![]() ![]() The Trope Namer is "Beam me up, Scotty", never actually uttered in Star Trek: The Original Series. This is all well and good, but we here at All The Tropes think people should at least know what the line they're paraphrasing is meant to be. Sometimes the trailer shortened the quote to save time, and its version became better known. The misquote provides context necessary to recognize or appreciate the reference, as in " Luke, I Am Your Father", or fills in parts of the sentence that are orphaned from the interesting bit, as in "Hell fury like a woman scorned". Usually a misquotation or a slight paraphrase of something that actually was said or done, or a combination of several common or famous lines. Lines that people associate with something or someone by way of Popcultural Osmosis, despite the fact that they were never uttered by them, or only rarely were. ![]()
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