Captain James T. Kirk Quotes in Star Trek Beyond (2016)

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Captain James T. Kirk Quotes:

  • Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: We could be mauled to death by an interstellar monster.

    Captain James T. Kirk: That's the spirit, Bones.

  • [last lines]

    Captain James T. Kirk: [epilogue] Space: the final frontier.

    Commander Spock: These are the voyages of the starship...

    Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: ...Enterprise. Its continuing mission...

    Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: ...to explore strange new worlds...

    Sulu: ...to seek out new life...

    Chekov: ...and new civilizations...

    Lieutenant Uhura: ...to boldly go where no one has gone before.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, Stardate 2263.2. Today is our 966th day in deep space - A little under three years into our five year mission. The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins. It can be a challenge to feel grounded, when even the gravity is artificial. But well, we do what we can to make it feel like home. The crew, is always, continues to act admirably despite the rigors of our extended stay here in outer space. The personal sacrifices they made. We continue to search for new lifeforms in order to establish firm diplomatic ties. Our extended time in uncharted territory has stretched the ship's mechanical capacities but fortunately our engineering department, led by Mr. Scott, is more than up to the job. The ship aside, prolong cohabitation has definitely had effects on the interpersonal dynamics. Some experiences for the better and some for the worse. As for me, things have started to feel a little episodic. The farther out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we are trying to accomplish. But if the universe is truly endless, then we are not striving for something forever out of reach. The Enterprise is scheduled for re-provisioning stop at Yorktown, the Federation's newest most advanced starbase. Perhaps a break from routine will offer up some respite from the mysteries of the unknown.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Sulu... you can... fly this thing, right?

    Sulu: [looks back at him; smug] You kiddin' me, sir?

    [Sulu smashes throttle]

  • Captain James T. Kirk: To the Enterprise... and to absent friends.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: We got no ship, no crew, how're going to get out of this one?

    Commander Spock: We will find hope in the impossible.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: My dad joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare.

    Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: You joined to see if you could live up to him. You spent all this time trying to be your father, and now you're wondering just what it means to be you.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: We make a good team.

    Commander Spock: Yes, I believe, we do.

  • Krall: [as Kirk discards the Abronath] You can't stop it. You will die.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Better to die saving lives, than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into.

  • [is teleported particle by particle]

    Captain James T. Kirk: [groans] Let's never do that again.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [referring to his late father] Today, I'm one year older than he ever was.

  • Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: You really want to go back up there?

    Commander Spock: Yes.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Yeah!

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [pursuing Krall] You lost! There's no way for you to make it back there! Give up!

    Krall: What, like you did? I read your ship's log, Captain James T. Kirk! At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!

    Captain James T. Kirk: You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace!

    Krall: Peace... is not what I was born into.

  • Krall: Unity is not your strength. It is your weakness.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: What happened to you out there, Edison?

    Krall: Edison? I have to say, Kirk, I missed being me. We lost ourselves, but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.

    Krall: I fought for humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan Wars! And for what? For the Federation? To sit me in a Captain's chair and break bread with the enemy!

    Captain James T. Kirk: We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: You sure know how to throw out the welcome mat.

    Jaylah: I do not know what is a welcome mat.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: What did Krall want with this thing?

    Kalara: To save you... from yourselves.

  • Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: This is the USS Franklin, sir. Can you believe it? First Earth ship capable of Warp 4. Went missing in the Gagarin Radiation Belt in the early 2160s.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I remember that from the Academy. Captain Balthazar Edison, one of the first heroes of Starfleet. How the hell did his ship end up here?

    Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: There's a lot of theories, sir. Surrendered to the Romulans. Captured by a giant green space hand. This far out, has got to be a wormhole displacement.

  • Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [about Balthazar Edison] His record goes back way before the Federation even existed. He was a major in the United Earth Military Assault Command Operation. A lot of off-world combat.

    Captain James T. Kirk: [surprised] He was a soldier.

    Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [confirms] Aye, sir. And a pretty good one. His military service came to an end when MACO was disbanded.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Why? What happened?

    Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: The Federation, sir. Starfleet; we're not a military agency. They made him a captain and gave him the Franklin.

  • General Chang: "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Earth, Hitler, 1938.

    General Chang: I beg your pardon.

    Chancellor Gorkon: Well... I see we have a long way to go.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human.

    Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting.

  • [Dictating his personal log]

    Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?

  • Captain Spock: If I were human I believe my response would be "go to hell." If I were human.

    Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: Course heading, Captain?

    Captain James T. Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on till morning.

  • [last lines]

    [Kirk's final Captain's Log]

    Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.

  • [Kirk and company have prevented the assassination attempt at Khitomer]

    Azetbur: What's happened? What's the meaning of all of this?

    Captain James T. Kirk: It's about the future, Madame Chancellor. Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet. Your father called the future - "the undiscovered country". People can be very frightened of change.

    Azetbur: You've restored my father's faith.

    Captain James T. Kirk: And you've restored my son's.

  • [on whether to help the Klingons]

    Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.

    Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.

    Captain Spock: They're dying.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!

    [pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise. Kirk recoils and proceeds]

    Captain James T. Kirk: Has it occurred to you that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bit for king and country! You should have trusted me.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [dictating his personal log] The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and company to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Note to the Galley; Romulan Ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, are you afraid of the future?

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I don't mean this future.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What is this, multiple choice?

  • General Chang: I can see you, Kirk.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Chang.

    General Chang: Can you see me? 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."

  • Captain James T. Kirk: I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'm gonna find myself a pot of black coffee.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Valeris, know anything about a radiation surge?

    Lieutenant Valeris: Sir?

    Captain James T. Kirk: Chekov?

    Commander Pavel Chekov: Only the size of my head.

    Captain James T. Kirk: [to himself] I know what you mean.

  • [after Kirk wins a fight against an alien twice his size]

    Martia: They'll respect you now.

    Captain James T. Kirk: That's a comfort. I was lucky that thing had knees.

    Martia: That was not his knee.

    [Kirk looks at Martia in surprise]

    Martia: Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Anything you want to tell me?

    [Martia smiles at Kirk]

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott?

    Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [over intercom] Aye, sir?

    Captain James T. Kirk: Did you find the engine room?

    Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Right where I left it, sir!

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, I'm wearing a veridium patch on my back! Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship!

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why, that cunning little Vulcan!

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [Spock has beamed Kirk and Bones aboard just before they find out who framed them] No! No! Of all the - son of a - Couldn't you have waited two seconds? They were just about to tell us the whole thing!

    Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: You want to go back?

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Absolutely not!

    Captain James T. Kirk: [whispering] It's cold.

  • Chancellor Gorkon: And this is General Chang, my chief of staff.

    General Chang: I have... so wanted to meet you, Captain.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I'm not sure how to take that.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [on the viewscreen] Captain Sulu! You realize that just by talking to me, you're violating regulations?

    Captain Hikaru Sulu: I'm sorry, Captain, your message is breaking up...

    Captain James T. Kirk: Bless you, Captain.

  • [In a conversation with Spock]

    Captain James T. Kirk: You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists. Reality has brought us somewhere in-between.

  • Captain Spock: The lieutenant was the first Vulcan to be graduated at the top of her class.

    Captain James T. Kirk: You must be very proud.

    Lieutenant Valeris: I don't believe so.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: She's a Vulcan all right.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Where's that damn torpedo?

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: It's ready, Jim. Lock and load!

    Captain James T. Kirk: [clenches fist] Fire!

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [Valeris has just engaged thrusters to take Enterprise out of Spacedock] Thank you Lieutenant, ahead one quarter impulse power

    Lieutenant Valeris: [spins in chair to face Kirk] Captain, may I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only whilst in spacedock.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: [the bridge crew cough loudly, Chekov shakes his head, Uhura tuts softly. McCoy leans in to tease Spock] Jim?

    Captain James T. Kirk: You heard the order, Lieutenant...

    Lieutenant Valeris: Aye, sir!

  • Martia: You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume.

    Captain James T. Kirk: How did you know that?

    Martia: We don't get many presidential assassins.

    Captain James T. Kirk: We didn't kill Gorkon!

    Martia: Of course not. But there is a reward for your death.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: That figures.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Names, Lieutenant!

    Lieutenant Valeris: I do not remember.

    Captain Spock: A lie?

    Lieutenant Valeris: A choice.

  • [Kirk is fighting with Martia disguised as Kirk]

    Captain James T. Kirk: I can't believe I kissed you.

    Martia (appearing as Kirk): Must have been your lifelong ambition.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: [Fighting Martia who has changed to look like him] Isn't it about time you became something else?

    Martia (appearing as Kirk): I like it here.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet...

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used "reserve activation clause." In simpler language, Captain, they DRAFTED me!

    Captain James T. Kirk: [In mock horror] They didn't.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?

    Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, there's a... thing... out there.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why is any object we don't understand always called "a thing"?

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Well, Bones. Do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center.

  • [last lines]

    Chief DiFalco: Heading, sir?

    Captain James T. Kirk: Out there... thataway.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Let's take a look. Full sensor scan, Mr. Spock. They can't expect us not to look them over now.

    Commander Willard Decker: Now that we're looking down their throat.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Right, now that we've got them just where they want us.

  • Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby. I hope we got this one off to a good start.

    Captain James T. Kirk: I hope so, too. I think we gave it the ability to create its own sense of purpose out of our own human weaknesses, and the drive that compels us to overcome them.

  • Commander Willard Decker: V'ger... expects an answer.

    Captain James T. Kirk: An answer? I don't know the question.

  • Commander Spock: V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve. What it requires of its god, doctor, is the answer to its question, "Is there nothing more"?

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What more is there than the universe, Spock?

    Commander Willard Decker: Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.

    Commander Spock: The existence of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them.

    Captain James T. Kirk: What it needs in order to evolve... is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.

    Commander Willard Decker: And joining with its creator might accomplish that.

    Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?

    Commander Willard Decker: Let's find out.

  • [Kirk apologizes for assuming command over Captain Decker]

    Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, Will.

    Commander Willard Decker: No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Evaluation, Mr. Spock.

    Commander Spock: Fascinating.

  • Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott: The crew hasn't had near enough transition time with all the new equipment. And the engines, they're not even tested at warp power. And an untried captain.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a little stale, but I wouldn't consider myself untried... They gave her back to me, Scotty.

    Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott: Gave her back, sir? I doubt it was that easy with Nogura.

    Captain James T. Kirk: [in a mock Scottish accent] You're right.

    [both laugh]

  • Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura: Captain, our final six replacements are ready to beam aboard, but one of them is refusing to step into the transporter.

    Captain James T. Kirk: Oh! I'll make sure he beams up!

    [Steps into the Turbolift]

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Yeoman, what was the problem down there?

    Yeoman: He insisted we go first, Sir. He said something about first seeing how it scrambled our molecules.

    Captain James T. Kirk: [to Rand] That has a familiar ring, doesn't it?

    [keys intercom]

    Captain James T. Kirk: Starfleet, this is Captain Kirk. Beam that officer up now.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Damn it, Bones, I need you. Badly!

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Spock.

    Commander Spock: Jim. I should have known.

  • Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott, an alien object of unbelievable destructive power is less than two days away from this planet. The only starship in interception range is the Enterprise. Ready or not, she launches in twelve hours.

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