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How many people does it take Admiral before it becomes wrong?

 

"Let us not go gently into (unto?) the endless winter night." It's from a song performed by Rush.

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Captain Stark
http://members.aol.com/captaincks/readyroom.html

"The man on the top walks a lonely path. The chain of command is often a noose." Dr. Leonard McCoy --Obsession, Stardate: 3619.2

 

That is the ship I command in my Star Trek club, BTW

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Remember when we used to be explorers? - Capt. Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek Insurrection

"Fluctuat nec mergitur"

(It may fluctuate, but does not sink)

That's the motto of the city of Paris whose emblem shows a ship. If there will ever be a USS Paris, it would be the ideal motto.

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Brain. Brain. What is brain? (Kara the Eymorg, "Spock's Brain")
www.uni-siegen.de/~ihe/bs/startrek/

 

Nightshade NX-79031: "I am brother to dragons and companion to owls." -- Job

Frontier NX-80426:
"A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close
enough to your eye." -- Samuel Grafton

Eclipse NX-94359:
"We confide in our strength without boasing of it, we respect that of
others without fearing it." -- Thomas Jefferson

Sentinel NX-98048:
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has
seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vigilance NX-98602:
"Stand your ground, don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to
have a war, let it begin here." -- John Parker

Endurance NX-98099:
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a
sheep at the head of an army of lions." -- Daniel Defoe

Barrage NX-99021:
"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed." -- W. E. Henley

Destiny: NX-100498
"If I have not seen far, it is because giants stand on my shoulders.
If I have seen far, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." -- Anonymous

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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."

-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
 

can someone remember it exactly, it was by Tennyson.

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With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
irrevocably." Capt. Jean-Luc Picard - The Drumhead

 

"Devide and conquer!"

USS Challenger NCC-71986, Prometheus class.

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"Those that can, do. Those that can't laugh, at those who can do."

- Xander from 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

 

"Don't Tread on Me." -- American Revolutionary Slogan

"And the Serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field." -- Genesis (Used for Covert Operations Vessel USS Serpent)

"...Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the walls, dying, but FIGHTING BACK!" -- Last lines of Claud McKay's poem "If we must die" (Used in USS Invictus)

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*I only SEEM Normal*

 

And for AndrewR Voyager's motto is
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."

I personally think this is one of the best mottos anyone has come up (better than what Defiant got) but as they say, it is already taken.

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How many people does it take Admiral before it becomes wrong?

 

. . . to the stars away from here.
 

- John F. Kennedy

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"A screaming comes across the sky..."

 

I used this one for the Valkyrie:
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon

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"I fart in your general direction!"
-John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[This message was edited by TSN on March 26, 1999.]
 

Possibly because it can be confusing, especially when one considers that the phrase is explaining why Jefferson is opposing the establishment of a state religion in the face of the insistence of the clergy. (The full quote is "They [the clergy] believe that I wil oppose them at every turn, and they are right, for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility towards every tyranny over the mind of man!")

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"I am made from the dust of the stars, the oceans flow in my veins."
-- Anonymous

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-- Eden Phillpots

"God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies."
-- Marshall de Villares

"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
-- Alexander Pope

"In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."
-- John F. Kennedy

"You cannot conquer a free man, the worst you can do is kill him."
-- Robert H. Heinlein

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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."

-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
 

Er...I'll let you guess the source.

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"The record of my unspeakable crimes, in previous lives, in previous times, indelibly stains the pages of history."
--
They Might Be Giants

 

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"That is the exploration that awaits you: Not mapping the stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possiblities of existence." - Q, All Good Things...

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Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded."
Delenn: "What mistake?"
Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."

-- Kalesh Naranek, Last of the Vorlon
www.orc.ca/~jheinbuc/
 

The Defiant's "Tall Ship" seems absurd for the flattest vessel in Starfleet.

The quote I used for the Crusader also gave it the registry number - "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" comes from Act III, Scene I, line 273 of Julius Caesar - the ship was NX-31273. . . 8)
 

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"I am greater than the stars for I know that they are up there and they do not know that I am down here." - William Temple
 

I'm afraid I must have missed that song. However if I get a chance to listen to it I will. I am a big Rush fan and I've been looking for the title to the song I quoted above. I believe its a line from the corus from "Red Tide" from the album Presto.

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Captain Stark
http://members.aol.com/captaincks/readyroom.html

"The man on the top walks a lonely path. The chain of command is often a noose." Dr. Leonard McCoy --Obsession, Stardate: 3619.2

[This message was edited by Captain Stark on March 26, 1999.]
 

"Truth is great and its effectiveness endures." -- Ptahhotpe

"Nothing endures but change." -- Heraclitus

"Rejoice, we are victorious." -- Pheidippides

"Leave no stone unturned." -- Euripides

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." -- Socrates

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them." -- Thucydides

"Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of man." -- Aristophanes

"I'm looking for an honest man." -- Diogenes

"We make war that we may live in peace." -- Aristotle

"Give me where to stand, and I will move the Earth." -- Archimedes

"Fortune favors the brave." -- Virgil

"Nil desperandum." (Never despair) -- Horace

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." -- Seneca (and my personal motto)

"Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched." -- Cervantes

"Night hath a thousand eyes." -- John Lyly (Perfect for a Sec.31 vessel)

"This is the thing that I was born to do." -- Samuel Daniel

"Nevertheless, it moves!" -- Galileo Galilei

"Fight till the last gasp." -- Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, I,i,1

"I'll not budge an inch." -- Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Ind, 1, 113

"Here I stand... I can do no other." -- Martin Luther

"Who wants to live forever?" -- Freddie Mercury

"He lives in fame that dies in virtue's cause." -- Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, I,i,390

"We shall not be moved." -- Anonymous Spiritual

"In wildness is the preservation of the world." -- Thoreau (also Metallica, "Of Wolf and Man")

"It ended... with his body turned to light, A star that burns forever in the sky" -- The Flight of Quetzalcoatl (and a striking similarity to the end of Babylon 5 season 5 )

"Expletive deleted." -- Anonymous

"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes us a little longer." -- U.S. Army Service Forces

"I seen my duty and I done it." -- Anonymous

"When I rest, I rust." -- German proverb

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*I only SEEM Normal*

 

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"I fart in your general direction!"
-John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 

heh heh

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Alamaraine, count to four...
 

"War is a series of errors and blunders. He who errors the least, will emerge victorious."
--Ancient Japanese saying

"We will never surrender."
--Winston Churchill

"Into the mouth of hell, rode the six hundered."
--Charge of the Light Brigade

"Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us."
--Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV

"To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
--Ambrose Bierce

"This above all, to thine own self be true."
--Hamlet, Act I, Scene III

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."
--Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
--Admiral Farragut

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Risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about....that's why we're aboard her!"

 

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"I am greater than the stars for I know that they are up there and they do not know that I am down here." - William Temple
 

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Anyone noticed how the best thing about startrek is the english blokes?
 

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"The record of my unspeakable crimes, in previous lives, in previous times, indelibly stains the pages of history."
--
They Might Be Giants

 

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"They must thinks there's still Romulans on board!"
"They're right!!"

"...we will try." - Federation Council President Jaesh Inyo

"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?" -Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Peace."

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"How many people does it
take before it becomes
wrong? 6,000? 60,000?
How many people does it
take admiral!?!" -Ambassador
Picard during his command
of the Enterprise-E in the
Ba'ku incident.

Well, in the new series I'm writing, Star Trek: Sovereign, which features the adventures of the USS Sovereign, I'm using the following quote:

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
-- David Glasgow Farragut

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Brandon "Enterprise" Grasmick
Commanding Officer, USS Sovereign (NX-74222)

"Captain, the Sona crew are willing to negotiate a cease fire. It may have something to do with the fact that we have 3 minutes of air left."
-- Worf

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
-- In time of war the law falls silent.
 

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages."
William Shakespeare
 

And how about this one for any Miranda used in battle: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter." -Dante Allighieri :-)

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"I fart in your general direction!"
-John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 

USS SPOT
"Felis Cattus, is your taxanomic nomenclenture, carnivorous by nature?"

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Alamaraine, count to four...
 

USS Raven: "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'"

USS Nixon: "I am not a crook"

USS Descartes: "Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum "

USS Jabberwoky: "Beware the Jaberwok, my son..."

USS Minow: "A three hour tour, a three hour tour..."

USS Spock: "Facinating"
 

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"I fart in your general direction!"
-John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 

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What bloke invented signatures?
 

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"I'll bite your legs off!"
-John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

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Starfleet Corps of Engineers-Spacecraft Division
www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9266

"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am."
-Darth Vader, Return of the Jedi
"Everything is proceeding as I have forseen."
-Emperor Palpatine, Return of the Jedi

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I came,I saw,I conquered.

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I did'nt do it.

--Baloo

Borchardt class:
"For a Righteous man shall fall and rise seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity."

--Proverbs 24:16

Swift class:
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

-- Lily Tomlin

Shrike class:
"Night shall be my friend. Darkness my shield."

--Werdan the Heretic (translated from the original)

Questor class:
"I have more than enough answers. What I seek is questions."

-- Taekieh, Vulcan Philosopher

Impudent class:
"Of course you realize - THIS means WAR!"

-- Bugs Bunny

Shenandoah class:
"It is easier to stay out than to get out."

-- Mark Twain

Foundry class:
"If We Can't Fix It, It Ain't Broke"

-- Slogan of late 20th century Electronic Warfare Technicians

Assegai class:
"A boy carrying a cat by the tail is learning something he can learn no other way"

--Mark Twain

Mallard class:
"Never shift a paradigm without a spotter"

-- Cyrano Jones

Merrimac-Virginia class:
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."

-- Robert E. Lee

Royal Nonesuch:
"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."

-- Stephen Leacock

Perseus class:
"We choose to do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

Ptolemy class:
"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

-- O. Henry

S.S. Valiant:
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."

-- Dorothy

Mechano class:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

--Patrick Henry, speech (1775)

Dragon class:
"Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My!"

-- Dorothy, et. al.

Jaguar class:
"Even old New York
was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it I can't say
(Maybe they liked it better that way!)"

-- They Might Be Giants

Los Angeles class:
"Were we to give up half our territory rather than engage in a just war to preserve it, we should not keep the other half long."

--Thomas Jefferson

Longbow class:
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."

-- THOMAS JEFFERSON

Lewis class:
"The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

-- C.S. LEWIS

Growler class:
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

-- Antisthenes

Heston class:
"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

-- Imamu Amiri Baraka

Michelson class:
"Who sees farthest, sees best."

-- Proverb

Gungnir class:
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

-- GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Don't call me a Yank.
I prefer to be referred to as a "Pull with a Sudden Movement".
 

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"And though I once prefered a human being's company, they pale before the monolith that towers over me."
--
They Might Be Giants