History Quotes / StarTrek

->''What {{Hamlet}} said with [[ShownTheirWork 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!"''

-->'''Montgomery Scott''', on the USS ''Enterprise'', ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009)

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

-->'''Captain Christopher Pike''', ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009)

->''You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word love isn't written into your book.''
-->Dr. [=McCoy=], to Spock

"->''The Prime Directive, Admiral [Jellico], last time I checked, did not first appear on the wall of Starfleet Headquarters in flaming letters accompanied by a sepulchral voice intoning, Thou Shalt Not Butt In. It’s a guide for day-to-day interaction with developing races so that we don’t have umpty-ump Starfleet officers running around playing god by their own rules. But this is not day-to-day Admiral. And we’re not talking about playing god. We’re talking about showing compassion for fellow living beings. Tell me, Admiral, while you were sitting on Deep Space Five waiting for us to show up, did you actually walk around and interact with the refugees? Did you see the misery in their faces, the fear in their eyes? Did you help patch up the wounded, stand by the bedside of the dying, say a prayer for the dead? Or did you sit isolated in your quarters grumbling over the inconvenience? [...] The Prime Directive was created by men and women, no better or worse than any of us, and I respectfully submit that if our hands are so completely tied by it that we sit around impotently, then we have to seriously reconsider what the hell it is we’re all about.''"

-->Commander Riker pissing all over the Prime Direct, courtesy of NewFrontier.

"->''The Prime Directive, Admiral [Jellico], last time I checked, did not first appear on the wall of Starfleet Headquarters in flaming letters accompanied by a sepulchral voice intoning, Thou Shalt Not Butt In. It’s a guide for day-to-day interaction with developing races so that we don’t have umpty-ump Starfleet officers running around playing god by their own rules. But this is not day-to-day Admiral. And we’re not talking about playing god. We’re talking about showing compassion for fellow living beings. Tell me, Admiral, while you were sitting on Deep Space Five waiting for us to show up, did you actually walk around and interact with the refugees? Did you see the misery in their faces, the fear in their eyes? Did you help patch up the wounded, stand by the bedside of the dying, say a prayer for the dead? Or did you sit isolated in your quarters grumbling over the inconvenience? The Prime Directive was created by men and women, no better or worse than any of us, and I respectfully submit that if our hands are so completely tied by it that we sit around impotently, then we have to seriously reconsider what the hell it is we’re all about.''"

->''The Prime Directive, Admiral [Jellico], last time I checked, did not first appear on the wall of Starfleet Headquarters in flaming letters accompanied by a sepulchral voice intoning, Thou Shalt Not Butt In. It’s a guide for day-to-day interaction with developing races so that we don’t have umpty-ump Starfleet officers running around playing god by their own rules. But this is not day-to-day Admiral. And we’re not talking about playing god. We’re talking about showing compassion for fellow living beings. Tell me, Admiral, while you were sitting on Deep Space Five waiting for us to show up, did you actually walk around and interact with the refugees? Did you see the misery in their faces, the fear in their eyes? Did you help patch up the wounded, stand by the bedside of the dying, say a prayer for the dead? Or did you sit isolated in your quarters grumbling over the inconvenience? The Prime Directive was created by men and women, no better or worse than any of us, and I respectfully submit that if our hands are so completely tied by it that we sit around impotently, then we have to seriously reconsider what the hell it is we’re all about.''

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

->'''Spock:''' ''Sir, [[BlatantLies you have a many-legged beast crawling up your shoulder]].''

->'''Spock:''' Sir, you have a many-legged beast crawling up your shoulder.
-->'''Mr. Spock before subjecting an enemy to the Vulcan neck-press'''

-->'''Spock:''' Sir, you have a many-legged beast crawling up your shoulder.

->"You ''hit me!'' Jean-Luc never hit me!"

->"I'm not Picard."

-->'''A strong contender for second place to the above.'''

->"'Let me help.' A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over I love you."
--> '''Captain Kirk'''

->''Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship ''Enterprise''. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no-one has gone before.''

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

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

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

-->'''GeneRoddenberry'''

->"''Someone, somewhere out there, is saying the three most beautiful words in any language - "please help me."''"
-->- '''Captain Kirk'''

--> Commander Sisko succinctly sums the very point of ''StarTrek''

-->'''Q, to Cmdr. Sisko'''

--> '''Captain Janeway''' to '''Naomi Wildman''' regarding rescuing Seven of Nine from the Borg'''