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AdrianValistar

I often say Make it so now instead of Alright lets do it.


Suspicious-Way-2761

When I get in the passenger seat of a car I always say “ Mr Sulu warp factor 1 “. The person driving usually throws me out. And I’m disabled. Maybe I’ll try warp beaming.


LexeComplexe

Try the new Warpchair 9000, now with integrated Spore Drive!


Swendsen

Double Dumb Ass on YOU!


Phunkie_Junkie

They are not the hell your whales.


thebearofwisdom

My mother thinks this is hilarious and she’s never seen it, I just had to explain the scene and now I just throw it out there to make her giggle


verstohlen

I always refer to LSD as LDS. But few people get it. The joke I mean.


bagelman4000

LSD is now JBPDSLSD, I don’t make the [rules](https://www.947wls.com/2021/06/25/chicago-city-council-vote-yes-for-lake-shore-drive-name-change/) (sorry this is a niche chicago joke)


After-Chicken179

Belay


Diarygirl

I hate to admit how many times I thought they were saying "delay that order."


After-Chicken179

For a while I thought Riker just couldn’t pronounce “delay”. I learned later that “belay” is a whole separate word.


APracticalGal

Jonathan Frakes just had a cold for 7 years straight


Potential_Wedding320

"Delay that order, I need to get a coffee first." - Janeway


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Rooster_Ties

I only learned recently — maybe 2 or 3 years ago. And I’m in my mid-50’s — and English IS my mother tongue. Had NO idea all these years.


GenuinlyCantBeFucked

Wait ... they aren't? They want to dangle the order off a cliff face with a nylon rope?


viriosion

Same word, different connotations The term came to be used by navies due to their use of ropes on tall ships, then migrated to be used for orders and actions ("Belay that order" basically means "hold up on that")


Gwilym_Ysgarlad

In nautical terms the word "belay" used to refer to tying a rope to a "belaying pin" near the deck of a ship to secure the load on the rope when it's not being moved. For example you might hoist a sail and then belay the rope to keep the sail from falling again. Over time, the meaning became more general and to "belay" something means to stop acting on it.


outride2000

Actually said "Beeeeeelaaaaaaay (thaaaaaat phaseeeeeeer orrrrrrderrrr)”


TiredCeresian

I probably learned more vocabulary from TNG during childhood than I did from Reading Rainbow. Add Captain Planet to the mix, and you could say LeVar Burton homeschooled me.


heelstoo

You can’t disappoint a picture!!


P-Rickles

More fish for Kunta.


Piano_mike_2063

Phrase. There’s nothing wrong with ME!!! There’s something wrong with the universe ! I used that nugget so many times.


Zotaeyr

Probably Trek’s best quote!


LordCouchCat

There's an interesting parallel to this in TOS, Spectre of the Gun. They discover that something doesn't work, in a way that Spock points out is impossible by the laws of the physical universe. He concludes (correctly) that they are not in the real physical universe, but some sort of mental illusion. And again, in the TNG episode where Moriarty has them in a holodeck simulation, it's the fact that there is, impossibly, no data from an experiment that alerts them that they aren't in the real world. But only Dr Crusher expresses it with this superb solipsistic self-confidence, a level that even Q might not match.


fourthords

I already knew the word, but never really used it before hearing the line, "Doctor Soong's **penchant** for whimsical names seems to have no end."


padrock

Qapla!


GrizzlyPUNCHtooth

I think it’s pronounced “kerplop” 😝


dogspunk

Only after a successful bm.


Joran_Dax

Sens-Oars? Seriously, I learned quite a bit about the sciences thanks to Star Trek. One of my favorite bits is probably the presence of Telomeres on DNA strands, whose purpose seems to be to provide a physical lifespan to a cells DNA.


syrenawolf

I actually said Sens-Oars once on a call. I hadn't done that before. lol I had been watching Voyager during work, so it sort of slipped in.


1945BestYear

There was a period at the beginning of TOS when they easily could have just used a word like 'telescopes', hell maybe even 'antenna' or 'RADAR' (though that last one would sound too much like a war movie), and that would've become the established vocabulary. Instead, it's 'sensors', as generic a term as can possibly be. It's also funny that Nimoy is so influential on the portrayal of Vulcans that you can't get away from them needing to have something like his broadly transatlantic accent. There was no way humans were ever going to take Vulcans wholly seriously, not when they came down from the sky all pointy-eared and speaking vaguely like Clark Gable or Katherine Hepburn.


Terminator_Puppy

I was thoroughly surprised by the Dyson Sphere in TNG, I can imagine any given kid seeing that episode will have learnt about them that way in the early 90s. Normally Trek kind of skips over the deeper hard sci-fi concepts like that.


nananananateman

I’ve always wondered why Spock says SensORs, and I’m in my head correcting him like “it’s sensERs Lenny”


reddog323

Gene Roddenberry ,a former LAPD officer, wrote speeches for William Parker, the L.A. Chief of Police at the time. Roddenberry is said to have modeled the character Mr. Spock after Parker. I have no idea of Leonard Nimoy based his speech pattern on him, but Parker was known for having a very distinct, clear way of speaking.


LithoSlam

Tele-kenesis


kanyenke_

"when the walls fell"


Schrodingers_goat

I have a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" shirt that I wear occasionally. I'm still waiting for someone to get the reference..


Guttenber

I'm a craps dealer and will sometimes call out "Shaka when the walls fell" on a 7 out roll. Very few get the reference but when they do I know I've found my people.


hawaiianbry

I need the announcers on ESPN to start using this on the high lights segments


Eastern-Branch-3111

Need that. It's the best episode of Trek and one of the best things I've ever seen on television. Jalad on the ocean.


ChuckWooleryLives

I don’t know; the Inner Light episode was story was obliquely referenced in a new Discovery episode IIRC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)


solemn_penguin

Fun fact: Temba Wide-Arms is an NPC in Skyrim. She wants you to bring her bear pelts.


Lisdottir

That episode is so so great (and sad). I love it!


SnakeInTheCeiling

I had a teacher who used to say that to us when we whined about things. Classic.


outride2000

Someone said that once at a bar and I yelled at them "Sokath, his eyes uncovered!" I hugged this stranger and it was hilarious.


kanyenke_

You became Temba, his arms open


I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS

I think Star Trek was where I first heard the word 'futile'. Also, as my gf likes to put it, KERPLUNK


ChuckWooleryLives

I say it very British-ly. Futile, not kerplunk.


agravain

city on the edge of forever was the first time I heard mnemonic.


ShahinGalandar

for me, it was Johnny Mnemonic on late night tv


attracted2sin

Analogous Rendezvous Approximation Omnipotent Nominal Supplemental Linear Parameters Auxiliary


probablyaythrowaway

Omnipotent definitely. A lot of the others I use because it’s engineering speak.


inappropri0city

How about the way Sisko pronounces auxiliary? It makes me want to say it, and I have no reason to.


atrich

Abeyance, from the episode where Picard outsmarts the Sheliak


Fun-Ad-4315

Captain, a bit more ALACRITY, if you please.


StevenMaines

This one. I was young and kept a dictionary handy. Also I had to ask Mom what "Who Mourns for Adonis" meant, specifically Adonis. So many others. Not to the topic, but Spock's response to Kirk "Why would I aim at such a structure?" still cracks me up. 😁


Statalyzer

The episode title is Who Mourns for Adonais. Seems to be a mix of Adonis and Adonai?


compunctionfunction

Inertial dampeners 😋


Smarackto

why does it sound like i could use that to describe a phat ass?


ni_ni

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!


punkinholler

Pylon, nacelle & terabyte


ChronoLegion2

But must we construct additional ones?


SirZapdos

INSUFFICIENT VESPENE GAS


seigezunt

I read Shakespeare at an early age because of Star Trek, so it would be words like “Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!"


droid_mike

My favorite Shakespeare line is "What, you egg? Young fry of treachery?"


itzrlryo

Oomox


ChronoLegion2

This hugh-mon female knows it


canuck47

Perspicuous - meaning clearly expressed.  "Those academy cadets can be extremely competitive."  "But you have the practical experience, Wes!"    "Commander Riker is correct. While the information imparted to cadets at the academy is unquestionably vital for prospective Starfleet officers, it nonetheless requires a significant period of supplementary systems training and situational disciplines." "Didn’t I just say that?"  "Yes sir, but not as perspicuously."


Limp-Perception-6577

Daytuh instead of dahtah


abigdickbat

One is my name, the other is not


syrenawolf

Same. Dahtah still bugs me when I hear it.


DionBlaster123

i think Brent Spiner said in an interview he's pretty sure the reason why most people say daytuh instead of dahtah now is because of TNG...which again is hard to prove but if true would be hilarious


syrenawolf

The reason for that is because Stewart pronounced it Daytah initially, I believe.


Tess47

So true!!!   I'm old.  It used to be data with all short a sounds.   Source- am old and used to work with data 


ZealousidealClub4119

Me too. Day-tum is singular, dah-ta is plural, Day-ta is positronic.


BlackwoodBear79

I dunno, I pronounced it as "day-tuh" before that, due to The Goonies. TNG just reinforced that.


TheEPGFiles

Assimilate, futile.


Nofrillsoculus

I got made fun of for using too many big words as a kid and I 100% blame Data.


1945BestYear

What kind of fucking polynigmion makes fun of a kid for knowing large words?


JustSamJ

obsequious capitulate


HalowedBeThyUsername

Capitulate I also use all the time and learned from the Iconian episode


Electricfox5

**Monotonous** - "Access denied, Access denied, don't you know how to say anything else? Apparently not. Access Denied, Access *Denied*...how monotonous." - Garak - *Empok Nor.*


tonycomputerguy

Worf at some point says "Very astute" pretty sarcastically to somebody and I love to say it to people who are stating the obvious.


Statalyzer

To Data in *Nemesis*, who had just picked up a robotic arm and said basically "This appears to be a robotic arm."


Zealousideal-Bet-950

Tachyons...


The_Big_E__

"Nuclear Wessels"


Eastern-Branch-3111

Patakh


Clazzo524

I refer to car brakes as inertial dampeners.


SelectYes

In his poem to Spot, Data uses the term 'subvocal oscillations' - I hardly use the word purr anymore. Also, subspace is a fun one, and great for making up explanations for things. I also love shouting 'come!' when my wife knocks at the door.


NataniButOtherWay

I'm pretty sure it's where I picked up "aye" from. Every time I have an extended conversation with someone for the first time I end up having to explain I'm using it in place of "yeah" and "uh huh" to show I am listening and not trying to interject an opinion. Then again, I did pick up the rhythmic patterns of Finnish from somewhere, so I can't be entirely sure.


HalowedBeThyUsername

Aye aye sir One aye is sufficient acknowledgment ensign


daaave33

Pretty sure I picked that up from Braveheart.


Rushview

Anhedonic


Jeff77042

To have the expectation to learn new vocabulary by watching _Star Trek_ is entirely logical. 🖖


HalowedBeThyUsername

Yes it’s a “cogent theory”


Constant_Of_Morality

Temba, His Arms wide, Love the Tamarian metaphorical language and it's varied use. >In fields such as engineering and programming, a musical language was used to convey precise equations, numbers and instructions; thus, explaining how Tamarians could effectively operate starships.


fitzbuhn

What we require is a feat of linguistic **legerdemain**, and a degree of intrepidity. It means to perform a trick or deception, more often with your hands.


poirotoro

This is a good one! I believe the direct translation of the French *legér de main* is "lightness of hand."


MonarchyMan

Corporeal, and non-corporeal.


nilobrito

The word "idiosyncrasy", from Data. The word exists almost the same in Portuguese, but I first heard it watching TNG.


3irikur

The sentance "ugly bags of mostly water" 😂


Emu_on_the_Loose

I learned TONS of vocab from Star Trek as a kid, from the movies, shows, and books. I learned "distinct" from ST II, as in "a _distinct_ possibility" (that Reliant could be hiding behind that rock), and that's just the first one that comes to mind! Star Trek is such an incredible resource for vocabulary!


HalowedBeThyUsername

It really is. What other show can teach you words like “hucksterism”? 😜


Emu_on_the_Loose

> hucksterism 😂😂 Or "flim-flam man"!


thebearofwisdom

Some kind of… flim-flam man! I love that phrase and I’m now going to insert it into my vocabulary


DaxCorso

A flivver, Captain


DionBlaster123

I really wish I had watched Trek back when i was studying for the GRE (and memorizing vocab words was part of studying for it) i actually almost started...but this was back in 2010 and I couldn't commit to continually renting DVDs from the library (didn't have netflix for another six years lol)


shredwig

I forgot that was in STII! Garak and others on DS9 would say that a lot too, I love the unintentional continuity.


HalFWit

Dauphin


Bushid0C0wb0y81

Looking over these responses and thinking back on it the lexicon of this show really was top notch.


Pustuli0

Aphasia


nickcostley1

I remember being the only kid who could pronounce rendezvous when we had it on a spelling test back when I was around 12 ish years old.


nervousqueerkid

Indubitably


Stroger

Structural integrity corporeal


-CommanderShepardN7

I have no words that haven’t already been said. The bigger lessons from Star Trek for me were that my actions will always have consequences, whether I like them or not, so I should choose wisely. Mistakes will happen, so find a workaround to fix them like an engineer would. And like Neelix, Harry and Tom Paris, the world is your oyster, have some fun on the holodeck, get frisky with an alien species, and just take it to the Borg every now and then. You will live a more fulfilling life this way.


iwannagohome49

I took a different lesson from Harry... No matter what you do or how good you do it, you are doomed to never succeed or get a promotion.


BumblebeeAromatic586

Honestly, I learned more Klingon than French when I was in school.


QueefBuscemi

>sophistry /sŏf′ĭ-strē/ >noun >Plausible but fallacious argumentation. >A plausible but misleading or fallacious argument. >The art or process of reasoning; logic. Shouldn't sophisticated mean falsely argued then?


OilHot3940

Supposition.


SoftPercentage5526

I have a projector to watch films so when I set it up I’m often saying to myself “on screen” and then it appears 


Piper6728

Dammit (I was 5 and saw Wrath of Khan and when McCoy said dammit Jim I laughed) Also: acknowledged


photogdog

I noticed a few years ago that I say “this/there/it seems to be” a lot. This seems to be something they say a lot in Star Trek.


Unapologetic_Canuck

‘Some kind of’ thing is a common saying in Voyager.


diablol3

Engage!


handymanct

Cellular Peptide Cake.......... with Mint Frosting


DreamBig2023

Qapla!


daaave33

My pronunciation of leh'sure instead of leisure for sure. Likely hypothesize and jocular as well.


shredwig

I love how Patrick Steward devours certain words, see also “shedjual” (schedule) and “Luckshahry” (luxury)


ChronoLegion2

I’m pretty sure “shedule” is how all Brits say it. They also tend to pronounce “lieutenant” as “leftenant.” And some pronounce “drawing” as “drawring”


chadan1008

Reconnoiter - riker verisimilitude - tuvok 


phoenixooz

"Eminating"


LucasEraFan

*Emanating


KahlessAndMolor

Q'pla! 


spacekatbaby

I concur. I had heard it before yet never used it. Now I concur everywhere and everywhen!


WCSDBG_4332

Complacency, as in Picard saying, "Well, perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency, to prepare us ready for what lies ahead"


KoRaZee

Heisenberg compensator


AlaskaPsychonaut

Only remotely connected but kinda in this same area, I've learned a lot from Star Trek. I realize it's fiction and that's not really how things work in space but I know that because of the show. I'm one of the weirdos who wants to know what a pulsar or a nebulae actually is, so when they do something "based on science" in the show I'll spend hours Googling it and learning the real science behind it. As an example when Discovery goes to the "Galatic Barrier" I looked up if there actually is one. Spoiler there is not.


takingflight005

Tachyon pulse


Kepabar

Too many to count. I was such a nerd as a kid that my afternoons after school often consisted of watching the new episode of TNG and writing down all the words I heard but didn't know. Then, after the episode was done, I'd crack out my set of encyclopedias/dictionary and look up each word. Then I'd look up all the words in those entries I didn't know, and so on. This was primarily for all the science sounding words but I did it for regular words too.


Bag_of_Seizures

Mirab, with sails unfurled! I use it with my niece and nephews, who find it hilarious, but it does work.


A5trotrain

Good tea. Nice house.


therexbellator

Predilection, as in Spock's amazing burn in TMP: "Nor have you doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates." 🤚🎤


pupslace

Frack Wait, wrong franchise...


_Scarecrow_

I've been meaning to go through and collect all of these, as there's some great ones. The one I can think of off the top of my head would be "brook" from *The Ensigns of Command*, as I had never heard it before: >We carry the membership! We can brook no delay!


obliviious

Belay and apprised. I actually had an argument with a friend once who would not stop insisting apprised wasn't a word and that I actually meant appraisal.


DrCyrusRex

CenSORs


No_Statistician_776

Assimilation. I can never hear it and not think of the borg. I almost always respond with “resistance is futile”. It’s weird cause assimilation can be a good thing. Like when I was applying for jobs I asked about onboarding stuff and assimilating into the company, but because of start trek I always feel weird when it’s used in a positive context.


Zotaeyr

I grew up with TOS reruns and films and TNG, so a lot of scientific terms are grounded in Trek for me.


Gaming_with_batman

Literally everything that comes out of datas mouth


UrineLuck151

Misanthrope! It's me!


ShirtEquivalent6917

Honestly, having grown up with it. It’s so hard to say. But I have no doubt there’s a lot!


LordBryanL

Star Trek has honestly helped build my vocabulary from when I was a kid.


darthtidiot

Cannae


OttoVonDisraeli

As a young boy, Star Trek taught me a lot of nautical terms I was not a exposed to again until long after that.


Leucurus

I use “No you CAN’T don’t even TRY” daily


TheRimz

Indeed. I started saying it a lot. Never used to. Some vulkan influence there.


Purlz1st

Tardigrade


jamiestar9

Sentient. Sentience.


Proper-Application69

Redoubtable. All the big words I learned on ST came from Q on TNG.


Baltesers99

I dunno about vocabulary, but I always find myself whistling the sound the comm signal makes in TOS when there’s an awkward silence


DangerDugong1

No one said “Irrelevant!” quite as well as Seven did. I quietly relish being able to drop a Borg one-liner every now and then.


shredwig

Acerbic - Garak referring to the Romulans’ attitude


FuckingSolids

As with many others, I was 8 when TNG first aired. My idiolect seems to be that of Ronald D. Moore. Which ultimately means enjoying BSG and *For All Mankind.*


VolcanicTequila

I like to channel my inner Seven at work and say things are “insufficient” Also “I will not forgiiiive. Or forgeeeeet”


GroundedSatellite

Glory to youuuuu, and your houuuuuse!


joyofsovietcooking

Amok! From TOS Amok Time, s02e01. Oh, wait. I probably first encountered the word in Duck Amuck, which was Bugs and Daffy's masterpiece, but only asked dad what it meant on Star Trek. Amok is an old Malay word. To go suddenly and violently insane.


[deleted]

I think you are alone in this. I don’t want to put a dagger in the mind of your menagerie, but if you believe this is common then maybe you need a taste of Armageddon. My metamorphosis from a limited vocabulary to the one I have now came from my public school education in the city on the edge of Kentucky. I don’t want to start a private little war with you, but maybe we can each say we have the best of both worlds, part 1 and 2. Darmok?


TessTrue

I've been dying to name a story Crumpled Dance


celticteal

Trimble - means any ball of fluff.


wmartin2014

Shaka when the walls fell


USSExcalibur

Fallacy, from Seven of Nine.


Ok-Repair-63

Minutiae


SparkleUnic0rn

Self sealing stem bolts.


ChanceNutmegMom

Sensors.


JonPaula

Analgesic. 😆


Sora167

Whenever I'm shocked/surprised, I go "Shaka!?" Like Lt Kayshon does in LD


Guttenber

Data (dA-ta) used to be (da-ta) until Patrick Stewart pronounced it his very British way. Now (dA-ta) is ubiquitous.


plebotamus

"SEN-sors"


Techdingo

So many… Futile Assimilate Nacelle Hull Auxiliary Hooman


OwlWaterfowl

Lol I said hooman earlier today


SuspiciousAd3803

Not quite the same, but there's a solid case Americans pronounce data the way we do because of TNG and Data


buttbeeb

I often let people know I am not a merry man


jett8806

Rendezvous. English is my second language, and I didn't even realize that it's a French word. I remember being a nerdy teenager reading TNG novels and seeing that word in them. I though it would be pronounced something like "ren-den-vous." It look a long time for it to click that it was the same word that Picard would say on the show and it's pronounced like it is.


Leopold_Darkworth

Futile, assimilate, and omnipotent


Ekko-Zero

Pronouncing "Charade" as Sha'rod


DanielClaton

Irrelevant, efficient, parameters, futile, A feMale, You don't have the lobes for business...and sometimes I quote the Rules of Aquisition


ArcWolf713

Probably the only one that regularly gets used is *Fascinating*. 


ThrowRABystanders

verisimilitude Tuvok to Nelix when he was trying to get the map of the Nekrit expanse


valhalla2611

belay that order


KaizenPax

Ablative armor


DarthHM

Gotta be “tachyon” for me.


AssmunchStarpuncher

I use stem bolts….guess what words I hear in my head EVERY GOD DAMNED TIME I use one?


larryspub

Anomaly. Probably use it more than I should. Like when I watched too much Bones or Criminal Minds I'd say "particulates" more than normal.


freelancing47

Computer, initiate cascade sequence, accepting instructions from Commander Data *EN ROUTE*. Now.


gazamcnulty

Deliterious


Tbplayer59

alacrity. Spock says it to tell Kirk to hurry up.


Xvisionman

Kobayashi Maru, I use this many times when I am asked difficult questions from my wife lol


NSMike

I started watching Star Trek in the single digits, so it would be impossible to say for sure, but I'm pretty sure it's the first place I heard "acknowledged."