Star Trek Quotes About Technology And Its Impact On Our Lives.

"This woodland pattern is quite popular, Sir. Perhaps because it duplicates Earth so well. Coming here almost makes me feel human myself."
"I didn't believe these simulations could be this real."
"Much of it is real, sir. If the transporters can convert our bodies to an energy beam, then back to the original pattern again."
"Yes, of course. And these rocks and vegetation have much simpler patterns."

—Encounter at Farpoint,
Lt. Cmdr. Data and Cmdr. Riker,
Stardate: 41153.7,
Original Airdate: 28 Sep, 1987.



"Is there something wrong?"
"Wrong? Only that your computer here fixed about the best Martini I have ever had. I just might get to like this place. Let's see if the Braves are on. How do you turn on this teevee?"
"TV?"
"Yeah, the boob tube. I'd like to see how the Braves are doing after all this time. Probably still finding ways to lose."
"I believe he means television, Sir. That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year 2040."

—The Neutral Zone,
Mr. Data, Cmdr. Riker and L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds,
Stardate: 41986.0,
Original Airdate: 16 May, 1988.



"People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We have grown out of our infancy."

—The Neutral Zone,
Captain Picard,
Stardate: 41986.0,
Original Airdate: 16 May, 1988.



"Now, the breakdown of the organic material found on the transporter pad should be identical. Mitochondrial structure fits the general parameters, no change in the nucleotide bases. There's a slight discrepancy in the base pair sequence. Chemically, these are identical. However, the organic sample from the transporter is showing numerous single-bit errors. Like replicated material."

—Data's Day,
Dr. Crusher,
Stardate: 44390.1,
Original Airdate: 7 Jan, 1991.



"The people were willing to accept your social reforms because they believe in you, Chancellor. But there are many who say we have gone far enough. All these new ideas, new technology, and now space travel? It confuses them, frightens them."
"I will not allow them to remain in the dark ages. The warp program will proceed as you have outlined, Mirasta. And then we will slow down, Krola, to let everyone catch their breath. Including you."

—First Contact,
Security Minister Krola and Chancellor Durken,
Stardate: Unknown,
Original Airdate: 18 Feb, 1991.



"We learn as much as possible about a planet before we make first contact."
"...One of the things we monitor are your broadcast signals, your journalism, your music, your humour. Try to better understand you as a people."
"I hate to think how you would judge us based on our popular music and entertainment."
"Indeed. We do get an incomplete picture, which is why we also do surface reconnaissance."
"You've had people on our planet?"
"For several years."
"These are specialists. Highly trained observation teams, superficially identical to yourselves and therefore able to blend naturally into your society. You see, we have discovered that the most hazardous aspect of these missions is a lack of sufficient information."

—First Contact,
Capt. Picard, Cllr. Troi and Science Minister Mirasta Yale,
Stardate: Unknown,
Original Airdate: 18 Feb, 1991.



"So there're a privileged few who serve on these ships, living in luxury and wanting for nothing. But what about everyone else? What about the poor? You ignore them."
"Poverty was eliminated on Earth a long time ago, and a lot of other things disappeared with it. Hopelessness, despair, cruelty."
"Young lady, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor, where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace and power is an end unto itself. And you're telling me that isn't how it is anymore?"
"That's right."
"Well, maybe it's worth giving up cigars for after all."

—Time's Arrow, Part II,
Samuel Clemens and Counselor Troi,
Stardate: 46001.3,
Original Airdate: 21 Sep, 1992.



"With all due respect, sir, I've been doing this for twenty two years and I haven't lost anybody yet."
"Yes, but you realise if these imaging scanners are off even a thousandth of a percent."
"That's why each pad has four redundant scanners. If any one scanner fails, the other three take over."
"Reg, how many transporter accidents have there been in the last ten years? Two? Three? There are millions of people who transport safely every day without a problem."

—Realm of Fear,
Chief O'Brien and Reginald Barclay,
Stardate: 46041.1,
Original Airdate: 28 Sep, 1992.



"Laddie, I was drinking Scotch a hundred years before you were born and I can tell you that whatever this is, it is definitely not Scotch."
"I believe I may be of some assistance. Captain Scott is unaware of the existence of Synthehol."
"'Syn-thehol'?"
"Yes, sir. It is an alcohol substitute now being served aboard starships. It simulates the appearance, taste and smell of alcohol. But the intoxicating affects can be easily dismissed."

—Relics,
Montgomery Scott and Mr. Data,
Stardate: 46125.3,
Original Airdate: 12 Oct, 1992.



"Years ago, Starfleet used a technology to assist deep space travel that kept the body in stasis, but provided a mental landscape to keep the mind active and alert."
"That sounds like a pretty good way to wait out a planetary disaster."
"For the moment, it's as good a theory as any."
"So what went wrong? Why are they still in there?"

—The Thaw,
Capt. Janeway, Kes and Ensign Kim,
Stardate: Unknown,
Original Airdate: April 29 1996.



"It took me six months to scrounge up enough titanium just to build a four-meter cockpit. How much did this thing cost?"
"The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the twenty-fourth century."
"No money? That means you don't get paid?"
"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. Actually we're rather like yourself and Dr. Cochrane."

—Star Trek: First Contact (1996),
Lily Sloane and Capt. Picard,
Stardate: 50893.5



"That's how they procreate. They salvage the dead of other races. I was given a Kobali name and placed with a family to help me acclimate."

—Ashes to Ashes,
Ensign Lyndsay Ballard,
Stardate: 53679.4,
Original Airdate: 1 March 2000.



"That original transporter took a full minute and a half to cycle through. Felt like a year. You could actually feel yourself being taken apart and put back together. When I materialized, first thing I did was lose my lunch. Second thing I did was get stone drunk. Trick I learned from Zefram Cochrane. Now there was a man who knew the benefits of a little liquid courage."

—Daedalus,
Dr. Emory Erickson,
Original Airdate: 14 Jan, 2005.

 

Was interesting tech hint involving helium. Just cant remember.