What's the best dialogue in your opinion?

For me it is the dinner-scene in "the undiscovered country".

https://youtu.be/uK2YyfJAdGo?si=FEyTLHzs95mVD2Iv

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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y

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@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

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.

paradox2011@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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."

ieightpi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Fuck I love SNW

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 2y

"What does God need with a starship?"

Mirshe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sulu: I'll protect you, fair maiden.

Uhura: Sorry, neither.

paradox2011@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Haha, that's great 😆

Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

"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

shutz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.
Prouvaire@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

"I love Italian. And so do you." "Yes." My favourite bit in TVH.

shutz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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!

Prouvaire@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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.