A simile was a figure of speech that directly comparing one thing to another, explicitly drew a connection between two different things with the words "as" or "like".
Discussing the interruption in the USS Enterprise sensors caused by the red bursts detected in 2257, Commander Michael Burnham described the interruption as "like a compass at the north pole." Evan Connolly indicated he found the "metaphor" simplistic, though Burnham corrected him that her statement was more accurately described as a simile. Captain Christopher Pike admired her correction, noting: "He said you were smart." (DIS: "Brother")
Similes[]
- Trip Tucker describing what he had seen while serving aboard Enterprise NX-01 (ENT: "Dawn")
- "As big as a house."
- The size of a kava root mentioned in Kira Nerys' story (DS9: "Starship Down")
- "As big as Crenshaw melons and twice as heavy."
- Joseph Sisko's eggplants (DS9: "Homefront")
- "As big as life."
- Montgomery Scott describing the Dyson sphere (TNG: "Relics")
- Stated by Rom upon the unexpected appearance of Grand Nagus Zek. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")
- Upon returning to the 23rd century aboard the HMS Bounty, Rear Admiral James T. Kirk made mention of them being "Out of control, and blind as a bat!" (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
- "As blind as a Tiberian bat."
- "As blind as a stump."
- Geordi La Forge's self-described abilities without his VISOR (TNG: "Loud As A Whisper")
- "As bright as a Koladan diamond."
- "(As) clear as Tabalian glass."
- DS9: "For the Cause"
- "As dry as a bone."
- (DS9: "The Assignment")
- "As dry as Vulcan."
- (VOY: "Concerning Flight")
- (VOY: "The Killing Game")
- "As easy as 1, 2, 3."
- (ENT: "Vanishing Point")
- "As easy as a long sleep."
- "As easy as pie."
- When Henry Starling attempted to coerce The Doctor to cooperate, he inflicted pain on the hologram by reconfiguring his tactile response sensors, a task which he said was "easy as proverbial pie." (VOY: "Future's End")
- "As good as dead."
- TNG: "Bloodlines"; DS9: "Statistical Probabilities", "The Siege of AR-558"; VOY: "Sacred Ground"
- "As good as new."
- TOS: "The Devil in the Dark"; DS9: "Captive Pursuit"; ENT: "Home"
- "As good as your word."
- "(As) hard as nails"
- "As hard as separ gemstones and twice as sharp."
- "As healthy as a proverbial horse."
- "As healthy as a Rigellian ox."
- "(As) healthy as a targ."
- "As healthy as you were the first day I examined you."
- "As peaceful as a bull."
- Said of Flavius Maximus, intending to indicate he was anything but (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
- "As peaceful as sheep."
- Spock's impression of the Argelians (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")
- "As right as rain."
- DS9: "Children of Time", "Time's Orphan"
- "As smart as any man."
- "(As) smooth as an android's bottom."
- "As smooth as ice."
- How Miles O'Brien described the easy of which he was going to beam Data out (TNG: "Pen Pals")
- "As strong and proud as its lady is beautiful"
- In 2373, Quark made the following toast: "To the House of Grilka. May it continue to be as strong and proud as its lady is beautiful." (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
- "(As) strong as a bull"
- "As thick as a Toarian ice storm out there"
- "(As) thick as armor"
- Spoken by Kor, who described that "our skin so parched and blistered it was thick as armor." (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
- "As tough as anybody"
- "(As) tough as nails"
- ENT: "Unexpected"
- "As tough as they come"
- Parmen's belief that nothing would be better than (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- "Better than Leningrad."
- Pavel Chekov's impression of Mudd (TOS: "I, Mudd")
- "Bigger than Elvis."
Synonymous with being brazen or bold. (TOS: "The Way to Eden"/TNG: "The Outrageous Okona"; VOY: "Q2")
- See: Have got the brass
- "Breed like tribbles."
- Quark's description of Cardassian voles (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")
A variation of the Human phrase "breed like rabbits."
- "Built like a fortress."
- How Captain Kirk referred to the Shore Leave Planet when attempting to gain access to the planet's control center.
- "Burn up like a cinder."
- Montgomery Scott's description of what would happen if the Enterprise were to try to warp out or move on impulse from Beta III, and the ship were to lose its shields (TOS: "The Return of the Archons")
- "Busier than an Alvanian beehive."
- "Carving us up like a roast."
- "Clean as a whistle."
- "Compared to them, we're like a garden snail."
- "Crying like a baby"
- "Dead as a doornail."
- "Dropping like flies."
- "Feels like a house with all the children gone."
- Kirk's impression of the Enterprise as it returned to spacedock, after most of the trainees had been reassigned (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
- "Feels like a prison cell to me."
- Odo's sense of his confinement to quarters aboard Lovok's warbird, mostly due to it having "force fields around the bulkheads and a guard outside the door." (DS9: "The Die is Cast")
- "Feels like ants crawling all over my body."
- Scott's description of the energy flow near the magnetic bottle. Spock suggested he "refrain from any further subjective descriptions." (TOS: "That Which Survives")
- "Feels like (my neck's) been twisted off."
- Kirk after experiencing the Vulcan death grip (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
- "(It) feels like we're being pecked to death by ducks."
- "Fit as a fiddle."
- DS9: "The Passenger"
- "Fits like a glove."
- "Fresh as the day they were picked."
- How Trip Tucker described the Georgia peaches that were in stasis aboard Enterprise NX-01 (ENT: "Extinction")
- "Fruity as a nut cake."
- McCoy's supposed condition, according to Kirk, while being possessed by Spock's katra (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
- TOS: "Metamorphosis"
- "Hollow as a snare drum."
- Vic Fontaine, a hologram, comparing himself to Nog, a Ferengi (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon")
- "Hot as Vulcan."
- Following Kirk's initial impression of Vulcan, following their arrival in 2267, described as "It's lovely. I wish the breeze were cooler." McCoy added, "Yeah. Hot as Vulcan. Now I understand what that phrase means." (TOS: "Amok Time")
- "Hotter than hell."
- (ENT: "Desert Crossing", "Dawn")
- "Hotter than the Tarkanian desert."
- "Hunted down like an animal."
- How Menos described what T'Pol did to capture Jossen (ENT: "The Seventh")
- "In some parts of the galaxy I have seen forms of entertainment that makes this look like a folk dance."
- Kirk downplays the barbarism of Name the Winner on planet 892-IV (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
- "It moves like a cat."
- "It was like a stinking draft out of a slaughterhouse."
- Montgomery Scott's impression of the Red Jack entity (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")
- "It was like being inside joy. As if joy was something tangible, and you could wrap yourself in it like a blanket."
- Guinan describing the Nexus (Star Trek Generations)
- "It's better than nothing"
- "Its hull's at least twice as thick as ours..."
- Travis Mayweather comparing the Enterprise NX-01 with a Klingon Raptor-class (ENT: "Sleeping Dogs")
- "It's like a jigsaw puzzle all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in."
- "It's like a man who has been blind all of his life, suddenly being given sight.
- "It's like a pail of water on a fire."
- "It's like a predator."
- How Tolian Soran described time (Star Trek Generations)
- "It's like discovering Atlantis or Shangri-La."
- James T. Kirk's reaction following his arrival Amerind (TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome")
- "It's like saponin, only it's a thousand times stronger."
- "It's like sending up a flare."
- "It's like something out of Alice in Wonderland."
- Leonard McCoy's initial reaction to the Shore Leave Planet (TOS: "Shore Leave")
- "It's like working in a damned computer center."
- McCoy's reaction to the refit Enterprise's revised medical facilities (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- "It's twice as strong as whisky."
- Janeway describing bloodwine (VOY: "The Killing Game")
- "Like a juggernaut, it could begin moving at any moment."
- Riker's description of a Borg drone standing in its regeneration alcove (TNG: "Q Who")
- "Like a bat out of hell"
- TNG: "Booby Trap"
- "Like a charm."
- "Like a hawk."
- How Kirk wanted McCoy to keep an eye on procedures (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- How B'Elanna Torres wanted Seven of Nine to watch the dilithium matrix (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
- "Like a man...."
- "Like a man who's asking his friend if he can start dating his sister"
- William T. Riker's impression of Worf's unspecified interest in Deanna Troi (TNG: "Eye of the Beholder")
- "Like a man who's lost his faith"
- Lwaxana Troi's impression of Timicin (TNG: "Half a Life")
- Something Gowron accused Worf of being while waiting for his response to join him in battle (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
- "Like a paragon of virtue."
- Something Eve McHuron once read regarding how a commander had to act (TOS: "Mudd's Women")
- "Like a pet owner speaking to a beloved animal."
- Kirk's analysis of Zephram Cochrane's relationship with the Companion (TOS: "Metamorphosis")
- "Like the poor man's Aurelians."
- Peanut Hamper's description of the Areore (LD: "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption")
- "Like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target."
- Kirk's insult to Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- "Like a team of animals under one whip?"
- Spock's version of Khan Noonien Singh's idea of attempting to unify Humanity (TOS: "Space Seed")
- "Like a tin can"
- When Captain Kathryn Janeway threatened to flying into a binary pulsar, she explained her reasoning as "It seems like I'm trying to crush this ship like a tin can." (VOY: "Scientific Method")
- "Like a ton of bricks"
- "Like a whole city in space."
- Ramart's description of a starship to Charlie Evans (TOS: "Charlie X")
- "Like clockwork."
- TNG: "Evolution", "A Matter of Perspective"; ENT: "Horizon"
- "Like crazy"
- DS9: "The Alternate"; VOY: "The Chute"
- "Like my neck's in a sling."
- Leonard McCoy, referring to his dress uniform (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
- "Like it was my own child."
- "Like it was thin air."
- VOY: "Hope and Fear"
- "Like nobody else" / "Ain't like nobody I ever seen"
- DS9: "Image in the Sand"; ENT: "Storm Front"
- "Lit up like a Christmas tree."
- While attempting to decipher cybernetic circuits implanted into Enterprise NX-01's systems in 2153, Charles Tucker suddenly witnessed them activate and described them as having "just lit up like a Christmas tree." (ENT: "Regeneration")
- After the first engagement with the USS Reliant, and prior to the battle of the Mutara Nebula in 2285, the hasty repairs made by Montgomery Scott to the energizers aboard the USS Enterprise were described as being "bypassed like a Christmas tree." (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- In 2373, one of the Swarm ships fired a polaron burst at Voyager and illuminated their shield polarity which attracted the attention of thousands of Swarm ships in their space. Chakotay then said "As far as anyone's sensors are concerned, we're lit up like a Christmas tree." (VOY: "The Swarm")
- "Live like a king."
- A lyric in Adam's song (TOS: "The Way to Eden")
- "Looks like it was salvaged from a junk heap."
- "My brain feels like it's wrapped up in a blanket."
- "Neat as pins."
- "No bigger than a grain of sand."
- "No bigger than a Tarkanian field mouse."
- "Out like a light"
- VOY: "Waking Moments"; ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights", "Anomaly (ENT)"
- "Peaceful as sheep."
- DS9: "Shakaar"; TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"
- "Plain as an old bucket"
- Ben Childress' description of Eve McHuron. (TOS: "Mudd's Women")
- "Play(ing) God"
- TOS: "The Conscience of the King", "Who Mourns for Adonais?", "Patterns of Force"; VOY: "Prototype"; ENT: "Dear Doctor"
- "Poor as a church mouse."
- Referred to someone poor. Vic Fontaine said, "From these books I can't tell if I'm rich as Rockefeller or as poor as a church mouse." (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon")
- "Quiet as a Zyznian church mouse."
- "Read like prison records."
- How Martok described the personnel reports of the crew of the IKS Rotarran (DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire")
- "Remember (it) like it was yesterday."
- TNG: "Violations"; DS9: "Children of Time"
- "Rich as Rockefeller."
- "Running like a well-oiled machine."
- Travis Mayweather, about Trip Tucker getting the engine room back in operation (ENT: "Unexpected")
- "(I) screamed like a twelve year old."
- Hoshi Sato (ENT: "Fight or Flight")
- "Slept like a baby"
- ENT: "Extinction"; VOY: "Pathfinder"
- "Smells just like a freshly mowed lawn."
- ENT: "Unexpected"
- "Straight as a plumb line."
- "Sweating like a bridegroom."
- How Hikaru Sulu felt after feeling the effects of polywater intoxication. (TOS: "The Naked Time")
- "The corridor is like a prison, with explosives at the door."
- Lazarus' description of the corridor, adding, "Open the door, and the explosives might go off. Stay inside and the universe is safe." (TOS: "The Alternative Factor")
- "(There's) nothing like a tuxedo to make you feel like a million bucks."
- "There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal."
- (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
- "Those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats."
- "Touchier than a raw antimatter pile."
- "You can't just yank out an antimatter injector like it was a light bulb."
- ENT: "Acquisition"
- "You look like a cadet review."
- "You were like a wild little animal."
- Pike's impression of Vina, upon first viewing her on Talos IV (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part II")
- "You're a tool, like this hyperspanner."
- "Torrey", giving her candid opinion of The Doctor in Photons Be Free (VOY: "Author, Author")
- "You're better than a theater to them."
- Vina's description of Christopher Pike to the Talosians (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part II")
- "Voyager may not be as big as a Galaxy-class but she's quick and smart, like her captain."
- Admiral Patterson, to Katherine Janeway about her new command (VOY: "Relativity")
- "Work like beavers."
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