Chancellor Gorkon
I offer a toast. The undiscovered country...the future.
The undiscovered country.
Spock
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1.
Gorkon
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
Chang
taH pagh taHbe' [Klingons laugh]
Chang
"To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.
James T. Kirk
Earth. Hitler, 1938.
Chang
I beg your pardon?
Gorkon
Well...I see we have a long way to go.
Chang
Well, most kind. "Parting is such sweet sorrow," hmm, Captain? "Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?"
[From Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2, and Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2 (paraphrased), respectively.]
Chang
What would your favorite author say, Captain? "Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings."
[From Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2.]
Chang
Indeed, the record shows that Captain Kirk once held the rank of admiral, and that Admiral Kirk was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of regulations of the law! Do you deny being demoted for these charges?! Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!
[Similar words were originally spoken by Adlai Stevenson to Valerian Zorin in an emergency session of the United Nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis.]
Chang
Oh, now, be honest, Captain... warrior to warrior...you do prefer it this way, don't you? As it was meant to be. No peace in our time. Once more unto the breach...dear friends.
[From Neville Chamberlain's famous speech after the signing of the Munich Agreement, and Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1, respectively.]
Chang
Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us...shall we not revenge?
[Paraphrased, The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1.]
Chang
The game's afoot, huh? [wags index finger at weapons officer, signalling him to fire torpedoes]
[From Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1 (also a reference to Sherlock Holmes).]
Chang
Our revels now are ended, Kirk. Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!
[From The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1, and Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1, respectively.]
Chang
I am constant as the Northern Star...
Leonard McCoy
I'd give real money if he'd [Chang] shut up.
Chang
To be... or not... to be...
[last words] [From Hamlet, Act III, Scene I]
