Christopher Pike

"Your father was captain of a Starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mothers... and yours. I dare you to do better."

"Well sir volatile is all relative, maybe our data was off."

"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!"

"Had the mission gone to plan, Admiral, the indigenous species would not have been aware of our interference."

"That's a technicality!"

"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!"

"You're going to be my first officer. Admiral Marcus took some convincing. But every now and then I can make a good case."

"What did you tell him?"

"The truth. That I believe in you. That if anybody deserves a second chance it's Jim Kirk.

"I don't know what to say..."

"That is a first. It's going to be okay, son."