Change is the essential process of all existence. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Let That Be Your Last Battlefield’.
Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Operation: Annihilate’.
I don’t believe in the no-win scenario. – Admiral James T. Kirk Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film) .
Dr. Leonard McCoy: Mister Spock, you’re the most cold-blooded man I’ve ever known. Mr. Spock: Why, thank you, doctor. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Court Martial’.
Capt. James T. Kirk: We’re a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you know that? Capt. James T. Kirk: I don’t. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we’ll be able to prove it. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Arena’.
Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off. Is that clear? – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Announcing he has terminal brain condition. Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1’.
Fear is an incompetent teacher. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.
It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid. – Q Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Q Who?’
How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life. – Admiral James T. Kirk Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).
I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing. – Admiral James T. Kirk Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).
You Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Dagger of the Mind’.
What does God need with a starship? – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 Film).
No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Tapestry’.
You have no idea what Dunkirk is, right? You’re a stranger to history. You’re a stranger to war. You just wave your hand and it all goes away. Well, it’s not so easy for those who died and it was not so easy for those who were left behind. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Remembrance’.
I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! – Samuel T. Cogley Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Court Martial’.
I am a doctor, not a brick layer. – Dr. Leonard McCoy Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Devil in the Dark’.
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’.
If I can have honesty, it’s easier to overlook mistakes. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Space Seed’.
Time is fluid, like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’.
Cmdr. William Riker: Let me get this straight. You want me to take off your head? Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes sir. Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Disaster’.
Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life …learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances…Sometimes it takes courage to try. Courage can be an emotion too. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek Generations (1994 Film).
I have been and always shall be your friend. – Mr. Spock Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).
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’.
I have to take him back inside myself. I can’t survive without him. I don’t want to take him back. He’s like an animal. a thoughtless, brutal animal. And yet it’s me. Me! – Capt. James T. Kirk About Evil Kirk. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Enemy Within’.
Buried deep within you…is the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Nemesis (2002 Film).
We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic cannot solve. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of’.
We all have our darker side. We need it; it’s half of what we are. It’s not really ugly, it’s human. – Dr. Leonard McCoy Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Enemy Within’.
The only person you’re truly competing against…is yourself. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Coming of Age’.