Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Tv ·176 of 348
"Make it so."
They never said that.
What people say
"Make it so."
What was actually said
"Make it so." Captain Jean-Luc Picard — Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Why it stuck
Correct. But the phrase predates Picard by over a century — Royal Navy command idiom (compare Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin novels set in 1800s). Picard's performance Anglicised it for a generation that had never heard it before.
Gene Roddenberry lifted the phrase deliberately from Hornblower-style naval fiction.
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