26 Star Trek Memes That Boldly Go Where Your Brain Lives Rent Free

Star Trek has always been serious about big ideas. Exploration. Humanity. Ethics. Space diplomacy. And also, somehow, it has accidentally produced some of the funniest memes on the internet. Because when you give people decades of dramatic speeches, questionable uniforms, time travel paradoxes, and captains who absolutely should not be trusted with temporal mechanics, the memes are inevitable.

These are the memes that only work because Star Trek takes itself just seriously enough. Spock being done with everyone. Picard facepalming before facepalming was a thing. Kirk solving problems by punching them. Data trying very hard to understand humor while being unintentionally hilarious. Worf getting knocked out for the fiftieth time. And Janeway making morally complex decisions that still somehow feel personal.

Whether you grew up on The Original Series reruns, worshipped at the altar of The Next Generation, binged Deep Space Nine as an adult and realized it was way darker than you remembered, or discovered Trek through Strange New Worlds, these memes hit the same universal truth. Star Trek is thoughtful, hopeful, occasionally ridiculous, and deeply memeable.