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* "We're taking too much damage! Deploy defensive countermeasures-" "Make repai-" "Repairs complete! Now you will face the WRATH of the ''TERRAN EMPIRE!''"

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* "We're taking too much damage! Deploy defensive countermeasures-" "Make repai-" "Repairs complete! Now you will face the WRATH of the ''TERRAN EMPIRE!''"EMPIRE!''" [[labelnote:Explanation]] Mirror Leeta's voice lines from the third stage of the Counterpoint TFO, memetic due to the constant overlapping. [[/labelnote]]
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* "I have winter items for a ''bargain''", "Don't you want an epohh friend?", and any of the other ambient dialogue lines in Q's Winter Wonderland.
* "We're taking too much damage! Deploy defensive countermeasures-" "Make repai-" "Repairs complete! Now you will face the WRATH of the ''TERRAN EMPIRE!''"
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Frickin' Laser Beams entry amended in accordance with this Trope Repair Shop Thread.


* Dinosaurs with freaking laser beams (with various other adverbs sometimes replacing 'freaking').[[labelnote:Explanation]]A disparaging comment on season 8's use of the Voth ([[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]) as the MonsterOfTheWeek, with the addition of what amounts to ''T. rex'', ''Deinonychus'' and ''Allosaurus'' `with FrickinLaserBeams attached to their heads.[[/labelnote]]

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* Dinosaurs with freaking laser beams (with various other adverbs sometimes replacing 'freaking').[[labelnote:Explanation]]A disparaging comment on season 8's use of the Voth ([[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]) as the MonsterOfTheWeek, with the addition of what amounts to ''T. rex'', ''Deinonychus'' and ''Allosaurus'' `with FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] attached to their heads.[[/labelnote]]
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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A misquote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack (referring to the expansion being a ''financial'' success), often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]

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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A misquote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack (referring to the expansion being a ''financial'' success), at first often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.it. Later on the dislike of the expansion diminished after most of its problems got fixed, and so did this quote, which will however still turn up now and then if players want to express disdain for actions of the developers.[[/labelnote]]
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** With the change of maps and thus the removal of Sirius Sector as a unique instance, tribble puns as such all but disappeared. However, by now the forum uses TRIBBLE to replace censored words and players will sometimes use variations on this to humorous purposes. ''"You can TRIBBLE my EPOHH!"''
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* HAIL TACOFANGS![[labelnote:Explanation]]"Tacofangs" being the screen name of Nick Duguid, one of Cryptic's artists and universally beloved by the game's notoriously UnpleasableFanbase. He was even informally elected "forum overlord" circa 2015.[[/labelnote]]
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* The Third Borg Dynasty [[labelnote:Explanation]]The exploration clusters used a [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels randomly-chosen]] enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of [[EldritchAbomination Borg]] ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".[[/labelnote]]

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* The Third Borg Dynasty [[labelnote:Explanation]]The exploration clusters used a [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels randomly-chosen]] enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of [[EldritchAbomination [[RobotWar Borg]] ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".[[/labelnote]]
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* THIS IS ADMIRAL LEETA OF THE I.S.S. ''ENTERPRISE''! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another "Kurland here"-level quote, this time from Season 11-introduced baddie Mirror Leeta. When she shows up in the Badlands during the final assault, the game cuts to a cutscene where [[LargeHam chews up the scenery]] by announcing her arrival. And this just ''one quote''.]]

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* THIS IS ADMIRAL LEETA OF THE I.S.S. ''ENTERPRISE''! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another "Kurland here"-level quote, this time from Season 11-introduced baddie Mirror Leeta. When she shows up in the Badlands during the final assault, the game cuts to a cutscene where [[LargeHam chews up the scenery]] by announcing her arrival. And this just ''one quote''.]][[/labelnote]]
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* THIS IS ADMIRAL LEETA OF THE I.S.S. ''ENTERPRISE''! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another "Kurland here"-level quote, this time from Season 11-introduced baddie Mirror Leeta. When she shows up in the Badlands during the final assault, the game cuts to a cutscene where [[LargeHam chews up the scenery]] by announcing her arrival. And this just ''one quote''.]]
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* The troop transports from the shipyard/starbase are moving towards the planet! [[labelnote:Explanation]]In a similar vein to the "Kurland here" meme, part of Captain Kagran's dialogue in the middle phase of the Season 10 PVE "Gateway to Gre'thor" is to ''repeatedly'' tell the player that ''each'' troop transport ship they have to protect are beginning their runs toward Qo'noS. Given that he says this for each ship, which arrive in groups of three, it can get rather irksome after a short time.[[/labelnote]]
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* I can haz your stuff?[[labelnote:Explanation]]"I quit" posts aren't allowed on the forums, but that doesn't stop players from writing out diatribes about the game and that they're quitting. Most responses usually start out with this.[[/labelnote]]
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* The Third Borg Dynasty [[labelnote:Explanation]]The exploration clusters used a [[RandomlyGeneratedContent randomly-chosen]] enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of [[EldritchAbomination Borg]] ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".[[/labelnote]]
* Leave your sanity at the door [[labelnote:Explanation]][[WelcomeToHell Standard greeting]] for new devs joining the forums for the first time.[[/labelnote]]

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* The Third Borg Dynasty [[labelnote:Explanation]]The exploration clusters used a [[RandomlyGeneratedContent [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels randomly-chosen]] enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of [[EldritchAbomination Borg]] ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".[[/labelnote]]
* Leave Please leave your sanity at the door [[labelnote:Explanation]][[WelcomeToHell Standard greeting]] for new devs joining the forums for the first time.[[/labelnote]]

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* Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin... [[labelnote:Explanation]]The first mission with voice acting, which was released near Halloween, and involved exploring a dark, creepy abandoned section of a space station. The voice comes out of nowhere and seriously scared a surprising amount of people.[[/labelnote]]
* Our ships are crewed by tribbles! [[labelnote:Explanation]]due to misunderstanding the game's UI, some people thought an "able crew" meter, which will drain and refill as the ship is attacked, represented hundreds of red shirts dying and being reborn constantly.[[/labelnote]]
* Noun Tribble [[labelnote:Explanation]]the first few special rewards for helping test new content were Borg tribbles and Undine tribbles. A holographic tribble came later. Now, anytime there's speculation for a new limited availability item, the first guess is always some kind of tribble.[[/labelnote]]

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* Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin... [[labelnote:Explanation]]The first mission with voice acting, acting ("What Lies Beneath"), which was released near Halloween, and involved exploring a dark, creepy abandoned section of a space station. The voice comes out of nowhere and seriously scared a surprising amount of people.[[/labelnote]]
* Our ships are crewed by tribbles! [[labelnote:Explanation]]due [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to misunderstanding the game's UI, some people thought an "able crew" meter, which will drain and refill as the ship is attacked, represented hundreds of red shirts dying and being reborn constantly.[[/labelnote]]
* Noun Tribble [[labelnote:Explanation]]the [[labelnote:Explanation]]The first few special rewards for helping test new content were Borg tribbles and Undine tribbles. A holographic tribble came later. Now, anytime there's speculation for a new limited availability item, the first guess is always some kind of tribble.[[/labelnote]]
* The Third Borg Dynasty [[labelnote:Explanation]]The exploration clusters used a [[RandomlyGeneratedContent randomly-chosen]] enemy faction for each mini-mission, but with Klingon-sounding dialogue no matter which was chosen. This created a number of amusing situations, such as destroying groups of [[EldritchAbomination Borg]] ships "looking for artifacts from their third dynasty".[[/labelnote]]
* Leave your sanity at the door [[labelnote:Explanation]][[WelcomeToHell Standard greeting]] for new devs joining the forums for the first time.
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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack (referring to the expansion being a ''financial'' success), often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]

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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote misquote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack (referring to the expansion being a ''financial'' success), often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]
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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack, often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]

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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack, pack (referring to the expansion being a ''financial'' success), often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]
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* Hail Ba'al![[labelnote:Explanation]]A discussion thread on a piece of STO news somehow got derailed into an RP session involving people swearing allegiance to the System Lord Ba'al from ''Series/StargateSG1''. It's mostly confined to its own thread in Ten Forward at the moment but it occasionally crops up elsewhere on the forums.[[/labelnote]]
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* Shaka when the walls fell![[labelnote:Explanation]]While it already has a place in Trek lore for essentially being the phrase for EpicFail in Tamarian (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS05E02Darmok Darmok]]" for details), it was used to describe the utter removal of the old Sector Space zones, turning the smaller Alpha, Beta and Delta Quadrants into one massive world.[[/labelnote]]

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* Shaka when the walls fell![[labelnote:Explanation]]While it already has a place in Trek lore for essentially being the phrase for EpicFail in Tamarian (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS05E02Darmok "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]" for details), it was used to describe the utter removal of the old Sector Space zones, turning the smaller Alpha, Beta and Delta Quadrants into one massive world.[[/labelnote]]
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* Shaka when the walls fell![[labelnote:Explanation]]While it already has a place in Trek lore for essentially being the phrase for EpicFail in Tamarian (see ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS05E02Darmok Darmok]]" for details), it was used to describe the utter removal of the old Sector Space zones, turning the smaller Alpha, Beta and Delta Quadrants into one massive world.[[/labelnote]]
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* X is an exploit [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Cryptic cracked down on those using a bug to level up quickly, players began using this to deride ''any and everything'' that could be helpful or fun as an exploit.[[/labelnote]]
* 17x better [[labelnote:Explanation]]From the same incident that spawned "X is an exploit", with the reasoning for the crackdown being that people were grinding as fast as 17x more than normal.[[/labelnote]]
* X is a reporting bug.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Al "[=CaptainGeko=]" Rivera, the lead designer, claimed on ''Priority One Podcast'' that the public PVE queues seemed empty after ''Delta Rising'' launched because there was a UI glitch. Everybody and his brother called BS based on the fact that the amount time it took every single raid to actually start had increased by a large margin along with the observed emptiness of the queues.[[/labelnote]]
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* Delta Rising is the best expansion ever, and the players love it. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from the developers regarding the Delta Rising expansion pack, often used ironically by the rather large portion of the playerbase that does not in fact like it.[[/labelnote]]
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When adding to one of the subpages, please follow this format. Not everyone knows where a particular meme came from or how it's used. Even if it's potholed.

* Meme name: [[labelnote:Explanation]]description of meme and how it's used.[[/labelnote]]
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* [[NoIndoorVoice CONGRATULATIONS LIEUTENANT]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]The game (in the voice of either Spock, Worf, or Sela, depending on faction) loudly congratulating you for increasing in level.[[/labelnote]]
* "WHERE'S SULU?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Early on, players had a massive problem locating the character Akira Sulu (in case you're wondering, yes, he's related to [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Hikaru Sulu]]). It became an AscendedMeme when, during the second anniversary, you could pose the question to Q Junior, and he would complain about the player character [[DiscreditedMeme using an ancient meme]].[[/labelnote]]
* KURLAND HERE. THIS IS KURLAND. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In the mission "Boldly They Rode", players would be interrupted during a spacewalk by the character James Kurland, who'd always speak up with either "KURLAND HERE." or "THIS IS KURLAND". It got old quite fast, especially since he had paid lip service to ''maintaining radio silence'' at the beginning of the mission stage.[[/labelnote]]
* Every time people begin making Tribble-related puns anywhere in the Sirius sector block, [[SubvertedTrope put the drinks away.]] Not even [[Series/{{Sanctuary}} Nikola Tesla]] could survive that much alcohol in his system.
* Similarly, don't even mention the word 'Gorn' on zone chat unless you're prepared for [[HurricaneOfPuns an ungodly flood of puns related to the word]].
* Dinosaurs with freaking laser beams (with various other adverbs sometimes replacing 'freaking').[[labelnote:Explanation]]A disparaging comment on season 8's use of the Voth ([[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]) as the MonsterOfTheWeek, with the addition of what amounts to ''T. rex'', ''Deinonychus'' and ''Allosaurus'' `with FrickinLaserBeams attached to their heads.[[/labelnote]]
* '''ACTING!''' [[labelnote:Explanation]]The mission "A Step Between Stars" has a StarTrekShake that is just a ''little'' over the top.[[/labelnote]]
* DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Whenever posters on the forums get overly dramatic about how the game is going and declaring that the game is dying, it's not uncommon at all to see players reply with that phrase. It's even got it's own thread.[[/labelnote]]
* /10chars, something the forum came up with to beat the minimum post length of 10 characters that took on a life of its own.
* [REDACTED][[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the dev blogs for season 8 replaced anything relating to the Solanae DysonSphere or omega particles with [REDACTED], and things went downhill from there.[[/labelnote]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Franklin Drake]] must die! [[labelnote:Explanation]]An NPC who tricks the player character pretty thoroughly into doing his bidding more than once. Some people weren't too happy about it.[[/labelnote]]
* "K-7 has been cloaked as part of a Klingon plot!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A glitch caused the aforementioned station to disappear, prompting the joking explanation from the developers which also became an AscendedMeme.[[/labelnote]]
* Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin... [[labelnote:Explanation]]The first mission with voice acting, which was released near Halloween, and involved exploring a dark, creepy abandoned section of a space station. The voice comes out of nowhere and seriously scared a surprising amount of people.[[/labelnote]]
* Our ships are crewed by tribbles! [[labelnote:Explanation]]due to misunderstanding the game's UI, some people thought an "able crew" meter, which will drain and refill as the ship is attacked, represented hundreds of red shirts dying and being reborn constantly.[[/labelnote]]
* Noun Tribble [[labelnote:Explanation]]the first few special rewards for helping test new content were Borg tribbles and Undine tribbles. A holographic tribble came later. Now, anytime there's speculation for a new limited availability item, the first guess is always some kind of tribble.[[/labelnote]]
* [Inconsequential minor detail] ISN'T CANON! I'M QUITTING! [[labelnote:Explanation]]The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fandom looking way too hard at 3D models and threatening to RageQuit over tiny inconsistencies with the TV program.[[/labelnote]]
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