Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - Quotes

Taglines: Earth. Population Nine Billion. None Human.

Taglines: Resistance is Futile.

Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, lay in a course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for us.

Data: Course laid in, sir.

Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so.

Vulcan: [flashes Vulcan greeting] Live long and prosper.

Zefram Cochrane: [tries to respond with greeting but opts to shake Vulcan's hand instead] Thanks.

Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.

Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?

Data: Zero-point-six-eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.

Borg Queen: [Data fires three quantum torpedoes at the ''Phoenix''; sees torpedoes home in on the ''Phoenix'', but is shocked when they miss] Destroy them. Watch your future's end. DATA!

Data: [in a mocking tone; breaks open the coolant conduit on the warp core and coolant starts to flood the room] Resistance...is futile!

William Riker: Everybody ready to make some history?

Geordi LaForge: Always am.

Zefram Cochrane: I think I forgot something.

Riker: What?

Cochrane: I don't know, probably nothing.

Deanna Troi: [at launch center; starts countdown] All personnel, clear the Launch Bay. Space Rocket Ship Phoenix, Green light for launch sequence.

Cochrane: Oh God, now I remember!

LaForge: What?

Cochrane: Where is it?

LaForge: What?!

Cochrane: We can't lift off without it!

Riker: Geordi, we've got to abort!

Cochrane: [plugs a small disc into a slot in the Phoenix control panel] No, no, wait I've found it!

Troi: Primary engine ignition on. Beginning liftoff countdown. Ten, nine, eight...

Troi: [removes headset just as "[[w:Magic Carpet Ride|Magic Carpet Ride; [w:Phoenix (Star Trek)|Phoenix] Seven, six - ]" begins blaring through everyone's headsets and the ] lifts off]

Jean-Luc Picard: Begin auto-destruct sequence, authorization Picard-four-seven-alpha-tango.

Beverly Crusher: Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Crusher-two-two-beta-Charlie.

Worf: Computer, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorization Worf-three-seven-gamma-echo.

Computer: Command authorization accepted. Awaiting final code to begin auto-destruct sequence.

Picard: This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Destruct sequence alpha-one, 15 minutes, silent countdown. Enable.

Computer: Self-destruct in 15 minutes. There will be no further audio warnings.

Crusher: So much for the Enterprise-E.

Picard: We barely knew her.

Crusher: You think they'll build another one?

Picard: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet.

Picard: You're afraid. You want to destroy the ship, and run away. You coward.

Beverly Crusher: Jean-Luc!

Worf: [furious at being called a coward, knowing it's a serious insult to Klingons] If you were any other man I would kill you where you stand!

Picard: Get off my bridge!

William Riker: Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.

Zefram Cochrane: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?

Riker: [smiling] You did. Ten years from now.

Riker: [[human; [history; [alien; [change] It is one of the pivotal moments in ] ], Doctor. You get to make first contact with an ] race, and after you do, everything begins to ].

LaForge: [[theories; [exploring; [Galaxy] Your ] on warp drive allow fleets of starships to be built and mankind to start ] the ].

Troi: [[unites; [humanity; [possible; [alone; [universe; [Poverty; [disease; [war] It ] ] in a way no one ever thought ] when they realise they're not ] in the ]. ], ], ]. They'll all be gone within the next fifty years.

Riker: [[tomorrow; [morning] But unless you make that warp flight ] ] before eleven fifteen, none of it will happen.

Cochrane: [[astronauts] And you people, you're all ], ... on some kind of star trek?

Zefram Cochrane: Let me just make sure that I understand you correctly, Commander. A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... and you're here to stop them?

William Riker: That's right.

Cochrane: [[heroic] Hot damn! You're ].

Deanna Troi: [very drunk; she pauses, then looks confused.] Time line?! This is no time to argue about time! We don't have the time. What was I saying?

William Riker: You're drunk.

Troi: [offended] I am not.

Riker: [laughs] Yes, you are.

Troi: [[w:tequila|tequila; she pokes Riker in the chest] Look, he wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then, it took three shots of something called ] just to find out he was the one we're looking for. And I spent the last 20 minutes trying to keep his hands off me. So don't go criticizing my counseling technique!

Riker: [laughs] Sorry.

Troi: [defensively] It's a primitive culture. I'm just trying to blend in.

Riker: You're blended all right.

The Borg: We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.