All-new geek quotes, modified to celebrate the new forum - (Jan/26/2009 )

Trevor Goodchild: There was a complication when we cured the industrial disease. The vaccine had an unintended side effect: sterility. Only one more generation of our species could survive. It was a desperate time. Cloning had never been used on humans, successfully. Now when a person dies, their DNA is recycled. Oren and I built the Relico to store DNA and to conceal the cloning process. The Keeper finds a suitable couple and using food additives, we induce a chemical pregnancy. When a woman comes in for an exam, we implant a cloned embryo. From there things happen naturally. In nine months, a citizen who died is reborn. For seven generations, Oren and I have cloned ourselves, taught ourselves, so that I could keep trying to find a cure... while we all live on.

Æon Flux

Sinclair: Who asked you to play God?

Babylon 5

Samuel Sterns: I have. And it's beautiful. Godlike.

The Incredible Hulk

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Your...arrogant pretence at being the moral guardians of the universe strikes me as being hollow, Q. I see no evidence that you're guided by a superior moral code nor any code whatsoever. You may be nearly omnipotent, and I don't deny that your...parlor tricks are very impressive. But morality, I don't see it. I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's any day... And perhaps that is the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Dr. Phlox: Oh, nonsense! Nonsense! You're too concerned with human morality. I thought you wanted to learn about new cultures!

Enterprise

"I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since. "

Three Men in a Boat by JK Jerome

Basil Fawlty: Don't mention the war!

Fawlty Towers

hobglobin on Mar 15 2009, 06:02 PM said:

"I yearn for the good old days, when you could go about and tell people what you thought of them with a hatchet and a bow and arrows. "


JK Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

Sub-Commander T'Pol: They're rumoured to be an aggressive, territorial species, but the Vulcan High Command has never made direct contact with them.

Enterprise

Neelix: To be honest - whenever I saw the Numiri coming, I always left before the intimidation began! <guffaws>

Star Trek: Voyager