantly is that you can't have a paradise without someone looking in the thing about the observer effect is that it changes the system under observation this was the role of Garrick by challenging the members of Starfleet and the Federation in even their most basic assumptions there couldn't possibly be another meaning to the boy who cried wolf C there he disrupted the entire tale of morality they or rather we like to tell ourselves never tell the same lie twice doesn't make us trekkies because we follow it as advice but because we use it as intended to question critically the systems and structures around us to seek out and embrace different perspectives on life and to trouble the status quo Garrick was always telling the truth by pointing out the lies number three I'd bring an umbrella this is admittedly a personal inclusion on this list it's not what made the writer of this article the wonderful Jack atrey but it certainly helped solidify his fandom there's something to be said for the sheer Beauty in the pragmatism of Captain Janeway even before her alternate future self had somewhat for adopted the approach when you're the only Starfleet captain in thousands of light years theoretical musings can be a luxury but Jane way gives her dose of realism with a heart in Dragon's Teeth the Vadar gedon starts to philosophize to Janeway over the supposedly UNC courageous Final hours of his former wife there was also a degree of Beauty in his rainy day allegory in fact a reworking of a quote from Yamamoto Sonos the hagakure a code to The Way of the Samurai but elegant as it appears Janeway immediately recognizes the false equivalence r brain is one thing plasma bombs are another she adds gedon might feel the principal is the same but the captain is far too smart to ever accept such rigid logic and is already one step ahead i' bring an umbrella the umbrella becomes then a symbol of what it means to be a Star Trek fan janeway's play on gon's extended metaphor reminds us that we can all diffuse a tense situation with kindness with words and wit rather than anger and dietr when it rains that means bringing an umbrella for everyone not just for those you agree with number two well here's one thing you can be sure of Mister if there's ever a time to bring out the phrase Gene roden's vision and to mean it it's now balance of Terror is an episode that in and of itself no doubt made a good number of us lifelong trekkies and continues to do so it gave us our dramatic first look at the romulans but it also laid out in only four lines of dialogue what is Star Trek's moral core the mister Captain Kirk was addressing or dressing down was Lieutenant's Styles once the similarities between the Romulan and Vulcan peoples had been revealed Styles began to direct his misplaced hatred at Spock Kirk's response was unequivocal leave any bigotry in your quarters there's no room for it on the bridge do I make myself clear drean roden's vision of a hopeful future in which no form of intolerance is tolerated and where on the contrary diversity is celebrated is by far the most powerful part of Star Trek as Roden B also once said if we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences to take positive Delight in those small differences between our own kind here on this planet then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there for the best of quotes what makes us trys is that even though we might not have gotten there yet we try to bring Roden B's hope for a better future into as much of the present as we can number one let's make sure that history never forgets the name Enterprise come on how could we not it's the line from the pivotal episode of Star Trek the Next Generation still considered one of the all-time best with yesterday's Enterprise the Next Generation forged out its place in the franchise truly becoming its own entity from that point on and in that sense the contemporary history of Star Trek much as the name Enterprise itself self lies in Picard's prophetic line there's a good reason we were all in tears most of us this presenter included when the doors To Hangar Bay 12 opened it's the ships we trekkies recall just as fondly as the people that populate them why else do we collect with such fervor if not because for us they are imbued with their own character in a very real way our favorite starships are living breathing things as Captain J once put it as illogical as this may sound I feel as close to Voyager as I do any other member of my crew the name Enterprise is now to be found at the Museum on screen and in the real world as much as it is to be handed down as a legacy from and to the Next Generation in our own lives as fans we mirror that process in our Collections and by welcoming each new series and its stars for trekkies never forgetting the history of the franchise means forever looking forward to its future thank you very much everyone we hope you enjoyed this list thank you immeasurably to Jack Kylie who wrote the article that this is based on thank you very much my friend thank you very much as well to all of you please make sure that you are following us on the various socials we are on Twitter and blue guy and Tik Tok that's @ Tre culture on each of those and we are at Tre culture YT on Instagram I am @ Sean feric and Jack is @ Jack kyy 7465625

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Published: Fri Feb 23 2024