Lie A lie is a deliberate statement which is untrue , usually as a means to deceive or mislead another individual . Someone who told a lie is called a " liar " . When Captain Jonathan Archer assumed Kessick was lying on his death bed about the coordinates of Xindus , Trip Tucker questioned this statement and asked why he should ' ve lied to them . ( ) One of the great myth s surrounding Vulcan s was that the race was incapable of telling a lie . While generally believed to be accurate , Vulcans were , in fact , capable of telling lies , usually justifying this action as a logic al course towards a means to an end . An example of this would be lying to carry out a secret mission or lying to protect the lives of others . Both Spock and Valeris were capable of lying , although Valeris ' motives were somewhat dubious . Tuvok admitted that the notion Vulcans could not lie was a myth but that he had not found a logical need to lie , after an inquiry by Seven of Nine into whether or not they were capable of lying . ( ; ; ; ; ) In 2268 , the crew of the was forced to once again deal with " Harry " Mudd , a con artist that they had had previous dealings with . These dealings ultimately provided an opportunity to confuse an android , Norman , who had been posing as a member of the ship ' s crew . Describing Mudd to Norman , James T . Kirk stated , " " Everything Harry tells you is a lie . Remember that . Everything Harry tells you is a lie . " " Mudd then told the android , " " Listen to this carefully , Norman . I am lying , " " trapping the android with a type of paradox and eventually leading to a breakdown due to a flood of illogic . ( ) Lying could cause mental and physical tension . In 2268 , Doctor Leonard McCoy found no evidence that a group of orphan ed children from the Starnes Exploration Party were lying . ( ) Miranda Jones once called James T . Kirk a liar , proclaiming , " " It ' s a lie ! " " when Kirk stated that Jones had tried to murder Spock while mind - meld ing with a Medeusan . ( ) Garth of Izar once said that Marta was " the greatest liar I have ever met , " when she claimed to have written a verse from a play by William Shakespeare . ( ) Lying after having sworn an oath to tell the truth is known as perjury . ( ) On the planet , Q was known as the " God of Lies " . ( ) Data once told that androids do not lie ; however , Data himself was very capable of lying . Data once lied to the entire crew of the , regarding an incident wherein the Paxan s erased the memories of the " Enterprise " s crew ( except for Data ) due to a xenophobic fear bordering on the extreme . Data also once lied to an entire bar full of patrons in an effort to make Ro Laren appear as a Maquis sympathizer , as part of an elaborate plan to infiltrate a local resistance cell . In both of these cases , however , Data was acting under direct orders and not by his own design . Data also lied to Samuel Clemens about the purpose of a machine he was building when displaced in time , most likely in accordance with Starfleet ' s temporal displacement policy . ( ) When the was thrown back in time to 2063 , Data was captured by the Borg Queen , who grafted skin onto him . When Data cradled the skin , he stated he was doing so simply because he was imitating the behavior of Human s and the Queen commented , " " You ' re becoming more Human all the time . Now you ' re learning how to lie . " " ( ) Data ' s brother , Lore , also possessed the capability to lie , and he lied to Data about which of them had been constructed first . ( ) Like Data , The Doctor , another artificial lifeform , was capable of lying . When queried regarding this matter by Seska in 2373 , he told her , " " I ' ve learned that a bedside manner occasionally requires me to , how should I put it , soft - pedal the truth . But bald - faced lying , calculated deceit ? I don ' t have much experience with that sort of thing . " " This , however , was itself a lie , as The Doctor ' s continued operation on the was itself a deception designed to allow The Doctor to attempt to sabotage Seska and the Kazon ' s efforts to retain control of the starship . Later , when Seska discovered his ruse , she told him that he was more talented in deception than he had led her to believe , and he replied that he was inspired by the presence of a master . ( ) The Brekkian s built their symbiotic partnership with the Ornaran s upon a lie , claiming felicium was a medicine instead of a drug . ( ) When Elim Garak was in danger of dying due to a malfunctioning cranial implant , he told Doctor Julian Bashir a number of conflicting stories regarding his past . After the danger had passed , Bashir asked of him which of the stories were true and which weren ' t . Garak replied that they all were true , and Bashir asked , " " Even the lies ? " " , to which Garak responded , " " Especially the lies . " " ( ) When the Romulan Ruwon was interrogating Quark , he told him he thought he was lying . Quark asked about which part , and Ruwon replied , " " All of it , " " to which Quark responded that he was at least consistent . ( ) In 2372 , when Lieutenant Commander Worf confronted a Changeling posing as General ( believed by all , at the time , to be the real Martok ) about the actions of his troops such as detaining and searching ships in neutral space , " Martok " replied that what he had done was in the best interest of the Alpha Quadrant . Worf was not impressed , stating , " " You must think me a fool to make your lies so transparent . " " ( ) In 2371 , Tuvok requested an autonomic response analysis from Tom Paris when he regained consciousness . Kes therefore asked Tuvok if he ' d really thought that Paris would lie to them . ( ) The Vhnori Loria accused Harry Kim of lying about what he had said regarding their afterlife . ( ) The holographic character Unferth accused Freya of believing the lies of The Doctor and attacked The Doctor in an attempt to kill him . ( ) While entering a dark matter nebula , B ' Elanna Torres found evidence that was different from the telling of Tuvok . Captain Janeway mentioned , puzzled , that there was no reason Tuvok should lie . ( ) Augris told Commander Chakotay that it seemed " Voyager " made more enemies than friends since becoming stranded in the Delta Quadrant . Some factions in the quadrant even thought that the whole story of " Voyager " was a lie . ( ) In 2373 , when Elim Garak decoded a secret Cardassian transmission , a Changeling posing as Doctor caught him in a lie that it was a five - year - old planetary survey report . When Garak then suggested that they steal a runabout to search for Enabran Tain , " Bashir " replied , " " You want me to lie to my commanding officer , violate Starfleet regulations , and go with you on a mission into the Gamma Quadrant which will probably get us both killed ? ! " " Later , when Garak went on said mission with Worf , he spun a story about wanting to attend Starfleet Academy . When Worf realized that Garak really had no desire to attend Starfleet Academy , he asked Garak what the reason was for all the deception , and Garak replied , " " Lying is a skill like any other , and if you want to maintain a level of excellence , you have to practice constantly . " " Worf told him to practice on someone else . ( ) In 2374 , Captain Benjamin Sisko concocted an elaborate plan to draw the Romulan Star Empire into the Dominion War . Although the plan was approved by Starfleet Command , Sisko commented , in a later deleted personal log , " " I was the one who had to look Senator Vreenak in his eye and convince him that a lie was the truth . " " Later , in the same deleted log , he stated , " " So . . . I lied . I cheated . I bribed men to cover up the crimes of other men . I am an accessory to murder . But most damning of all . . . I think I can live with it . . . And if I had to do it all over again . . . I would . " " ( ) There were no lies or deceptions among the Borg in the Borg Collective . ( ) When Captain Janeway asked The Doctor to be transferred to the in the Alpha Quadrant , she was honest to him and mentioned she wouldn ' t lie to him about the danger this assignment could be for him . ( ) The Ferengi have a saying that " " A good lie is easier to believe than the truth . " " ( )