Merritt Butrick: David

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

David

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!

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.

David Marcus: Remember that overgrown Boy Scout you used to hang around with? That's exactly the kind of guy...
Carol Marcus: Listen, kiddo, Jim Kirk was *many* things, but he was *never* a Boy Scout!

David Marcus: Lieutenant Saavik was right: You never have faced death.
Kirk: No. Not like this. I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing.
David Marcus: You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.
Kirk: Just words.
David Marcus: But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them. I was wrong about you. And I'm sorry.
Kirk: Is that what you came here to say?
David Marcus: Mainly. And also that I'm proud - very proud - to be your son.

David Marcus: Well, don't have kittens. Genesis is going to work. They'll remember you in one breath with Newton, Einstein, Surak.
Carol Marcus: Thanks a lot. No respect from my offspring.

Carol Marcus: I don't understand. Who's responsible for all this? Who is Khan?
Kirk: Well, it's a long story.
David Marcus: We appear to have plenty of time.
Kirk: Is there anything to eat? I don't know about anybody else, but I'm starved.
McCoy: How can you think of food at a time like this?
Kirk: First order of business: survival.
Carol Marcus: There is food in the Genesis cave, enough to last a lifetime; if necessary.
McCoy: We thought this was Genesis.
Carol Marcus: This? It took the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ten months in space suits to tunnel out all this. What we did in there, we did in a day.

Chekov: Ah, Dr. Marcus. Good. We're en route to you and should be there in three days.
Carol Marcus: En route? Why? We weren't expecting you for another three months. Has something happened?
Chekov: Nothing has happened. Ceti Alpha VI has checked out.
Carol Marcus: Then I-I... I don't understand why you're coming...
Chekov: We have received new orders. Upon our arrival at Regula-1, all materials of Project Genesis will be transferred to this ship for immediate testing on Ceti Alpha VI.
David Marcus: Who in the hell do they think they are?
Carol Marcus: [shushing him and the other scientists] Will you please get quiet? Commander Chekov, this is completely irregular.
Chekov: I have my orders.
David Marcus: Pin him down, Mother. Who gave the order?
Chekov: The order comes from... Admiral James T. Kirk.

Carol Marcus: Who's authority do they-?
David Marcus: This is a mistake. They waited until we were on leave to tell us. We're all alone here. Reliant is supposed to be at our disposal. Not the other way around.
Madison: It's clear that Starfleet's intentions...
Carol Marcus: I know that, but...
David Marcus: As I've tried saying again and again, scientists' have always been pawns at the military's whim without any regard.
Carol Marcus: Starfleet has always kept the peace for one hundred years. I cannot and will not subscribe to your interpretation of this event.
Madison: You're probably right, doctor. But what about Reliant? What do we do? She's on her way here?