History Quotes / StarTrek

->"''Mr. Paris. Set a course ... for home.''"

->''[The phaser] has two settings: ''stun'' and ''kill''. [[{{Understatement}} It's best not to get them mixed up]].''

->''[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a doctor, not a moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/veterinarian!]]''

->"''Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mother's - and yours. [[DareToBeBadass I]] '''[[DareToBeBadass dare]]''' [[DareToBeBadass you to do better]]. Join Starfleet.''"

-->'''Edith Keeler''', ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', "The City on the Edge of Forever"

-->'''Zefram Cochrane''', ''[[StarTrekFirstContact Star Trek: First Contact]]''

-->''[[StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''

-->'''Spock''''s [[TearJerker dying words]] to Kirk, ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan]]'' ([[spoiler: so guess what the [[StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock next film]] is about?]])

-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''', ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Hide and Q"

-->''[[StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''

-->'''Zefram Cochrane''', father of human warp flight, speaking at the dedication of the Warp 5 complex, ''StarTrekEnterprise'', "Broken Bow"

-->'''Captain Kathryn Janeway''', ''StarTrekVoyager'', [[BookEnds "Caretaker" and "Endgame"]]

-->'''Captain Kathryn Janeway''' to '''Ensign Harry Kim''', ''StarTrekVoyager'', "Deadlock" ([[spoiler:Immediately after Harry's apparent return from the dead via a transfer from a doomed parallel Voyager.]])

-->'''Captain Benjamin Sisko''', [[BadassBoast responding to a Klingon fleet's threat to storm his station]] in ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'''s "The Way of the Warrior". (There's a [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority good reason]] why the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.)

-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''' to '''Cadet Wesley Crusher''', ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The First Duty"

-->'''Captain Kathryn Janeway''' to '''Ensign Harry Kim''', ''StarTrekVoyager'', "Deadlock" ([[spoiler:Immediately after Harry's apparent [[IGotBetter return from the dead]] via a transfer from a doomed parallel Voyager.]])

-->'''Captain Kathryn Janeway''' to '''Ensign Harry Kim''', ''StarTrekVoyager'', "Deadlock" ([[spoiler: Immediately after Harry's apparent [[IGotBetter return from the dead]] via a transfer from a doomed parallel Voyager.]])

->"''We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. You life, as it has been, is over. '''[[ResistanceIsFutile Resistance is futile]]'''.''

->"''The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!''"
-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''', ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The First Duty"

->''I'm a doctor, not a moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/veterinarian.''

->''[The phaser] has two settings: ''stun'' and ''kill''. It's best not to get them mixed up.''

->''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. ''

->''The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous. ''

->''Fate. It protects fools, little children, and ships named ''Enterprise.
-->'''Cmdr. William Riker'''

->''Let's make sure that history never forgets the name ''Enterprise''''.
-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''' (an alternate version), ''Yesterday's Enterprise''

->''You're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek.''

->'''James T. Kirk:''' I ''love'' Italian [food]. [To Spock:] And so do you.

->'''Spock:''' I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

->"On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will allow us to travel a thousand times faster than we can today. And with it, we will explore strange new worlds. Seek out new life and new civilizations. And to go... boldly... where no man has gone before."
-->'''Zefram Cochrane, father of human warp flight, speaking at the dedication of the Warp 5 complex'''

->"''This is Captain James T. Kirk/Jean-Luc Picard/Jonathan Archer of the Starship Enterprise''".

->"''Mr. Paris. Set a course... for home.''"
-->'''And so the [[StarTrekVoyager journey]] begins.'''

-->'''Captain Christopher Pike'''

->"I can assure you, this 'old cat' might not be as toothless as you think."
-->'''Captain Benjamin Sisko''', responding to a Klingon fleet's threat to storm his station. (There's a reason the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.)

->"''We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. '''Resistance is FUTILE''' ''.

->"''You murdering Klingon bastards, you killed my '''son''' ''.

->''I'm a doctor, not a [moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/veterinarian.''

->''I'm a doctor, not a [moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/veterinarian/counterinsurgent].''

->"''[[TitleDrop The first duty]] of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!''"

->"''The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!''"

-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''' (an alternate version), ''Yesterday's Enterprise''.

->''What {{Hamlet}} said with irony I say with conviction: "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"''

-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard'''

->''I'm a doctor, not a [moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/flesh peddler/veterinarian].''

-->'''Zephram Cochrane, father of human warp flight, speaking at the dedication of the Warp 5 complex'''

-->'''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''', ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The First Duty"

-->WilliamShatner as '''James T. Kirk'''

-->PatrickStewart as '''Jean-Luc Picard'''

->'' I'm a doctor, not a [moon shuttle conductor/bricklayer/psychiatrist/mechanic/engineer/scientist/physicist/escalator/magician/miracle worker/flesh peddler/veterinarian].''
-->'''Leonard [=McCoy=]'''


->'' Something I seldom say to a customer, Jim. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk. ''
-->'''Leonard [=McCoy=]'''

->'' Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge. ''
-->'''James T. Kirk'''

->'' [The phaser] has two settings: ''stun'' and ''kill''. It's best not to get them mixed up. ''

-->'''Jean-Luc Picard'''

-->'''William Riker'''

->''Let's make sure that history never forgets the name ''Enterprise.
-->'''Jean-Luc Picard'''

-->'''Spock'''

-->'''Jean-Luc Picard''', ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Hide and Q"

--> '''Captain Benjamin Sisko''', responding to a Klingon fleet's threat to storm his station. (There's a reason the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.)

->"''Mr. Paris. Set a course...for home.''"

->"''Your father was captain of starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives. Including your mothers. And yours. I DARE you to do better. Join Starfleet.''"

--> '''Captain Benjamin Sisko, responding to a Klingon fleet's threat to storm his station. (There's a reason the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.)'''

-->'''Q, describing the final frontier (also works as a description of the internet).'''

-->'''The words most guaranteed to make people say "OhCrap".'''

--> ''Captain Benjamin Sisko, responding to a Klingon fleet's threat to storm his station. (There's a reason the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.)''

-->The words most guaranteed to make people say "OhCrap".

->"On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will allow us to travel a thousand times faster than we can today. And with it, we will explore strange new worlds. Seek out new life and new civilizations. And boldly go where no man has gone before."

->'''James T. Kirk:''' I ''love'' Italian [food]. And so does my friend.

-->repeated line.

-->And so the [[StarTrekVoyager journey]] begins.

-->'''Zephram Cochrane, father of human warp flight, speaking at the dedication of the Warp 5 complex'''

-->''Film/StarTrek'' (2009)

->''I like this ship! It's exciting!''

-->''Film/StarTrek'' (2009)

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->''You are, and always shall be, my friend.''
-->'''Spock''''s dying words ([[IGotBetter He gets better]]) to Kirk, ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan]]''