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Old Spock : 
"Jim, I just lost my planet. I can tell you, I am emotionally compromised."
to Kirk
ST-XI : Star Trek
Spock : 
"I am more than capable of managing any pain you can induce."
Chapel : 
"Mr. Spock. Now you're just toying with me."
SNW : Children of the Comet
Spock : 
"This is coming dangerously close to hijinks."
to Chapel; on being in T'Pring's body and doing her job.
SNW : Spock Amok
Pike : 
"It'll be fine, Number One. You get the supplies to K-7. I'll pile the kids in the station wagon, take a road trip."
Spock : 
"Sir? The station wagon?"
Pike : 
"Anybody has to go, now's the time."
 in a stern, parental tone
Pike : 
"Do not make me turn this car around."
 
discussing an away mission in a shuttle
SNW : All Those Who Wander
Old 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?"
Old Spock : 
"At great cost... yes."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Spock : 
"Check the circuit."
to helmsman; the first words ever spoken on Star Trek
TOS : The Cage
Spock : 
"Has it occurred to you that there's a certain... inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about?"
Kirk : 
"It gives me emotional security."
TOS : The Corbomite Maneuver
Spock : 
"A very interesting game, this poker."
Kirk : 
"It does have advantages over chess."
TOS : The Corbomite Maneuver
Spock : 
"You can't afford the luxury of being anything less than perfect. If you do, they lose faith, and you lose command."
to Kirk
TOS : The Enemy Within
Spock : 
"Being split in two halves is no theory with me, doctor. I have a human half, you see, as well as an alien half, submerged, constantly at war with each other. Personal experience, doctor. I survive it because my intelligence wins over both, makes them live together."
to McCoy
TOS : The Enemy Within
Spock : 
"My mother... I could never tell her I loved her."
to Kirk
TOS : The Naked Time
Bones : 
"War is never imperative, Mister Spock."
Spock : 
"It is for them, Doctor."
TOS : Balance of Terror
Spock : 
"Interesting. Your Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately."
to McCoy
TOS : Dagger of the Mind
Spock : 
"Open your mind... we move together, our minds sharing the same thoughts."
performing a meld on Van Gelder
TOS : Dagger of the Mind
Spock : 
"It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six, doctor."
to McCoy
TOS : The Galileo Seven
Spock : 
"Mister Scott, there are always alternatives."
to Scotty; a much used quote
TOS : The Galileo Seven
Spock : 
"I examined the problem for all angles and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances the only possible action would have to be one of desperation. A logical descision, logically arrived at."
to Kirk
TOS : The Galileo Seven
McCoy : 
"Mister Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known."
Spock : 
"Why, thank you, doctor."
TOS : Court Martial
Spock : 
"It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not in his nature."
to Areel
TOS : Court Martial
Spock : 
"On my planet, to rest is to rest. To cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass using energy instead of saving it."
to Kirk
TOS : Shore Leave
Spock : 
"I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose."
to Trelane
TOS : The Squire of Gothos
Spock : 
"Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. In this case, I should think 'interesting' would suffice."
to McCoy
TOS : The Squire of Gothos
Spock : 
"Jim, madness has no no purpose or reason. But it may have a goal."
to Kirk
TOS : The Alternative Factor
Spock : 
"I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I've simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar."
to Lazarus
TOS : The Alternative Factor
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."
TOS : The Return of the Archons
Spock : 
"Sir, there's a multilegged creature crawling on your shoulder."
lying to an to Eminian
TOS : A Taste of Armageddon
Spock : 
"Superior ability breeds superior ambition."
to Kirk
TOS : Space Seed
Spock : 
"I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question."
to Kalomi
TOS : This Side of Paradise
Spock : 
"I am what I am, Leila. And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's."
to Leila
TOS : This Side of Paradise
Spock : 
"I have little to say about it, Captain, except that for the first time in my life... I was happy."
to Kirk
TOS : This Side of Paradise
Spock : 
"I should say the Organians are as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba."
to Kirk
TOS : Errand of Mercy
Spock : 
"Even the gods did not spring into being overnight. You and I have no reason to be embarrassed."
to Kirk
TOS : Errand of Mercy
Spock : 
"Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins."
to Kirk
TOS : The City on the Edge of Forever
Spock : 
"Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled."
to McCoy
TOS : Operation: Annihilate!
Spock : 
"I am free of it and the pain. And I'm also quite blind. An equitable trade, doctor. Thank you."
to McCoy
TOS : Operation: Annihilate!
Spock : 
"Very bad poetry, Captain"
to Kirk; when asked for an analysis of the witches
TOS : Catspaw
Spock : 
"I think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month, sir!"
to Kirk and McCoy
TOS : Friday's Child
Spock : 
"Miss Chapel."
Chapel : 
"Yes, Mister Spock?"
Spock : 
"I had a most startling dream. You were trying to tell me something... but I couldn't hear you. It would be illogical for us to protest against our natures, don't you think?"
 
talk about subtext...
TOS : Amok Time
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."
TOS : Amok Time
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?"
TOS : Amok Time
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."
TOS : Amok Time
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."
to Stonn
TOS : Amok Time
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."
 
The first time this phrase is used.
TOS : Amok Time
Kirk : 
"He gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go."
Spock : 
"Indeed, Captain. I presume your log will show Commodore Decker died in the line of duty."
Kirk : 
"Indeed it shall, Mr. Spock."
TOS : The Doomsday Machine
Spock : 
"Humans and humanoids make up only a small percentage of the life forms we know of."
to Kirk
TOS : Wolf in the Fold
Spock : 
"Computer, this is a Class A compulsory directive : compute to the last digit, the value of pi."
giving an impossible order to the computer
TOS : Wolf in the Fold
Spock : 
"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."
to Kirk
TOS : The Apple
Spock : 
"May I point out, that I had an opportunity to observe your counterparts here quite closely. They where brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilised, traitorous. In every way splendid examples of Homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity. I found them quite refreshing."
to Kirk and McCoy
TOS : Mirror, Mirror
McCoy : 
"There's something wrong about a man who never smiles, whose conversation never varies from the routine of the job, and who won't talk about his background."
Spock : 
"I see."
McCoy : 
"Spock, I mean that it's odd for a non-Vulcan. The ears make all the difference."
Spock : 
"I find your argument strewn with gaping defects in logic."
McCoy : 
"Maybe, but you can't evaluate a man by logic alone. Besides, he has avoided two appointments that I've made for his physical exam without reason."
Spock : 
"That's not at all surprising, Doctor. He's probably terrified of your beads and rattles."
TOS : I, Mudd
Spock : 
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green."
on logic
TOS : I, Mudd
Bones : 
"You're going to leave here without them and run off on some wild goose chase halfway across the galaxy just because you found a discrepancy in a hydrogen cloud?"
Spock : 
"Doctor I am chasing the Captain, Lieutenant Uhura and Ensign Chekov, not some wild aquatic fowl."
TOS : The Gamesters of Triskelion
Scotty : 
"Captain, thank heaven!"
Spock : 
"Mr Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them."
McCoy : 
"Well then, thank pictchforks and pointed ears."
TOS : Obsession
Spock : 
"I've noticed that about your people. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours."
to McCoy
TOS : The Immunity Syndrome
Oxmyx : 
"Nobody helps nobody but himself."
Spock : 
"Sir, you are employing a double negative."
TOS : A Piece of the Action
Spock : 
"Captain, you are an excellent star ship commander, but as a taxi driver... you leave much to be desired."
to Kirk
TOS : A Piece of the Action
Spock : 
"I would advise yas to keep dialin', Oxmyx!"
threatening Oxmyx with a gun
TOS : A Piece of the Action
Spock : 
"Yes, Humans are very peculiar. I often find them unfathomable, but an interesting psychological study."
to Rojan
TOS : By Any Other Name
Rojan : 
"I told her to stay away from him."
Spock : 
"It would appear, sir, that you have little control over her. Or perhaps Captain Kirk has more."
TOS : By Any Other Name
Spock : 
"You should make a very convincing Nazi."
to Kirk
TOS : Patterns of Force
Spock : 
"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them."
to Kirk
TOS : The Ultimate Computer
Wesley : 
"Our compliments to the M-5 unit, and regards to Captain Dunsel. Wesley out."
McCoy : 
"Dunsel? Who the blazes is Captain Dunsel? What does it mean, Jim? Spock? What does it mean?"
Spock : 
"Dunsel, Doctor, is a term used by Midshipmen at Starfleet Academy. It refers to a part which serves no useful purpose."
TOS : The Ultimate Computer
Spock : 
"Most illogical. Of all people, he should have known how the computer would perform. Of course, the M-5 itself has not behaved logically."
McCoy : 
"Please, Spock, do me a favour and don't say it's fascinating."
Spock : 
"No. But it is... interesting."
TOS : The Ultimate Computer
Spock : 
"I am most impressed with the technology, Captain. Doctor Daystrom has created a mirror image of his own mind."
to Kirk
TOS : The Ultimate Computer
Spock : 
"It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining."
to McCoy
TOS : The Ultimate Computer
Spock : 
"Current Earth crises would fill a tape bank, Captain. There will be an important assassination today, an equally dangerous government coup in Asia, and, this could be highly critical, the launching of an orbital nuclear warhead platform by the United States countering a similar launch by other powers."
to Kirk
TOS : Assignment: Earth
Spock : 
"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. When the laws do not operate, there is no reality."
to McCoy
TOS : Spectre of the Gun
Spock : 
"Military secrets are the most fleeting of all."
to the Romulan commander
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"Why would you do this to me? What are you that you could do this?"
Spock : 
"First officer of the Enterprise."
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"Allow me to rephrase. Will you join me for dinner?
Spock : 
"I am honoured, Commander. Are the guards also invited?"
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"You are a superior being. Why do you not command?"
Spock : 
"I do not desire a ship of my own."
Romulan commander : 
"Or is it that no one has offered you, a Vulcan, that opportunity?"
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"You must have your own ship."
Spock : 
"Commander, shall we speak plainly? It is you who desperately need a ship. You want the Enterprise."
Romulan commander : 
"Of course. It would be a great achievement for me to bring home the Enterprise intact. It would broaden the scope of my powers greatly. It would be the achievement of a lifetime. And it would open equal opportunities for you."
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"You have nothing in Starfleet to which to return. I offer, we offer you an alternative. We will find a place for you, if you wish it."
Spock : 
"A place?"
Romulan commander : 
"With me. Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion. Our people are warriors. Often savage. But we are also many other pleasant things."
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Romulan commander : 
"Now one final step to make the occasion complete. You will lead a small party of Romulans aboard the Enterprise, and there you will take your rightful place as its commander. And you will lead the ship to a Romulan port, with my flagship at its side."
Spock : 
"Yes, of course. But not just this moment. An hour from now will do even better... would it not, Commander?"
Romulan commander : 
"Yes. Yes, it will."
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Spock : 
"Deck two. It is regrettable that you were made an unwilling passenger. It was not intentional. All the Federation wanted was the cloaking device."
Romulan commander : 
"The Federation. And what did you want?"
Spock : 
"It was my only interest when I boarded your vessel."
Romulan commander : 
"And that's exactly all you came away with."
Spock : 
"You underestimate yourself, Commander."
TOS : The Enterprise Incident
Spock : 
"Without followers, evil cannot spread."
to Kirk
TOS : And the Children Shall Lead
Spock : 
"At critical moments men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see."
to McCoy
TOS : The Tholian Web
Spock : 
"Indeed, Doctor, the young lady did show a marked preference for your company."
McCoy : 
"Now, nobody can blame her for that, can they?"
TOS : For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Spock : 
"Those who hate and fight must stop themselves, Doctor. Otherwise it is not stopped."
to McCoy
TOS : Day of the Dove
Spock : 
"Beauty is transitory, doctor."
to McCoy
TOS : That Which Survives
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."
TOS : Let that be Your Last Battlefield
Spock : 
"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis."
to bridge crew
TOS : The Mark of Gideon
Spock : 
"Every life comes to an end when time demands it. Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted."
TAS : Yesteryear
Spock : 
"We could always throw tribbles at them."
Kirk : 
"I thought Vulcan's didn't have a sense of humor."
Spock : 
"We don't, Captain."
TAS : More Tribbles, More Troubles
Spock : 
"Each of us, at some time in our lives, turns to someone, a father, a brother, a God; and asks 'Why am I here? Was this all I was meant to be?'"
to Kirk
ST-TMP : The Motion Picture
Spock : 
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
to Kirk
ST-TWOK : The Wrath of Khan
Saavik : 
"You lied?"
Spock : 
"I exaggerated."
ST-TWOK : The Wrath of Khan
Spock : 
"Remember..."
to McCoy
ST-TWOK : The Wrath of Khan
Spock : 
"I never took the Kobyashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?"
to Kirk
ST-TWOK : The Wrath of Khan
Spock : 
"I have been... and always shall be... your friend. Live long, and prosper."
His last words
ST-TWOK : The Wrath of Khan
Spock : 
"Jim... your name is Jim."
to Kirk
ST-TSFS : The Search for Spock
Sarek : 
"As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. ...It is possible that judgment was incorrect. ...Your associates are people of good character."
Spock : 
"They are my friends."
Sarek : 
"Yes, of course."
ST-TSFS : The Search for Spock
Sarek : 
"Do you have a message for your mother?"
Spock : 
"Yes. Tell her ...I feel fine."
ST-TSFS : The Search for Spock
Spock : 
Kirk : "Is that the logical thing to do?"
Spock : "No. But it is the Human thing to do."
justifying his advice that they must rescue Chekov
ST-TVH : The Voyage Home
Spock : 
"Tell her... I feel fine."
to Sarek; giving him a message to pass on to his mother
ST-TVH : The Voyage Home
McCoy : 
"It's a song, you green-blooded Vulcan! You sing it! The words aren't important, what's important is that you have a good time!"
Spock : 
"Ah, I am sorry Doctor. Were we having a good time?"
McCoy : 
"God I liked him better before he died!"
ST-TFF : The Final Frontier
Kirk : 
"Spock... I thought I was going to die."
Spock : 
"Not possible captain, you were never alone."
 Kirk moves to hug Spock
Spock : 
"Please Captain, not in front of the Klingons."
ST-TFF : The Final Frontier
Spock : 
"I've lost a brother."
Kirk : 
"I lost a brother once. I was lucky, I got him back."
ST-TFF : The Final Frontier
Kirk : 
"They're animals!"
Spock : 
"Jim, there is an historic opportunity here."
Kirk : 
"Don't believe them! Don't trust them!"
Spock : 
"They are dying."
Kirk : 
"Let them die!"
ST-TUC : The Undiscovered Country
Spock : 
"Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."
to Valeris
ST-TUC : The Undiscovered Country
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!"
ST-TUC : The Undiscovered Country
Spock : 
"Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefullness?"
to Kirk
ST-TUC : The Undiscovered Country
Spock : 
"In your own way you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew."
Picard : 
"Then I am in good company, sir."
TNG : Unification, Part 2

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