Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 quotes

36 quotes · 8 characters
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Characters
Spock Leonard Nimoy · 15 quotes
Dr. Gillian Taylor Catherine Hicks · 6 quotes
Sarek Mark Lenard · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: James T. Kirk & Spock (6), James T. Kirk & Montgomery Scott (5), James T. Kirk & Leonard McCoy (4)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home quotes

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Amanda Grayson

What's the matter Spock

I do not understand the question, mother.

Amanda Grayson

You're half human Spock; the computer knows that.

The question is irrelevant.

Amanda Grayson

Spock, the retraining of your mind has been in the Vulcan way, so you may not be aware of your human feelings, but as my son, you have them, they will surface.

As you wish, since you deem them of value, however, I cannot find my answers here.

Amanda Grayson

Where must you go?

To earth, to offer testimony.

Amanda Grayson

You do this for friendship?

I do it because I was there.

Amanda Grayson

Spock, does the good of the many outweigh the good of the one?

That would be a logical argument.

Amanda Grayson

Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they felt that the good of the one, you, was more important.

Humans make illogical decisions.

Amanda Grayson
(Proudly)

They do, indeed.

Dr. Nichols

what did you have in mind?

Perhaps the professor can use your computer?

Computer. Computer. Ah. [McCoy hands him a mouse and he speaks over it] Hello, computer.

Dr. Nichols

Just use the keyboard.

The keyboard. How quaint.

If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out where those whales are being released.

How will playing cards help?

Mr. Spock, have you accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry program?

Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so... I will make a guess.

A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary.

[to McCoy]

I don't think he understands.

No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.

Then you're saying... it is a compliment?

It is.

Ah. Then I will try to make the best guess I can.

Scotty, beam me up.
[This is the actual line uttered. See List of misquotations or Star Trek: The Original Series.]

You think they could at least send us a ship. It's bad enough to be court-martialed and to have to spend the rest of our lives mining borite, but to have to go home in this Klingon flea trap!

You could learn a thing or two from this flea trap, it's got a cloaking device that costs us a lot.

I just wish we could cloak out the stench.