Quotes from Star Trek Novels

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The entire key to diplomacy is sincerity. Once that can be faked, the rest is simple.
--Spock; Star Trek, "The Rift," by Peter David

Picard: Worf, do you have eleven weapons on you?
Worf: Of course not, sir.
Picard: Good. (pause) How many… do you have on you?
Worf: Fourteen.
Picard: Worf… do you feel that’s appropriate? Regulations…
Worf: Regulations give the head-of-security broad discretionary powers. If I have the latitude to protect this crew and myself with extra… insurance… I will do so.
Gava: Fourteen? In a uniform far less designed for weapons concealment than that of a Klingon? Very impressive.
Worf: Everything about me is very impressive.
Picard: (thinking) Oh, God…
--Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Strike Zone," by Peter David

Only a fool fights in a burning house.
--Qwumwi the Eminently Quotable; Star Trek: The Next Generation, "A Rock and a Hard Place," by Peter David

A running man can slit a thousand throats in a single night.
--Qwumwi the Eminently Quotable; Star Trek: The Next Generation, "A Rock and a Hard Place," by Peter David

Riker: La Forge! Data! Watch it!
La Forge: What is it?
Riker: It's a Borg. A Borg that survived its ship being blown up.
La Forge: Just like you said, Commander.
Riker: That's why they pay me the big money, Mr. La Forge.
Data: I had presumed that a larger salary was due to higher rank, seniority…
La Forge: Not now, Data.
--Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Vendetta," by Peter David

Riker: [Lwaxana Troi]'s really beating the stuffing out of [Q]. What do you think we should do?
Worf: Sell tickets.
--Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Q-in-Law," by Peter David

It makes me sad to think that the great coliseums of old, with all the pomp and circumstance, and the eating of the Christians, would be turned over to a sport as banal as hitting a little white ball around a field, all the time trying to catch it. It just goes to prove, certain things don't get better.
--Q; Star Trek: The Next Generation, "I, Q," by John de Lancie and Peter David

Sisko: What's happening out there?
Dax: Subspace compression.
Sisko: Ahh, subspace compression.
Dax: Do you know what that is?
Sisko: Just a guess here. Technobabble?
--Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Siege," by Peter David

Mackenzie Calhoun: Some of the greatest tyrants and despots in history have announced that their intention is to make things far better than they were.
Burgoyne 472: Which makes sense. Who is going to attract followers by announcing that they're going to subjugate everyone except a select handful, or run their resources and economies into the ground?
--Star Trek: New Frontier, "Being Human," by Peter David