Scotty: He’s turned the engines off. Completely cold. It will take thirty minutes to regenerate them.
Uhura: Ship’s outer skin is beginning to heat, Captain. Orbit plot shows we have about eight minutes left.
Kirk: Scotty!
Scotty: I can’t change the laws of physics. I’ve got to have thirty minutes.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 6 – “The Naked Time”
Giles: We have to find Buffy. Something terrible’s happened. Just kidding. Thought I’d give you a scare. Are those finger sandwiches?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 5 – “Homecoming”
As far as dear Sophie was concerned life at sea was to be – why, not exactly an eternal picnic, but something not altogether unlike; occasional hardships, to be sure (shortage of coffee, fresh milk, vegetables), and guns going off now and then, and a clash of swords, but without any real people getting hurt: those that happened to die did so instantly, from wounds that could not be seen; they were only figures in the casualty-list.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
Mal: Okay, help me find our man. He’s supposed to be old, kinda stocky, wears a red sash crossways.
Kaylee: Why does he do that?
Mal: Maybe he won the Miss Persephone Pageant. Just help me look.
Kaylee: (pointing) Is that him?
Mal: That’s the buffet table.
Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
Mal: Fine. Don’t make yourself sick.
Kaylee: Oh, xiè xiè [“thank you”], Captain.
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden.
Uhura: Sorry, neither.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 6 – “The Naked Time”
Willow: I mean, this time, it’s not your boyfriend who’s the cold-blooded… (Oz walks in) Jelly doughnut?
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(later in the episode)
Giles: Our task now is to determine what sort of killer we *are* dealing with. Clearly, we’re looking for a depraved, sadistic animal.
Oz: (entering) Present. (Willow rushes over to him) Hey, I may be a cold-blooded jelly doughnut, but my timing is impeccable.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 4 – “Beauty and the Beasts”
