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- A father doesn't destroy his children.
- -- Lt. Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for Adonais?",
- stardate 3468.1.
- %
- A little suffering is good for the soul.
- -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0
- %
- A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and
- licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
- -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown
- %
- A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect
- her.
- -- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3
- %
- A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even
- his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
- -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
- %
- A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without
- breathing.
- -- Kirk, "The Menagerie", stardate 3012.4
- %
- A woman should have compassion.
- -- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2
- %
- Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business.
- -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0
- %
- 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, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
- %
- All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
- -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2
- %
- Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be
- located on a natural invasion route.
- -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.4
- %
- Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder.
- -- Kirk, "This side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
- %
- Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost
- in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ...
- -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
- %
- ... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish
- enough to play around with that.
- -- McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
- %
- "Beauty is transitory."
- "Beauty survives."
- -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown
- %
- Behind every great man, there is a woman -- urging him on.
- -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
- %
- Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the
- human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about.
- -- McCoy, "The Menagerie", stardate 3012.4
- %
- But it's real. And if it's real it can be affected ... we may not be
- able to break it, but, I'll bet you credits to Navy Beans we can put a
- dent in it.
- -- deSalle, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2
- %
- "Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with
- jealousy, greed, hate ..."
- "It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment --
- the other side of the coin"
- -- Dr. Roger Corby and Kirk, "What are Little Girls Made Of?",
- stardate 2712.4
- %
- Change is the essential process of all existence.
- -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2
- %
- Compassion -- that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's
- the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.
- -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
- %
- Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to
- serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one
- man. And nothing can replace it or him.
- -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4
- %
- Conquest is easy. Control is not.
- -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown
- %
- Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing.
- -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
- %
- Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about.
- That's what makes it a thing to be avoided.
- -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0
- %
- Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the
- whole universe, I'd give it to you, Janice. When I see you, I feel
- like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels?
- -- Charlie Evans, "Charlie X", stardate 1535.8
- %
- Do you know the one -- "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer
- her by ..." You could feel the wind at your back, about you ... the
- sounds of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the wind and
- the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours ... you can feel her
- ... and the stars are still there.
- -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4
- %
- [Doctors and Bartenders], We both get the same two kinds of customers
- -- the living and the dying.
- -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown
- %
- Each kiss is as the first.
- -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome",
- stardate 4842.6
- %
- Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe.
- -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1
- %
- Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not.
- -- Kirk, "The Devil in the Dark", stardate 3196.1
- %
- Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.
- -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
- %
- Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same
- mistakes.
- -- John Gill, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7
- %
- Every living thing wants to survive.
- -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
- %
- "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth."
- "Or by misleading the innocent."
- -- Spock and McCoy, "And The Children Shall Lead",
- stardate 5029.5.
- %
- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
- -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4
- %
- Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
- -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5
- %
- Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude.
- -- Spock, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
- %
- First study the enemy. Seek weakness.
- -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
- %
- Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
- -- Klingon Soldier, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
- %
- "... freedom ... is a worship word..."
- "It is our worship word too."
- -- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
- %
- Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say,
- "Today I will be brilliant."
- -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
- %
- "Get back to your stations!"
- "We're beaming down to the planet, sir."
- -- Kirk and Mr. Leslie, "This Side of Paradise",
- stardate 3417.3
- %
- He's dead, Jim
- -- McCoy, "The Devil in the Dark", stardate 3196.1
- %
- History tends to exaggerate.
- -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4
- %
- Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion [love].
- -- Spock, "The Lights of Zetar", stardate 5725.6
- %
- I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become
- greater than the sum of both of us.
- -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4
- %
- I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to
- any question.
- -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
- %
- I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without
- constructive purpose.
- -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5
- %
- I realize that command does have its fascination, even under
- circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command
- nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever
- logically needs to be done.
- -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2812.7
- %
- "I think they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war
- and death --"
- "And make them spend it on life."
- -- Edith Keeler and Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever",
- stardate unknown.
- %
- I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right,
- they see it is easier than trading. And it has its pleasures. I feel
- it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards.
- -- Apella, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
- %
- I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.
- -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.9
- %
- I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life.
- -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
- %
- I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
- -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0
- %
- If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still
- tend to protect that child.
- -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
- %
- If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.
- -- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9
- %
- If some day we are defeated, well, war has its fortunes, good and bad.
- -- Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7
- %
- If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
- -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7
- %
- Immortality consists largely of boredom.
- -- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
- %
- In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even
- vegetarians.
- -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4
- %
- Insufficient facts always invite danger.
- -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9
- %
- Insults are effective only where emotion is present.
- -- Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1
- %
- Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative.
- -- Kirk, "Obsession", stardate 3620.7
- %
- Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure is in the
- learning of each other?
- -- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is
- Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.3.
- %
- Is truth not truth for all?
- -- Natira, "For the World is Hollow and I have Touched
- the Sky", stardate 5476.4.
- %
- It [being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is
- logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for
- personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.
- -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4
- %
- It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if
- they're attractive in some way.
- -- McCoy, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6
- %
- It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six.
- -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
- %
- It is necessary to have purpose.
- -- Alice #1, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
- %
- It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not
- hers.
- -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
- %
- It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable
- -- Spock, "The Enterprise" Incident", stardate 5027.3
- %
- It would be illogical to kill without reason
- -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4
- %
- It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted
- -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
- %
- "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can
- do so much harm."
- "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's what kept
- the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A mistaken idea."
- -- Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5819.0
- %
- Killing is stupid; useless!
- -- McCoy, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
- %
- Killing is wrong.
- -- Losira, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown
- %
- Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!
- -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
- %
- Landru! Guide us!
- -- A Beta 3-oid, "The Return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4
- %
- Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.
- -- Kirk, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
- %
- "Life and death are seldom logical."
- "But attaining a desired goal always is."
- -- McCoy and Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2821.7
- %
- Live long and prosper.
- -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
- %
- "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here."
- "You admit that?"
- "To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor"
- -- Spock and McCoy, "A Piece of the Action", stardate unknown
- %
- Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes.
- -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever",
- stardate unknown
- %
- Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.
- -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3220.3
- %
- Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.
- -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor", stardate 3088.7
- %
- Many Myths are based on truth
- -- Spock, "The Way to Eden", stardate 5832.3
- %
- Men don't talk peace unless they're ready to back it up with war.
- -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4
- %
- Men of peace usually are [brave].
- -- Spock, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
- %
- Men will always be men -- no matter where they are.
- -- Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1329.8
- %
- Military secrets are the most fleeting of all.
- -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.4
- %
- Most legends have their basis in facts.
- -- Kirk, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5
- %
- Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God.
- -- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
- %
- No more blah, blah, blah!
- -- Kirk, "Miri", stardate 2713.6
- %
- No one can guarantee the actions of another.
- -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
- %
- No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned.
- -- Kirk, "Spock's Brain", stardate 5431.6
- %
- "No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war."
- "He talks of peace if it is the only way to live."
- -- Colonel Green and Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain",
- stardate 5906.5.
- %
- No one wants war.
- -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7
- %
- No problem is insoluble.
- -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4
- %
- Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
- -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
- %
- Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved.
- -- Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body), "Return to Tomorrow",
- stardate 4770.3.
- %
- Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and
- it's still the same song.
- -- Eve McHuron, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1330.1
- %
- 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.
- -- Spock, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.2
- %
- One does not thank logic.
- -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4
- %
- One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for
- advice without necessarily having to take it.
- -- Kirk, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.2
- %
- Only a fool fights in a burning house.
- -- Kang the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
- %
- Our missions are peaceful -- not for conquest. When we do battle, it
- is only because we have no choice.
- -- Kirk, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5
- %
- Our way is peace.
- -- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses",
- stardate 4040.7.
- %
- Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.
- -- Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!" stardate 3287.2
- %
- Peace was the way.
- -- Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown
- %
- Power is danger.
- -- The Centurion, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
- %
- Prepare for tomorrow -- get ready.
- -- Edith Keeler, "The City On the Edge of Forever",
- stardate unknown
- %
- Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become
- insensitive.
- -- Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7
- %
- Respect is a rational process
- -- McCoy, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
- %
- Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to
- pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion.
- -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident",
- stardate 5027.3
- %
- Schshschshchsch.
- -- The Gorn, "Arena", stardate 3046.2
- %
- Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.
- -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9
- %
- Sometimes a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor.
- -- Dr. Phillip Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"),
- stardate unknown.
- %
- Star Trek Lives!
- %
- Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie.
- -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8
- %
- Superior ability breeds superior ambition.
- -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9
- %
- "That unit is a woman."
- "A mass of conflicting impulses."
- -- Spock and Nomad, "The Changeling", stardate 3541.9
- %
- "The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile."
- "Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.'"
- -- Spock and Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4
- %
- The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal
- than to kill.
- -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
- %
- The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar
- pattern. We don't fear it as you do.
- -- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, "Bread and Circuses",
- stardate 4041.2
- %
- "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity."
- "And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."
- -- Dr. Miranda Jones and Spock, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?",
- stardate 5630.8
- %
- The heart is not a logical organ.
- -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4
- %
- The idea of male and female are universal constants.
- -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
- %
- The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her.
- -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
- %
- The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often
- a noose.
- -- McCoy, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2818.9
- %
- The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of
- play.
- -- Kirk, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.8
- %
- The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with
- exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most
- difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves
- both sides.
- -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
- %
- The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred. That
- the love of life is the greatest gift ... We are incapable of
- destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so
- deeply -- life in every form from fetus to developed being.
- -- Hodin of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon", stardate 5423.4
- %
- ... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when then get
- to know each other.
- -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5
- %
- "The release of emotion is what keeps us healthy. Emotionally healthy."
- "That may be, Doctor. However, I have noted that the healthy release
- of emotion is frequently unhealthy for those closest to you."
- -- McCoy and Spock, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3
- %
- The sight of death frightens them [Earthers].
- -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2
- %
- The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last.
- -- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6
- %
- ... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the
- the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
- failures and the glorious victories.
- -- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
- %
- There are always alternatives.
- -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
- %
- There are certain things men must do to remain men.
- -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4
- %
- There are some things worth dying for.
- -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7
- %
- There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face
- .... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves
- as gods.
- -- Sargon, "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4768.3
- %
- There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.
- -- Spock, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9
- %
- There is an old custom among my people. When a woman saves a man's
- life, he is grateful.
- -- Nona, the Kanuto which woman, "A Private Little War",
- stardate 4211.8.
- %
- There is an order of things in this universe.
- -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1
- %
- There's a way out of any cage.
- -- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"),
- stardate unknown.
- %
- There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help.
- -- Kirk, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
- %
- There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is
- nothing good in war. Except its ending.
- -- Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
- %
- There's nothing disgusting about it [the Companion]. It's just another
- life form, that's all. You get used to those things.
- -- McCoy, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
- %
- "There's only one kind of woman ..."
- "Or man, for that matter. You either believe in yourself or you don't."
- -- Kirk and Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1330.1
- %
- This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function -- you
- realize humans are overly preoccupied with the subject.
- -- Kelinda the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name", stardate 4658.9
- %
- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not
- stopped.
- -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown
- %
- Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash.
- -- Spock, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
- %
- To live is always desirable.
- -- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child", stardate 3498.9
- %
- Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
- -- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6
- %
- Totally illogical, there was no chance.
- -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3
- %
- Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all
- be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses.
- -- Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3
- %
- Violence in reality is quite different from theory.
- -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4
- %
- Virtue is a relative term.
- -- Spock, "Friday's Child", stardate 3499.1
- %
- Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force.
- -- Amanda, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.3
- %
- Vulcans do not approve of violence.
- -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4
- %
- Vulcans never bluff.
- -- Spock, "The Doomsday Machine", stardate 4202.1
- %
- Vulcans worship peace above all.
- -- McCoy, "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4768.3
- %
- Wait! You have not been prepared!
- -- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate 3113.2
- %
- War is never imperative.
- -- McCoy, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
- %
- War isn't a good life, but it's life.
- -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8
- %
- [War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human
- beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we
- can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going
- to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to
- kill today!
- -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0
- %
- We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for
- us.
- -- Rojan, "By Any Other Name", stardate 4657.5
- %
- We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of
- peaceful contact.
- -- Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun", stardate 4385.3
- %
- We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior
- development.
- -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3211.7
- %
- We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em!
- -- Bailey, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.2
- %
- "We have the right to survive!"
- "Not by killing others."
- -- Deela and Kirk, "Wink of An Eye", stardate 5710.5
- %
- We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the strong
- should live.
- -- Kras, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2
- %
- We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine.
- But when it comes to your job -- that's different. And it always will
- be different.
- -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4
- %
- "What happened to the crewman?"
- "The M-5 computer needed a new power source, the crewman merely got in
- the way."
- -- Kirk and Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer",
- stardate 4731.3.
- %
- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love.
- -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis",
- stardate 3219.8
- %
- "What terrible way to die."
- "There are no good ways."
- -- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown
- %
- When a child is taught ... it's programmed with simple instructions --
- and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of
- what it was taught, thinks independently.
- -- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer",
- stardate 4731.3.
- %
- When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel,
- building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left
- behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives
- left behind in the thought records.
- -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown
- %
- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence.
- -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
- %
- Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya!
- -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown
- %
- Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on
- your human intuition.
- -- Spock, "Assignment: Earth", stardate unknown
- %
- Without followers, evil cannot spread.
- -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5
- %
- Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.
- -- Kirk, "The return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4
- %
- Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more
- sheer horror than the male of the species.
- -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4
- %
- Women professionals do tend to over-compensate.
- -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, "Where No Man Has Gone Before",
- stardate 1312.9.
- %
- Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a
- woman.
- -- Kirk, "Conscience of the King", stardate unknown
- %
- Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman always remains a
- woman.
- -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9
- %
- Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil.
- -- Sirah the Yang, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
- %
- You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second in
- command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.
- -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9
- %
- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone.
- -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
- %
- You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But
- you imprison those who employ it privately.
- -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
- %
- You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street -- you know how you
- feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press. If
- the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know.
- -- Kirk, "Charlie X", stardate 1535.8
- %
- You humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. "You're
- welcome," I believe, is the correct response.
- -- Spock, "Bread and Circuses", stardate 4041.2
- %
- You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you
- are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth because everything
- you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth ... but you cannot, for
- you lie.
- -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
- %
- You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between
- courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the
- soldiers.
- -- Kor, the Klingon Commander, "Errand of Mercy",
- stardate 3201.7
- %
- You! What PLANET is this!
- -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
- %
- You'll learn something about men and women -- the way they're supposed
- to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good
- to each other. That's what we call love. You'll like that a lot.
- -- Kirk, "The Apple", stardate 3715.6
- %
- You're dead, Jim.
- -- McCoy, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7
- %
- You're dead, Jim.
- -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown
- %
- You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman.
- -- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within", stardate unknown
- %
- Youth doesn't excuse everything.
- -- Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body), "Turnabout Intruder",
- stardate 5928.5.
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