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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Chekov: "No casualties, Doctor."  
McCoy: "Wrong, Mister Chekov, there are casualties.  My wits!  As in frightened out of ...!"

Decker: "This is how I define unwarranted."

Decker: "We all create God in our own image."

Chief DeFalco: "Heading sir?"  
Kirk: "Out there ... thataway."

Kirk: "I'm taking the center seat."

Kirk: "An answer?  I don't even know the question!"

Kirk: "Evaluation, Mr. Spock."  Spock: "Fascinating."

Kirk: "I'm sorry, Will."  
Decker: "No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you would get a starship command again. Well sir, it looks like you found a way."

Kirk: "Well, Bones. Do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?"  
McCoy: "They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center."

McCoy: "How do we know about any of us?"

McCoy: "Why is any object we don't understand always called a 'thing'?"

McCoy: "Well Jim ... I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm going to need a top nurse ... not a doctor who'll argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too! I know engineers, they love to change things."

McCoy: "Spock, this 'child' is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth! Now what do you suggest we do? Spank it?"  
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? What was I meant to be?'"

Spock: "It only knows that it needs.  But like so many of us, it does not know what."

Transporter chief (after accident): Enterprise, what we got back didn't live very long... fortunately.

Uhura (re: V'ger): "It could hold a crew of ... tens of thousands."   
McCoy: "Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall."

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Khan: "Let them eat static."

Khan: "These people have sworn to live and die at my command 200 years before you were born."

Khan: "You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later as they grow follows madness and death."  
Chekov: "Khan, listen to me -"  
Khan: "These are pets, of course. Not quite domesticated."

Khan: "Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space."

Khan: "Ah. Not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better."

Khan: "To the last, I will grapple with thee."

Khan: "From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

Khan: "I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!"

Kirk: "There is no correct resolution.  It's a test of character."

Kirk: "We all have our assigned duties."

Kirk: "A no-win situation is a possibility every commander could face."

Kirk: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Kirk: "You should know the dangers of opening old wounds."

Kirk: "This'll be your big chance to get away from it all."

Kirk: "How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."

Kirk: "You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman you keep missing the target."

Kirk: "I don't believe in a no-win scenario."

Kirk: "Stand by to receive our transmission. Mr. Sulu, lock phasers on target."

Kirk: "We are gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. But it should be noted that this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most ... human."

Kirk: "I suppose you're about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions?"  
Spock: "I would not remind you of that which you know so well."

Kirk: "Khan, you bloodsucker! You're going to have to do your own dirty work now, do you hear me? Do you?"  
Khan: "Kirk! You're still alive, old friend!"   
Kirk: "Still, 'old friend!' You've managed to kill everyone else but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target."  
Khan: "Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral."   
Kirk: "Khan... Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down here.  You're going to have to come down here."  
Khan: "I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral.  I've hurt you.  And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive."  
Kirk: "KHAAANNNN! KHAAANNNN!"

Kirk (taunting Khan): "Khan, I'm laughing at the superior intellect."

Kirk: "I don't like to lose."

Kirk: "I would not presume to debate you."  
Spock: "That is wise."

Carol Marcus: "Jim Kirk was many things, but he was never a boy scout."

David Marcus: "Scientists have always been pawns of the military!"

McCoy: "Beware Romulans bearing gifts."

McCoy: "Damn it Jim, what the hell is the matter with you? Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?"

McCoy: "Where are we going?"  
Kirk: "Where they went."   
McCoy: "Suppose they went nowhere?"  
Kirk: "Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all."

McCoy: "Logic? My God! The man's talking about logic! We're talking about universal Armageddon!"

Saavik: "He's never what I expect, sir."  
Spock: "What surprises you, Lieutenant?"  
Saavik: "He's so - human."  
Spock: "Nobody's perfect, Saavik."

Saavik: "You lied."  
Spock: "I exaggerated."

Saavik: "Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical."   
Kirk: "We learn by doing."

Spock: "I have been, and always shall be, your friend."

Spock: "You proceed from a false assumption.  I have no ego to bruise."

Spock: "For everything, there is a first time."

Spock: "As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than create."

Spock: "Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."  
Kirk: "Or the one."

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Alien: "To your planet, welcome."  
McCoy: "I think that's my line, stranger."  
Alien: "Oh, forgive. I here am new.  But you are known, being McCoy, from Enterprise."  
McCoy: "You have me at a disadvantage, sir."  
Alien: "Oh, I name not important.  You seek I.  Message received.  Available ship stands by."  
McCoy: "How much and how soon?"   
Alien: "How soon is now.  How much is, where?"  
McCoy: "Look, price you name, money I got."  
Alien: "Place you name, money I name, otherwise bargain, no."  
McCoy: "Alright, damn it!  It's Genesis!  The name of the place we are going is Genesis."  
Alien: "Genesis?!"   
McCoy: "Yes, Genesis!  How can you be deaf with ears like that?"   
Alien: "Genesis allowed is not!  Is planet forbidden!"

Kirk: "What I've done, I had to do.  If I hadn't tried, the cost would've been my soul."

Kirk: "The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many."

Kirk: "The needs of one outweighed the needs of the many."

Kirk: "You. Help us or die."  
Maltz: "I do not deserve to live."  
Kirk: "Fine, I'll kill you later."

Kirk: "You're suffering from a Vulcan mind-meld, doctor."   
McCoy: "That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost."

Kirk: "My God, Bones, what have I done?"  
McCoy: "What you had to do; what you always do: turn death into a fighting chance to live."

Kirk: "Sorry about your ship, but as we say on Earth, c'est la vie."

Maltz: "Impressive.  They can make planets."  
Kruge: "Oh yes.  New cities, homes in the country.  Your woman at your side, children playing at your feet, and overhead, fluttering in the breeze, the flag of the Federation. Charming."

Sarek: "My logic is uncertain where my son is concerned."

Scott: "The more they over think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."

Spock (his first words after revival): "My father says that you have been my friend."

Sulu: "Don't call me tiny."

Sulu: "The word, sir?"  
Kirk: "The word is no. I am therefore going anyway."

Uhura: "You know what they say, be careful what you wish for, you may get it."

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Gillian: "So you're from outer space?"  
Kirk: "No, I'm from Iowa.  I only work in outer space."

Kirk: "May fortune favor the foolish."

Kirk (re: Spock's actions): "Oh, him? He's harmless.  Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the sixties.  I think he did a little too much LDS."

Kirk: "Spock, where's that power?"  
Spock: "Just one damn minute, Admiral."

Kirk: "Everybody remember where we parked."

Kirk: "If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are being released."  Spock: "How will playing cards help?"

McCoy: "Nobody's perfect."

McCoy (re: death): "C'mon Spock, it's me, McCoy.  You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?"

Scott: "Thy will be done."

Scott (at 20th century computer): "Keyboard!  How quaint."

Spock: "Ah... the giants."

Spock: "They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales."   
Gillian: "I suppose they told you that."  
Spock (learning to use profanity): "The hell they did."

Spock: "Your use of language has altered since our arrival.  It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, 'double dumb-ass on you' and so forth."
Kirk: "Oh, you mean the profanity?"  
Spock: "Yes."  
Kirk: "Well that's simply the way they talk here.  Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word."

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

"God": "You doubt me?"  
Kirk: "I seek proof."  
McCoy: "Jim, you don't as the Almighty for His I.D."

Kirk: "Who's trying to break any records?  I'm doing this because I enjoy it!"

Kirk: "If we're going to do it, we're going to do it by the book."
Kirk: "What is this power you have to control the minds of my crew?"   
Sybok: "I don't control minds.  I free them."

Kirk: "I've always known I'll die alone."

Kirk: "What does God need with a starship?"

Scott: "I know this ship like the back of my hand."

Spock: "I have found myself and my place.  I know who I am."

Spock: "Perhaps 'because it is there' is not sufficient reason for climbing a mountain."

Spock: "He reminds me of someone I knew in my youth."  
Bones: "Why, Spock, I didn't know you had one."

Sulu: "Actually, it's my first attempt."

Sulu: "We're lost -- but we're making good time."

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Chang: "I am constant as the Northern Star...."  
McCoy: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."

Chang: "We need breathing room."  
Kirk: "Earth, Hitler, 1938."

Chang: "I can see you Kirk. Can you see me?"  
Kirk: "Chang!"   
Chang: "Oh, now be honest, Captain.  Warrior to warrior.  You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be.  No peace in our time.  'Once more onto the breach, dear friends.'"

Chekov: "Perhaps you know of Russian epic of Cinderella...?  If shoe fits, wear it!"

Gorkon: "You don't trust me, do you?  I don't blame you.  If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

Kirk: "People can be very frightened of change."

Kirk (re: Klingons): "They're animals."  
Spock: "Jim, there is an historic opportunity here."  
Kirk: "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!"  
Spock: "They're dying."  
Kirk: "Let them die."

McCoy: "They don't arrest people for having feelings."

Spock: "I've been dead before."

Spock: "You must have faith that the Universe will unfold as it should."

Spock: "What you want is irrelevant.  What you have chosen is at hand."

Spock: "The expulsion from Paradise ... it is a reminder to me that all things end."

Spock: "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end...."

Spock: "Even logic must give way to physics."

Spock: "There is the old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China."

Spock: "If I were human I believe my response would be go to hell.  ... If I were human."

Spock: "Mr. Scott, I understand you are experiencing difficulties with the warp engines?"  
Scott: "There's nothing wrong with the bloody -"   
Spock: "Mr. Scott, if the Enterprise responds to hails and returns to Starbase, there is a good chance that we will never see Captain Kirk or Doctor McCoy alive again."  
Scott: "Could take weeks, sir..."

Spock: "Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."

Spock: "What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity."

Star Trek: Generations

Data: "Humor ... I love it!"

Kirk: "Who am I to question the captain of the Enterprise?"

Picard: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."   
Riker: "Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever."

Riker (to Worf after asking computer to remove plank instead of retracting it): "Sorry!"

Dr. Soran: "You'll have to excuse me captain, I have an appointment with eternity, and I don't want to be late."

Dr. Soran: "They say that time is the fire in which we burn."

Star Trek: First Contact

Borg Queen: "Do you always talk this much?"  
Data: "Not always.  But often."

Borg Queen: "Watch your future's end."

Borg Queen (to Data): "You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being."

Borg Queen: "Are you familiar with physical forms of pleasure?"   
Data: "If you're referring to sexuality, I'm fully functional. Programmed in multiple techniques."  
Borg Queen: "How long has it been since you've used them?"  
Data: "8 years, 7 months, 16 days, 4 minutes 22..."  
Borg Queen: "Far too long."

Borg Queen: "I am the beginning and the end. I bring order into chaos."

Cochrane: "You're all astronauts, on some kind of star trek."

Dr. Crusher: "So much for the Enterprise-E."  
Picard: "We barely knew her."  
Dr. Crusher: "Do you think they'll make another one?"  
Picard: "Plenty of letters left in the alphabet."

Data: "... for a time, I was tempted by her offer."  
Picard: "How long a time?"  
Data: "0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity."

Data: "I think I speak on behalf of the entire crew when I say To hell with our orders."

EMH: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."

Picard: "Reports of my assimilation have been greatly exaggerated."

Picard: "I suggest you deactivate your emotion chip for now."  
Data: "Done."  
Picard: "Data, there are times when I envy you."

Picard: "We are not going to lose the Enterprise.  Not to the Borg.  Not while I'm in command."

Picard: "Mr. Worf, do you remember your zero g combat training?"   
Worf: "I remember how it made me sick to my stomach."

Picard: "They invade our space, and we fall back.  They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back.  Not again.  The line must be drawn here.  This far, no farther.  And I will make them pay for what they've done."

Picard: "You want to destroy the ship and run away, you coward."   
Worf: "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand."

Picard: "You may want to hold your breath.  It's a long way down."

Riker (re: USS Defiant): "Tough little ship."  
Worf: "Little?"

Riker: "Someone once said 'Don't try to be a great man.  Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment.'"  
Cochrane: "That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?"
Riker: "You did, ten years from now."

Riker: "Mr. Worf, you remember how to fire phasers?"

Lily Sloane: "Borg?  Sounds Swedish."

Lily Sloane (after seeing Borg): "Definitely not Swedish."

Lily Sloane: "It's my first ray gun."

Lily Sloane: "You broke your little ships."

Troi (drunk): "This is no time to argue about time.  We don't have the time!"

Troi (very drunk): "He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him.  Then he made me drink three shots of something called tequila before he would tell me who he was."

Vulcan: "Live long and prosper."  
Cochrane: "Thanks."

Worf: "Perhaps today is a good day to die!"

Star Trek: Insurrection

09/06/2000

Picard: "Can anyone remember when we use to be explorers?"