Quotes

"Did you hear him joke about compassion? Above all, a 'god' needs compassion!" - Kirk to Dehner regarding Mitchell.

"Is this the kind of wife you want, Ben? Not someone to help you, not a wife to cook and sew and cry and need, but this kind? Selfish, vain, useless. Is this what you really want?" - Eve to Childress

"May the Great Bird of the galaxy bless your planet!" - Sulu to Rand

"Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are." - Kirk to Charlie

Korby : "Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with jealousy, greed, hate?"
Kirk : "It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment. The other side of the coin, doctor."

"That was the equation! Existence! Survival must cancel out programming!" - - Ruk to Kirk

"Do you realize the number of discoveries lost because of superstition, of ignorance, of a layman's inability to comprehend?" - Korby to Kirk

"And this ship. All this power. Surging and throbbing, yet under control. Are you like that, captain?" - Lenore to Kirk. Oh my!

McCoy : "Do you play God? Carry his head through the corridors in triumph? That won't bring back the dead, Jim."
Kirk : "No. But they may rest easier."

"Blood thins. The body fails. One is finally grateful for a failing memory." - Karidian to Kirk

Lenore : "You are like your ship. Powerful, and not human. There is no mercy in you."
Kirk : "If he is Kodos, then I've shown him more mercy than he deserves."

"We've armed man with tools. Striving for greatness continues." - Kirk to Kodos, in response to the latter's claim that modern life has dehumanized Mankind.

Lenore : "All the ghosts are dead. I've buried them. There's no more blood on your hands!"
Kodos : "Oh my child, my child! You've left me nothing!"

McCoy : "Mister Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known."
Spock : "Why, thank you, doctor."

"It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not in his nature." - Spock to Areel.

"I speak of rights. A machine has none; a Man must! My client has the right to face his accuser. And if you do not grant him that right you have brought us down to the level of the machine. Indeed you have elevated that machine above us! I ask that my motion be granted. And more than that, Gentlemen... in the name of humanity, fading in the shadow of the machine... I demand it. I DEMAND IT!" - Samuel T. Cogley to the Court

"Captain Pike has an illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant." - Talosian to Kirk.

"I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose." - Spock to Trelane

"Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. In this case, I should think 'interesting' would suffice." - Spock to McCoy

"You will hang by the neck, captain, until you are dead, dead, dead!" - Trelane to Kirk

"So this is victory! It has a sweet taste!" - Trelane to Kirk

"They're beings, Trelane. They have spirit. They're superior." - Trelane's Father to Trelane regarding Humanity

"I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I've simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar." - Spock to Lazarus

"Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure." - Kirk to McCoy

"Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life." - Kirk to Landru

Spock : "How often mankind has wished for a world as peaceful and secure as the one Landru provided."
Kirk : "Yes. And we never got it. Just lucky, I guess."

"Superior ability breeds superior ambition." - Spock to Kirk

Kirk : "You have a tendency to express ideas in military terms, Mr. Khan. This is a social occasion."
Khan : "It has been said that social occasions are only warfare concealed. Many prefer it more honest, more open."

Khan : "We offered the world order!"
Kirk : "'We'?"

"Go! Or stay... but do it because it is what you wish to do!" - Khan to McGivers

"Look, I'm a doctor, not an escalator!" - McCoy to Spock

Eleen : "No. Here, child belongs to husband."
McCoy : "So, they take all the credit here. Poppycock!"

"There's an old, old saying on Earth, Mr Sulu. 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.'" - Scotty to Sulu.

"I think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month, sir!" - Spock to Kirk and McCoy

Spock : "Would you beam down to the planet's surface and stand with me? There is a brief ceremony."
Kirk : "Is it permitted?"
Spock : "It is my right. By tradition the male is accompanied by his closest friends."
Kirk : "Thank you Mister Spock."
Spock : "I also request McCoy accompany me."
McCoy : "I shall be honoured, sir."

"What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way." - T'Pau to Kirk regarding the ceremony

Spock : "He does not know! I will do... what I must... T'Pau, but not with him! His blood does not burn. He is my friend!"
T'Pau : "It is said thy Vulcan blood is thin. Are thee Vulcan, or are thee human?"

"That's T'Pau, of Vulcan. All of Vulcan in one package. How can I back out in front of her?"- Kirk to McCoy.

Spock : "I see no logic in preferring Stonn over me."
T'Pring : "You have become much known among our people, Spock. Almost a legend. And as the years went by, I came to know that I did not want to be the consort of a legend. But by the laws of our people, I could only divorce you by the Kal-if-fee. There was also Stonn who wanted very much to be my consort. And I wanted him. If your Captain were victor, he would not want me, so I would have Stonn. If you were victor, you would free me because I had dared to challenge, and again I would have Stonn. But if you did not free me, it would be the same. For you would be gone. And I would have your name and your property, and Stonn would still be there."
Spock : "Logical. Flawlessly logical."
T'Pring : "I am honoured."

Spock : "Stonn; she is yours. After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

Spock : "Live long, T'Pau and prosper."
T'Pau : "Live long and prosper, Spock."
Spock : "I shall do neither. I have killed my Captain... and my friend."
(This is the first time this phrase is used.)

"Well there goes paradise." - McCoy on finding that Vaal does not allow holding and touching.

"The good doctor was concerned that the Vaalians achieve true human stature. I submit there is no cause for worry. They've taken the first step - they've learned to kill." - Spock to Kirk

"A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior, mentally or otherwise." - Kirk to the Providers.

"Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man with a knife." - Klingon to Kang.

"We need no urging to hate humans! But for the present... only a fool fights in a burning house." - Kang to Kirk.

Spock : "All that matters to them is their hate."
Uhura : "Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?"
Kirk : "No. But that's all they have left."

"Treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home." - McCoy to Data on the Enterprise-D

"So you will understand when I say that death is that state in which one exists only in the memories of others. Which is why it is not an end." - Yar's image to her friends.

"It sits there looking at me, and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics, with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak the the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue. Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have! But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose." - Phillipa's ruling on Data.

The baseball game Stubbs describes to Wesley is a real one, the final game of the 1951 National League tiebreaker between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

The script for this episode got Pillar hired as the shows head writer. He commented that the baseball scene probably helped, as Rick Berman is a big baseball fan.

"Good tea. Nice house." - Worf to Rishon

"Are eleven thousand people worth fifty billion? Is the love of a woman worth the destruction of an entire species?" - Kevin to Picard, agonizing over his crime.

"Commander, both our ships are ready to fight. We have two extremely powerful and destructive arsenals at our command. Our next actions will have serious repercussions. We have reason to mistrust one another but even better reason to set those differences aside. Of course, the question is, who will take the initiative? Who will make the first gesture of trust? The answer is... I will." - Picard to Tomalak

"In your own words, this is not our affair. We cannot interfere in the natural course of your society's development. And I'd say it's going to develop significantly in the next few minutes." - Picard to Danarto Nayrok

"I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent." - Q to Data.

"As I learn more and more what it is to be human, I am more and more convinced that I would never make a good one. I don't have what it takes. Without my powers I'm frightened of everything. I'm a coward... and I'm miserable... and I can't go on this way." - Q to Picard.

"There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions, no pain – and yet you covet those qualities of Humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you, you're a better Human than I." - Q to Data.

"Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard!" - Q to Riker.

Picard : "You're probably not aware of this, but I have never been particularly comfortable around children."
Troi : "...really?"

"With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied... chains us all irrevocably." - Picard quoting Admiral Aaron Satie.

"I'm Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. And I'm very much alive, and intend to stay that way!" - O'Brien to his troops.

"Do you think you could possibily behave a little less like yourself?" - Tuvok to Neelix.

"They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently - and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!" - Kelis to his actor. A more perfect description of the Vulcans I have never heard.

"How can I punish you for being who you are?" - Janeway, refusing to condemn the EMH for siding with the Holograms.

"Come on, Travis. We've gotta find Mr. Reed something to blow up." - Archer to Mayweather.

"I'm a translator. I didn't come out here to see corpses hanging on hooks!" - Hoshi to Phlox.

"I'm not sure if congratulations are in order, Commander, but you're pregnant!" - Phlox to Tucker.

"I can see my house from here!" - Klingon, impressed at a holographic recreation of his home planet.

"Your faith was going to bring peace. Here it is." - Archer to D'Jamat, surveying the ruins of his home world.

"I'm a physician, not an engineer!" - Phlox to T'Pol, and Enterprise makes it's first contribution to the "I'm a doctor not a..." list!

"One thing is clear, when necessary Humans are fully capable of returning to old methods." - Silik to Archer.

Soong : "How long can we sustain warp 5?"
Trip : "As long as the captain wants it. Or until we blow up, whichever comes first."

Trip : "How many warning shots do Vulcans usually fire?"
Soval : "None."

"Logic has not won this day. But this day will not last forever." - Surak to Archer.

"At least the warp engines still need me!" - Trip on T'Pol dumping him.

"There's no rule that says the bridge has to be at the top of the ship." - Reed to Trip.

Navaar : "I can see you're not very experienced at making threats."
Archer : "I'm a lot better at carrying them out."

"At least the pheromones are wearing off. I haven't thought about the Orions for, what, a whole ten minutes." - Reed to Archer.

"It proves that even the most disagreeable species have some positive attributes." - T'Pol on the Orion women being secret leaders of their people.

"That ship out there is the key to our victory. With the Defiant on our side there will be nothing to stop us!" - Archer to crew.

"You're speaking with Empress Sato. Prepare to recieve instructions." - Sato to Gardiner, claiming the throne.

"According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis. We'll do it for you in six minutes!" - McCoy to Spock

"Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space." - Khan

Khan : "I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her - marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive. Buried alive..."
Kirk : "KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!"

"There's a man ot there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You've shown me a son who would be happy to help him. What am I feeling? Old. Worn out." - Kirk to Carol

McCoy : "Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario."
Saavik : "How?"
Kirk : "I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship."
Saavik : "What?"
David Marcus : "He cheated!"

Saavik : "You lied?"
Spock : "I exaggerated."

"We tried it once your way Khan, are you game for a rematch? Khan... I'm laughing at the superior intellect." - Kirk goading Khan

"Remember..." - Spock to McCoy.

"From hell's heart I stab at thee... for hates sake I spit my last breath at thee..." - Khan on Kirk.

"I never took the Kobyashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?" - Spock to Kirk

"I have been... and always shall be... your friend. Live long, and prosper." - Spock's last words

"We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet, it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world. A world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this - of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... Human." - Kirk on Spock.

David : "You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life."
Kirk : "Just words."
David : "But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you. And I'm sorry."
Kirk : "Is that what you came here to say?"
David : "Mainly. And also that I'm proud... very proud... to be your son."

"There are always possibilities Spock said... and if Genesis is indeed life from death, I must return to this place again." - Kirk's log entry

McCoy : "He's really not dead, as long as we remember him."
Kirk : "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have done before. A far better resting place I go to than I have ever known."
Carol : "Is that a poem?"
Kirk : "No, something Spock was trying to tell me, on my birthday."
McCoy : "Are you okay Jim? How do you feel?"
Kirk : "Young. I feel young."

Kirk : "Is that the logical thing to do?"
Spock : "No. But it is the Human thing to do." - Spock justifying his advice that they must rescue Chekov.

"Tell her... I feel fine." - Spock to Sarek, giving him a message to pass on to his mother.

"Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end." - Spock to Valeris.

"Captain's log, stardate 9522.6. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I've never been able to forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him. But how on earth can history get past people like me?" - Kirk's log entry.

Spock : "You have to shoot. If you are logical, you have to shoot."
Valeris : "I do not want to..."
Spock : "What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand!"

"Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefullness?" Spock to Kirk

"Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!" - Chang to Kirk whilst attacking the Enterprise.

Sulu : "Come on, come on!"
Helmsman : "She'll fly apart!"
Sulu : "Well fly her apart, then!"

"Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of a new generation. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no one has gone before." - Kirk's final log entry.

"You think I want to go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains!" - Cochrane to Riker

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make it's own judgements." - Riker quoting Cochrane

Picard : "You want to destroy the ship and run away, you coward!"
Worf : "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!"

"Actually, I think you are the bravest man I've ever known." - Picard apologising to Worf.

Queen : "Do you always talk this much?"
Data : "Not always. But often."

"So you're all astronauts on some sort of... star trek?" - Cochrane to Riker

"And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it." - Picard quotes Moby Dick

Data : "The B-4 is physically identical to me, although his neural pathways are not as advanced. But even if they were, he would not be me."
Picard : "How can you be sure?"
Data : "I aspire, sir. To be better than I am. The B-4 does not. Nor does Shinzon."

"Will Riker, you have been my trusted right arm for fifteen years. You have helped keep my course true and steady. Deanna Troi, you have been my conscience and guide. You have helped me to recognize the best parts of myself. You are my family. And in maritime tradition, I wish you clear horizons... my friends, make it so." - Picard's wedding speech.

Janeway : "The Son'a... the Borg... the Romulans... you always get the easy assignments."
Picard : "Just lucky, I guess."

"Goodbye." - Data, to everybody.

Kirk : "If Spock were here and I were there... what would he do?"
McCoy : "He'd let you die."

"A five year mission Spock! That's deep space, that's uncharted territory, think how incredible that's going to be!" - Kirk to Spock.

Kirk : "Well sir volatile is all relative, maybe our data was off."
Pike : "Or maybe it didn't erupt because Mr. Spock detonated a cold fusion device inside it right after a civilisation that's barely invented the wheel happened to see a starship rising out of their ocean!"

Spock : "Had the mission gone to plan, Admiral, the indigenous species would not have been aware of our interference."
Pike : "That's a technicality!"
Spock : "I am Vulcan sir, we embrace technicality."

"That's your problem, you think you're infallible. You think you can't make a mistake. It's a pattern with you. The rules are for other people. And what's worse is, you're using blind luck to justify your playing god!" - Pike to Kirk

Pike : "You're going to be my first officer. Admiral Marcus took some convincing. But every now and then I can make a good case."
Kirk : "What did you tell him?"
Pike : "The truth. That I believe in you. That if anybody deserves a second chance it's Jim Kirk.
Kirk : "I don't know what to say..."
Pike : "That is a first. It's going to be okay, son."

"You park at the edge of the neutral zone, you lock on to Harrison's position, you fire, you kill him, and you haul ass." - Admiral Marcus to Kirk.

"That's what scares me! This is clearly a military operation... is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!" - Scotty to Kirk.

"Attention John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked on to your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. And If you test me, you will fail." - Sulu to "Harrison".

"You misunderstand. It is true I chose not to feel anything on realising that my own life was ending. As Admiral Pike was dying I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing. Anger... confusion... loneliness... fear. I have experienced those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. Well I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite." - Spock to Uhura

"Let me explain what's happening here. You are a criminal. I watched you murder innocent men and women. I was authorised to end you, and the only reason why you are still alive is because I am allowing it. So shut your mouth!" - Kirk to Khan

"Oh, well now! If it isn't Captain James Tiberius Perfect-hair!" - Scotty to Kirk.

"My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?" Khan to Kirk.

"You're right! What I'm about to do, it doesn't make any sense. It's not logical, it is a gut feeling. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do... I only know what I can do. The Enterprise and her crew need someone in that chair who knows what he's doing. And it's not me. It's you, Spock." - Kirk to Spock.

Spock : "As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, yours alone. That being said... Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless, and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you."
"Spock : "Did you defeat him?"
Spock : "At great cost... yes."

"Dammit man I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!" - McCoy to Spock

Scotty : "I thought he was helping us!"
Kirk : "I'm pretty sure we're helping him."

"Well Kirk. Seems apt to return you to your crew. After all, no ship should go down without her Captain." - Khan to Kirk.

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" - Spock screaming in grief

"Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead." - McCoy to Kirk.

McCoy : "Once we caught him, I synthesised a serum from his... super blood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal, power mad, despotic?"
Kirk : "No more than usual."

"There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that’s not who we are. We are here today to re-christen the USS Enterprise and to honour those who lost their lives nearly one year ago. When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain’s Oath. Words I didn’t appreciate at the time. Now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words? Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, her five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."