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“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. You could feel the wind at your back in those days, the sounds of the sea beneath you and even if you take away the wind and the water, it’s still the same. The ship is yours, you can feel her. And the stars are still there, Bones…”
Kirk to McCoy
Source: John
Masefield, ‘Sea Fever’
TOS / The
Ultimate Computer
“Superior ability breeds superior ambition.”
Spock to
Kirk on the genetically enhanced people of the twentieth century
TOS / Space
seed
“We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe. It’s unsettling to discover that we’re wrong.”
Kirk to
Spock
TOS /
Catspaw
“It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if they’re attractive in some way.”
McCoy to
Spock
TOS / The
Trouble with Tribbles
“After all
these years among humans…you still haven’t learned to smile.”
“Humans smile with so little provocation.”
Amanda and
Spock<
TOS /
Journey to Babel
“The sum of the parts cannot be greater than the whole.”
Spock to
McCoy<
TOS / The
Galileo Seven
“Knowledge, sir, should be free to all.”
Harry Mudd
to Spock
TOS / I,
Mudd
“He gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go.”
Kirk to
Spock, on Commodore Matt Decker
TOS / The
Doomsday Machine
“The most cooperative man in this world is dead man. And if you don’t keep your mouth shut, you’re gonna be cooperating.”
Bela Oxmyx
to Spock
TOS / A
Piece of the Action
“Without followers evil cannot spread.”
Spock to
Kirk
TOS / And
the Children Shall Lead
“Captain,
thank heaven!”
“Mister Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross circuiting that
recovered them.”
“Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears.”
Scott,
Spock and McCoy on Kirk’s safe transport back to the ship
TOS /
Obsession
“Worlds may change; galaxies disintegrate, but a woman…always remains a woman.”
Kirk to
Lenore Karidian
TOS / The
conscience of the King
“I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.”
Spock to
Leila
TOS / This
Side of Paradise
“Your Surak is
a brave man.”
“Men
of peace usually are, Captain.”
Spock and
Kirk
TOS / The
savage Curtain
“R.H.I.P., Captain. Rank hath its privileges.”
Commodore
Jose Mendez to Kirk
TOS / The
Menagerie
“You’ve got your problems, I’ve got mine. But he’s got ours, plus his, plus four hundred and thirty other people.”
McCoy to
Sulu on Kirk
TOS / Shore
Leave
“A statement Lucifer made when he fell into the pit: ‘It is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”
Kirk to Scott,
paraphrasing Milton as a way of explaining Khan’s choice of exile
Source:
John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’
TOS / Space
Seed
“What do you
call those?”
“I
call them ears.”
“Are you
trying to be funny?"
“Never.”
Flavius and
Spock
TOS / Bread
and Circuses
“Alexander, where I come from, size, shape, or color makes no difference.”
Kirk to
Alexander
TOS /
Plato’s Stepchildren
“One does not
thank logic, Amanda.”
“Logic! Logic! I’m sick to death of logic. Do you want to know how I feel about
your logic?
“Emotional, isn’t she?”
“She has
always been that way.”
“Indeed? Why did you marry her?”
“At the time
it seemed the logical thing to do.”
Sarek,
Amanda, and Spock
TOS ?
Journey to Babel
“I signed
aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and
forth across space by this gadget.”
“You’re an old fashioned boy, McCoy.”
McCoy and Kirk, preparing to transport TOS / Space Seed
“By golly, Jim, I’m beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!”
McCoy to
Kirk, on saving the Horta’s life
TOS / The
Devil in the Dark
“Interesting.
Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?”
“You? At his side, as if you’ve always been there and always will.”
Edith and
Spock, on Spock and Kirk being out of place in early twentieth-century earth
TOS / The
City on the Edge of Forever
“Another
technical journal, Scotty?”
“Aye.”
“Don’t you
ever relax?”
“I am relaxing.”
Kirk and
Scott
TOS / The
Trouble with Tribbles
“Engage.”
Pike to
Number One; first time order given
TOS / The
Cage
“Energize.”
Kirk to
Scott, first time order given
TOS / Where
No Man has Gone Before
“Fascinating.”
Spock on
Balok’s ship; first time comment used
TOS / The
Corbomite Manoeuvre
“He’s dead, Jim.”
McCoy to
Kirk, first time phrase used
TOS / The
Enemy Within
“I can’t change the laws of physics.”
Scott to
Kirk
TOS / The
Naked Time
“You
deliberately stopped me, Jim. I could’ve saved her. Do you know what you just
did?”
“He
knows, Doctor. He knows.”
McCoy and
Spock on Kirk preventing McCoy from saving Edith in order to protect the
timeline
TOS / The
City on the Edge of Forever
“Do you know
what you get if you feed a Tribble too much?”
“A
fat tribble?”
“No. You get a
whole bunch of hungry little Tribbles.”
McCoy and
Kirk
TOS / The
Trouble with Tribbles
“Before they went into warp I transferred the whole kit and caboodle into their engine room where they’ll be no tribble at all.”
Scott to
Kirk on the whereabouts of the tribbles
TOS / The
Trouble with Tribbles
“My bairns. My poor bairns.”
Scott, on
the abuse of his engines
TOS / The
Paradise Syndrome
“Now I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when everyday is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for. One day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom, energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in….in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for….”
Edith
Keeler to her mission’s poor, New York City, 1930
TOS / The
city on the Edge of Forever
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