Pike: Look, so your dad dies. You can settle for a less than ordinary life. Or do you feel like you were meant for something better? Something special? Enlist in Starfleet.
Kirk: Enli— (laughs) You guys must be way down in your recruiting quota for the month.
Pike: If you're half the man your father was, Jim, Starfleet could use you. You could be an officer in four years. You could have your own ship in eight. You understand what the Federation is, don't you? It's important. It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada.
Kirk: We done?
Pike: I'm done. Riverside Shipyard. The shuttle for new recruits leaves tomorrow oh-eight hundred. You know, your father was Captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.
Kirk: Enli— (laughs) You guys must be way down in your recruiting quota for the month.
Pike: If you're half the man your father was, Jim, Starfleet could use you. You could be an officer in four years. You could have your own ship in eight. You understand what the Federation is, don't you? It's important. It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada.
Kirk: We done?
Pike: I'm done. Riverside Shipyard. The shuttle for new recruits leaves tomorrow oh-eight hundred. You know, your father was Captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.
"Four years? I'll do it in three."
— James T. Kirk
McCoy: I may throw up on you.
Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. A solar flare might pop up and cook us in our seats. And wait 'till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger after darkness and silence.
Kirk: I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
McCoy: Yeah, well, got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I've got left is my bones.
Kirk: Jim Kirk.
McCoy: McCoy. Leonard McCoy.
Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. A solar flare might pop up and cook us in our seats. And wait 'till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles. See if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger after darkness and silence.
Kirk: I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
McCoy: Yeah, well, got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I've got left is my bones.
Kirk: Jim Kirk.
McCoy: McCoy. Leonard McCoy.
"I can do zat!"
— Pavel Chekov, multiple times throughout the movie
Spock: I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.
Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.
Kirk: I relieve you, sir.
Pike: I am relieved.
Pike: I am relieved.
