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James T. Kirk: [Stepping aboard the bridge as its official captain] Bones! Buckle up!

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Scotty: I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!

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Christopher Pike: Prepare to fire all weapons!

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Sarek: [to Spock] You will always be a child of two worlds, and fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose?

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[Kirk drives his stepfather's Corvette toward a cliff. As he skids sideways, he jumps out before the Corvette falls off while he hangs on the edge of the cliff. The Iowa cop chasing him steps off his bike as Kirk climbs off the cliff]
Young Kirk: Is there a problem, officer?
Iowa Cop: Citizen, what is your name?
Young Kirk: My name is James Tiberius Kirk!

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Nero: The wait is over.

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Nero: I've been waiting for this day my whole life... This day of reckoning.
[from trailer]

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Nero: Fire everything!

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Nero: James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man. He went on to captain the USS Enterprise... but that was another life. A life I will deprive you of just like I did your father!

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Dammit, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!

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Spock: [sits in the cockpit of his future self's ship] Fascinating!

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Ayel: I will speak for Captain Nero.
Captain Robau: Then ask Captain Nero what gives him the right to attack a Federation vessel.
Ayel: [turn on hologram with Spock Prime's face] Do you know the location of Ambassador Spock?
Captain Robau: I'm unfamiliar with Ambassador Spock.
Ayel: What is the current stardate?
Captain Robau: Stardate? Twenty-two thirty-three zero-four. Where are you from?
[Nero comes from behind his throne and kills Captain Robau]

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James T. Kirk: You know, going back in time, changing history... that's cheating.
Spock Prime: A trick I learned from an old friend.
[With an uncharacteristic smile, he gives the Vulcan salute to Kirk]
Spock Prime: Live long and prosper.

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Christopher Pike: This is Captain Christopher Pike. To whom am I speaking?
Nero: Hi, Christopher. I'm Nero.

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James T. Kirk: So what type of combat training do you have?
Hikaru Sulu: Fencing.

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Ayel: [choking Kirk] You can't even speak. What?
James T. Kirk: I've got your gun!
[shoots Ayel]

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Christopher Pike: [whistles to break up fight between cadets and Kirk] Outside! All of you! Now!
[to Kirk]
Christopher Pike: You all right son?
Kirk: [Looks at him upside down and stunned] You can whistle really loud, you know that?

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George Kirk: What are we going to call him?
Winona Kirk: We could name him after your father.
George Kirk: Tiberius? You kidding me? No, that's the worst. Let's name him after your dad. Let's call him Jim.

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Permission to speak freely, sir?
Spock: I welcome it.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Do you? OK, then. Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Are you making a logical choice, sending Kirk away? Probably. But, the right one? You know, back home we have a saying: "If you wanna ride in the Kentucky Derby, you don't leave your prized stallion in the stable."
Spock: A curious metaphor, doctor, as a stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: My God, man, you could at least *act* like it was a hard decision...
Spock: I intend to assist in the effort to reestablish communication with Starfleet. However, if crew morale is better served by my roaming the halls weeping, I will gladly defer to your medical expertise. Excuse me.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [as Spock leaves] Green-blooded hobgoblin...

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James T. Kirk: [on Spock] Who was that pointy-eared bastard?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I don't know, but I like him.

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[last lines]
Spock Prime: [closing monologue] Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Spock: [to Kirk] Out of the chair.

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Scotty: I've never beamed three people from two targets onto one pad before! I thought that was pretty good!

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Spock Prime: What if I told you that your transwarp theory was correct, that is is indeed possible to beam onto a ship that is traveling at warp speed?
Scotty: I think if that equation had been discovered, I'd have heard about it.
Spock Prime: The reason you haven't heard of it, Mr. Scott, is because you haven't discovered it yet.
Scotty: Are you from the future?
James T. Kirk: Yeah, he is. I'm not.
Scotty: Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?

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Scotty: I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!

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Lt. Nyota Uhura: I'm impressed. For a moment there, I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals.
James T. Kirk: Well, not only.

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James T. Kirk: You call this a favor?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Yeah, you owe me one.

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I may throw up on you.
James T. Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
James T. Kirk: Well, I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Yeah. Well, I got nowhere else to go, the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.

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Sarek: [to Spock] You once asked me, why I married your mother. I married her because I loved her.

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Hey! Watch your Vulcan language!

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I don't need a doctor, damnit, I AM a doctor!
Flight Officer: You need to get back to your seat.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I had one. In the bathroom with no windows.

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Chief Engineer Olson: I can't wait to kick some Romulan arse!

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Sarek: Speak your mind, Spock.
Spock: That would be unwise.
Sarek: What is necessary is never unwise.

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Spock: [on intercom] Dr Puri?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: It's McCoy. Dr. Puri was on Deck 6. He's dead.
Spock: Then you have just inherited his responsibilities as Chief Medical Officer.
[McCoy looks at a burning medical room full of casualties from the attack]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Tell me something I don't know!

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: How old are you?
Pavel Chekov: I'm 17.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Oh good, he's 17.

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James T. Kirk: [Spock volunteers for what could be a suicide mission] I'm coming with you.
Spock: I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
James T. Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.
James T. Kirk: [slaps his shoulder]

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James T. Kirk: How, over your dead body?
Spock: Preferably not.

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Well congratulations Jim. We've got no Captain and no god damned First Officer to replace him.
Kirk: Yeah, we do.
[Kirk sits himself into the Captain's chair]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: What?
Hikaru Sulu: Pike made him first officer.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: You gotta be kidding me!
Kirk: Thank for the support.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: I sure hope you know what you're doing...
[sarcastically]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Captain.
Kirk: So do I.

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Spock: [after Kirk offers surrender terms to Nero] Captain, what are you doing?
James T. Kirk: Showing them compassion. It may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock, I thought you'd like that.
Spock: No, not really. Not this time.

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Spock: We must gather with the rest of Starfleet... to balance the terms of the next engagement!
James T. Kirk: There won't BE a next engagement! By the time we've gathered, it'll be too late! But you say he's from the future and knows what's gonna happen - then the logical thing is to be unpredictable!
Spock: You are assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold - the contrary. Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the USS Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: An alternate reality...
Spock: Precisely. Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted - our destinies have changed.

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James T. Kirk: [Pike previously told Kirk he would be Captain in 4 years] I'll do it in three.

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James T. Kirk: Are we done?
Christopher Pike: I'm done.

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Security Officer: [McCoy is half-carrying a loopy Kirk after injecting him with a vaccine. Kirk is scanned] Kirk, James T. He is not cleared for duty aboard the Enterprise.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Medical code states the treatment and transport of a patient is to be determined at the discretion of his attending physician. Which is me! So I'm taking Mr. Kirk aboard. Or would *you* like to explain to Captain Pike why the Enterprise warped into a crisis without one of it's senior medical officers?
Security Officer: As you were.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [irritably] As *you* were!
[to Kirk]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Come on!
[He drags Kirk onto the ship]

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Spock Prime: You are, in fact, the Mr. Scott who postulated the theory of transwarp beaming?
Scotty: That's what I'm talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a... like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.
James T. Kirk: Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
Scotty: I'll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I don't know, I do feel guilty about that.

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Scotty: So, the Enterprise has had its maiden voyage, has it? She is one well-endowed lady. I'd like to get my hands on her "ample nacelles," if you pardon the engineering parlance...

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Spock: Since Romulans and Vulcans share a common ancestor, it will be easier for me to understand their culture. Also, my mother was Human, which makes Earth the only home I have left.

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Sarek: [to Spock] You will always be a child of two worlds. I am grateful for this, and for you.

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Spock: [standing across Lt. Uhura before he and Kirk are about to be beamed onto the Romulan warship] I will be back.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [leaning in] You better be! I'll be monitoring your frequency.
Spock: [actually quite emotional] Thank you, Nyota.
James T. Kirk: [after Uhura leaves] So her first name's Nyota?
Spock: I have no comment on the matter.

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Christopher Pike: Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mothers and yours. I dare you to do better.

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Burly Cadet #1: This townie isn't bothering you right?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Oh, beyond belief. But it's nothing I can't handle.
James T. Kirk: You could handle me if that's an invitation.
Burly Cadet #1: Hey, you better mind your manners.
James T. Kirk: Oh relax, cupcake, it was a joke.
Burly Cadet #1: Hey farmboy. Maybe you can't count. But there are four of us and one of you.
James T. Kirk: So get some more guys and then it'll be an even fight.

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Lt. Nyota Uhura: [to Spock, after the destruction of Vulcan] I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.
[She kisses him along his face and hugs him; after a short hesitation, he hugs her back and leans into her]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: What do you need?
[Uhura takes his face into her hands]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Tell me. Tell me.
Spock: [fighting for control] I need everyone to continue performing admirably.
[pushes the elevator button to continue]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [tears in her eyes, nods] Okay.
[She kisses him and he kisses her back and when the elevator doors open and leaves her behind without a backward glance]

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Spock: We are traveling at warp speed. How did you manage to beam aboard this ship?
James T. Kirk: You're the genius. You figure it out.
Spock: As acting captain of this vessel, I order you to answer the question.
James T. Kirk: Well, I'm not telling, Acting Captain. What? Did...
[Kirk smiles]
James T. Kirk: What-now that doesn't frustrate you, does it? My lack of cooperation? That doesn't make you angry...
Spock: [Spock turns to Scotty] Are you a member of Starfleet?
Scotty: Um, yes. Can I get a towel please?

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[Spock notices a elder Vulcan walking in the docking bay]
Spock: Father!
[the elder Vulcan turns and is revealed as Spock Prime]
Spock Prime: I am not our father.
[Young Spock, now recognizing who he is, approaches]
Spock Prime: There are so few Vulcans left. We cannot afford to ignore each other.
Spock: Then why did you send Kirk aboard, when you alone could have explained the truth?
Spock Prime: Because you needed each other. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.
Spock: How did you persuade him to keep your secret?
Spock Prime: He inferred that universe-ending paradoxes would ensue should he break his promise.
Spock: You lied.
Spock Prime: I... I implied.
Spock: A gamble.
Spock Prime: An act of faith. One I hope that you will repeat in your future in Starfleet.
Spock: In the face of extinction, it is only logical that I resign my Starfleet commission and help rebuild our race.
Spock Prime: And, yet, you can be in two places at once. I urge you to remain in Starfleet. I have already located a suitable planet in which to establish a Vulcan colony. Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor: Put aside logic. Do what feels right.
[Spock Prime turns and leaves]
Spock Prime: Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say...
[Shows Vulcan hand salute]
Spock Prime: Good luck.

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Spock Prime: [after Kirk relieves Pike of command] Thrusters on full.

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[Kirk and Scott run around the Enterprise's engineering section to avoid being captured when they are cornered by an officer pointing a phaser at them - the same officer involved in the bar fight with Kirk in Iowa]
Burly Cadet #1: Come with me, cupcake!

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James T. Kirk: [upon taking command of the Enterprise] Attention crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down... or they are. Kirk out.

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Spock: Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Lt. Nyota Uhura: [During the Kobayashi Maru test] We are receiving a distress signal from the USS Kobayashi Maru. The ship has lost power and is stranded. Starfleet Command has ordered us to rescue them.
Kirk: [clearly enjoying himself] Starfleet Command has ordered us to rescue them... *captain*.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [rolls his eyes] Two Klingon warbirds have entered the Neutral Zone and are locking weapons on us.
Kirk: [Smugly] That's okay.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: 'That's okay?'
Kirk: Yeah, don't worry about it.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Three more Klingon warbirds decloaking and locking onto our ship. I don't suppose this is a problem either.
Simulator Tactical Officer: They're firing, captain.
Kirk: Alert Medical bay to receive *all* crew members from the damaged ship.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: And how do you expect us to rescue them when we're surrounded by Klingons, captain?
Kirk: Alert Medical.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Our ship's being hit. Shields are at sixty percent.
Kirk: [nonchalantly] I understand.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [exasperated] Well, should we - oh, I dunno - fire back?
Kirk: [pulls an apple out of nowhere and starts munching] Naw.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Of course not.
[the entire simulation suddenly shuts down, then starts back up]
Kirk: Hmm. Arm photons, prepare to fire on the Klingon warbirds.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Jim, their shields are still up!
Kirk: Are they?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [McCoy checks again, taken aback] No... They're not.
Kirk: Fire on all enemy ships. One photon each should do it. No sense in wasting ammunition.
Simulator Tactical Officer: Aye, sir. Target locked and acquired on all warbirds. Firing.
[the simulation shows the birds being destroyed one by one]
Simulator Tactical Officer: All targets destroyed, sir.
Kirk: Begin rescue of the stranded crew. *So,*
[suddenly very cocky]
Kirk: we've managed to eliminate all enemy ships, no one on board was injured and the successful rescue of the Kobayashi Maru crew is... underway.
[takes a large bite out of his apple]

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Vulcan Council President: You have surpassed the expectations of your instructors. Your final record is flawless, with one exception: I see that you have applied to Starfleet as well.
Spock: It was logical to cultivate multiple options.
Vulcan Council President: Logical, but unnecessary. You are hereby accepted to the Vulcan Science Academy. It is truly remarkable, Spock, that you have achieved so much. Despite your disadvantage. All rise
[the Vulcan Council stands in honor of Spock, who now looks slightly pissed]
Spock: If you would clarify, Minister. To what disadvantage are you referring?
Vulcan Council President: Your human mother.
Spock: Council... Ministers, I must decline.
Vulcan Council President: No Vulcan has ever declined admission to this academy!
Spock: Then as I am half-human, your record remains untarnished.
Sarek: Spock, you have made a commitment to honor the Vulcan way.
Vulcan Council President: Why did you come before this council today? Was it to satisfy your emotional need to rebel?
Spock: The only emotion I wish to convey is gratitude. Thank you, Ministers, for your consideration. Live long and prosper.

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James T. Kirk: [the night before he is scheduled to take the Kobayashi Maru test] Hey, if I pass, will you tell me your first name?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: *No!* Get out!
[slams the door in his face]

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Kirk: [Bolts out of bed suddenly from being sedated] Lightning storm!
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Ah, Jim, you're awake. How do you feel?
[He looks down, suddenly growing alarmed]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Good God, man!
Kirk: What?
[He yelps and raises his hands, which are now twice their normal size]
Kirk: What the hell is this?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Reaction to the vaccine. Dammit! Nurse, I need 50 ccs of Cortizone!
[He starts scanning Kirk while Kirk replays Chekov's message]
Pavel Chekov: [on the computer] ... what appeared to be a lightning storm in space...
Kirk: Bones! We gotta stop the ship!
[He takes off running down the hall]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [running after him] Jim! I'm not kidding, you need to keep your heart rate down!
[he fumbles through a first aid kit while Jim accesses another computer console]
Kirk: Computer, locate crew member Uhura.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I haven't seen a reaction this bad since med school!
Kirk: We're flying into a trap!
[He starts running again]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Dammit, Jim! Stand still!
[injects him yet again]
Kirk: [yelps in pain] *Stop that!*
[he runs through the engine room, looking for Uhura]

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James T. Kirk: [still suffering from the vaccine] My mouth is itchy. Is that normal?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Those symptoms won't last long. I'm going to give you a sedative.
James T. Kirk: I wish I didn't know you.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't be such an infant.
[He jabs Kirk with a hypodermic needle]
James T. Kirk: OWW! How long's it supposed to...
[he suddenly collapses on the bed]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [Shaking his head] Unbelievable.

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Kirk: Uhura! Uhura!
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Kirk? What are you doing here?
Kirk: The message you intercepted from the Klingon prison planet...
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Oh my God, what's wrong with your hands!
Kirk: [waves off the question] Who was responsible for the attack and was the ship walullaa?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: What?
Kirk: [to McCoy] Whass... whas happening with my mouth?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: You've got numb-tongue?
Kirk: *Nuhtung?*
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I can fix that!
[hurries off to find another hypospray]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Was the ship what?
Kirk: Wallala!
Lt. Nyota Uhura: What?
Kirk: *Womulan!*
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Romulan? Yes!
[Bones injects him with another hypospray]
Kirk: ACK!
[trying to say 'dammit']
Kirk: DAHHIT!

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Kirk: Make that two. Her shots on me.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Her shots on her.
[Turns to Kirk]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Thanks but no thanks.
Kirk: Don't you at least wanna know my name before you completely reject me?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: I'm fine without it.
Kirk: You are fine without it. It's Jim, Jim Kirk.
[Waits for Uhura to introduce herself, and gets no reply]
Kirk: If you don't tell me your name I'm gonna have to make one up.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Reluctantly] It's Uhura.
Kirk: Uhura? No way! That's the name I was gonna make up for you! Uhura what?...
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Just Uhura.
Kirk: They don't have last names in your world?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Uhura is my last name.
Kirk: Then they don't have... uh first names in your world?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Uhura smiles]

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James T. Kirk: [to Uhura] You can hear me breathing?

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Spock Prime: James T. Kirk.
James T. Kirk: Excuse me?
Spock Prime: How did you find me?
James T. Kirk: Whoa... how do you know my name?
Spock Prime: I have been and always shall be, your friend.
James T. Kirk: Wha...
[shakes head]
James T. Kirk: Uh... look... I-I don't know you.
Spock Prime: I am Spock.
James T. Kirk: Bullshit.

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Spock: [after Kirk has assumed official command of Enterprise] Captain? As you have no First Officer I respectfully submit my candidacy. I can provide character references if you wish.
James T. Kirk: It would be an honor, First Officer.

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Spock: Acting Captain's Log, Stardate 2258.42. We have had no word from Captain Pike. I therefore classified him as a hostage of the war criminal known as Nero. Nero, who has destroyed my home planet and most of its six billion inhabitants. While the essence of our culture has been saved in the elders who now reside upon this ship, I estimate that only about 10,000 Vulcans have survived. I am now a member of an endangered species.

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Christopher Pike: Maximum warp. Punch it.
Hikaru Sulu: Yes, sir.
[One by one, the rest of the star fleet jumps into warp drive, leaving the Enterprise behind. Sulu frowns at the console, puzzled]
Christopher Pike: Lieutenant, where is Helmsman McKenna?
Hikaru Sulu: He has lungworms, sir. He couldn't report to his post. I'm Hikaru Sulu.
Christopher Pike: And you are a pilot, right?
Hikaru Sulu: Yes, very much so sir.
[he trails off, hitting buttons]
Hikaru Sulu: Uh, I'm not sure what's wrong here...
Christopher Pike: Is the parking brake on?
Hikaru Sulu: Uh, no sir. I'll figure it out
Spock: Have you disengaged the external inertial dampener?
Hikaru Sulu: [Embarrassed. Without looking at anyone, he punches in the correct sequence] Ready for warp, sir.
Christopher Pike: Let's punch it.

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Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Having just learned that she is assigned to the Farragut] Commander, a word?
Spock: Yes, Lieutenant?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Was I not one of your top students?
Spock: Indeed you were.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [the scene cuts to another location, where Uhura is still hounding Spock] And did I not, on multiple occasions, demonstrate an exceptional aural sensitivity *and I quote* 'an unparalleled ability to identify sonic anomalies in subspace transmissions tests?'
Spock: Consistently, yes.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: And while you are well aware of my own qualified desires to serve on the USS Enterprise, I'm assigned to the *Farragut?*
Spock: It was an attempt to...
[he glances around, keeping his voice low]
Spock: avoid the appearance of favoritism.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Adamantly] No. I'm assigned to the Enterprise.
Spock: [He checks his roster list] Yes, I believe you are.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Thank you.

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Simulator Tactical Officer: How did that guy beat your test?
Spock: I do not know.

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James T. Kirk: Kirk to Enterprise. We're falling without a chute. Beam us up!
Transport chief: I can't get a lock on you. You're moving too fast!
Pavel Chekov: I can do zat!

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Nero: [refusing Kirk's help] I would rather suffer the destruction of Romulus a thousand times than accept the help of a Federation starship!
James T. Kirk: You got it! Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got!

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Scotty: [on beaming onto a ship that is going at warp speed] This would be like tryin' a' hit a large bullet wi' a smaller bullet, wearin' a blindfold, while ridin' a horse.

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Spock: If you eliminate the impossible - anything that remains, however unlikely, must be the truth.

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James T. Kirk: [to Spock] The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.
Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.
James T. Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios.
Spock: Then not only did you violate the rules, you also fail to understand the principal lesson.
James T. Kirk: Please enlighten me.
Spock: You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk, a captain cannot cheat death.
James T. Kirk: [reminiscing] I of all people...
Spock: Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, assumed command of his vessel before being killed in action, did he not?
James T. Kirk: I don't think you like the fact that I beat your test...
Spock: Furthermore, you have failed to define the purpose of the test.
James T. Kirk: Enlighten me again.
Spock: The purpose is to experience fear, fear in the face of certain death, to accept that fear, and maintain control of oneself and one's crew. This is the quality expected in every Starfleet captain.

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Pavel Chekov: Ensign Authorization code: nine-five-victor-victor-two!
[Authorization is not recognized]

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James T. Kirk: Captain's log, Stardate: two two five eight point four two... four... uh, whatever. Acting Captain Spock has marooned me on Delta Vega, in what I believe is a violation of Security Protocol 49.09 governing the treatment of prisoners on-board a starship.

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Captain Robau: If I don't report in 15 minutes, evacuate the crew.
George Kirk: Sir, we could issue...
Captain Robau: There is no help for us out there. Use autopilot. And get off this ship.
George Kirk: Aye, Captain.
Captain Robau: You're Captain now, Mr. Kirk.

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Young Spock: You suggest I should become completely Vulcan, and yet you married a human...
Sarek: As Ambassador to Earth it is my duty to observe and understand human behaviour. Marrying your mother was logical.

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James T. Kirk: Bones, doesn't it bother you that no one's passed the test?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Jim, it's the Kobayashi Maru - nobody passes that test, and nobody goes back for seconds, let alone thirds...!
James T. Kirk: [leaving] I gotta go study...
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Study, my ass.

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Christopher Pike: Spock, I'm leaving you in charge. Once communications are back online, contact Starfleet and let them know what the hell's going on. If all else fails, rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system. Kirk, I'm promoting you to First Officer.
James T. Kirk: What?
Spock: Captain, please. The complexity of human pranks escapes me.
Christopher Pike: It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the Captain. You are.

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James T. Kirk: I don't feel right. I feel like I'm leaking!

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Christopher Pike: Kirk, you're coming too, you're not supposed to be here anyway...

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I suffer from aviophobia - it means fear of dying in something that flies!

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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: A little suffering is good for the soul.

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James T. Kirk: [to Scotty, being questioned by Spock] Don't answer him.
Spock: You will answer me.
Scotty: I'd rather not take sides...
James T. Kirk: What is it with you Spock? Hm? Your planet was just destroyed, your mother murdered, and you're not even upset.
Spock: If you are presuming that these experiences in any way impede my ability to command this ship, you are mistaken.
James T. Kirk: And yet you were the one who said that fear was necessary for command. Did you see his ship? Did you see what he did?
Spock: [pause] Yes, of course I did.
James T. Kirk: So are you afraid or aren't you?
Spock: I will not allow you to lecture me about the merits of emotion.
James T. Kirk: Then why don't you stop me?
Spock: Step away from me, Mister Kirk.
James T. Kirk: What is it like not to feel anger... or heartbreak... or the need to stop at nothing to avenge the death of the woman that gave birth to you?
Spock: Back away from me.
James T. Kirk: You feel nothing! It must not even compute for you! You never loved her!
Spock: Ahhh!
[attacks Kirk]

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Amanda Grayson: There's no need to be anxious. You'll do fine.
Spock: I am hardly anxious, Mother. And "fine" has variable definitions. "Fine" is unacceptable.
Amanda Grayson: Okay.
Spock: May I ask a personal query?
Amanda Grayson: Anything.
Spock: Should I choose to complete the Vulcan discipline of Kolinahr and purge all emotion, I trust you will not feel it reflects judgment on you.
Amanda Grayson: Spock. As always, whatever you choose to be, you will have a proud mother.

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Christopher Pike: Russian whizkid, what's your name? Chanko? Cherpov?
Pavel Chekov: Ensign Chekov, Pavel Andreievich, sir.

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James T. Kirk: Will you be able to fly this thing?
Spock: [aboard Spock Prime's ship] Something tells me I already have.

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Spock: In the event that I am unsuccessful, please tell Lieutenant Uhura...
James T. Kirk: Spock. IT'LL WORK.

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[ordering Scotty to eject the warp core, when escaping the black hole]
James T. Kirk: Do it, do it, DO IT!

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Scotty: Dilithium chamber at maximum...
[notices Keensner straddling a console]
Scotty: GET DOWN!

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Christopher Pike: I couldn't believe it when the bartender told me who you were.
James T. Kirk: Who am I, Captain Pike?
Christopher Pike: Your father's son.

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[Spock Prime and Kirk arrive at a derelict Starfleet outpost, and discover... ]
Spock Prime: [pleased] You are Montgomery Scott.
James T. Kirk: You know him?
Scotty: Aye, that's me. You're in the right place. Unless there's another hardworking, equally starved Starfleet officer around.
Keenser: Me.
Scotty: Get aff! Shut up! You don't eat anything! You can eat, like, a bean, and you're done. I'm talking about food. REAL food!

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Christopher Pike: I am relieved.

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Christopher Pike: [to Kirk] Your aptitude tests are off the charts, so what is it? You like being the only genius-level repeat offender in the Midwest?

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Admiral Richard Barnett: This is Commander Spock. He is one of our most distinguished graduates. He's programmed the Kobayashi Maru exam for the last four years. Commander?
Spock: Cadet Kirk, you somehow managed to install and activate a subroutine in the programming code, thereby changing the conditions of the test.
James T. Kirk: Your point being?
Admiral Richard Barnett: In academic vernacular, you cheated.

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James T. Kirk: Mr. Chekov, set a course... for home.

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Young Spock: I presume you've prepared new insults for me today.
Vulcan Bully #1: Affirmative.
Young Spock: This is your thirty-fifth attempt to elicit an emotional response from me.
Vulcan Bully #1: You're neither human nor Vulcan, and therefore have no place in this universe.
Vulcan Bully #2: Look. He has human eyes. They look sad, don't they?
Vulcan Bully #1: Perhaps an emotional response requires physical stimuli.
[shoves Spock]
Vulcan Bully #1: He's a traitor, you know. Your father. For marrying her. That human whore.

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Gaila: Jim, I think I love you.
James T. Kirk: That is so weird.
Gaila: Lights. Lights on. Did you just say, "That is so weird"?
James T. Kirk: Yeah, I did, but...

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Nero: We wait. We wait for the one who allowed our home to be destroyed. That's what we've been doing from 25 years.
Ayel: Once we've killed him?
Nero: Kill him? I'm not gong to kill him. I'm going to make him watch.

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Nero: That ship. Take it out.
Romulan: Sir, if you ignite the Red Matter...
Nero: [yelling] I want Spock dead now!

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Spock: I feel a rage within that is increasingly difficult to control...
Sarek: Your mother would not bother to control it.

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Amanda Grayson: Sarek, he fought for me, because I'm his mother!
Sarek: Which he should not have done if he wishes to lead the Vulcan life!
Amanda Grayson: Then, logically, this was MY fault, because of the human heritage I gave him!

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[through a mind meld with Kirk]
Spock Prime: Billions of lives, lost, because of me...

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Nero: The wait is over...

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Christopher Pike: Be careful with the ship Spock, it's brand new...

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