James T. Kirk

"I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you."

"You got it. Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got."

"Pike made him first officer."

"You gotta be kidding me!"

"Thanks for the support."

"I'm coming with you."

"I would cite regulation but I know you will simply ignore it."

"See? We are getting to know each other."

"Spock, nobody knows the rules better than you but there has got to be an exception!"

"If Spock were here and I were there... what would he do?"

"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!"

"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!"

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"I thought he was helping us!"

"I'm pretty sure we're helping him."

"Once we caught him, I synthesised a serum from his... super blood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal, power mad, despotic?"

"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."

"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."

"...excuse me?"

"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."

"They told me they acquired it a long time ago."

"No. Ummm..."

"My dad joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare."

"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."

"How are we gonna get out of this one, Spock. We got no ship, no crew. Not the best odds."

"We will do what we always done Jim, we will find hope in the impossible."

"Mister Sulu... you can, you know, fly this thing. Right?"

"Are you kidding me, sir?"

"We change. We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles."

"I read your ship's log, Captain James T Kirk. At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!"

"You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace."

"Peace... is not what I was born into."

"Better to die saving lives than live with taking them. That's what I was born into."

"You saved this entire base, Kirk. Millions of souls. Thank you."

"It wasn't just me. It never is."

"Vice Admirals don't fly, do they?"

"No. They don't."

"No offence Ma'am, but... where's the fun in that?"