Bortus: Without Rudolph's nose, Santa would not have been able to complete his voyage… Christmas would have been ruined if Rudolph had been euthanized at birth as his father wished.
Malloy: ...Yeah, I don't know if that was ever on the table.
#TheOrville
Teal’c: To resist the influence of others, knowledge of oneself is most important.
#StargateSG1
Aruka: My girl, you are good at so many other things. Why do you want to hunt?
Naru: Because you all think that I can’t.
#PreyMovie
Omet’Iklan: I threatened to kill you, but you were still willing to sacrifice yourself to save my life… Why?
Sisko: If you have to ask, you'll never understand.
#StarTrekDS9
Teal’c: We finally have the opportunity to govern with authority and respect. Years ago, that seemed unthinkable. But now we are in a position to help others who are in need of our support and guidance.
Gerak: Why should we help them?
Mitchell: …because it's the right thing to do?
#StargateSG1
Bra’tac: What our people will require is a youthful, vital, leadership, and that is something others are better suited to provide.
Teal’c: You are only as old as you believe yourself to be.
Bra’tac: Talk to me in 50 years.
#StargateSG1
Teal’c: All the hardship, the suffering, the sacrifices we have made for our cause, will end today, one way or another. This battle will decide the fate of all Jaffa.
Aron: This is madness.
Teal’c: So too, at one time, was the very thought of our freedom.
#StargateSG1
Lily: How much did [the Enterprise] cost?
Picard: The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century… The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.
#StarTrekTNG
Odo: I doubt that a shapeshifter will be welcome on Earth at the moment.
O’Brien: No one can hold you responsible for what your people are doing.
Odo: Oh really?
#StarTrekDS9
Benteen: I thought Admiral Leyton ordered you back to Deep Space Nine.
Sisko: He did, but… I don't get much time to spend on Earth, and it is so pleasant here. With a Starfleet officer on every corner, paradise has never seemed so well-armed.
#StarTrekDS9
Odo: Give me the right to set a curfew, let me do more searches of arriving passengers, give me 50 more deputies.
Kira: And this station will be just the way it was during the occupation.
Odo: Say what you like, it was safer then.
Kira: Unless you happened to be a Bajoran.
#StarTrekDS9
Santos: …the framers of our Constitution believed that if the people were to be sovereign and belong to different religions at the same time then our official religion would have to be no religion at all... It wasn't meant to make us comfortable. It was meant to make us free.
#TheWestWing
CJ: The President did not take an oath of party, he took an oath of office.
#TheWestWing
Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
#StarWars
Keeve to Picard: We live in different universes, you and I. Yours is about diplomacy, politics, strategy. Mine is about blankets. If we were to exchange places for one night, you might better understand.
#StarTrekTNG
Adama: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
#BattlestarGalactica
Picard: …villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.
#StarTrekTNG
Picard: We think we've come so far. The torture of heretics, the burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, it suddenly threatens to start all over again.
#StarTrekTNG
Canada deployed its military to help evacuate people affected by wildfires.
US deployed its military to…
Picard: Mr Tarses' grandfather is Romulan, and for that reason his career now stands in ruins. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy?
#StarTrekTNG
Worf: Sir, the Federation does have enemies. We must seek them out.
Picard: Oh, yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
#StarTrekTNG
Someone should start selling bumper stickers for Teslas that say, “I got this after Elon turned on Trump”. 😆
Picard: I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way.
#StarTrekTNG
Worf: [Alexander] knows nothing of our ways!
K'Ehleyr: Our ways? You mean the Klingon ways, don't you?
Worf: He is Klingon!
K’Ehleyr: He is also my son and I am half-human. He will find his own way.
#StarTrekTNG
Jonas: …I'm just more interested in what's out there, through the Stargate.
Daniel: Well, all I can say is whatever problems there are between your planet's nations, they will seem insignificant when you do find out what's going on out there.
#StargateSG1
Mon: The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous... When truth leaves us…we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.
#Andor
Janeway: …centuries ago in most places on Earth, only landowners of a particular gender and race had any rights at all. Over time, those rights were extended to all humans... Our definition of what constitutes a person has continued to evolve.
#StarTrekVoyager
EMH: No matter how terrible the crimes these men committed, it seems wrong to hand them over to be executed. This is a Federation starship, not the Barge of the Dead.
#StarTrekVoyager
O’Neill: What I said was, I didn't trust people without a sense of humour. Especially that boring guy.
Teal’c: Borren.
O’Neill: I know his name. He was boring.
#StargateSG1
Paris: Everyone on Voyager will accept [our daughter] for who she really is.
Torres: That's easy for you to say. You're human… When the people around you are all one way and you're not, you can't help feeling like there's something wrong with you.
#StarTrekVoyager