Star Trek 2009 quotes

This is Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Your ship is compromised, too close to the singularity to survive without assistance, which we are willing to provide.

Spock

Captain, what are you doing?

Showing them compassion. it may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock. I thought you'd like that.

Spock

No, not really. Not this time.

Nero

I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you!

You got it. Arm phasers, fire everything we've got!

Ayel

You can't even speak... [Kirk chokes out an unintelligible statement] What?

I got your gun. [shoots Ayel]

What's it like? Not to feel anger or heartbreak, or the need to stop at nothing to avenge the death of the woman who gave birth to you?

Spock:

Back away from me-

You feel nothing! It must not even compute for you! You never loved her! [Spock attacks Kirk in anger]

Sarek

Spock!

Spock

Doctor, I am no longer fit for duty. I hereby relinquish my command on the grounds that I have been emotionally compromised. Please note the time and date in the ship's log.

Scotty

I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!

McCoy

Well congratulations, Jim, now we've got no captain and no goddamn first officer to replace him.

Yeah, we do. [Kirk sits in the Captain's chair]

Sulu

Pike made him first officer.

McCoy

You've gotta be kidding me!

Thanks for the support.

Scotty

The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse.

Scotty

What's that?

Spock Prime

Your equation for achieving transwarp beaming.

Scotty

Get out of it... [reads the equation and gapes] Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving!

Spock Prime

You are, in fact, the Mr. Scott who postulated the theory of transwarp beaming?

Scotty

That's what I'm talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a, like a grapefruit was limited to about a hundred miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.

Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?

Scotty

...I'll tell you when it reappears. [clears throat] I don't know. I do feel guilty about that.

Uhura

I sure hope you know what you're doing, Captain.

So do I. [Kirk opens a comm link] Attention, crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting Captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down...or they are. Kirk out.

Robau

If I don't report in 15 minutes, evacuate the crew.

Sir, we can't just-

Robau

There is no help for us out here. Use the auto-pilot, and get off this ship.

Aye, Captain.

Robau

You're Captain now, Mr. Kirk.

The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.

Spock

Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.

I don't believe in no-win scenarios.

Spock

Then not only did you violate the rules, you also failed to understand the principal lesson.

Please, enlighten me.

Spock

You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk. A captain cannot cheat death.

I of all people?

Spock

Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, assumed command of his vessel before being killed in action, did he not?

I don't think you like the fact that I beat your test...

Spock

Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.

Enlighten me again.

Spock

The purpose is to experience fear. Fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear, and maintain control of oneself and one's crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet captain.

Spock

Captain, what are you doing?

Spock, showing them compassion might go a long way to promoting peace between us and the Romulans. It's logic, I thought you'd like that.

Spock

No, not really. Not this time.

Nero

I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you!

You got it. Arm phasers, fire everything we've got.

McCoy

I may throw up on you.

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. Solar flare might crop up, 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 wrapped in darkness and silence.

Well I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.

McCoy

Yeah, well, I got no where else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.

Spock

Father...

Spock Prime

I am not our father. There are so few Vulcans left. We cannot afford to ignore each other.

Spock

Then why did you send Kirk aboard, when you alone could have explained the truth?

Spock Prime

Because you needed each other. I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

Spock

How did you persuade him to keep your secret?

Spock Prime

He inferred that universe-ending paradoxes would ensue should he break his promise...

Spock

You lied?

Spock Prime

Ah... I - I implied.

Spock

A gamble.

Spock Prime

An act of faith. One I hope that you will repeat in your future in Starfleet.

Spock

In the face of extinction, it is only logical that I resign my Starfleet commission and help rebuild our race...

Spock Prime

And yet, you can be in two places at once. I urge you to remain in Starfleet. I have already located a suitable planet in which to establish a Vulcan colony. Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor: Put aside logic. Do what feels right. [turns to leave] Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say... [shows Vulcan hand salute] Good luck.

Spock Prime

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone... before.

Spock Prime

[[parting lines Thrusters on full.

Spock

Acting Captain's Log, Stardate 2258.42. We have had no word from Captain Pike. I've therefore classified him a hostage of the war criminal known as Nero. Nero, who has destroyed my home planet and most of its six billion inhabitants. While the essence of our culture has been saved in the elders who now reside upon this ship, I estimate no more than 10,000 have survived. I am now a member of an endangered species.

Nero

James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man. He went on to captain the USS Enterprise... but that was another life. A life I will deprive you of, just like I did your father!