Wham Line / Star Trek

• In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, there are three, relatively close to one another.
  • The first is when Chekov and his team are examining a ship's wreckage on the planet under consideration as a test site for the Genesis Device, and he comes across a belt buckle with the name "Botany Bay" written on it
    [Confused, and slightly worried] "...Botany Bay?" *Realization hits.* "Botany Bay! Oh no...!" *full blown panic* "We've got to get out of here now!"
  • This is followed shortly, by Khan confronting Chekov, and explaining the dire situation he and his men face, and features two by Khan himself:
    Khan: Admiral Kirk... sent seventy of us into exile on this barren sand heap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us.
    Chekov: You lie! On Ceti Alpha V, there was life! A fighting chance-
    Khan: THIS IS CETI ALPHA V! (long pause) ...Ceti Alpha VI... exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet, and everything was laid waste.
  • After further explaining the situation to them, however, Khan suddenly raises a hand, and his expression changes from one of confusion, to epiphany, to elation, as he says:
    "...You didn't expect to find me; you thought this was... Ceti Alpha VI. Ah! Why are you here?" *grabs the collar of Chekov's suit, and lifts him into the air one handed* "Why?"
  • Arguably, the moment that really changes the tone of the movie is Uhura's line:
    Uhura: Admiral, Commander Reliant is signaling. He wishes to discuss terms of our surrender.
  • Also, who can forget this gem from Kirk:
    "I don't believe in the no-win scenario."
  • And lastly, while the audience already knows about Spock's sacrifice, it certainly counts as one to Kirk:
    Kirk: Engine room, well done, Scotty.
    Bones: Jim... I think you'd better get down here.
    Kirk: Bones?
    (the screen flashes to Spock's chair, which is empty)
    Bones: ...Better hurry.
• In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home after the trial the crew wonder what ship they'll get to replace the destroyed Enterprise, and reason that it will probably be Excelsior. The shuttle heads for the Excelsior .... then as we hear the familiar fanfare, goes around it to reveal the Enterprise-A.
  Kirk: My friends.....we've come home.
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has possibly the most obvious one in the series.
  Kirk: What's happened?!
  Spock: We have fired on the Chancellor's ship!!
• Star Trek: Generations has one of the most shocking in the franchise:
  Geordi: "We're 5 minutes from a warp core breach! There's nothing I can do!"
• From Star Trek: First Contact, as the Enterprise travels back in time and notice Earth's appearance has changed.
  Data: (reading sensors) Population: approximately 9 billion... all Borg.
• In Star Trek: Insurrection, when Picard realizes what the metaphasic radiation is doing to him and the crew, he beams down to ask the Ba'ku:
  Picard: How old are you?
  • Later, Picard reveals a startling discovery to Admiral Dougherty:
    Picard: Didn't you know, Admiral? The Son'a and the Ba'ku are the same race.
• In the 2009 reboot movie, before Vulcan gets consumed by a Romulan-made black hole.
  Chekov: Captain, the gravitational sensors are off the scale. If my calculations are correct, they're creating a singularity... that will... consume the planet.
• Another Star Trek example comes from Star Trek Into Darkness, wherein the main antagonist gives this.
  John Harrison: "John Harrison" was a fiction invented the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name... is... Khan.
  • And one mirroring one of the Wrath Of Khan examples above:
    Scotty: Commander Spock... I think you better get down here. You better hurry.
• Star Trek Beyond After Uhura and Sulu temporarily escape and send a distress signal, Krall confronts them.
  Sulu: You have no idea who we are. But you'll soon find out.
  Krall: You mean the distress signal you thought you sent? The coordinates were altered. Your rescue ships will be stranded in the Nebula, and your base left vulnerable...Millions of souls from every Federation world holding hands. It's a perfect target.