10 Star Trek Quotes That Made Us Trekkies

You might be wondering why this quote, of all quotes, makes it to this list. Well, first of all, it's Garak! If he hasn't made you a die-hard Trekkie, there's little else that will. Second, in a contradiction that we should all be able to cope with, the opposing morality of Deep Space 9's crafty 'tailor' is exactly what Star Trek is all about, and it made us all fall fan-ly in love with the character.

What the writers and producers of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine realised brilliantly is that you can't have a paradise without someone looking in. The thing about the observer effect is that it changes the system under observation. That was the role of Garak. By challenging the members of Starfleet and the Federation in even their most basic of assumptions — there couldn't possibly be another meaning to The Boy Who Cried Wolf, could there? — he disrupted the entire tale of morality they, or rather we like to tell ourselves.

"Never tell the same lie twice" doesn't make us Trekkies because we follow it as advice, but because we use it as intended — to question (critically) the systems and structures around us, to seek out and embrace different perspectives on life, and to trouble the status quo. Garak was always telling the truth, by pointing out the lies.