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0%Star Trek Lives!
1%Schshschshchsch.
1% -- The Gorn, "Arena," stardate 3046.2.
2%Live long and prosper.
2% -- Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
3%Totally illogical, there was no chance.
3% -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
4%All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
4% -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3259.2.
5%We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of
5%superior development.
5% -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3211.7.
6%Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!
6% -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3
7%The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the
7%simplicity of play.
7% -- Kirk, "Shore Leave," stardate 3025.8.
8%When a child is taught ... it's programmed with simple instructions --
8%and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum
8%of what it was taught, thinks independently.
8% -- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
9%No problem is insoluble.
9% -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years," stardate 3479.4.
10%Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
10%You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
10% -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3
11%Men don't talk peace unless they're ready to back it up with war.
11% -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
12%Superior ability breeds superior ambition.
12% -- Spock, "Space Seed," stardate 3141.9.
13%There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to
13%face .... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of
13%ourselves as gods.
13% -- Sargon, "Return to Tomorrow," stardate 4768.3
14%It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor
14%felt can do so much harm.
14%That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's
14%what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A
14%mistaken idea.
14% -- Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5819.0
15%Insufficient facts always invite danger.
15% -- Spock, "Space Seed," stardate 3141.9.
16%History tends to exaggerate.
16% -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
17%Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the
17%same mistakes.
17% -- John Gill, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
18%... freedom ... is a worship word...
18%It is our worship word too.
18% -- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
19%... the prejudices people feel about each other disappear when
19%they get to know each other.
19% -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius," stardate 4372.5.
20%There's a way out of any cage.
20% -- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"),
20% stardate unknown.
21%Most legends have their basis in facts.
21% -- Kirk, "And The Children Shall Lead," stardate 5029.5.
22%Many Myths are based on truth.
22% -- Spock, "The Way to Eden," stardate 5832.3.
23%Is truth not truth for all?
23% -- Natira, "For the World is Hollow and I have Touched
23% the Sky," stardate 5476.4.
24%There is an order of things in this universe.
24% -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?," stardate 3468.1.
25%Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash.
25% -- Spock, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate 3134.0.
26%Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.
26% -- Kirk, "The return of the Archons," stardate 3157.4.
27%Change is the essential process of all existence.
27% -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," stardate 5730.2.
28%A little suffering is good for the soul.
28% -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0.
29%If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
29% -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.7.
30%Killing is stupid; useless!
30% -- McCoy, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
31%We have the right to survive!
31%Not by killing others.
31% -- Deela and Kirk, "Wink of An Eye," stardate 5710.5.
32%Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God.
32% -- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
33%Prepare for tomorrow -- get ready.
33% -- Edith Keeler, "The City On the Edge of Forever,"
33% stardate unknown
34%Killing is wrong.
34% -- Losira, "That Which Survives," stardate unknown.
35%Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.
35% -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor," stardate 3088.7.
36%Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men
36%become insensitive.
36% -- Eneg, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
37%No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned.
37% -- Kirk, "Spock's Brain," stardate 5431.6.
38%Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence.
38% -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind," stardate 2715.1.
39%Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all
39%be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses.
39% -- Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren," stardate 5784.3.
40%Violence in reality is quite different from theory.
40% -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4.
41%If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd
41%still tend to protect that child.
41% -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
42%What happened to the crewman?
42%The M-5 computer needed a new power source; the crewman merely
42%got in the way.
42%And how long will it be before we all "just get in the way?"
42% -- Kirk and Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer,"
42% stardate 4731.3.
43%A father doesn't destroy his children.
43% -- Lt. Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
44%After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing,
44%after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true.
44% -- Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
45%Youth doesn't excuse everything.
45% -- Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body), "Turnabout Intruder,"
45% stardate 5928.5.
46%Without followers, evil cannot spread.
46% -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead," stardate 5029.5.
47%Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.
47%Or by misleading the innocent.
47% -- Spock and McCoy, "And The Children Shall Lead," stardate 5029.5.
48%It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
48% -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.5.
49%Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil.
49% -- Sirah the Yang, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
50%Sometimes a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor.
50% -- Dr. Phillip Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
51%Beauty is transitory.
51%Beauty survives.
51% -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives," stardate unknown.
52%Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder.
52% -- Kirk, "This side of Paradise," stardate 3417.3.
53%We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine.
53%But when it comes to your job -- that's different. And it
53%always will be different.
53% -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4729.4.
54%Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
54% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
55%There are always alternatives.
55% -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
56%No one can guarantee the actions of another.
56% -- Spock, "Day of the Dove," stardate unknown.
57%Every living thing wants to survive.
57% -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
58%It is necessary to have purpose.
58% -- Alice #1, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
59%Virtue is a relative term.
59% -- Spock, "Friday's Child," stardate 3499.1.
60%I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together
60%become greater than the sum of both of us.
60% -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
61%A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing.
61% -- Kirk, "The Menagerie," stardate 3012.4.
62%Vulcans worship peace above all.
62% -- McCoy, "Return to Tomorrow," stardate 4768.3.
63%The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
63%And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty.
63% -- Dr. Miranda Jones and Spock, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?,"
63% stardate 5630.8.
64%Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.
64% -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.3.
65%Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force.
65% -- Amanda, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.3.
66%Vulcans do not approve of violence.
66% -- Spock, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
67%The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile.
67%Yes, the philosophy of 'nome,' meaning 'all.'
67% -- Spock and Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
68%Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.
68% -- Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!" stardate 3287.2.
69%It [being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which
69%is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy
69%merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.
69% -- Spock, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
70%Vulcans never bluff.
70% -- Spock, "The Doomsday Machine," stardate 4202.1.
71%On my planet, to rest is to rest -- to cease using energy. To me,
71%it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy,
71%instead of saving it.
71% -- Spock, "Shore Leave," stardate 3025.2.
72%I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without
72%constructive purpose.
72% -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5.
73%Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
73% -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5.
74%We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the
74%strong should live.
74% -- Kras, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
75%I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were
75%right, they see it is easier than trading. And it has its
75%pleasures. I feel it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards.
75% -- Apella, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
76%We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way
76%for us.
76% -- Rojan, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
77%Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to
77%pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion.
77% -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.3.
78%Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.
78% -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.9.
79%The release of emotion is what keeps us healthy. Emotionally healthy.
79%That may be, Doctor. However, I have noted that the healthy release
79%of emotion is frequently unhealthy for those closest to you.
79% -- McCoy and Spock, "Plato's Stepchildren," stardate 5784.3.
80%Compassion -- that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's
80%the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.
80% -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
81%One does not thank logic.
81% -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
82%You humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. You're
82%welcome, I believe, is the correct response.
82% -- Spock, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4041.2.
83%Insults are effective only where emotion is present.
83% -- Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
84%We have phasers; I vote we blast 'em!
84% -- Bailey, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.2.
85%You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman.
85% -- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within," stardate unknown.
86%Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is
86%always a woman.
86% -- Kirk, "Conscience of the King," stardate unknown.
87%Respect is a rational process.
87% -- McCoy, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
88%It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable.
88% -- Spock, "The Enterprise" Incident," stardate 5027.3
89%Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here.
89%You admit that?
89%To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor.
89% -- Spock and McCoy, "A Piece of the Action," stardate unknown.
90%You can't evaluate a man by logic alone.
90% -- McCoy, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
91%Life and death are seldom logical.
91%But attaining a desired goal always is.
91% -- McCoy and Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2821.7.
92%It would be illogical to kill without reason.
92% -- Spock, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
93%Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away
93%with jealousy, greed, hate....
93%It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment
93%-- the other side of the coin.
93% -- Dr. Roger Corby and Kirk, "What are Little Girls Made Of?,"
93% stardate 2712.4
94%Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must
94%rely on your human intuition.
94% -- Spock, "Assignment: Earth," stardate unknown.
95%You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you
95%are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth because everything
95%you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth ... but you cannot,
95%for you lie.
95% -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
96%It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six.
96% -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
97%I think they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war
97%and death --
97%And make them spend it on life.
97% -- Edith Keeler and Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever,"
97% stardate unknown.
98%Our missions are peaceful -- not for conquest. When we do battle,
98%it is only because we have no choice.
98% -- Kirk, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5.
99%We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of
99%peaceful contact.
99% -- Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3.
100%Only a fool fights in a burning house.
100% -- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the Dove," stardate unknown.
101%Our way is peace.
101% -- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses,"
101% stardate 4040.7.
102%Men of peace usually are [brave].
102% -- Spock, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.5.
103%He's dead, Jim.
103% -- McCoy, "The Devil in the Dark," stardate 3196.1.
104%You're dead, Jim.
104% -- McCoy, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
105%You're dead, Jim.
105% -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web," stardate unknown.
106%No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war.
106%He talks of peace if it is the only way to live.
106% -- Colonel Green and Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain,"
106% stardate 5906.5.
107%There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help.
107% -- Kirk, "Day of the Dove," stardate unknown.
108%If some day we are defeated, well, war has its fortunes, good and bad.
108% -- Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
109%It's [war is] instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're
109%human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands!
109%But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not
109%going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not
109%going to kill today!
109% -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.0.
110%Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business.
110% -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.0.
111%War isn't a good life, but it's life.
111% -- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
112%You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries.
112%But you imprison those who employ it privately.
112% -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind," stardate 2715.1.
113%Another war...must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost
113%in this way?... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death...
113% -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
114%There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There
114%is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
114% -- Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.5.
115%...bacteriological warfare...hard to believe we were once foolish
115%enough to play around with that.
115% -- McCoy, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
116%Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is
116%not stopped.
116% -- Spock, "Day of the Dove," stardate unknown.
117%War is never imperative.
117% -- McCoy, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2
118%Another Armenia, Belgium...the weak innocents who always seem to
118%be located on a natural invasion route.
118% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3198.4.
119%No one wants war.
119% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
120%Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all
120%about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided.
120% -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.0.
121%Peace was the way.
121% -- Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
122%The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to
122%heal than to kill.
122% -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.5.
123%Do you know the one -- "All I ask is a tall ship...and a star to
123%steer her by..." You could feel the wind at your back, about you...
123%the sounds of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the
123%wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours...you
123%can feel her...and the stars are still there.
123% -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4729.4.
124%I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
124% -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0.
125%I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.
125% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3198.9.
126%One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask
126%for advice without necessarily having to take it.
126% -- Kirk, "Dagger of the Mind," stardate 2715.2.
127%Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative.
127% -- Kirk, "Obsession," stardate 3620.7.
128%A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life,
128%even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
128% -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
129%The man on top walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command
129%is often a noose.
129% -- McCoy, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2818.9.
130%Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not.
130% -- Kirk, "The Devil in the Dark," stardate 3196.1.
131%Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no
131%wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on
131%loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him.
131% -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4729.4.
132%I realize that command does have its fascination, even under
132%circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command
132%nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever
132%logically needs to be done.
132% -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2812.7.
133%The only solution is...a balance of power. We arm our side with
133%exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest,
133%most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that
133%preserves both sides.
133% -- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
134%You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference
134%between courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones
134%who die, the soldiers.
134% -- Kor, the Klingon Commander, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
135%First study the enemy. Seek weakness.
135% -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
136%You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second in
136%command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.
136% -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed," stardate 3141.9.
137%For thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
137% -- Klingon Soldier, "Day of the Dove," stardate unknown.
138%Conquest is easy. Control is not.
138% -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror," stardate unknown.
139%If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.
139% -- Kirk, "Space Seed," stardate 3141.9.
140%Power is danger.
140% -- The Centurion, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
141%Military secrets are the most fleeting of all.
141% -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.4.
142%Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.
142% -- Kirk, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.2.
143%The idea of male and female are universal constants.
143% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
144%Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure
144%is in the learning of each other?
144% -- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is
144% Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," stardate 5476.3.
145%There's only one kind of woman....
145%Or man, for that matter.
145%You either believe in yourself or you don't.
145% -- Kirk and Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women," stardate 1330.1.
146%This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function --
146%you realize humans are overly preoccupied with the subject.
146% -- Kelinda the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4658.9.
147%Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe.
147% -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
148%Women professionals do tend to over-compensate.
148% -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, "Where No Man Has Gone Before,"
148% stardate 1312.9.
149%Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
149% -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4.
150%Behind every great man, there is a woman -- urging him on.
150% -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
151%Landru! Guide us!
151% -- A Beta 3 person, "The Return of the Archons," stardate 3157.4
152%You! What PLANET is this?
152% -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate 3134.0.
153%Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude.
153% -- Spock, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
153%No more blah, blah, blah!
153% -- Kirk, "Miri," stardate 2713.6.
154%But it's real. And if it's real it can be affected...
154%we may not be able to break it, but, I'll bet you
154%credits to Navy Beans we can put a dent in it.
154% -- deSalle, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2.
155%There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.
155% -- Spock, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3193.9.
156%Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya!
156% -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday," stardate unknown.
157%Wait! You have not been prepared!
157% -- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday," stardate 3113.2.
158%A woman should have compassion.
158% -- Kirk, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2.
159%There is an old custom among my people. When a woman saves a
159%man's life, he is grateful.
159% -- Nona, the Kanuto which woman, "A Private Little War,"
159% stardate 4211.8.
160%Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman
160%always remains a woman.
160% -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2818.9.
161%Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating
161%more sheer horror than the male of the species.
161% -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4.
162%That unit is a woman.
162%A mass of conflicting impulses.
162% -- Spock and Nomad, "The Changeling," stardate 3541.9.
163%It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is
163%not hers.
163% -- Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
164%Men will always be men -- no matter where they are.
164% -- Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women," stardate 1329.8.
165%There are certain things men must do to remain men.
165% -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4929.4.
166%I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct
166%answer to any question.
166% -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.3.
167%Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy
167%and it's still the same song.
167% -- Eve McHuron, "Mudd's Women," stardate 1330.1.
168%A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to
168%protect her.
168% -- McCoy, "Shore Leave," stardate 3025.3.
169%Get back to your stations!
169%We're beaming down to the planet, sir.
169% -- Kirk and Mr. Leslie, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.3
170%You'll learn something about men and women -- the way they're
170%supposed to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each
170%other, being good to each other. That's what we call love.
170%You'll like that a lot.
170% -- Kirk, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6
171%Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had
171%the whole universe, I'd give it to you, Janice. When I see you,
171%I feel like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels?
171% -- Charlie Evans, "Charlie X," stardate 1535.8.
172%You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street -- you know how
172%you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press.
172%If the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know.
172% -- Kirk, "Charlie X," stardate 1535.8.
173%Each kiss is as the first.
173% -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome," stardate 4842.6.
174%Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.
174% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3.
175%Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion (love).
175% -- Spock, "The Lights of Zetar," stardate 5725.6.
176%The heart is not a logical organ.
176% -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years," stardate 3479.4.
177%It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially
177%if they're attractive in some way.
177% -- McCoy, "The Trouble with Tribbles," stardate 4525.6.
178%What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love.
178% -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
179%Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved.
179% -- Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body), "Return to Tomorrow,"
179% stardate 4770.3.
180%... the things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies,
180%the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the
180%glorious failures and the glorious victories.
180% -- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
181%The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last.
181% -- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome," stardate 4842.6.
182%The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her.
182% -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5842.8.
183%Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
183% -- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles," stardate 4525.6.
184%A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on
184%and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
184% -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
185%The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred.
185%That the love of life is the greatest gift .. we are incapable
185%of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we
185%love so deeply -- life in every form from fetus to developed being.
185% -- Hodin of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
186%To live is always desirable.
186% -- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child," stardate 3498.9.
187%When dreams become more important than reality, you give up
187%travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the
187%machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and
187%reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
187% -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
188%Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes.
188% -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
189%We [Doctors and Bartenders] both get the same two kinds of
189%customers -- the living and the dying.
189% -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
190%There's nothing disgusting about it [the Companion]. It's just
190%another life form, that's all. You get used to those things.
190% -- McCoy, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
191%Immortality consists largely of boredom.
191% -- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
192%In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even
192%vegetarians.
192% -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4.
193%Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the
193%human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about.
193% -- McCoy, "The Menagerie," stardate 3012.4.
194%Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie.
194% -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed," stardate 3142.8.
195%Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing.
195% -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
196%The sight of death frightens them [Earthers].
196% -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
197%There are some things worth dying for.
197% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
198%What a terrible way to die [Lt. D'Amato by having every cell disrupted].
198%There are no good ways.
198% -- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives," stardate unknown.
199%I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life.
199% -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
200%The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar
200%pattern. We don't fear it as you do.
200% -- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4041.2.
201%For more Star Trek Quotes, get "Star Trek Speaks" by Susan Sackett,
201%Fred Goldstein and Stan Goldstein, Pocket Books, 1979.
202%To all mankind -- may we never find space so vast, planets so cold,
202%heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth
202% -- Garth, "Dagger of the Mind," stardate 2715.2.
203%He gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go.
203% -- Kirk, "The Doomsday Machine," stardate 4202.9
204%Liberty and freedom have to be more than just words.
204% -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
205%Look at these three words written larger than all the rest, and with
205%special pride never written before or since -- tall words, proudly
205%saying "We the people" .. these words and the words that follow ...
205%must apply to everyone or they mean nothing.
205% -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
206%We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when
206%our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed
206%ourselves. We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels
206%never to cause the same to happen to other worlds ... just as a man
206%must grow in his own way and his own time.
206% -- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
207%There are certain absolutes, and one of them is the right of humanoids
207%to a free and unchained environment -- the right to have conditions
207%which permit growth.
207%Another is their right to choose that system which seems to work best
207%for them.
207% -- McCoy and Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.
208%Human beings do not survive on bread alone ... but on the nourishments
208%of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom ... naught but
208%a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.
208% -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
209%There are many who are uncomfortable with what we have created. It is
209%almost a biological rebellion. A profound revulsion against the planned
209%communities, the programming, the sterilized, artfully balanced
209%atmospheres. They hunger for an Eden, where spring comes.
209%We all do. The cave is deep in our memories.
209% -- Spock and Kirk, "The Way to Eden," stardate 5832.3.
210%All the little things you and I understand and expect from life, such
210%as: equality; kindness; justice ...
210% -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4.
211%A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior -- mentally
211%or otherwise.
211% -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3211.7.
212%It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves.
212% -- Number One, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
213%To restrict a segment of the population to such hardship is unthinkable
213%in an evolved culture.
213% -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4
214%The highest of all our laws states your world is yours and will
214%always remain yours.
214% -- Kirk, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
215%I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however
215%a planet is evolving.
215% -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
216%It is one of our most important laws that none of us may interfere
216%with the affairs of others.
216% -- Kirk, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4040.7.
217%Our people don't believe in slavery.
217% -- Kirk, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4040.7.
218%We are wise enugh to know we are wise enough not to interfere with
218%the way of a man or another world.
218% -- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
219%How will be live?
219%You'll learn to build houses to keep warm. You'll work. ... Humans
219%have survived under worse conditions. It's a matter of evolution.
219%Give it time.
219% -- Kara the Eymorg and Kirk, "Spock's Brain," stardate 5432.3.
220%The only tool diplomacy has is language.
220% -- Hodin of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
221%We're free people. We belong to no one.
221% -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3259.2.
222%To kill is a breaking of civil and moral laws we've lived by for
222%thousands of years.
222% -- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
223%We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy
223%is to prolong a crisis.
223% -- Spock, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
224%Diplomacy should be a job left to diplomats.
224% -- Ambassador Fox, "A Taste of Armageddon," stardate 3192.5.
225%In every revolution, there's one man with a vision.
225% -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror," stardate unknown.
226%The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity.
226%Even when it's pleasant and benevolent, you prefer death. This makes
226%you too violent and dangerous a species for our needs.
226% -- The Keeper, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown.
227%Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they
227%achieve exactly the same results.
227% -- Spock, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
228%Philosophic kings have no need of titles.
228% -- Parmen the Platonian, "Plato's Stepchildren," stardate 5784.3.
229%It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.
229% -- Kirk, "The Return of the Archons," stardate 3157.4.
230%The problem with the Nazis wasn't simply that their leaders were the
230%evil, psychotic men they were. But the main problem, I think was
230%the leader principle.
230%A man who holds that much power, even with the best intentions, just
230%can resist the urge to play God.
230% -- Kirk and McCoy, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
231%You're from the planet Earth. There is no persecution on your
231%planet.
231%There was persecution on Earth once; I remember reading about it in my
231%history class.
231% -- Lokai of Cheron and Chekov, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,"
231% stardate 5730.2.
232%You'll learn to care for yourselves, with our help. And there's no
232%trick to putting fruit on trees; you might even enjoy it. You'll learn
232%to build for yourselves, think for yourselves, and what you create is
232%yours. That's what we call freedom. You'll like it. A lot.
232% -- Kirk, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.
233%I know this world needs help. That's why some of my generation are
233%kind of crazy and rebels. We wonder if we're going to be alive
233%when we're thirty.
233% -- Roberta Lincoln, "Assignment Earth," stardate unknown.
234%If change is -- inevitable -- predictable -- beneficial -- doesn't
234%logic demand that you be a part of it?
234%One man cannot summon the future.
234%But one man can change the present!
234% -- Kirk and the Alternate Spock, "Mirror, Mirror," stardate unknown
235%If you're speaking of worships of sorts, we represent many beliefs.
235% -- McCoy, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4040.7.
236%Only a fool would stand in the way of progress.
236% -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4725.4.
237%Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do
237%not operate, there is no reality -- we judge reality by the responses
237%of our senses. Once we are convinced of the reality of a given
237%situation, we abide by its rules.
237% -- Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3.
238%Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
238% -- Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3.
239%We exist in a universe which co-exists with a multitude of others in the
239%same physical space. For certain brief periods of time, an area of
239%their space overlaps an area of ours.
239% -- Spock, "The Tholian Web," stardate 5693.2.
240%Possible existence of a parallel universe has been scientifically
240%conceded.
240% -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor," stardate 3088.7.
241%We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We
241%haven't begun to map them.
241% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
242%I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.
242% -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.
243%What are the odds in such absolute duplication of life forms in
243%another galaxy?
243%The chances are very much against it.
243% -- Kirk and Spock, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
244%Light and warmth! That's necessary to all humanoids.
244% -- Kirk, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4.
245%Without water, we're all just three or four pounds of chemicals.
245% -- McCoy, "the Omega Glory," stardate unknown.
246%The actual theory is that all life forms evolved from the lower levels
246%to the more advanced stages.
246% -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," stardate 5730.2.
247%A mutated, superior man could also be a wonderful thing ... the
247%forerunner of a new and better kind of human being!
247% -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, "Where No Man Has Gone Before,"
247% stardate 1312.9.
248%They're [androids are] perfect. Flawless, mentally and physically. No
248%weaknesses, perfectly disciplined. No vices, no fears, no faults. Just
248%a sense of purpose.
248% -- McCoy, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
249%If it is the only survivor of a dead race, to kill it would be a crime
249%against science.
249% -- Spock, "The Devil in the Dark," stardate 3196.1.
250%Instruments register only through things they're designed to register.
250%Space still contains infinite unknowns.
250% -- Spock, "The Naked Time," stardate 1704.2.
251%Back in the twentieth century, the H-bomb was the ultimate weapon,
251%their doomsday machine. And we used something like it to destroy
251%another doomsday machine. Probably the first time such a weapon has
251%ever been used for constructive purposes.
251% -- Kirk, "The Doomsday Machine," stardate 4202.9.
252%There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent
252%life. This device [the universal translator] instantaneously compares
252%the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts
252%it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar.
252%Then it simply translates its findings into English.
252% -- Kirk and Spock, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
253%Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon or the buffalo ...
253%once there were millions of them; prairies black with them. One herd
253%covered three whole states. When they moved -- like thunder.
253% -- Professor Robert Crater, "The Man Trap," stardate 1513.8.
254%As we know, the value of pi is a transcendental figure without
254%resolution.
254% -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4.
255%Less than one ounce of anti-matter here is more powerful than
255%ten thousand cobalt bombs.
255%Let's home it's as powerful as man will ever get.
255% -- Ensign Garrovick and Kirk, "Obsession," stardate 3620.7.
256%If I let go a hammer on a planet having a positive gravity, I need not
256%see it fall to know that it has, in fact, fallen.
256% -- Spock, "Court Martial," stardate 2948.9.
257%Crazy way to travel. Spreading a man's molecules all over the universe.
257% -- McCoy, "Obsession," 3620.7.
258%All men are brothers.
258% -- Kirk, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4040.9.
259%...humanity...[the] striving of man to achieve greatness through
259%his own resources.
259% -- Anton Karidian, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2819.1.
260%To be human is also to seek pleasure. To laugh -- to dance.
260% -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
261%Being human does have certain advantages -- being able to appreciate
261%the beauty of a flower, of a woman.
261% -- Kirk, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4658.9.
262%... the intellect is not all -- but its cultivation must come first,
262%or the individual makes errors -- wastes time in unprofitable pursuits.
262% -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
263%My people pride themselves on being the greatest, most successful
263%gamblers in the universe. We compete for everything: power, fame,
263%women. Everything we desire. And it is our nature to win! For
263%proof I offer you our exploration of this galaxy.
263% -- Kirk, "The gamesters of Triskelion," stardate unknown.
264%Freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit.
264% -- Dr. Brown, "What are Little Girls Made Of?" stardate 2712.4.
265%Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You
265%remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will
265%weaken and die.
265% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3.
266%We're the same. We share the same history, the same heritage, the same
266%lives. We're tied together beyond any untying. Man or woman, it makes
266%no difference. We're human. We couldn't escape from each other even
266%if we wanted to -- that's how you do it, Lieutenant! By remembering who
266%and what you are! A bit of flesh and blood afloat in a universe without
266%end. And the only thing that's truly yours is the rest of humanity.
266%That's where your duty lies!
266% -- Kirk, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
267%The semi-conscious mind is a tricky thing. A man never knows just how
267%much is real or how much is imagination.
267% -- McCoy, "Obsession," stardate 3620.7.
268%It's the custom of my people to help one another when we're in trouble.
268% -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3259.2.
269%We've each learned to be delighted with what we are.
269% -- Kirk, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
270%Where I come from, size shape or color makes no difference.
270% -- Kirk, "Plato's Stepchildren," stardate 5784.3.
271%In our century, we've learned not to fear words.
271% -- Uhura, "The Savage Curtain," stardate 5906.4.
272%Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when
272%every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive,
272%because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!
272% -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
273%One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energy --
273%maybe even the atom. Energy that could ultimately hurl men to other
273%worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space
273%will find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their
273%diseases. They'll be able to find a way to give each man hope and a
273%common future. And those are the days worth living for.
273% -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
274%A person's strongest dreams are about what he can't do.
274% -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage), stardate unknown.
275%What is man but that lofty spirit -- that sense of enterprise.
275% -- Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
276%No wants -- no needs? We weren't meant for that. None of us. Man
276%stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is.
276% -- Kirk, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.5.
277%Most people are afraid of being alone.
277% -- Kirk, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
278%You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and
278%irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the
278%unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.
278% -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0.
279%No one knows how he'll act under pressure.
279% -- Sulu, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," stardate 5730.2.
280%It is the nature of our species to be free.
280% -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
281%When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are
281%hazardous.
281% -- McCoy, "The Lights of Zetar," stardate 5725.6.
282%Most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness -- one of
282%the last of our prejudices.
282% -- Kirk, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7.
283%We faced a crisis in our earlier nuclear age. We found the wisdom not
283%to destroy ourselves.
283% -- Kirk, "return to Tomorrow," stardate 4768.3.
284%We all have our darker side. We need it; it's half of what
284%we are. It's not really ugly, it's human.
284% -- McCoy, "The Enemy Within," stardate 1673.5.
285%We humans have a streak of barbarism in us -- appalling, but
285%there nevertheless.
285% -- Kirk, "Space Seed," stardate 3141.9.
286%Believe me, there's nothing tougher to overcome [than a sense of
286%purpose], even among humans.
286% -- McCoy, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
287%In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million
287%Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million, million
287%galaxies like this. But in all of that, and perhaps more, only one
287%of each of us.
287% -- McCoy, "Balance of Terror," stardate 1709.9.
288%Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our
288%way through. Struggle. Claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the
288%way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lutes. We must march
288%to the sound of drums.
288% -- Kirk, "This Side of Paradise," stardate 3417.7.
289%We are not killers.
289% -- Chekov, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," stardate 5730.6.
290%To us, killing is murder, even for revenge.
290% -- Kirk, "Plato's Stepchildren," stardate 5784.3.
291%When a man feels guilty about something -- something too terrible to
291%remember -- he blots it out of his conscious memory.
291% -- McCoy, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3614.9.
292%We've come a long way in five thousand years.
292%But you're still of the same nature.
292% -- Kirk and Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
293%We're a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you
293%know that?
293%I frequently have my doubts.
293%I don't. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we'll be
293%able to prove it.
293% -- Kirk and Spock, "Arena," stardate 3046.2.
294%Mankind has no need for gods. We find the One quite adequate.
294% -- Kirk, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
295%We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe.
295%It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong.
295% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3210.7.
296%We all are vulnerable, in one way or another.
296% -- Kirk, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7.
297%We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human --
297%and maybe that's the word that best explains us.
297% -- Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
298%"Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous
298%novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those
298%three words even over "I love you."
298% -- Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
299%Mankind -- ready to kill.
299%That's the way it was in 1881.
299%I wonder how humanity managed to survive?
299%We overcame our instinct for violence.
299% -- Spock and Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3.
300%Man is not just a biological unit that you can patch together.
300% -- McCoy, "The Changeling," stardate 3541.9.
301%I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not
301%grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the
301%machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!
301% -- Samuel T. Cogley, "Court Martial," stardate 2949.9.
302%Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know ...
302%Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been
302%revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization
302%worthy to survive.
302% -- Lai the Vian, "The Empath," stardate 5121.5.
303%Those pressures are everywhere -- in everyone, urging him to what you
303%call "savagery." The private hells -- the inner needs and mysteries --
303%the beast instinct. As human beings, that is the way it is. To be
303%human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness -- from
303%within -- and from without.
303% -- Kirk, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
304%They used to say, if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly;
304%he discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission
304%hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and
304%then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still
304%operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut, like your
304%great, great, great-grandfather used to do ... Dr. McCoy is right in
304%pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life
304%and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out
304%that the possibilities -- the potential for knowledge and advancement is
304%equally great. Risk -- risk is our business.
304% -- Kirk, "Return to Tomorrow," stardate 4768.3.
304%Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But
304%improve man, you gain a thousandfold.
304% -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed," stardate 3142.8.
305%The time is past. There is no room for gods.
305% -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
306%The [human] species is capable of much affection.
306% -- Deela the Scalosian, "Wink of an Eye," stardate 5710.5.
307%That's [growing old] been happening to men and women for a long time.
307%I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being
307%human, as long as you grow old together.
307% -- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3.
308%You have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to
308%examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His
308%negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence; and his
308%positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love,
308%tenderness. And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader?
308%We see here indications that it is his negative side which makes him
308%strong -- that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and
308%disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side, removed
308%from you, the power of command begins to elude you.
308% -- Spock, "The Enemy Within," stardate 1673.1.
309%Captain, I'm beginning to understand why you Earthmen enjoy gambling.
309%No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is
309%still a certain exhilaration in the risk.
309% -- Spock, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
310%In critical moments men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.
310% -- Spock, "The Tholian Web," stardate 5693.2.
311%Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose --
311%and excluding that which is painful.
311% -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead," stardate 5029.5.
312%It does often seem that man must fight to live.
312% -- Flavius Maximus, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4040.9.
313%... aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in the
313%shell of flesh, self-contained, separate. How lonely you are; how
313%terribly lonely.
313% -- Kollos, the Medusan Ambassador (through Spock), "Is There In
313% Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7.
314%Humans smile with so little provocation.
314% -- Spock, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.3.
315%Curios, how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
315% -- Spock, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3198.4.
316%... primitive structure [Scotty]. Insufficient safeguards built in.
316%Breakdown can occur from many causes. Self-maintenance systems low
316%reliability.
316% -- Nomad, "The Changeling," stardate 3541.9.
317%Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance. You
317%examine any object; you question everything.
317% -- Korob from Pyris VII, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2.
318%This thing you call language, though; most remarkable. You depend
318%on it for so very much. But is there any one of you really its master?
318% -- Kollos, the Medusan Ambassador (through Spock), "Is There In
318% Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7.
319%You [humans] are, after all, essentially irrational.
319% -- Spock, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3.
320%Oh, how absolutely typical of your species! You don't understand
320%something so you become fearful.
320% -- Trelane, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5.
321%These shells in which we have encased ourselves -- they have such
321%heightened senses. To feel, to hear, to smell. How do humans manage to
321%exist in these fragile cases?
321% -- Rojan the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
322%There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend.
322%Obsession, for one. The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea.
322% -- Spock, "Obsession," stardate 3619.6.
323%Do you know that you're one of the few predator species that preys
323%even on itself?
323% -- Trelane, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5.
324%Earthment like Rameses, Alexander, Ceasar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan.
324%Your whole Earth history is made up of men seeking absolute power.
324% -- Spock, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
325%Man is ultimately superior to any mechanical device.
325% -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0.
326%We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have
326%free run of the galaxy.
326% -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
327%Your species is self-destructive.
327% -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
328%[The people of Vaal] have taken their first step [towards achieving
328%true human stature]. They've learned to kill.
328% -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.
329%Earthmen fear to bargain honestly.
329% -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
330%You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed.
330%One gains admittance to your minds through many levels. You have too
330%many to keep track of yourselves. There are unguarded entrances to
330%any human mind.
330% -- Sylvia of Pyris VII, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2.
331%Sparing your helpless enemy who surely would have destroyed you, you
331%demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy, something we hardly expected.
331%We feel that there may be hope for your kind. Therefore you will
331%not be destroyed. It would not be civilized.
331% -- The Metron, "Arena," stardate 3046.2.
332%...hesitation ... is an hereditary trait of your species, and
332%suddenly faced by the unknown, or imminent danger, a human will
332%invariably experience a split second of indecision. He hesitates.
332% -- Spock, "Obsession," stardate 3620.7.
333%You [humans] find it easier to understand the death of one than the
333%death of a million.
333% -- Spock, "The Immunity Syndrome," stardate 4307.1.
334%You striving, bickering, foolishly brave humans.
334% -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
335%Unhappiness is the state which occurs in the human when wants and
335%desires are not fulfilled.
335% -- Spock, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.
336%Humans are very peculiar. I often find them unfathomable, but an
336%interesting psychological study.
336% -- Spock, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4658.9.
337%You are still half-savage -- but there is hope.
337% -- The Metron, "Arena," stardate 3046.2.
338%A lie is a very poor way to say hello.
338% -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever," stardate unknown.
339%Hours can be centuries
339% -- Vanna the Troglyte, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5819.0.
340%Be pleasant no matter how much it hurts.
340% -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius," stardate 4372.5.
341%Parents like stupid things.
341% -- Don of the Starnes Expedition, "And The Children Shall Lead,"
341% stardate 5029.5.
342%I think children have an instinctive need for adults; they want to
342%be told right and wrong.
342% -- Kirk, "Miri," stardate 2713.6.
343%A room should reflect its occupant.
343% -- Kirk, "Wink of an Eye," stardate 5710.5.
344%A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it.
344% -- Mr. Atoz of Sarpeidon, "All Our Yesterdays," stardate 5943.7.
345%Sailor's luck, Mr. Spock. Or as one of Finable's Laws puts it: "Any
345%home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine!"
345% -- Kirk, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
346%In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first
346%few minutes of a play.
346% -- McCoy, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2919.8.
347%We're immortal, we gods. The Earth changed. Your fathers changed.
347%They turned away, until we were only memories. A god cannot survive
347%as a memory. We need love, admiration, worship, as you need food.
347% -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1.
348%Nobody helps nobody but himself!
348% -- Bela Oxmyx, "A Piece of the Action," stardate unknown.
349%Make the most of an uncertain future. Enjoy yourself today. Tomorrow
349%may never come at all.
349% -- Trelane, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2125.7.
350%It isn't a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and
350%call, and you win all the arguments.
350% -- Kirk, "The Man Trap," stardate 1513.8.
351%I don't trust men who smile too much.
351% -- Commander Kor the Klingon, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
352%The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals. As far back
352%as the sabertooth tiger.
352% -- Spock, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2.
353%Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure.
353% -- Kirk, "the Alternative Factor," stardate 3088.7.
354%The most cooperative man in this world is a dead man.
354% -- Bela Oxmyx, "A Piece of the Action," stardate unknown.
355%The trigger has been pulled. We've got to get there before the
355%hammer falls.
355% -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3198.4.
356%Hot as Vulcan.
356% -- McCoy, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
357%May the Great Bird of the galaxy bless you planet.
357% -- Sulu, "The Man Trap," stardate 1513.4.
358%We shield it [the Vulcan mating rite] with ritual and custom shrouded
358%in antiquity. You humans have no conception. It strips our minds from
358%us. It brings a madness which rips away the veneer of civilization.
358%It is the "pon farr" -- the time of mating.
358% -- Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
359%We have always fought. We must; we are hunters ... tracking and taking
359%what we need. There are poor planets in the Klingon systems ... we
359%must push outward if we are to survive.
359% -- Mara, the wife of the Klingon Commander, "Day of the Dove,"
359% stardate unknown.
360%I suppose most of us overlook that fact that even Vulcans aren't
360%indestructible.
360% -- Kirk, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
361%I have heard of the Vulcan integrity and personal honor. There is a
361%well-known saying, or is it a myth, that Vulcans are incapable of lying.
361% -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.3.
362%Too much love is dangerous
362%Cupid's arrow kills Vulcans
362% -- Dionyd and Eraclitus, the Platonians, "Plato's Stepchildren,"
362% stardate 5784.3.
363%As a Vulcan you will study it [Romulan society]. As a human, you
363%would find ways to appreciate it.
363% -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.3.
364%Hope -- I always thought that was a human failing, Mr. Spock?
364%True, Doctor. Constant exposure does result in a certain degree
364%of contamination.
364% -- McCoy and Spock, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3211.7.
365%In the distant past Vulcans killed to win their mates.
365%And they still go mad at this time. Perhaps the price they pay for
365%having no emotions the rest of the time.
365% -- Kirk and McCoy, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.
366%Their [the Klingon's] empire is made up of conquered worlds. They take
366%what they want by arms and force.
366% -- Kirk, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
367%At least we'll be away from all this openness. No, this is too strange
367%for us. We are creatures of outer space. Soon, we will be safe in
367%the comforting closeness of walls.
367% -- Rojan the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
368%Captain, we can control the Federation as easily as we can control you.
368%The fate of the inferior in any galaxy.
368% -- Rojan the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
369%Our people are warriors, often savage, but we are also many other
369%pleasant things.
369% -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.3.
370%They're offering you a chance for combat. They consider it
370%more pleasurable than love.
370% -- McCoy, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
371%We found them totally uninterested in medical aid or hospitals. They
371%believe that only the strong should survive.
371% -- McCoy, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2.
372%This troubled planet [Ardana] is a place of most violent contrasts --
372%those who receive the rewards are totally separated from those who
372%shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership.
372% -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4.
373%We believe men should fight their own battles. Only the weak will die.
373% -- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, "Bread and Circuses," stardate 4041.2.
374%Tellarites do no argue for reasons; they simply argue.
374% -- Sarek of Vulcan, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
375%To us, violence is unthinkable.
375% -- Ayleborne of Organia, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3201.7.
376%A truly advanced planet wouldn't use force. They wouldn't come here
376%in strange alien forms.
376% -- Gary Seven, "Assignment Earth," stardate unknown.
377%Joy can be many things.
377% -- Dr. Miranda Jones, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7.
378%What is it in you humans that requires an overwhelming display of
378%emotion in a situation such as this? Two men pursue the only reasonable
378%course of action indicated, and yet you feel that something else is
378%necessary.
378% -- Spock, "That Which Survives," stardate unknown.
379%You thought I was taking your woman away from you. You're jealous.
379%You tried to kill me with your bare hands. Would a Kelvan do that?
379%Would he have to? You're reacting with the emotions of a human.
379%You are human.
379% -- Kirk, "By Any Other Name," stardate 4657.5.
380%This is loneliness? What a bitter thing ... it's so sad. How do you
380%bare it, this loneliness?
380% -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford/The Companion, "Metamorphosis,"
380% stardate 3220.3.
381%What is loneliness?
381%It is a thirst ... it is a flower, dying in a desert ...
381% -- Reena Kapec and Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah," stardate 5843.7.
382%Do you know what it's like alone, really alone? [They gave me] weapons,
382%shelter, food -- everything I needed to live -- except companionship ...
382%to send me here alone -- if that is not death, what is?
382% -- Zarabeth of Sarpeidon, "All Our Yesterdays," stardate 5943.9.
383%What is it like to feel pain?
383%It is like ... when you see that people have no hope of happiness ...
383%you feel great despair ... your heart is heavy because you know you
383%can do nothing ... pain is like that.
383% -- Hodin and Odona of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
384%Jealousy has often been a motive for murder.
384% -- Kirk, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3614.9.
385%Offense is a human emotion.
385% -- Sarek of Vulcan, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.3.
386%... motivations of passion or gain -- those are reasons for murder.
386% -- Shras, the Andorian Ambassador, "Journey to Babel," stardate
386% 3842.2.
387%Anger is a relative state.
387% -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4.
388%Worry is a human emotion.
388% -- Spock, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.4.
389%Deriving sustenance from emotion is not unknown in the galaxy. And fear
389%is among the strongest and most violent of the emotions.
389% -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4.
390%Desperation is a highly emotional state of mind.
390% -- Kirk, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
391%There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things
391%you've already made up your mind about.
391% -- Spock, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0.
392%Monsters come in many forms. And do you know the greatest monster
392%of them all? Guilt.
392% -- McCoy, "Obsession," stardate 3620.7.
393%We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic cannot solve.
393% -- Kirk, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" stardate 2712.4.
394%Threats are illogical.
394% -- Sarek of Vulcan, "Journey to Babel," stardate 3842.3.
395%Respect is a rational process.
395% -- McCoy, "The Galileo Seven," stardate 2822.3.
396%You are not Morg. You are not Eymorg.
396% -- Kara the Eymorg, "Spock's Brain," stardate 5432.3.
397%Brain. Brain. What is brain?
397% -- Kara the Eymorg, "Spock's Brain," stardate 5432.3.
398%She could have had as fulfilling a life as any woman. If only... if only.
398% -- Kirk, "Turnabout Intruder," stardate 5923.5.
399%Forget.
399% -- Spock, "Requiem for Methusalah," stardate 5843.7.