Quotes

[on whether to help the Klingons]

Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.

Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.

Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.

Captain Spock: They're dying.

Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!

[pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise. Kirk recoils and proceeds]

Captain James T. Kirk: Has it occurred to you that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bit for king and country! You should have trusted me.

General Chang: We need breathing room.

Captain James T. Kirk: Earth, Hitler, 1938.

Captain Spock: What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.

Chancellor 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.

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

General Chang: I can see you, Kirk.

Captain James T. Kirk: Chang.

General Chang: Can you see me? 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 unto the breach, dear friends."

General Chang: "I am constant as the northern star...?

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'd give real money if he'd shut up.

Commander Pavel Chekov: Course heading, Captain?

Captain James T. Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

Captain James T. Kirk: Names, Lieutenant!

Lieutenant Valeris: I do not remember.

Captain Spock: A lie?

Lieutenant Valeris: A choice.

[Sulu's ship witnesses a huge explosion on the Klingon moon, Praxis]

Brigadier Kerla: This is Brigadier Kerla speaking for the High Command. There has been an incident on Praxis. However, everything is under control, we have no need for assistance. Obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. This transmission ends now.

Captain Hikaru Sulu: An "incident"?

Commander Janice Rand: Do we report this, sir?

Captain Hikaru Sulu: [Turning to Rand] Are you kidding?

Federation President: Suppose you instigate a full scale war?

Colonel West: In that case, Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers.

[In a conversation with Spock]

Captain James T. Kirk: You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists. Reality has brought us somewhere in-between.

Kirk: Spock, you want to know something?, Everybody's Human.

Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting.

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: ...then we're dead.

Captain Spock: I've been dead before.

[Quote adaptation from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962]

General Chang: Indeed. The record shows that Captain Kirk once held the rank of Admiral. And that Admiral Kirk was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of regulations of the law. Do you deny being demoted for these charges? DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION. Answer me now.

General Chang: Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War.

Captain Kirk: Chekov, you know anything about a radiation surge?

Commander Pavel Chekov: Only the size of my head.

Captain Kirk: I know what you mean.

Klingon ambassador: The Chancellor of the High Council is dead - the result of an unprovoked attack while he traveled to see you under a flag of truce on a mission of peace. Captain Kirk was legally arrested for the crime. May I remind you that he and Dr. McCoy boarded Kronos One on their own free will? No of these facts are in dispute, Mr. President.

Federation President: I have ordered a full-scale investigation. In the meantime...

Klingon ambassador: In the meantime, we expect the Federation to abide by the articles of Intersellar Law, which you claim to cherish. Kirk and Dr. McCoy will stand trial for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon.

Federation President: Out of the question.

[to Sarek]

Federation President: Ambassador Sarek, there must be some way to extradite these men.

Ambassador Sarek: Mr. President, I share a measure of personally responsibility in this matter, but I am obliged to confirm my esteemed colleague's legal interpretation.

Federation President: What is the position of the Romulan government, Ambassador Nanclus?

Ambassador Nanclus: I must concur with my colleagues.

Federation President: But you can't possibly believe that James Kirk assassinated the Chancellor of the High Council.

Ambassador Nanclus: Mr. President, I don't know what to believe.

Klingon ambassador: I'm waiting for your answer, sir.

Federation President: This president is not above the law.

[as soon as Azetbur finishes her transmission to the Federation President, Kerla unrolls war plans on her desk]

Brigadier Kerla: Attack them now, while we still have the chance!

Klingon general #1: Attack them, or be slaves on their worlds!

Klingon general #2: We can take whole by force what they propose to divide.

Azetbur: War is obsolete, general... as we are in danger of becoming.

Lieutenant Valeris: A bird of prey?

Captain Spock: A bird of prey.

Commander Pavel Chekov: Cloaked?

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: A bird of prey cannot open fire when it's cloaked!

Captain Spock: All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree with you. All things, however, are not equal. This one can.

Commander Pavel Chekov: I don't understand. If there was another ship underneath us, surely the assassins beamed aboard from that vessel, not Enterprise.

Captain Spock: You're forgetting something, Mr. Chekhov. According to our ship's databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we did, the killers are here. If we did not, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for, is here.

[the crew enter the bridge]

Kirk: Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it.

McCoy: And the good news is they're not going to prosecute.

Uhuru: They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lt. Valeris.

McCoy: [looks at Spock] Well, they don't prosecute people for having feelings.

Chekov: Just as well, or we'll all have to turn ourselves in.

General Chang: "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

Captain Hikaru Sulu: Nice to see you in action for one last time, Captain Kirk. Take care.

Captain Spock: Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a photon torpedo?

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Fascinating!

Captain Hikaru Sulu: In range?

Helmsman Lojur: Not yet sir.

Captain Hikaru Sulu: Come on, come on.

Helmsman Lojur: She'll fly apart!

Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*

General Chang: Ahh... parting is such sweet sorrow. Don't we hear the chimes at midnight?

Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [referring to Gorkon's daughter, whom he believes killed Gorkon] Mark my word, she did not shed one bloody tear.

Captain Spock: Hardly conclusive, Mr. Scott, since Klingons have no tear ducts.

General Chang: [prosecuting] Doctor McCoy. What is your current medical status?

McCoy: Well, aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good.

[some scattered laughter from the audience; McCoy smiles, but sees Chang, unsmiling]

General Chang: You have a singular wit, Doctor.

Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

Captain James T. Kirk: People think the future means the end of history, well, we haven't run out of history just yet.

Kirk: What are we all doing here?

McCoy: Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party.

Scotty: That suits me. I just bought a boat.

Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy.

Chekov: Captain, isn't this just for top brass?

McCoy: If we're all here, where's Sulu?

Kirk: *Captain* Sulu, on assignment. Where's Spock?

Captain James T. Kirk: [Spock has beamed Kirk and Bones aboard just before they find out who framed them] No! No! Of all the - son of a - Couldn't you have waited two seconds? They were just about to tell us the whole thing!

Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: You want to go back?

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Absolutely not!

Captain James T. Kirk: [whispering] It's cold.

[Kirk and company have prevented the assassination attempt at Khitomer]

Azetbur: you've restored my father's faith.

Captain James T. Kirk: and you have restored my son's.

Kirk: [Fighting Martia who has changed to look like him] Isn't it about time you became something else?

Martia (appearing as Kirk): I like it here.

[Spock and McCoy are heading for the Torpedo bay]

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Bet you wished you'd stood in bed!

Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane: [checking the scanners] I can confirm the location of Praxis, but...

Captain Hikaru Sulu: But?

Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane: [turning to face Sulu] I can no longer confirm the existence of Praxis!

Captain James T. Kirk: [Valeris has just engaged thrusters to take Enterprise out of Spacedock] Thank you Lieutenant, ahead one quarter impulse power

Lieutenant Valeris: [spins in chair to face Kirk] Sir! May I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only whilst in spacedock.

Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: [the bridge crew cough loudly, Chekov shakes his head, Uhura tuts softly. McCoy leans in to tease Spock] Jim?

Captain James T. Kirk: You heard the order, Lieutenant...

Lieutenant Valeris: Aye, Sir!

Martia: You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume.

Captain James T. Kirk: How did you know that?

Martia: We don't get many presidential assassins.

Captain James T. Kirk: We didn't kill Gorkon!

Martia: Of course not. But there is a reward for your death.

McCoy: That figures.

Klingon Commander: This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison, to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.

General Chang: In space, all warriors are cold warriors.