Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Ford: What's with the whole two-head thing?
Zaphod: Oh, yeah, apparently you can't be president with a whole brain.

Which version is that from?

(2005)The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." - HAL 9000 - 2010 (1984)

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Janeway: Seven found a Starfleet security code embedded in the transmission... yours.

Kim: I'm telling you, I didn't send it.

Not yet. The transmission had a temporal displacement. We believe it originated from the future. Ten, twenty years from now, we can't be sure.

Wait a second. If I sent a message from the future and changed the past, then that future would no longer exist, right? So <sigh>, how could I have sent the message in the first place? Am I making any sense?

My advice on making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Janeway: Seven found a Starfleet security code embedded in the transmission... yours.

Kim: I'm telling you, I didn't send it.

Not yet. The transmission had a temporal displacement. We believe it originated from the future. Ten, twenty years from now, we can't be sure.

Wait a second. If I sent a message from the future and changed the past, then that future would no longer exist, right? So <sigh>, how could I have sent the message in the first place? Am I making any sense?

My advice on making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try.

Sounds like good advice.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Not exactly a quote, but who recognizes this poker hand?

Left: 8 10 J 7
Across: A 7 4 J
Right: Q Q 2 8
Dealer: 4 9 6 9

Who were the players? And after the hole cards were revealed (although not to the viewers), who won?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Maj(Ret)/Sen(Ret) John Glenn, the 1st American Astronaut to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7, a Mercury Capsule.

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job. - Capt. Katherine Janeway

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Uhh, guys, the, uh, red thingy is coming toward the green thingy... and I think we're the green thingy!
- Guy Fleegman, Galaxy Quest

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Spock's Brain wrote:

Scott: Captain, that power we picked up above - we're gettin' closer.
Captain James T. Kirk: A lot of it?
Scott: Enough to push this planet out of orbit.
Captain James T. Kirk: What source?
Scott: Either a nuclear pile a hundred miles across or...
Captain James T. Kirk: Or what?
Scott: Ion power.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Finally landing after over half a day in parking orbit at Einstein:

You know, Pally, sometimes being a hologram can be a real pain in the asymmetric photons. - Vic Fontaine

Let me tell you something about hew-mons, Nephew. They're wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time, and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon. - Quark

Both from DS9: The Siege of AR-558

Trivia quiz: where did that designation come from?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

"A fresh cup of really hot tea."

Relevance? I just watched Star Trek Animated: Bem in which Arex mentions Brownian motion.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

"I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe. Other stars, other planets, and eventually, other life.
A supernova. Creation itself. I was there. I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment.
And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull.
With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum.
With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays, and I want to I want to smell dark matter.
Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to I have to conceptualise complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language.
But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.
I'm a machine.
And I could know much more.
I could experience so much more, but I'm trapped in this absurd body.
And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way."

- John Cavil, Cylon Model Number One

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"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."

-- John Hurt when talking to The Moment, disputing his title as The Doctor in The Day of the Doctor (23 November 2013)

You know what? I shouldn't be listening to details about the future. - Capt. Janeway

Oh, the almighty Temporal Prime Directive. Take my advice. It's less of a headache if you just ignore it. - Adm. Janeway

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Vash: Forget it, Quark. I'm going back to Earth.
Quark: Have it your way.
Q: An abysmal place.
Vash: Tartarus 5?
Q: Earth. Oh, don't get me wrong. A thousand years ago, it had character. Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Watergate. Now it's just mind-numbingly dull.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?"

"I don't know, I didn't listen.”

Dukat: Captain, are you aware there's a Klingon on your bridge?

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Quark: [pulls out a bottle and pours into a glass] I want you to try something for me. Take a sip of this.
Garak: What is it?
A Human drink. It's called root beer.
Ah, I don't know, I uh...
Come on... Aren't you just a little bit curious?
[Garak sighs, picks up the glass, sips] MM! [jerks his head back, quickly puts glass down again]
What do you think?
It's vile!
I know. It's so bubbly, and cloying, and happy.
Just like the Federation.
But you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
It's insidious.
Just like the Federation.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

All I ask is a tall ship, and a load of contraband to fill it with. - Quark

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

"Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou were going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life."

:: Romulan Imperator Varcus Aurelius:
:: Star date: 161-180

(From his lost annals and meditations on purging oneself of Earthling life forms, their dirty habits and the effects of vulgar Rap and su-Rock on Romulan youth.)

Wisdom for sure.