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STAR TREK QUOTES!



You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman.
-- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within", stardate unknown

Landru! Guide us!
-- A Beta 3-oid, "The Return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4

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

"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

Star Trek Lives! There's a way out of any cage.
-- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.

There are always alternatives.
-- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3

War isn't a good life, but it's life.
-- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8

Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
-- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6

Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition.
-- Spock, "Assignment: Earth", stardate unknown

A woman should have compassion.
-- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2

Youth doesn't excuse everything.
-- Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body), "Turnabout Intruder", stardate 5928.5.

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

Change is the essential process of all existence.
-- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2

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

Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
-- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5

"That unit is a woman." "A mass of conflicting impulses."
-- Spock and Nomad, "The Changeling", stardate 3541.9

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

We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of peaceful contact.
-- Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun", stardate 4385.3

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

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

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
-- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2

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

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

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

It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted
-- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5

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

No more blah, blah, blah!
-- Kirk, "Miri", stardate 2713.6

Many Myths are based on truth
-- Spock, "The Way to Eden", stardate 5832.3

Peace was the way.
-- Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown

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

The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often a noose. To live is always desirable.
-- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child", stardate 3498.9

There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help.
-- Kirk, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

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

You! What PLANET is this!
-- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0

Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman.
-- Kirk, "Conscience of the King", stardate unknown

Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder.
-- Kirk, "This side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3

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

[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

I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
-- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0

Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
-- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6

"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.

We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for us.
-- Rojan, "By Any Other Name", stardate 4657.5

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

Change is the essential process of all existence.
-- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
-- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2

Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
-- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5

Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe.
-- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1

If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.
-- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9

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

Killing is wrong.
-- Losira, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown

It is necessary to have purpose.
-- Alice #1, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3

Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God.
-- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3

Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie.
-- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8

Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive.
-- Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7

There are certain things men must do to remain men.
-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4

Wait! You have not been prepared!
-- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate 3113.2

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

Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.
-- Kirk, "The return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4

"What terrible way to die." "There are no good ways."
-- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown

You're dead, Jim.
-- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown

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

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

Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be located on a natural invasion route.
-- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.4

"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.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.
-- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9

I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
-- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0

Live long and prosper.
-- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7

"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

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

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

Conquest is easy. Control is not.
-- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown

Change is the essential process of all existence.
-- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2

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

Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
-- Klingon Soldier, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

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

Immortality consists largely of boredom.
-- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8

Many Myths are based on truth
-- Spock, "The Way to Eden", stardate 5832.3

Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.
-- Kirk, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2

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

Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
-- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8

The heart is not a logical organ.
-- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4

Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie.
-- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8

There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help.
-- Kirk, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

There are certain things men must do to remain men.
-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4

[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

Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force.
-- Amanda, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.3

Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman.
-- Kirk, "Conscience of the King", stardate unknown

Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence.
-- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1

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

You're dead, Jim.
-- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown

Men don't talk peace unless they're ready to back it up with war.
-- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4

Prepare for tomorrow -- get ready.
-- Edith Keeler, "The City On the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown

Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved.
-- Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body), "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4770.3.

The idea of male and female are universal constants.
-- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8

Superior ability breeds superior ambition.
-- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9

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 is an order of things in this universe.
-- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1

"We have the right to survive!" "Not be killing others."
-- Deela and Kirk, "Wink of An Eye", stardate 5710.5

War is never imperative.
-- McCoy, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2

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

Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya!
-- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown

A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing.
-- Kirk, "The Menagerie", stardate 3012.4

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


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