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--> '''Riker''': Gaze upon me, the world's biggest douchebag!

-->"So we have the two plots: Sheridan trying to get the Non-Aligned Worlds to accept White Star protection... ''({{beat}})'' I was wrong, it sounds like a toothpaste."

--> '''Chuck:''' Tucker's grinning just like he caught himself a prize coon!

---> '''Chuck''': I think I may be in love.

--> Dax: "He died yelling at doctors and friends who were trying to keep him alive for one more miserable day."
--> Chuck: "Yeah, that sounds better than the truth... That Vanessa Williams [[UnusualEuphemism Jamaharoned]] him to death"

--> '''WebSite/SFDebris''': Wait, so LetMeGetThisStraight. Tom Paris not only flies the ship, the most important shuttle missions, is the field medic/assistant to the Doctor, has 24th century lock-picking ability... he's also a commando. Oh! And let's not forget he once designed an engine that goes to infinity. And this is the guy Starfleet ''doesn't'' want?!

-->'''Picard''': We will not allow '''anyone''' to take you away from your homes, your village, your way of life! [crowd cheers] Now pack your shit up, we're leaving. [crowd cheers] We will not allow them to corrupt your vision of a life free from technology and violence! [crowd cheers] Now, let's set up these transport inhibitors and follow the instructions of the android while my people get the guns and bombs in position.

-->"...you're not really dead as long as we all remember you. Now [[{{Unperson}} purge all records of her existence]]."

-->'''Dr. Crusher:''' We will start with the assumption that I am ''not'' crazy! Do you concur, [[HerrDoktor Dr. Arachnischnidt?]]\\
'''Top hat-wearing tarantula with monocle''': Indubitably!

-->'''Chuck:''' [The fourth directive might even be] to watch some crappy CatchPhrase comedy. But then again, I'm just a viewer with an opinion.

-->'''Chuck''': So, I give you all a Kenneth Biller tale; a pointless plan, involving implausible lengths, to form an unprecedented plot, to further an unneeded cause, in the name of defeating an adversary that's already vanquished, ''with a group that can't help anyway''!

---> '''Jake:''' That's the kind of thing I would expect from an evil oligarchy bent on crushing the freedoms of everyone in the galaxy!\\

--->'''Spock''': ([[SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords real dialogue]]): As you may recall from your histories, this conflict was fought by our standards today with primitive atomic weapons--\\
'''Archer''': [[ImStandingRightHere Hey!]]\\
'''Spock''' --and in primitive space vessels.\\
'''Archer''': HEY!\\
'''Spock''' (Chuck): ...Led by a collection of mentally disturbed, intellectually challenged apes, whose basic inability to function is an endless source of shame for Starfleet even today.\\
'''Archer''': HE-! ..Okay, I'll give you that one.

-->'''[=SFDebris=]:''' That sounds about right, [[OnAScaleFromOneToTen on a scale of 1 to you have no idea what IQ is, do you?]]

--> '''[=SFDebris=]''': Neelix has conned people into thinking he's a survival expert...

-->"Where the hell did THAT come from? The casting sheet? How would ''you'' know, Riker? Did you read Wes' biography on Wikipedia? Cause [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis I got two words for ya]], pal: '''CITATION NEEDED'''.

-->'''Kirk:''' It seems impossible. A Star Captain's most solemn oath, is that he will he give his life, even his entire crew... rather than violate the Prime Directive.

--->'''Tripp''': I remember Biology 101, Captain. Humans are carbon-based. Our immune system can't fight silicon.\\

--> '''[=SFDebris=]''': If you can't ''save'' people... what good are you?

-->''(venomously)'' "'''I shoulda known.''' The only thing in Hell more terrifying than [[{{Franchise/Hellraiser}} Pinhead]]... is Shithead."

--> '''Torres''': I've never found your twisted sense of humour funny, CHA-kot-tay.
--> '''Chuck''': Did she just call him "Chocolate Day"?

--->'''George Lucas:''' Yeah, what is it, Steve?
--->'''Steve Jobs:''' Hey, I just wanted to thank you again for that sweet, sweet deal with {{Creator/Pixar}}.
--->'''George Lucas:''' Yeah, yeah, glad to see you're putting it to good use. We were hoping to use it to realize concepts never achievable on film, you make friggin' [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Babes in Toyland]] and [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife punk some ants]]. What do you want?
--->'''Steve Jobs:''' Look, I know you're unhappy about how Pixar's a success and that we're working with Disney now...
--->'''George Lucas:''' Yeah, traitor! [[TemptingFate It'll be a cold day in Hell before I work with Disney!]]
--->'''Steve Jobs:''' So, I wanted to help get you in on the same kind of great deal, get in on the ground floor of this new project of mine. See, these guys, they're at [=FingerWorks=], have just started up with this "touchscreen technology." If we bought them out...
--->'''George Lucas:''' ''[dismissively]'' Yeah, that's nice, but I'm a little busy making ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', aka "[[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge The Greatest Movie Ever Made]]"!
--->'''Steve Jobs:''' And we're all really excited about that, George, but just think! We could have a phone...with a touchscreen! It'll be huge!
--->'''George Lucas:''' ...sure, Steve. Yeah, I'm going to invest in your super-duper phone, that's where the future's at. Listen, I don't want to keep you from your hemp-tasting contest or whatever it is you're into, so I'm gonna let you go and get back to working on my speeches for all the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] I'm about to win, okay?

-->'''Chuck''': "Yeah, [[Series/TheWalkingDead any show with bad guys called 'walkers']] wouldn't last half as long as "Above and Beyond" did."[[note]]("Above and Beyond" was cancelled after one season.)[[/note]]

--> '''Chuck''': Another [reason they couldn't use the array] is that there was a time factor and the Kazon had reinforcements on the way. First, they didn't know about the reinforcements until after Janeway made the decision, so unless the argument is that Janeway is psychic (and that's psychic, not psychotic), that wasn't a factor in her thinking at all and at no point does anyone suggest is a problem, except during the fight and no one brings up the time factor once the battle's been won."

--> "The only way Neelix will help anyone survive is if they ''eat'' him".

-->'''Chuck:''' You're a complete cun . . . temptible person.

-->'''Chuck:''' It's probably obvious that I don't care for Janeway one bit - at least, as the protagonist. Nothing confuses Janeway fans quite like telling them, "I ''love'' Janeway! She's my favorite villain!"

-->'''Chuck:''' ''[from "Deadlock"]'' What follows is a ship defensive effort that makes ''Star Trek Nemesis'' look like ''300''. Tuvok and a nameless security officer exit the turbolift, knowing they're going up again hostile aliens, without the least bit of caution. And it only get worse from there! Tom Paris and nameless extras are running away up a corridor, but they keep running past obvious points of cover, preferring to be out in the middle of the hall while wearing a bright red shirt, a technique whose ineffectiveness was proven when the [[BritsWithBattleships British]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution lost]] to an [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks army of farmers]] lead by a [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Virginian surveyor]]!

-->'''Chuck:''' ''[from "Deadlock"]'' What follows is a ship defensive effort that makes ''Star Trek Nemesis'' look like ''300''. Tuvok and a nameless security officer exit the turbolift, knowing they're going up again hostile aliens, without the least bit of caution. And it only get worse from there! Tom Paris and nameless extras are running away up a corridor, but they keep running past obvious points of cover, preferring to be out in the middle of the hall while wearing a bright red shirt, a technique whose ineffectiveness was proven when the [[BritsWithBattleships British]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution lost]] to an [[YanksWithTanks army of farmers]] lead by a [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington Virginian surveyor]]!

-->''"Ladies and gentlemen, people of Melator V, as you lay prostrate before me, your cities burning, you streets covered in blood and ash-- [-crap, these are the wrong cards. Gonna have to wing it.-] Crew of ''Voyager'', as you lay prostrate before me..."''

** The Doctor showing off his snaps from last year, taken with the camera he got this season. "He was quite a shutterbug back in that day!"

** Chekhov insisting that he is "as Amerikan as [[{{Malaproper}} apple cake!]]" (''Star Trek IV'')

** Chekhov insisting that he is "as Amerikan as [[{{Malaproper}} apple kake!]]" (''Star Trek IV'')

** Chekhov insisting that he is "as American as [[{{Malaproper}} apple cake!]]" (''Star Trek IV'')

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** Omega in ''The Three Doctors'': "That's the kind of performance where BrianBlessed tells you to take it down a notch."

* IdiotPlot: Not Chuck himself, but he WILL rip into any episode that ''does'' have one, especially if [[AcceptableTargets Kenneth Biller]] had anything to do with it. His review of the early season seven Voyager episode "Repression" is especially brutal for Chuck deconstructing why its plot about a rogue Bajoran vedek somehow managing to hack a Project Pathfinder transmission to ''Voyager'', a recording of Tuvok's son, so he could subliminally activate brainwashing he did to Tuvok years before, so Tuvok can in turn brainwash the rest of the Maquis crew via Vulcan mind meld (which it has never been able to do before) into reverting into their pre-series selves as Maquis freedom fighters and restart the Maquis and fight the Cardassians, is brutal (bear in mind this episode takes place only a year or two after the end of the Dominion War, which left the Cardassian Union a shattered husk of its former self, and Voyager is still stuck in the Delta Quadrant where they can't meaningfully do anything about it anyway).

* IdiotPlot: Not Chuck himself, but he WILL rip into any episode that ''does'' have one, especially if [[AcceptableTargets Kenneth Biller]] had anything to do with it. His review of the early season seven Voyager episode "Repression" is especially brutal for Chuck deconstructing why its plot about a rogue Bajoran vedek somehow managing to hack a Project Pathfinder transmission to ''Voyager'', a recording of Tuvok's son, so he could subliminally activate brainwashing he did to Tuvok years before, so Tuvok can in turn brainwash the rest of the Maquis crew via Vulcan nerve pinch (which it has never been able to do before) into reverting into their pre-series selves as Maquis freedom fighters and restart the Maquis and fight the Cardassians, is brutal (bear in mind this episode takes place only a year or two after the end of the Dominion War, which left the Cardassian Union a shattered husk of its former self, and Voyager is still stuck in the Delta Quadrant where they can't meaningfully do anything about it anyway).

--->"Yeah? Well, my fist is an instrument of '''shut the hell up.''' And if you wanna find out, just ''keep talking''. It's [[IronicEcho ever ready for a knockdown blow]].

** "Way to Eden": Even as a flop, [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible it's a flop.]]

** Seems to be heading in this direction with Scorpius. 'Imagine Spock if were a villain; sprinkle with some charisma and cunning, add a dash of [[TheThrawnTrilogy Admiral Thrawn]]...'

* HeteronormativeCrusader: Brings this up in "Suddenly Human," where a human boy is adopted by an alien culture and insists he is one of them, while Picard insists he is human. Chuck likens this to adults insisting to transgender or homosexual children that they are not, "stop thinking that way." His point can be a bit undermined by the fact that most gay/transgender people don't murder a kid's parents and effectively kidnap them to be raised in LGBT culture.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, Its Mark Sheppard!]]: {{Invoked|Trope}} in his review of the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' episode "Shindig" when he notes that MarkSheppard has appeared in pretty much every sci-fi series he reviews.