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The Best Insults from Star Trek

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Updated July 3, 2024 20 items
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Vote up the sassiest lines and best burns from the entire Star Trek franchise.

Star Trek has been an institution of science-fiction in the world since it first debuted back in the late 1960s. In more than 50 years of broadcast across seven television series and 10 films, Star Trek has had its fair share of amazing, and funny, insults thrown about from one character to another. You probably don't think about it often when you consider Star Trek, but some characters had incredible one-liners and insults attributed to them—but which insulting lines are best?

For fans of the series, some of these will be pretty obvious while other quotes are less familiar. We could have included over a dozen excellent insults in Klingon, but wanted to keep them culturally familiar and in English, so you won't find any mentions of "Hab SoSlIj Quch!" here. What you will find are some of the best-written and cleverest insults spread about more than 50 years of amazing television and film.

Check out the list of funny lines below and be sure to vote up the most insulting quotes.

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  • God I liked him better before he died.
    1

    God I liked him better before he died.

    Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
    169 votes
  • I’m trying to thank you, you pointed-eared hobgoblin!
    2

    I’m trying to thank you, you pointed-eared hobgoblin!

    Leonard "Bones" McCoy, "Bread and Circuses"
    192 votes
  • Up yer shaft!
    3

    Up yer shaft!

    Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
    168 votes
  • It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, Doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining.
    4

    It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, Doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining.

    Spock, "The Ultimate Computer"
    172 votes
  • I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage.
    5

    I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage.

    Korax, "Trials and Tribble-ations"
    150 votes
  • I have never before questioned the intelligence of any representative of the Federation . . . until now!
    6

    I have never before questioned the intelligence of any representative of the Federation . . . until now!

    James T. Kirk, "The Trouble With Tribbles"
    137 votes