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James T. Kirk

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Quote Episode
Nero : 
"I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you."
Kirk : 
"You got it. Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got."
ST-XI : Star Trek
Sulu : 
"Pike made him first officer."
McCoy : 
"You gotta be kidding me!"
Kirk : 
"Thanks for the support."
ST-XI : Star Trek
Kirk : 
"I'm coming with you."
Spock : 
"I would cite regulation but I know you will simply ignore it."
Kirk : 
"See? We are getting to know each other."
ST-XI : Star Trek
Kirk : 
"Spock, nobody knows the rules better than you but there has got to be an exception!"
to Spock
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Kirk : 
"If Spock were here and I were there... what would he do?"
McCoy : 
"He'd let you die."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Kirk : 
"A five year mission Spock! That's deep space, that's uncharted territory, think how incredible that's going to be!"
to Spock
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
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!"
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
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."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Kirk : 
"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!"
to Khan
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
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."
to Spock
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Scotty : 
"I thought he was helping us!"
Kirk : 
"I'm pretty sure we're helping him."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
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."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Kirk : 
"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."
ST-ID : Star Trek Into Darkness
Kirk : 
"My name is Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the United Federation of Planets. I'm appearing before you as a neutral representative of the Fibonan Republic. I bring you a message of goodwill and present to you, esteemed members of the Teenaxi delegation, a gift from the Fibonan high council, with the highest regards."
Teenaxi Delegate : "What's wrong with it?"
Kirk : 
"...excuse me?"
Teenaxi Delegate : "Well, why don't they want it anymore?"
Kirk : 
"Um, well, this was once a piece of an ancient weapon. And now they offer it as a symbol of... of peace. In the Fibonan culture to surrender a weapon is an offer of truce."
Teenaxi Delegate : "How did they come by it?"
Kirk : 
"They told me they acquired it a long time ago."
Teenaxi Delegate : "So they stole it then!"
Kirk : 
"No. Ummm..."
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"My dad joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare."
McCoy : 
"You joined to see if you could live up to him. You've spent all this time trying to be your dad. Now you're wondering... what it means to be you."
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"How are we gonna get out of this one, Spock. We got no ship, no crew. Not the best odds."
Spock : 
"We will do what we always done Jim, we will find hope in the impossible."
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"Mister Sulu... you can, you know, fly this thing. Right?"
Sulu : 
"Are you kidding me, sir?"
 
on the USS Franklin
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"We change. We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles."
to Krall
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Krall : 
"I read your ship's log, Captain James T Kirk. At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!"
Kirk : 
"You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace."
Krall : 
"Peace... is not what I was born into."
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"Better to die saving lives than live with taking them. That's what I was born into."
to Krall
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Paris : 
"You saved this entire base, Kirk. Millions of souls. Thank you."
Kirk : 
"It wasn't just me. It never is."
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond
Kirk : 
"Vice Admirals don't fly, do they?"
Commodore Paris : 
"No. They don't."
Kirk : 
"No offence Ma'am, but... where's the fun in that?"
ST-B : Star Trek Beyond

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