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Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for Adonais?", - stardate 3468.1. -% -A little suffering is good for the soul. - -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0 -% -A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and -licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. - -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown -% -A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect -her. - -- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3 -% -A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even -his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive. - -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown -% -A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without -breathing. - -- Kirk, "The Menagerie", stardate 3012.4 -% -A woman should have compassion. - -- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2 -% -Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business. - -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0 -% -After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, -after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. - -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -% -All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. - -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2 -% -Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be -located on a natural invasion route. - -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.4 -% -Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder. - -- Kirk, "This side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 -% -Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost -in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ... - -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 -% -... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish -enough to play around with that. - -- McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown -% -"Beauty is transitory." -"Beauty survives." - -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown -% -Behind every great man, there is a woman -- urging him on. - -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 -% -Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the -human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about. - -- McCoy, "The Menagerie", stardate 3012.4 -% -But it's real. And if it's real it can be affected ... we may not be -able to break it, but, I'll bet you credits to Navy Beans we can put a -dent in it. - -- deSalle, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2 -% -"Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with -jealousy, greed, hate ..." -"It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment -- -the other side of the coin" - -- Dr. Roger Corby and Kirk, "What are Little Girls Made Of?", - stardate 2712.4 -% -Change is the essential process of all existence. - -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2 -% -Compassion -- that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's -the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. - -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -% -Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to -serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one -man. And nothing can replace it or him. - -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4 -% -Conquest is easy. Control is not. - -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown -% -Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing. - -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7 -% -Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about. -That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. - -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0 -% -Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the -whole universe, I'd give it to you, Janice. When I see you, I feel -like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels? - -- Charlie Evans, "Charlie X", stardate 1535.8 -% -Do you know the one -- "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer -her by ..." You could feel the wind at your back, about you ... 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. - -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4 -% -[Doctors and Bartenders], We both get the same two kinds of customers --- the living and the dying. - -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown -% -Each kiss is as the first. - -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome", - stardate 4842.6 -% -Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe. - -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 -% -Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not. - -- Kirk, "The Devil in the Dark", stardate 3196.1 -% -Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. - -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 -% -Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same -mistakes. - -- John Gill, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7 -% -Every living thing wants to survive. - -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -% -"Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." -"Or by misleading the innocent." - -- Spock and McCoy, "And The Children Shall Lead", - stardate 5029.5. -% -Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. - -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4 -% -Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. - -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5 -% -Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude. - -- Spock, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 -% -First study the enemy. Seek weakness. - -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 -% -Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. - -- Klingon Soldier, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -% -"... freedom ... is a worship word..." -"It is our worship word too." - -- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown -% -Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, -"Today I will be brilliant." - -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -% -"Get back to your stations!" -"We're beaming down to the planet, sir." - -- Kirk and Mr. Leslie, "This Side of Paradise", - stardate 3417.3 -% -He's dead, Jim - -- McCoy, "The Devil in the Dark", stardate 3196.1 -% -History tends to exaggerate. - -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4 -% -Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion [love]. - -- Spock, "The Lights of Zetar", stardate 5725.6 -% -I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become -greater than the sum of both of us. - -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4 -% -I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to -any question. - -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 -% -I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without -constructive purpose. - -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5 -% -I realize that command does have its fascination, even under -circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command -nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever -logically needs to be done. - -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2812.7 -% -"I think they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war -and death --" -"And make them spend it on life." - -- Edith Keeler and Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever", - stardate unknown. -% -I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right, -they see it is easier than trading. And it has its pleasures. I feel -it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards. - -- Apella, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 -% -I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth. - -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3198.9 -% -I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life. - -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 -% -I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise. - -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0 -% -If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still -tend to protect that child. - -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -% -If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. - -- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -% -If some day we are defeated, well, war has its fortunes, good and bad. - -- Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7 -% -If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. - -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7 -% -Immortality consists largely of boredom. - -- Zefrem Cochrane, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 -% -In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even -vegetarians. - -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4 -% -Insufficient facts always invite danger. - -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -% -Insults are effective only where emotion is present. - -- Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 -% -Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. - -- Kirk, "Obsession", stardate 3620.7 -% -Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure is in the -learning of each other? - -- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is - Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.3. -% -Is truth not truth for all? - -- Natira, "For the World is Hollow and I have Touched - the Sky", stardate 5476.4. -% -It [being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is -logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for -personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be. - -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 -% -It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if -they're attractive in some way. - -- McCoy, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6 -% -It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six. - -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 -% -It is necessary to have purpose. - -- Alice #1, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 -% -It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not -hers. - -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -% -It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable. - -- Spock, "The Enterprise" Incident", stardate 5027.3 -% -It would be illogical to kill without reason - -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 -% -It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted - -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -% -"It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can -do so much harm." -"That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's what kept -the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A mistaken idea." - -- Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5819.0 -% -Killing is stupid; useless! - -- McCoy, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 -% -Killing is wrong. - -- Losira, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown -% -Knowledge, sir, should be free to all! - -- Harry Mudd, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 -% -Landru! Guide us! - -- A Beta 3-oid, "The Return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4 -% -Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge. - -- Kirk, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 -% -"Life and death are seldom logical." -"But attaining a desired goal always is." - -- McCoy and Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2821.7 -% -Live long and prosper. - -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -% -"Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." -"You admit that?" -"To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor" - -- Spock and McCoy, "A Piece of the Action", stardate unknown -% -Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes. - -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever", - stardate unknown -% -Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice. - -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3220.3 -% -Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. - -- Spock, "The Alternative Factor", stardate 3088.7 -% -Many Myths are based on truth - -- Spock, "The Way to Eden", stardate 5832.3 -% -Men don't talk peace unless they're ready to back it up with war. - -- Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4 -% -Men of peace usually are [brave]. - -- Spock, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -% -Men will always be men -- no matter where they are. - -- Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1329.8 -% -Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. - -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.4 -% -Most legends have their basis in facts. - -- Kirk, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 -% -Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God. - -- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -% -No more blah, blah, blah! - -- Kirk, "Miri", stardate 2713.6 -% -No one can guarantee the actions of another. - -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -% -No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned. - -- Kirk, "Spock's Brain", stardate 5431.6 -% -"No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war." -"He talks of peace if it is the only way to live." - -- Colonel Green and Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", - stardate 5906.5. -% -No one wants war. - -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7 -% -No problem is insoluble. - -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4 -% -Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is. - -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 -% -Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved. - -- Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body), "Return to Tomorrow", - stardate 4770.3. -% -Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and -it's still the same song. - -- Eve McHuron, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1330.1 -% -On my planet, to rest is to rest -- to cease using energy. To me, it -is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy, -instead of saving it. - -- Spock, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.2 -% -One does not thank logic. - -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 -% -One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for -advice without necessarily having to take it. - -- Kirk, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.2 -% -Only a fool fights in a burning house. - -- Kang the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -% -Our missions are peaceful -- not for conquest. When we do battle, it -is only because we have no choice. - -- Kirk, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5 -% -Our way is peace. - -- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses", - stardate 4040.7. -% -Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. - -- Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!" stardate 3287.2 -% -Peace was the way. - -- Kirk, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown -% -Power is danger. - -- The Centurion, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 -% -Prepare for tomorrow -- get ready. - -- Edith Keeler, "The City On the Edge of Forever", - stardate unknown -% -Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become -insensitive. - -- Eneg, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7 -% -Respect is a rational process - -- McCoy, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 -% -Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to -pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion. - -- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident", - stardate 5027.3 -% -Schshschshchsch. - -- The Gorn, "Arena", stardate 3046.2 -% -Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. - -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9 -% -Sometimes a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor. - -- Dr. Phillip Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), - stardate unknown. -% -Star Trek Lives! -% -Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie. - -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8 -% -Superior ability breeds superior ambition. - -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -% -"That unit is a woman." -"A mass of conflicting impulses." - -- Spock and Nomad, "The Changeling", stardate 3541.9 -% -"The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile." -"Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.'" - -- Spock and Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4 -% -The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal -than to kill. - -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -% -The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar -pattern. We don't fear it as you do. - -- Proconsul Marcus Claudius, "Bread and Circuses", - stardate 4041.2 -% -"The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity." -"And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty." - -- Dr. Miranda Jones and Spock, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", - stardate 5630.8 -% -The heart is not a logical organ. - -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4 -% -The idea of male and female are universal constants. - -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 -% -The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. - -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8 -% -The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often -a noose. - -- McCoy, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2818.9 -% -The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of -play. - -- Kirk, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.8 -% -The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with -exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most -difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves -both sides. - -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 -% -The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred. That -the love of life is the greatest gift ... We are incapable of -destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so -deeply -- life in every form from fetus to developed being. - -- Hodin of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon", stardate 5423.4 -% -... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get -to know each other. - -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5 -% -"The release of emotion is what keeps us healthy. Emotionally healthy." -"That may be, Doctor. However, I have noted that the healthy release -of emotion is frequently unhealthy for those closest to you." - -- McCoy and Spock, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3 -% -The sight of death frightens them [Earthers]. - -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2 -% -The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last. - -- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6 -% -... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the -miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious -failures and the glorious victories. - -- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7 -% -There are always alternatives. - -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 -% -There are certain things men must do to remain men. - -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 -% -There are some things worth dying for. - -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7 -% -There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face -.... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves -as gods. - -- Sargon, "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4768.3 -% -There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. - -- Spock, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9 -% -There is an old custom among my people. When a woman saves a man's -life, he is grateful. - -- Nona, the Kanuto witch woman, "A Private Little War", - stardate 4211.8. -% -There is an order of things in this universe. - -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 -% -There's a way out of any cage. - -- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), - stardate unknown. -% -There's another way to survive. Mutual trust -- and help. - -- Kirk, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -% -There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is -nothing good in war. Except its ending. - -- Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -% -There's nothing disgusting about it [the Companion]. It's just another -life form, that's all. You get used to those things. - -- McCoy, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8 -% -"There's only one kind of woman ..." -"Or man, for that matter. You either believe in yourself or you don't." - -- Kirk and Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1330.1 -% -This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function -- you -realize humans are overly preoccupied with the subject. - -- Kelinda the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name", stardate 4658.9 -% -Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not -stopped. - -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -% -Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. - -- Spock, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 -% -To live is always desirable. - -- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child", stardate 3498.9 -% -Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing. - -- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6 -% -Totally illogical, there was no chance. - -- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3 -% -Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all -be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses. - -- Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3 -% -Violence in reality is quite different from theory. - -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4 -% -Virtue is a relative term. - -- Spock, "Friday's Child", stardate 3499.1 -% -Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force. - -- Amanda, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.3 -% -Vulcans do not approve of violence. - -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4 -% -Vulcans never bluff. - -- Spock, "The Doomsday Machine", stardate 4202.1 -% -Vulcans worship peace above all. - -- McCoy, "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4768.3 -% -Wait! You have not been prepared! - -- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate 3113.2 -% -War is never imperative. - -- McCoy, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 -% -War isn't a good life, but it's life. - -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 -% -[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human -beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we -can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going -to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to -kill today! - -- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0 -% -We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for -us. - -- Rojan, "By Any Other Name", stardate 4657.5 -% -We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of -peaceful contact. - -- Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun", stardate 4385.3 -% -We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior -development. - -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3211.7 -% -We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! - -- Bailey, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.2 -% -"We have the right to survive!" -"Not by killing others." - -- Deela and Kirk, "Wink of An Eye", stardate 5710.5 -% -We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the strong -should live. - -- Kras, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2 -% -We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. -But when it comes to your job -- that's different. And it always will -be different. - -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4 -% -"What happened to the crewman?" -"The M-5 computer needed a new power source, the crewman merely got in -the way." - -- Kirk and Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer", - stardate 4731.3. -% -What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love. - -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis", - stardate 3219.8 -% -"What terrible way to die." -"There are no good ways." - -- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown -% -When a child is taught ... it's programmed with simple instructions -- -and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of -what it was taught, thinks independently. - -- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer", - stardate 4731.3. -% -When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, -building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left -behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives -left behind in the thought records. - -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown -% -Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. - -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1 -% -Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! - -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown -% -Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on -your human intuition. - -- Spock, "Assignment: Earth", stardate unknown -% -Without followers, evil cannot spread. - -- Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5 -% -Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. - -- Kirk, "The return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4 -% -Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more -sheer horror than the male of the species. - -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4 -% -Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. - -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", - stardate 1312.9. -% -Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a -woman. - -- Kirk, "Conscience of the King", stardate unknown -% -Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman always remains a -woman. - -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9 -% -Yes, it is written. Good shall always destroy evil. - -- Sirah the Yang, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown -% -You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second in -command attack while you sit and watch for weakness. - -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -% -You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. - -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 -% -You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But -you imprison those who employ it privately. - -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1 -% -You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street -- you know how you -feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press. If -the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know. - -- Kirk, "Charlie X", stardate 1535.8 -% -You humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. "You're -welcome," I believe, is the correct response. - -- Spock, "Bread and Circuses", stardate 4041.2 -% -You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you -are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth because everything -you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth ... but you cannot, for -you lie. - -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 -% -You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between -courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the -soldiers. - -- Kor, the Klingon Commander, "Errand of Mercy", - stardate 3201.7 -% -You! What PLANET is this?! - -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 -% -You'll learn something about men and women -- the way they're supposed -to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good -to each other. That's what we call love. You'll like that a lot. - -- Kirk, "The Apple", stardate 3715.6 -% -You're dead, Jim. - -- McCoy, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -% -You're dead, Jim. - -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown -% -You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman. - -- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within", stardate unknown -% -Youth doesn't excuse everything. - -- Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body), "Turnabout Intruder", - stardate 5928.5. |