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More Precious than Gold

Mitchell: A room full of gold and jewels and Dr. Daniel Jackson finds the one book.

Stargate SG1, Avalon 2

Heroes

Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

— The first Matrix

Buckle Your Seatbelt

Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye.

— The first Matrix

Blue Pills

I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?

— Cypher, in the first Matrix

Star Trek

Dr. Zefram Cochrane: So you're all astronauts on some sort of... star trek?

— Star Trek First Contact

Nature Calls

Dr. Zefram Cochrane: I've gotta take a leak.
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge: Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?

— Star Trek First Contact

Ray Guns

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Maximum setting! If you had fired, you'd have vaporized me.
Lily Sloane: [sheepish] It's my first ray gun.

— Star Trek First Contact

Heroes

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, do you remember your zero-G combat training?
Lt. Commander Worf: I remember how it made me sick to my stomach.

— Star Trek First Contact

Great Men

Cmdr. William Riker: Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment."
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Cmdr. William Riker: "You did, ten years from now."

— Star Trek First Contact

We are the Borg

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

— Star Trek First Contact

Heroes

Dr. Zefram Cochrane: A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... and you're here to stop them?
Cmdr. William Riker: That's right.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Hot damn! You're heroic.

— Star Trek First Contact

Professional Opinion

Cmdr. Deanna Troi: If you're looking for my professional opinion as ship's counselor: he's nuts.
Cmdr. William Riker: I'll be sure to note that in my log.

— Star Trek First Contact

You lost what?

"I'm looking for a planet..."
"Lost a planet Master Obi Wan has. How embarrassing."

— Obi Wan and Yoda, "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"

Time Travel

"It's 1869. How can I die now?"
"Time isn't a straight line. It can twist into any shape. You can be born in the 20th century and die in the 19th and it's all my fault. Sorry... And how do you think I feel? I saw the fall of Troy, World War Five, I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party — now I'm going to die in a dungeon. In Cardiff."

— Rose and The Doctor, trapped in a tight spot, "The Unquiet Dead"

Chain of Command

Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command around here.

— Firefly