10 Shocking Moments Star Trek Used Profanity

Let's get right to the bottom of things. The word 'a**' has been a Star Trek staple ever since Scotty called Harry Mudd a 'jack**s' in Mudd's Women. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home gave us the "double dumb**s," and, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Kirk wants to "knock [Spock] on [his] goddamn a**". Kirk probably nabbed that last line from Jonathan Archer's oft-forgotten work Diplomacy for Difficult Vulcans in which he recalls the time he had to restrain himself from "knocking [Ambassador Soval] on [his] Vulcan a**". (Star Trek: Enterprise, Broken Bow)

Not to be left behind, in Encounter at Farpoint, Picard's notorious nervousness around all those little rascals on the Enterprise-D had him practically ordering Riker to stop him "making an a** of [himself] with children". The line "I'm not a family man, Riker," as Picard says in the same scene, seems almost prophetic now.

It’s Captain Phillipa Louvois who really sizes up Jean-Luc in The Measure of a Man when she says, "It brings a sense of order and stability to my universe to know that you're still a pompous a**. And a damn sexy man". Plenty of rooms on that Starbase, you guys! And darn, I missed a 'damn' in the other entry!

There are a few more 'a**es' in Star Trek, as well as an 'a**hole' in Picard's Et in Arcadia Ego ("someone's a**hole Romulan ex-boyfriend," in fact), and, in the Lower Decks episode Veritas, Mariner asked the question we'd all been asking for years: "who's the biggest bada** [read: in Star Trek]?"