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Ugliness:

Most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness - one of the last of our prejudices. - Kirk - Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS)

Understatement:

Not a very pleasant prospect. You have a gift for understatement…. It's not a very pleasant prospect at all. - Spock and Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

Unexpected:

Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. - Spock - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

Universe:

There is an order of things in this universe. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

We exist in a universe which co-exists with a multitude of others in the same physical space. For certain brief periods of time, an area of their space overlaps an area of ours. - Spock - The Tholian Web (TOS)

Unknown:

Instruments register only those things they're designed to register. Space still contains infinite unknowns. - Spock - The Naked Time (TOS)

The greatest danger facing us is…our irrational fear of the unknown. But there is no such thing as the unknown. There are only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. - Kirk - The Corbomite Maneuver (TOS)

…hesitation…is an hereditary trait of your species, and suddenly faced by the unknown, or imminent danger, a human will invariably experience a split second of indecision. He hesitates. - Spock - Obsession (TOS)

Value:

She must have been a pearl of great price. - Scott - The Empath (TOS)

Vegetarian:

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Vengeance:

Let bloody vengeance take its final course. - Kodos - The Conscience of the King (TOS)

Violence:

When there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. - Spock - Dagger of the Mind (TOS)

You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately. - Spock - Dagger of the Mind (TOS)

To us, violence is unthinkable. - Ayleborne - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

Vulcans do not approve of violence. - Spock - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Mankind - ready to kill. That's the way it was in 1881. I wonder how humanity managed to survive? We overcame our instinct for violence. - Spock and Kirk - Spectre of the Gun (TOS)

The need to resort to violence and force has long since passed. - Kirk - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS)

Violence in reality is quite different from theory. - Spock - The Cloudminders (TOS)

Virtue:

Virtue is a relative term. - Spock - Friday's Child (TOS)

Vision:

In every revolution, there's one man with a vision! - Kirk - Mirror, Mirror (TOS)

Vulcans:

A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing. - Kirk - The Menagerie (TOS)

I suppose most of us overlook that fact that even Vulcans aren't indestructible. - Kirk - Amok Time (TOS)

In the distant past Vulcans killed to win their mates. And they still go mad at this time. Perhaps the price they pay for having no emotions the rest of the time. - Kirk and McCoy - Amok Time (TOS)

Hot as Vulcan. - McCoy - Amok Time (TOS)

We shield it with ritual and custom shrouded with antiquity. It strips our minds from us. It brings a madness which rips away our veneer of civilization. It is the pon farr - the time of mating. - Spock - Amok Time (TOS)

Vulcans never bluff. - Spock - The Doomsday Machine (TOS)

Vulcans do not approve of violence. - Spock - Journey to Babel (TOS)

[Being 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 (TOS)

…Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force. - Amanda - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Vulcans worship peace above all. - McCoy - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

I have heard of Vulcan integrity and personal honor. There is a well-known saying, or is it a myth, that Vulcans are incapable of lying. - Romulan Commander - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Too much love is dangerous. Cupid's arrow kills Vulcans. - Dionyd and Eraclitus - Plato's Stepchildren (TOS)

It is said thy Vulcan blood is thin. - T'Pau - Amok Time (TOS)

Vulnerability:

We're all vulnerable in one way or another. - Kirk - Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS)

War:

War is never imperative. - McCoy - Balance of Terror (TOS)

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 (TOS)

[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 (TOS)

Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business. - Kirk - A Taste of Armageddon (TOS)

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 (TOS)

Well, we've been anticipating an attack. I'd say what we've just experienced very nearly qualifies. Yes, it would seem to be an unfriendly act. - Kirk and Spock - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

Well there it is...war. We didn't want it, but we've got it. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

No one wants war. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

The trigger has been pulled. We've got to get there before the hammer falls. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS) 

War isn't a good life, but it's a life. - Kirk - A Private Little War (TOS)

…bacteriological warfare…hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that. - McCoy - The Omega Glory (TOS)

If some day we are defeated, well, war has it fortunes, good and bad. - Kirk - Day of the Dove (TOS)

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 (TOS)

The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal than kill. - Surak - The Savage Curtain (TOS)

Warmth:

Light and warmth! That's necessary to all humanoids. - Kirk - The Cloudminders (TOS)

To all mankind - may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth. - Dagger of the Mind (TOS)

Water:

Without water, we're all just three or four pounds of chemicals. - McCoy - The Omega Glory (TOS)

Weak:

…weak innocents…always seem to be located on the natural invasion route. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

We believe men should fight their own battles. Only the weak will die. - Proconsul Marcus Claudius - Bread and Circuses (TOS)

Weapon:

Back in the twentieth century, the H-bomb was the ultimate weapon, their doomsday machine. And we used something like it to destroy another doomsday machine. Probably the first time such a weapon has ever been used for constructive purposes. - Kirk - The Doomsday Machine (TOS)

I suggest that good spirits might make an effective weapon. - Spock - Day of the Dove (TOS)

Winning:

My people pride themselves on being the greatest, most successful gamblers in the universe. We compete for everything…. Everything we desire. And it is our nature to win! - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

Wisdom:

We are wise enough to know we are wise enough not to interfere with the way of a man or another world. - Kirk - A Private Little War (TOS)

We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves. We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds…just as a man must grow in his own way and his own time. - Kirk - A Private Little War (TOS)

We faced a…crisis in our earlier nuclear age. We found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves. - Kirk - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving. - Kirk - The Omega Glory (TOS)

Wish:

As you wish. - Spock - Whom Gods Destroy (TOS)

Go. Or stay, but do it because it is what you wish to do. - Khan - Space Seed (TOS)

Woman:

Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. - Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver - Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS)

There's only one kind of woman or man. You either believe in yourself or you don't. - Kirk - Mudd's Women (TOS)

Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate; but a woman always remains a woman. - Kirk - The Conscience of the King (TOS)

It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers. - Spock - Amok Time (TOS)

Earth, mother of the most beautiful women in the universe. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

That unit is a woman. A mass of conflicting impulses. - Spock and Nomad - The Changeling (TOS)

A woman should have compassion. - Kirk - Catspaw (TOS)

Behind every great man, there is a woman - urging him on. - Mudd - I, Mudd (TOS)

Women are more easily and more deeply terrified…generating more sheer horror than the male of the species. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Love is the most important thing on Earth - especially to a man and a woman. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

Being human does have certain advantages - being able to appreciate the beauty of a flower, or a woman. - Kirk - By Any Other Name (TOS)

Is not that the nature of man and woman? That the pleasure is in the learning of each other? - Natira - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim. - Kirk - Elaan of Troyius (TOS)

I never get involved with older women. - Kirk - Miri (TOS)

Words:

In our century, we've learned not to fear words. - Uhura - The Savage Curtain (TOS)

You couldn't pronounce it. - Spock - This Side of Paradise (TOS)

Worry:

Worry is a human emotion. - Spock - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Stop trying to kill each other, then worry about being friendly. - Kirk - Elaan of Troyius (TOS)

Worship:

All right, Mister! You wanted worshippers? You've got enemies! - Kirk - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

Would it have hurt us a little just to gather few laurel leaves? - Kirk - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

If you're speaking of worships of sorts, we represent many beliefs. - McCoy - Bread and Circuses (TOS)

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Youth:

Youth doesn't excuse everything. - Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body) - Turnabout Intruder (TOS)

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