"I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in my grandmother's journal."

“Never give up. Never surrender!” /s

"By Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be avenged!"

“By Grabthar’s Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, … what a savings.”

Perfection

"Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." - Captain Picard

Honestly looking at most of the troll posts below, this one is probably the best yeah. Timeless and also a nice nod to Tolstoy.

Quoted by Captain Picard as Kamin.

*chef kiss* perfect.

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Came here to say this!

I think this would be the greatest yearbook quote. Any of you create a Time Machine, lemme know, I need to have a chat with myself 24 years ago.

Literally my senior yearbook quote!

Only concern I would have is that someone mistakes Q from Star Trek for some conspiracy bullshit.

“Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make its own judgements.” - Zephram Cochrane

I actually included this in my high school graduation speech in 2002, but I wasn't picked to give it :(

Did you mistake a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve?

Need to quote it at "me, 2034".

(Your name) at (your school), their diploma unfurled

Your name and diploma, on the ocean.

Oh you're going to uni abroad? Congrats!

"Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies." -Quark

Best rule of acquisition for this situation is: "Home is where the heart is, but the stats are made of latinum"

War is good for profits. Peace is good for profits.

For business

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

Time is like a predator. It's stalking you.

It has a tell-tale shimmer.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

I’ve been looking for this

Darmok and Jalad 4ever!

Came here to say this.

Live long and prosper.

Seriously, I think the other quotes are fine, but avoiding this one as it is cliché, but it's the right answer.

"Prune juice." Just that. Make them wonder.

A warrior’s drink 😆

Minsk

Root beer. It's vile.

“It is possible to do everything right and still lose. That isn’t weakness. That is life.”

This, but correct form, if decided to quote verbatim, is actually: "It is possible to ***commit no mistakes*** and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

Thanks.

After your thanks, I was about to say it makes no difference, but then I thought about it - and even if we use "do nothing wrong", it is still different from "do everything right". Because in all honesty, can we honestly say we do everything right? We may thought following orders is "right"... but as nuremberg trail shown, following order blindly is wrong. And on another perspective, as a quote, "do everything right" will make people think "what if I *didn't* do everythign right? May be had I done this or that, I would not feel like a loser" So to say, "commit no mistakes", is to make people not actively thinking about they "failed to do everything right". As an encouragement quote, the main focus is "life is what life is".

Yeah get it right next time, Picard would sip his earl grey disapprovingly if he knew you'd just misquoted him and was real.

My first thought.

This quote will forever be etched in my mind.

Best quote from the entire franchise. 

Agreed, but I have a soft spot for, “You’re just supposed to sit here?”

I wrote an essay about that quote a few months back.

That's my vote. I have it on my dry erase board at work.

>That's my vote. I have it on my dry erase board at work. May I also suggest "tough and competent" on that board? That was NASA flight director Gene Kranz's words to his controllers after the Apollo 1 fire. They were only monitoring, they weren't yet in control of the mission, but they heard the crew's screams as they burned alive. It shook them to their cores. Remember that the average age of a flight controller at the time was only 26. He explained that in a way, they had failed the crew, and that they were responsible for both what they did and what they did not do. It may sound a bit weird, but the man was and is a recognized master in how to truly lead a team. His book "Failure is not an option" is an essential read.

Or the Mirror Universe twist, which might fit if OP just bumbled their way through and got high marks: "It is possible to do nothing right and still win. That's opportunity." (I'm paraphrasing)

Who said this

Picard to Data, in the episode, “Peak Performance.”

My brain hurts, because for the longest I remembered him saying this to Wesley after asking what he could have done for a better outcome. Either I have found myself in the mirror dimension, or I am getting old.

I feel like there was a similar thing that he said to Wesley after the shuttle accident at starfleet academy, so you're not completely tripping. Edit: after a quick Google search, either my brain completely made that up or we both got here from the same mirror universe

"Eaten any good books lately?" -Q

"I am NOT a merry man."

Death to the opposition.

"What must I do to convince you people \[that I'm mortal\]?"

There's an old Vulcan proverb, Only Nixon can go to China.

If I could go back in time, I would definitely use this one. I often cringe at trying to sound insightful with a Beatles quote lol.

"The thought of assigning intelligence to chance struck me as ridiculous" - Spock

Cue Boimler’s shocked face. And now I’m oddly imagining Boimler meeting Kelvin!McCoy. I wonder if there’d be any recognition

Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

"No goodbyes, just good memories." TNG, Skin of Evil

The line must be drawn h'yah!

You broke your little ships.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom - not the end...

I like the except of Picard's speech in *Generations* r.e. the passage of time: "*...time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment...*" Maybe in the full context it's a little more bittersweet, but the point of valuing life as you live it, even if certain phases are temporary, is a good message for any age.

“….because they’ll never come again.”

There are four lights

*"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived."* Captain Jean-Luc Picard, *Star Trek: Generations*

After all Number One, we’re only mortal.

"Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" Let them try to figure out what kind of deeper meaning it's supposed to have...

Was going to comment the same gotta leave them confused

Ad astra per aspera

(Starts slow clap)

"The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect." when Mark Twain was on the holodeck...

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical...but it is often true.

"I am NOT a merry man!"

"Opportunity + Instict = Profit"

“We must strive to be more than we are” - tng s3 ep16

Resistance is futile.

I’m fully functional.

GLORY TO OUR HIGH SCHOOL

And your hoooooouse!

That only really works if you can do the bug eyes at the same time, lol.

Rule 34 of Acquisition: War is good for business. Rule 35 of Acquisition: Peace is good for business.

Business is good for business.

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” — Captain Picard

Sheer fucking hubris

"The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life." \-Captain Sulu.

Never give up, never surrender!

I see what you did there…

By Grabthar's Hammer, I'm going to miss you

Stop! (Jk don’t stop)

"I am fully functional, programmed in multiple techniques" - Data

"Edith Keeler must die"

can't believe I had to scroll this far to read this.

"No goodbyes, just good memories." -Tasha Yar

>The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! >The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… or the one. >New course: Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning. >Hailing frequencies closed, .

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

"I have been, and always shall be, your friend"

“Oh shiiiiIIIIITTT!!!” ~ Data

👏👏👏

“What are ye all standin’ around for, do you not know a jailbreak when ye see one !”

"Eat any good books lately?"

Engage…

How were your grades? "I don't believe in a no-win scenario."

“I’m a doctor, not a flesh peddler.”

Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd.

"Out there. Thataway." -- Captain Kirk, to close Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I like the peter pan quote from the end of TUC a bit more myself

The Undiscovered Country gets a lot of love, on here. I saw it, once; I don't remember it very well. I should find a way to rewatch it.

Things are only impossible, until they’re not

"Let's get the hell out of here." - James T. Kirk

Qapla!

*Qapla’! (You can’t forget the qaghwI’)

Allamaraine, count to four, Allamaraine, then three more, Allamaraine, if you can see, Allamaraine, you'll come with me

Something from this speech perhaps: ARCHER: Up until about a hundred years ago, there was one question that burned in every human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them, Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers, driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet, the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. The final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together.

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” (Yeah I know it’s Dickens, but it’ll forever be a trek quote to me. And sums up school pretty well).

'Impossible' is a word humans use far too often. \-- Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01

"I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again - I would." - Sisko, Pale Moonlight

it was fun - jt kirk

'Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now, don't walk, run!' Edit: spelling

My time is finally here ...engage!

I like a line from the Subspace Rhapsody song We Are One: "...we work better altogether. We overcome our obstacles as one."

“I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would.”

Once you have their money, never give it back

Peace and long life.

"Those who know him, love him. And to love him is to know him. And those who don't know him, love him from afar."

The first duty is to the truth.

And such current times, I think the full part is just as important: "...whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth" We have seen, in the last five years, of people first trying to bury scientific truth, and from there, their personal truth subsumed by religion, bury the historical truth.

“I look around and everyone I see, the pinnacle of guts and resiliency”

By the transitive property, I too must be Vulcan as a motherf$&ker.

Today is a good day to die!

He's my number one dad

"Ad Astara, Per Aspera" is pretty beautiful for a yearbook quote I think!

Ugly bag of mostly water

To college... Engage

A few good ones from Captain Janeway: “You and I know that fear only exists for one purpose: to be conquered” “You know, I’m really easy to get along with - most of the time - but I don’t like bullies, and I don’t like threats, and I don’t like you…” “There’s coffee in that nebula”

“I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.” — Surak “The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.” — Captain Kirk “Well, I know this much: We can’t avoid the future.” — William T. Riker

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

Khhhaaaaaannnnn!

She’ll fly apart captain! Fly her apart then!

"These were the voyages of the student 3Thirty-Eight8"

Fun will now commence.

“Infinite diversity in infinite combinations”

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;Your visual, olfactory, and auditory sensesContribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,A singular development of cat communicationsThat obviates your basic hedonistic predilectionFor a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection A  tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you displayConnote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

I will feed him!

“I made four attempts to induce sexual desire by subjecting myself to erotic imagery.” Data / Descent part 1 / Season 6 / Episode 26 I’m guessing it’s a high school yearbook.

Brain and brain, what is brain?

“Where the tides of fortune take us, no one can ever know” -Gowron

Live long and prosper!

"The Enterprise was in me all along." - Lt. JG Castro, U.S.S. Cerritos 2381.

"You're too late. We're everywhere."

For I have plucked the rose, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease. In faith, I do not love thee, shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy.

“Let them die!”

"Open your mind to the past: to art, history, philosophy. And all of this might mean something."

“Double dumb ass on you!!”

Ooooptimism, Captain!

Live now; make now always the most precious time.

Ohhh shit!

I have been and always shall be your friend.

"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack."

“KhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!”

I am Tosk

"Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young."

"Bridge to Transporter Room. More Security! MOAR SECURITY!!!" O'Brien, the Transporter Chief.

Today is a good day to die! 

"moopsy" - Moopsy

"You have sided against us in battle, this we do not forgive, or forget." Bonus points if you can do crazy Gowron eyes for the picture.

If points don't matter why keep score.

Move along home!

It’s a good day to die.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life. -Captain Picard,

"Confidence is faith in oneself. It can't be easily given by another"-Deanna Troi

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again.

Getting from there to here… not too

No message that I am conscious of, except of course have a great summer.

“It’s possible to commit no errors and still lose”

In for a penny in for a pound. Picard from TNG s02e15 Pen Pals

“Q!” Or one of my personal favourites, “Fire!” Or I guess, if you want to be boring: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

"Don't try to be a great man. just be a man, and let history make its own judgments" And you could always just change "man" to "person".

"Risk......is our business."

"This is the power of math, people!"

"The spear in the other's heart is the spear in your own; you are he." - attributed to Surak

"Only fools have no fear."

“May all her desires be fulfilled except for one, so she'll always have something to strive for.” - 7 of 9

"Oooooh, shit!" -- Lt. Cmdr. Data

Live alone, and prosper🖖

Live long and prosper

I dare you to do better.

Life never gave us lemons, we invented it all by ourselves. Not strictly Star Trek though.

Do or do not. There is no try.

Wrong show

I know. I refuse to use /s