Zachary Quinto movie quotes

View Quote Look at these people. Wandering around with absolutely no idea what's about to happen.

View Quote Peter Sullivan: Are you sure it's the only or the right thing to do?
Sam Rogers: For whom?
Peter Sullivan: I'm not sure.
Sam Rogers: Neither am I.

View Quote Sarah Robertson: But is this your draft?
Peter Sullivan: Yes. Again, expanded on the original work by Mr. Dale. But, yes.
Sarah Robertson: What's your background?
Peter Sullivan: My background?
Sarah Robertson: Your CV.
Peter Sullivan: I've been with the firm for two and a half years, working with Eric that whole time. But I hold a doctorate in engineering, specialty in propulsion, from MIT with a bachelor's from Penn.
Jared Cohen: What is a specialty in propulsion, exactly?
Peter Sullivan: My thesis was studying the ways that friction ratios affect steering outcomes in aeronautical use under reduced gravity loads.
Jared Cohen: So, you're a rocket scientist?
Peter Sullivan: I was. Yeah.
Jared Cohen: Interesting. How did you end up here?
Peter Sullivan: Well, it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up and, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive.

View Quote [Kirk and Spock debate about extracting Spock from Nibiru]
Spock: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Kirk: Spock, we're talking about your life!

View Quote Kirk: [to Spock] You saved my life.
McCoy: Uhura and I had something to do with it too, you know.
Spock: You saved my life, Captain, and the lives of the-
Kirk: Spock, just... Thank you.
Spock: You are welcome, Jim.

View Quote Kirk: Why is there a man in that torpedo?
John Harrison: There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain. I put them there.
Kirk: Who the hell are you?
John Harrison: A remnant of the time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. We were condemned as criminals; forced into exile. For centuries we slept, hoping when we awoke things would be different. But as a result of the destruction of Vulcan, your Starfleet began to aggressively search distant quadrants of space; my ship was found adrift, I, alone, was revived.
Kirk: I looked up John Harrison. Until a year ago, he didn't exist.
John Harrison: John Harrison was a fiction created the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name is...Khan.
Kirk: Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a 300-year-old frozen man for help?
Khan: Because I am ... better.
Kirk: At what?
Khan: Everything. Alexander Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilized threat in a civilized time, and for that, he needed a warrior's mind. My mind. To design weapons and warships.
Spock: You are suggesting the admiral violated every regulation he vowed to uphold simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect?
Khan: He wanted to exploit my savagery! Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mr. Spock. You, you can't even break a rule, how would you be expected to break bone? Marcus used me to design weapons to help him realize his vision of a militarized Starfleet. He sent you to use those weapons, to fire my torpedoes on an unsuspecting planet, and then he purposely crippled your ship in enemy space leading to one inevitable outcome. The Klingons would come searching for whomever was responsible and you would have no chance at escape. Marcus would finally have the war he talked about, the war he always wanted.
Kirk: No. No. I watched you open fire in a room full of unarmed Starfleet officers. You killed them in cold blood!
Khan: [turns back away from Kirk] Marcus took my crew from me...
Kirk: You are a murderer!
Khan: He used my friends to control me. I tried to smuggle them to safety by concealing them in the very weapons I had designed, but I was discovered. I had no choice but to escape alone and when I did, I had every reason to suspect that Marcus had killed every single one of the people I hold most dear. [sheds a tear] So, I responded in kind. [turns to face Kirk] My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?

View Quote [Uhura walks away and McCoy walks up to Spock]
McCoy: You guys break up? What'd you do?
Spock: A typically reductive inquiry, Doctor.
McCoy: You know Spock, when an Earth-girl says "it's me not you", it's definitely you. [walks away]

View Quote [Upon reaching Starbase Yorktown]
Chekov: Wow, that is impressive.
Scotty: Aye, she's a beauty, isn't she?
McCoy: What a damn monstrosity! Couldn't we just rent some space on a planet?
Spock: Showing geographical favoritism among inducted Federation worlds could cause diplomatic tension.
McCoy: Oh, you don't think that looks tense? Looks like a damn snowglobe in space, just waitin' to break!
Kirk: [sighs] That's the spirit, Bones.

View Quote Spock: You asked me why Lieutenant Uhura and I parted ways. I became concerned, in the light of Vulcan's demise, that I owed a debt of duty to my species.
McCoy: You though you should be off making little Vulcans, huh? Yeah, I can see how that'd upset her.
Spock: I intended to discuss it with her further, but then I received some news which affected me unexpectedly.
McCoy: What news?
Spock: Ambassador Spock has died.
McCoy: [sighs] Spock, I am so sorry. I can't imagine what that must feel like.
Spock: [saddened] When you've lived as many lives as he had, fear of death is illogical.
McCoy: The fear of death is what keeps us alive.
Spock: I want to live as he did. That is why I have decided to redirect his efforts and continue his work on New Vulcan.
McCoy: [stunned] You're leaving Starfleet? Well, what did Jim have to say about that?
Spock: I could not find the time to tell him.
McCoy: Well, I can tell you, he's not gonna like that. Hell, I don't know what he'd do without you. Me- Y'know, me, on the other hand, I'd- I'd throw a party. [sees Spock laughing; concerned] My god, you're getting delirious.