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What's the best dialogue in your opinion? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by Guildo@feddit.de to c/startrek@startrek.website
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For me it is the dinner-scene in "the undiscovered country".

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

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[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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: "Why doesn't it feel like that..."

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

[–] hallettj 6 points 1 year ago

One of my favorites is from Sisko, but I guess this one is more of a soliloquy than a dialogue,

The trouble is Earth! On Earth, there is no poverty, no crime, no war. You look out the window of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. Well it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise! Out there, in the Demilitarized Zone, all the problems haven't been solved yet! Out there, there are no saints! Just people! Angry, scared, determined people, who are going to do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not!

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

"What does God need with a starship?"

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"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