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TNG moments that made you laugh.

No, I wouldn't call that humor - that was Picard using the Sheliak's own technicality against them. What I WOULD call humor was the rest of that scene...

SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: Absurd. We carry the membership. We can brook no delay.
PICARD: Then I declare the treaty in abeyance.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: Wait! Negotiation is permiss...
(Picard has him cut off in mid word)
RIKER: You enjoyed that.
PICARD: You're damned right.
WORF: Captain, they are hailing us.
(one, two, three, four, make him wait outside the door.)
(Picard inspects the ship's plaque for dust)
WORF: Sir?
(Five, six, seven, eight, does the beggar good to wait)
PICARD: On screen.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: You may have your three weeks, Picard of the Enterprise.
PICARD: Thank you.

I quite enjoyed that bit myself. Personally, I'd have loved to see Picard go and make himself a cup of tea while making the Sheliak sweat some more. :bolian:

One thing that made me laugh was in "Up the Long Ladder", the colonists were supposedly having this simple, almost Amish like life, right? Why did Brenna have some rather noticeable eyeliner and mascara? And Danilo's reaction to the idea having getting two or three women is subtle, but funny. :rommie:
 
I've always laughed at this scene as the worst forced attempt of humor in all of Trek imo.

PICARD: Pursuant to paragraph one thousand two hundred and ninety, I hereby formally request third party arbitration of our dispute.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: You have the right.
PICARD: Furthermore, pursuant to subsection D three, I name the Grisellas to arbitrate.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: Grisellas?
PICARD: Unfortunately, they are currently in their hibernation cycle, However, they will awaken in six months, at which time we can get this matter settled. Now, do you want to wait or give me my three weeks?

I don't know if it was intended to be funny, but it made me laugh out loud.
 
Data: To love him is to know him is to love him. Those who knew him...loved him those who did not know him...loved him.

Q: au contraire mon capitan heee's back! I'm immortal agian omnipotent again!!
 
One of the bits I've always liked was Picard and the three kids in Disaster.

It's all in the delivery more than the dialogue though; Picard's reactions to the kids as they describe their science projects crack me up.
 
I've always laughed at this scene as the worst forced attempt of humor in all of Trek imo.

PICARD: Pursuant to paragraph one thousand two hundred and ninety, I hereby formally request third party arbitration of our dispute.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: You have the right.
PICARD: Furthermore, pursuant to subsection D three, I name the Grisellas to arbitrate.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: Grisellas?
PICARD: Unfortunately, they are currently in their hibernation cycle, However, they will awaken in six months, at which time we can get this matter settled. Now, do you want to wait or give me my three weeks?

I don't know if it was intended to be funny, but it made me laugh out loud.

Not so much funny as the deep deep satisfaction of seeing a bunch of inflexible rules-lawyers get hoist by their own petard.

It's always nice seeing such people get exactly what they deserve. Note that, whan Picard dropped THAT little bomb on them, the Sheliac suddenly started being extremely reasonable about the whole thing.
 
I've always laughed at this scene as the worst forced attempt of humor in all of Trek imo.

PICARD: Pursuant to paragraph one thousand two hundred and ninety, I hereby formally request third party arbitration of our dispute.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: You have the right.
PICARD: Furthermore, pursuant to subsection D three, I name the Grisellas to arbitrate.
SHELIAK [on viewscreen]: Grisellas?
PICARD: Unfortunately, they are currently in their hibernation cycle, However, they will awaken in six months, at which time we can get this matter settled. Now, do you want to wait or give me my three weeks?

I don't know if it was intended to be funny, but it made me laugh out loud.

I always thought that's what they were going for but missed imo. Surely it couldn't have just been a coincidence?
 
Picard: You are definitely not an old lady.



Picard feeling the need to cover up his tits when he realizes Q is in the bed.
 
From 'The Enemy'

Romulan: "You're lying!"
Geordi: (very ernestly) "I never lie when I've got sand in my boots"
 
Geordi: She went where?

in Galaxy's child after Dr. Brahms goes to the holodeck :D

Edit: Oh, and one can't forget:

Worf: Captain, the creatures are accelerating their approach. They are changing color!!
 
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Forget the episode title...

Innocent young thing to Worf: Are you a Romulan?

Always makes me laugh, if only because if any other person had asked that of Worf, they would probably have died on the last syllable. My daughter has only basic Trek knowledge, and she thinks it hiliarious.
 
"Firstborn" - Riker, Worf and Troi are confronting the Duras sisters.

WORF: This was dropped by one of the assassins. It bears the crest of your house.
B'ETOR: Ge'ko kaf'la.
LURSA: Someone must have given it to the assassins to implicate us.
TROI: Why would someone do that?
B'ETOR: In order to tarnish our good name.
WORF: You cannot tarnish a rusted blade.
 
I laugh every time I see this. Picard's expression is great.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDUAtf9JLXY&feature=related[/yt]
 
I laugh every time I see this. Picard's expression is great.



Great scene.

Riker's "controlled" expression is also funny - and I find it noteworthy that Data, after starting to explain, suddenly gets a clue and shuts up without any assistance whatsoever.
 
Worf demonstrating the Klingon mating call to help either Wesley or Data (forget the episode now, sorry!) in his desire to have a relationship.
 
There was an episode (don't remember) where Worf gave up on correcting Lwaxanna when she called him "Mr. Woof".

When Worf called prune juice a 'warriors drink.'

When Data leaned on a nonexistant object and fell in "The Naked Now"
 
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