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?
…
(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”
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight?
Kaylee: Shows off your backside. Did you see the chandelier? It’s hovering!
Mal: What’s the point of that, I wonder?
Kaylee: Oh! Mangoes!
Mal: I mean, I see how they did it. I just ain’t getting the why.
Kaylee: These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I — how about that?
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you’re supposed to make me look respectable.
Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
Spock: I’m happy the affair is over. A most annoying emotional episode.
McCoy: Smack right in the old heart. Oh, I’m sorry. In your case, it would be about here.
Spock: The fact that my internal arrangement differs from yours, Doctor, pleases me no end.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 3 – “Mudd’s Women”
Giles: Right. It’s good to see you. Um, no need to panic.
Oz: Just a thought: poker: not your game.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 4 – “Beauty and the Beasts”
I particularly wished to serve my friend Aubrey. His agent absconded with all his prize-money; the court of appeal reversed the condemnation of two neutral vessels, leaving him £11,000 in debt. This happened when he was on the point of becoming engaged to a most amiable young woman. They are deeply attached to one another; but since her mother, a widow with considerable property under her own control, is a deeply stupid, griping, illiberal, avid, tenacious, pinchfist lickpenny, a sordid lickpenny and a shrew, there is no hope of marriage without his estate is cleared and he can make at least some kind of settlement upon her.
HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian
Badger: He won’t deal with me direct. He’s taken an irrational dislike.
Jayne: What happened? He see your face?
Badger: He’s a quality gent. Nose in the air like he never wun gwo pee [“smelled a fart”]. Don’t find me respectable. But you, now I figure you got a chance.
Mal: You backed out of a deal last time. Left us hanging.
Jayne: Hurt our feelings.
Mal: You recall why that took place?
Badger: Had a problem with your attitude is why. Felt you was… what’s the word?
Jayne: Pretentious?
(Mal gives Jayne a confused/surprised look)
Badger: Exactly! You think you’re better than other people.
Mal: Just the ones I’m better than.
Firefly – Episode 4 – “Shindig”
Spock: Nothing, Captain. No contacts, no objects in any direction.
Kirk: Care to speculate on what we’ll find if we go on ahead?
Spock: Speculate? No. Logically, we’ll discover the intelligence which sent out the cube.
Kirk: Intelligence different from ours or superior?
Spock: Probably both, and if you’re asking the logical decision to make
Kirk: No, I’m not. The mission of the Enterprise is to seek out and contact alien life.
Spock: Has it occurred to you that there’s a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you’ve already made up your mind about?
Kirk: It gives me emotional security.
Star Trek – Season 1: Episode 2 – “The Corbomite Maneuver”
Oz: How do, Debbie?
Debbie: Hi, Oz. Hey, you’re not doing jazz band this year?
Oz: Oh, can’t take the pressure. It’s not the music that’s hard, it’s the marching.
Buffy: We have a marching jazz band?
Oz: Yeah, but, you know, since the best jazz is improvisational, we’d be going off in all directions, banging into floats… Scary.
Willow: He’s just being Oz.
Oz: Pretty much full-time.
Buffy the Vanpire Slayer – Season 3: Episode 4 – “Beauty and the Beasts”
The Love Pirate 