Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Balance of Terror’.
A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior, mentally or otherwise. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Gamesters of Triskelion’.
We’re living beings, not playthings for your amusement! – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Squire of Gothos’.
Most people are afraid of being alone. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Mark of Gideon’.
A little suffering is good for the soul. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Corbomite Maneuver’.
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. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Charlie X’.
Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young. – Admiral James T. Kirk Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film.
Most legends have their basis in fact. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘And the Children Shall Lead’.
Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Obsession’.
Bones, I want the impossible checked out too! – Capt. James T. Kirk To Dr. Leonard McCoy. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Naked Time’.
All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed! We’ll see about you deserting my ship! – Capt. James T. Kirk To Spock. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘This Side of Paradise’.
Well, don’t just stand there. God’s a busy man! – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 Film).
There are certain things men must do to remain men. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’.
‘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. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’.
Risk is our business. That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Return to Tomorrow’.
Stop thinking with your glands. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Man Trap’.
It’s a mystery. And I don’t like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Man Trap’.
Forgive you? I ought to knock you on your goddamn ass. – Capt. James T. Kirk To Spock. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 Film).
There’s nothing wrong with you that hasn’t gone wrong with every other human male since the model first came out. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Charlie X’.
What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion for something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized but only dreamed, the highest reality? – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘I, Mudd’.
A captain of a ship, no matter his rank, must follow the book. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Capt. James T. Kirk: You’re not going to admit that for the first time in your life you committed a purely human, emotional act? Spock: No, sir. Capt. James T. Kirk: Mr. Spock, you’re a stubborn man. Spock: Yes, sir. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Galileo Seven’.
Beam me up, Mr. Spock. We’re free to go. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Squire of Gothos’.
All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Trickstes of Triskelion’.