When adding to one of the subpages, please follow this format. Not everyone knows where a particular meme came from or how it's used. Even if it's potholed.
- Meme name: Explanation description of meme and how it's used.
- CONGRATULATIONS LIEUTENANT.Explanation The game (in the voice of either Spock, Worf, or Sela, depending on faction) loudly congratulating you for increasing in level.
- "WHERE'S SULU?" Explanation Early on, players had a massive problem locating the character Akira Sulu (in case you're wondering, yes, he's related to Hikaru Sulu). It became an Ascended Meme when, during the second anniversary, you could pose the question to Q Junior, and he would complain about the player character using an ancient meme.
- KURLAND HERE. THIS IS KURLAND. Explanation In the mission "Boldly They Rode", players would be interrupted during a spacewalk by the character James Kurland, who'd always speak up with either "KURLAND HERE." or "THIS IS KURLAND". It got old quite fast, especially since he had paid lip service to maintaining radio silence at the beginning of the mission stage.
- Every time people begin making Tribble-related puns anywhere in the Sirius sector block, put the drinks away. Not even Nikola Tesla could survive that much alcohol in his system.
- With the change of maps and thus the removal of Sirius Sector as a unique instance, tribble puns as such all but disappeared. However, by now the forum uses TRIBBLE to replace censored words and players will sometimes use variations on this to humorous purposes. "You can TRIBBLE my EPOHH!"
- Similarly, don't even mention the word 'Gorn' on zone chat unless you're prepared for an ungodly flood of puns related to the word.
- Dinosaurs with freaking laser beams (with various other adverbs sometimes replacing 'freaking').Explanation A disparaging comment on season 8's use of the Voth (VOY: "Distant Origin") as the Monster of the Week, with the addition of what amounts to T. rex, Deinonychus and Allosaurus `with Frickin' Laser Beams attached to their heads.
- ACTING! Explanation The mission "A Step Between Stars" has a Star Trek Shake that is just a little over the top.
- DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Explanation Whenever posters on the forums get overly dramatic about how the game is going and declaring that the game is dying, it's not uncommon at all to see players reply with that phrase. It's even got it's own thread.
- /10chars, something the forum came up with to beat the minimum post length of 10 characters that took on a life of its own.
- [REDACTED]Explanation One of the dev blogs for season 8 replaced anything relating to the Solanae Dyson Sphere or omega particles with [REDACTED], and things went downhill from there.
- Franklin Drake must die! Explanation An NPC who tricks the player character pretty thoroughly into doing his bidding more than once. Some people weren't too happy about it.
- "K-7 has been cloaked as part of a Klingon plot!" Explanation A glitch caused the aforementioned station to disappear, prompting the joking explanation from the developers which also became an Ascended Meme.
- Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin... Explanation The first mission with voice acting ("What Lies Beneath"), which was released near Halloween, involved exploring a dark, creepy abandoned section of a space station. The voice comes out of nowhere and seriously scared a surprising amount of people.
- Our ships are crewed by tribbles! Explanation Due to misunderstanding the game's UI, some people thought an "able crew" meter, which will drain and refill as the ship is attacked, represented hundreds of red shirts dying and being reborn constantly.
- Noun Tribble Explanation The first few special rewards for helping test new content were Borg tribbles and Undine tribbles. A holographic tribble came later. Now, anytime there's speculation for a new limited availability item, the first guess is always some kind of tribble.
- The Third Borg Dynasty Explanation The exploration clusters used a randomly-chosen enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of Borg ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".
- Please leave your sanity at the door Explanation Standard greeting for new devs joining the forums for the first time.
- [Inconsequential minor detail] ISN'T CANON! I'M QUITTING! Explanation The Star Trek fandom looking way too hard at 3D models and threatening to Rage Quit over tiny inconsistencies with the TV program.
- Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. Explanation A misquote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack (referring to the expansion being a financial success), at first often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it. Later on the dislike of the expansion diminished after most of its problems got fixed, and so did this quote, which will however still turn up now and then if players want to express disdain for actions of the developers.
- X is an exploit Explanation When Cryptic cracked down on those using a bug to level up quickly, players began using this to deride any and everything that could be helpful or fun as an exploit.
- 17x better Explanation From the same incident that spawned "X is an exploit", with the reasoning for the crackdown being that people were grinding as fast as 17x more than normal.
- X is a reporting bug.Explanation Al "CaptainGeko" Rivera, the lead designer, claimed on Priority One Podcast that the public PVE queues seemed empty after Delta Rising launched because there was a UI glitch. Everybody and his brother called BS based on the fact that the amount time it took every single raid to actually start had increased by a large margin along with the observed emptiness of the queues.
- Shaka when the walls fell!Explanation While it already has a place in Trek lore for essentially being the phrase for Epic Fail in Tamarian (see Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok" for details), it was used to describe the utter removal of the old Sector Space zones, turning the smaller Alpha, Beta and Delta Quadrants into one massive world.
- Hail Ba'al!Explanation A discussion thread on a piece of STO news somehow got derailed into an RP session involving people swearing allegiance to the System Lord Ba'al from Stargate SG-1. It's mostly confined to its own thread in Ten Forward at the moment but it occasionally crops up elsewhere on the forums.
- I can haz your stuff?Explanation "I quit" posts aren't allowed on the forums, but that doesn't stop players from writing out diatribes about the game and that they're quitting. Most responses usually start out with this.
- The troop transports from the shipyard/starbase are moving towards the planet! Explanation In a similar vein to the "Kurland here" meme, part of Captain Kagran's dialogue in the middle phase of the Season 10 PVE "Gateway to Gre'thor" is to repeatedly tell the player that each troop transport ship they have to protect are beginning their runs toward Qo'noS. Given that he says this for each ship, which arrive in groups of three, it can get rather irksome after a short time.
- THIS IS ADMIRAL LEETA OF THE I.S.S. ENTERPRISE! Explanation Another "Kurland here"-level quote, this time from Season 11-introduced baddie Mirror Leeta. When she shows up in the Badlands during the final assault, the game cuts to a cutscene where chews up the scenery by announcing her arrival. And this just one quote.
- HAIL TACOFANGS!Explanation "Tacofangs" being the screen name of Nick Duguid, one of Cryptic's artists and universally beloved by the game's notoriously
Unpleasable Fanbase. He was even informally elected "forum overlord" circa 2015. - "I have winter items for a bargain", "Don't you want an epohh friend?", and any of the other ambient dialogue lines in Q's Winter Wonderland.
- "We're taking too much damage! Deploy defensive countermeasures-" "Make repai-" "Repairs complete! Now you will face the WRATH of the TERRAN EMPIRE!" Explanation Mirror Leeta's voice lines from the third stage of the Counterpoint TFO, memetic due to the constant overlapping.
