“At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time... the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They’ve already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys! This may even be the turning point of the entire war! There’s even a “Welcome to the Fight”…
“It’s ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know the first rule of flying is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I’m about to say”
‘I do, but I like to hear you say it’
“Love. You can learn all the math in the verse, but if you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she will shake you…
This isn’t the best quote by any measure, but it is a classic and somewhat poignant...
“I am Groot.”
“No boom today”
Something I seldom say to a customer, Jim. In this galaxy, there’s a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don’t destroy the one named Kirk.
“No-one manages poor Zathras, you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Sometimes talks to walls, or talks to ceilings. But dirt is closer.”
I really wanted to do “Luminous beings are we et. al” but it seemed a little too obvious, and anyway recent events have kind of strained my faith on that front, so I’ll go with:
“Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”
“Cannot run out time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool!
Proof that Star Trek V: The final frontier wasn’t the worst one is that it was a thematically strong story:
A few favorites from Babylon 5:
Picard: Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One,…
*Looks upward and raises fist above. Slowly closes eyes*
Hot Dog: “Well this oughta be different.”
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it…
Saw a pic of this earlier (the third pic up from bottom or similar shot) — don’t know where. It had the best caption, though:
