William Shatner credited as playing...
Kirk
- Kirk: We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, 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: Khan, you bloodsucker! You're going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?
- Khan: Kirk? Kirk, you're still alive, my old friend?
- Kirk: Still, "old friend"! You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target.
- Khan: Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.
- [Khan activates the transporter, and the Genesis device begins to dematerialize]
- Carol Marcus: Oh no!
- David Marcus: Let go! He can't take it!
- [Saavik restrains David and Carol as the Genesis beams away]
- 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. 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: [enraged] KHAAANNNN!
- [echo]
- Kirk: KHAAANNNN!
- McCoy: [Kirk runs in to the engine room and sees Spock inside the reactor compartment. He rushes over but McCoy and Scotty hold him back] No! You'll flood the whole compartment!
- Kirk: He'll die!
- Scotty: Sir! He's dead already.
- McCoy: It's too late.
- [They let go and Kirk walks to the glass and pushes the intercom button]
- Kirk: Spock!
- [Spock slowly walks over to the glass and pushes the intercom]
- Spock: The ship... out of danger?
- Kirk: Yes.
- Spock: Do not grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many, outweigh...
- Kirk: The needs of the few.
- Spock: Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?
- Kirk: Spock.
- [Spock sits down]
- Spock: [Gasping] I have been... and always shall be... your friend.
- [he places a Vulcan salute on the glass]
- Spock: [Gasping] Live long... and prosper.
- [Spock dies]
- Kirk: No.
- [On whether Kirk should assume command from Spock]
- Spock: If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny; anything else is a waste of material.
- Kirk: I would not presume to debate you.
- Spock: That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
- Kirk: Or the one.
- Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.
- McCoy: He's not really dead. As long as we remember him.
- Kirk: It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known.
- Carol Marcus: Is that a poem?
- Kirk: No. Something Spock was trying to tell me. On my birthday.
- McCoy: You okay, Jim? How do you feel?
- Kirk: Young. I feel young.
- Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
- Kirk: What's on your mind, Lieutenant?
- Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
- Kirk: Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?
- Saavik: On the test, sir... will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.
- McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
- Saavik: How?
- Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
- Saavik: What?
- David Marcus: He cheated.
- Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose.
- Saavik: Then you never faced that situation... faced death.
- Kirk: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
- [after allowing the simulated Enterprise to be destroyed]
- Saavik: Permission to speak freely, sir?
- Kirk: Granted.
- Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities.
- Kirk: And why not?
- Saavik: Because... there was no way to win.
- Kirk: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you?
- Saavik: No, sir, it has not.
- Kirk: And how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
- Saavik: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
- Kirk: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
- Dr. McCoy: You're hiding... hiding behind rules and regulations.
- Kirk: Who am I hiding from?
- Dr. McCoy: From yourself, Admiral.
- Kirk: Don't mince words, Bones. What do you really think?
- Dr. McCoy: Jim, I'm your doctor and I'm also your friend. Get back your command! Get it back before you turn into part of this collection, before you really do grow old.
- Carol Marcus: Please tell me what you're feeling.
- Kirk: There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help. My son... my life that could have been... and wasn't. How do I feel? Old... worn out.
- Carol Marcus: Let me show you something that will make you feel young as when the world was new.
- Joachim: [Enterprise is running with shields down] They still haven't raised their shields.
- Khan: Raise ours.
- [Joachim raises shields]
- Spock: Their shields are going up.
- Khan: Lock phasers on target.
- Joachim: [looks at targeting computer] Locking phasers on target.
- Spock: They're locking phasers.
- Kirk: Raise shields!
- Khan: Fire!
- [Joachim fires phasers]