Khan Quotes in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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Khan Quotes:

  • James T. Kirk: I watched you open fire in a room full of unarmed Starfleet officers. You killed them in cold blood.

    Khan: Marcus took my crew from me!

    James T. 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 have 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. So I responded in kind. My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?

  • Khan: I'm going to make this very simple for you.

    Spock: Captain!

    Khan: Your crew for my crew.

    Spock: You betrayed us.

    Khan: Oh, you are smart, Mr. Spock.

    James T. Kirk: Spock, don't...

    [Khan knocks him down]

    Khan: Mr. Spock, give me my crew.

    Spock: What will you do when you get them?

    Khan: Continue the work we were doing before we were banished.

    Spock: Which as I understand it involves the mass-genocide of any being you find to be less than superior.

    Khan: Shall I destroy you, Mr. Spock? Or will you give me what I want?

    Spock: We have no transporter capabilities.

    Khan: Fortunately, mine are perfectly functioning. Drop your shields.

    Spock: If I do so I have no guarantee that you will not destroy the Enterprise.

    Khan: Well, let's play this out logically then, Mr. Spock. Firstly, I will kill your captain to demonstrate my resolve, then if yours holds I will have no choice but to kill you and your entire crew.

    Spock: If you destroy our ship, you will also destroy your own people.

    Khan: Your crew requires oxygen to survive, mine does not. I will target your life support systems located behind the aft nacelle. And after every single person aboard your ship suffocates, I will walk over your cold corpses to recover my people. Now, shall we begin?

    Spock: ...Lower shields.

    Khan: A wise choice, Mr. Spock. I see all 72 torpedoes are still in their tubes. If they're not mine, Commander, I will know it.

    Spock: Vulcans do not lie. The torpedoes are yours.

    Khan: Thank you, Mr. Spock.

    Spock: I have fulfilled your terms. Now fulfill mine.

    Khan: Well Kirk, it seems apt to return you to your crew. After all, no ship should go down without her captain.

  • [from trailer]

    Khan: Mr. Spock. The mind of the Enterprise. The fearless genius who ensures a calm force of intelligence guides their every mission. But look deeper and you will see an outsider who does not belong, a man of two worlds. This tears him apart, the constant battle between what he thinks and what he feels. What does he do? Does he follow his head, embracing logic and the path of reason? Or does he follow his heart, knowing the emotions he cannot control may destroy him? I will help him decide...

  • James T. Kirk: Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a three-hundred-year-old frozen man for help?

    Khan: Because I am better.

    James T. 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 can you be expected to break bone? Marcus used me to design weapons. I helped 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 whoever was responsible, and you would have no chance of escape. Marcus would finally have the war he talked about, the war he always wanted.

  • James T. Kirk: Why is there a man in that torpedo?

    Khan: There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain. I put them there.

    James T. Kirk: Who the hell are you?

    Khan: A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. But 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 begun to aggressively search distant quadrants of space. My ship was found adrift. I alone was revived.

    James T. Kirk: I looked up John Harrison. Until a year ago he didn't exist.

    Khan: 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.

  • Khan: You think you world is safe? It is an illusion. A comforting lie told to protect you. Enjoy these final moments of peace. For I have returned to have my vengeance. So, shall we begin?

  • Khan: My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?

  • [from trailer]

    Khan: Your are a pawn, Kirk. You can't even guarantee the safety of your own crew. Now, shall we begin?

  • Khan: [to Carol] If you think you are safe at warp, you're wrong.

  • [from trailer]

    Khan: Darkness is coming.

  • Khan: I can save her.

    Thomas Harewood: What did you say?

    Khan: Your daughter. I can save her.

    Thomas Harewood: Who are you?

  • [from trailer]

    Khan: Your commanders have committed a crime I cannot forgive. None of you are safe. Have I got your attention now?

  • Khan: Set destination: Starfleet Headquarters!

  • James T. Kirk: Tell me everything you know about that ship.

    Khan: Dreadnought class. Two times the size, three times the speed. Advanced weaponry. Modified for a minimal crew. Unlike most Federation vessels, it's built solely for combat.

    James T. Kirk: I will do everything I can to make you answer for what you did. But right now I need your help.

  • James T. Kirk: Let me explain what's happening here: you are a criminal! I watched you murder innocent men and women! I was authorized to *end* you! And the only reason why you are still alive is because I am allowing it. So *shut your mouth*!

    Khan: Captain, are you going to punch me again, over and over, until your arm weakens... clearly you want to. So tell me, why did you allow me to live?

    James T. Kirk: We all make mistakes.

    Khan: I surrendered to you because, despite your attempt to convince me otherwise, you seem to have a conscience, Mr. Kirk. If you did not, then it would be impossible for me to convince you of the truth. 23174611. Coordinates not far from Earth. If you want to know why I did what I did, go and take a look.

    James T. Kirk: Give me one reason why I should listen to you.

    Khan: I can give you 72. And they're on board your ship, Captain. They have been, all along.

  • Khan: [to Marcus] You should have let me sleep!

    [crushes his skull]

  • [Terrell disobeys Khan's order to kill Kirk, who taunts Khan over the communicator]

    Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker! You're going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?

    Khan: Kirk? Kirk, you're still alive, my old friend?

    Kirk: Still, "old friend"! You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target!

    Khan: Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral.

    David Marcus: Oh, no! Let go! He can't take it...!

    [Khan beams the Genesis device away]

    Kirk: Khan... Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down here. You're going to have to come down here!

    Khan: I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet... buried alive! Buried alive...!

    Kirk: KHAAANNNN!

    [echo]

    Kirk: KHAAANNNN!

  • Khan: [quoting from Melville's Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

  • Joachim: We're all with you, sir. But, consider this. We are free. We have a ship, and the means to go where we will. We have escaped permanent exile on Ceti Alpha V. You have defeated the plans of Admiral Kirk. You do not need to defeat him again.

    Khan: [paraphrase from Melville's Moby Dick] He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!

  • Joachim: They're still running with shields down.

    Khan: Of course! We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?

    [pause]

    Khan: It is very cold in space!

  • Kirk: [hailing Khan] This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan, are you game for a rematch? Khan, I'm laughing at the "superior intellect."

    Khan: Full impulse power!

    Joachim: No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever...

    Khan: [grabs Joachim in anger] FULL POWER! DAMN YOU!

  • Khan: Captain, Captain, Captain... save your strength. These people have sworn to live and die at my command two hundred years before you were born. Do you mean he never told you the tale? To amuse your Captain, no? Never told you how the Enterprise picked up the Botany Bay, lost in space from the year 1996 with myself and the ship's company in cryogenic freeze?

    Capt. Terrell: I never even met Admiral Kirk.

    Khan: 'Admiral?' 'Admiral!' 'Admiral'... Never told you how 'Admiral' Kirk sent seventy of us into exile in this barren sandheap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us?

    Chekov: You lie! On Ceti Alpha Five there was life! A fair chance...

    Khan: [shouts] THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE! Ceti Alpha Six exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet and everything was laid waste. 'Admiral' Kirk never bothered to check on our progress. It was only the fact of my genetically-engineered intellect that allowed us to survive. On Earth, two hundred years ago, I was a prince with power over millions...

    Chekov: Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!

  • [Khan, about to put Ceti Eels in Terrell and Chekov's ears]

    Khan: You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, as they grow, follows madness and death.

    Chekov: Khan, listen to me...

    Khan: These are pets, of course. Not quite domesticated.

  • Khan: [holds the dying Joachim] Joachim?

    Joachim: Yours... is... superior...

    [dies]

    Khan: I shall avenge you.

  • Khan: Let them eat static.

  • Joachim: [Enterprise is running with shields down] They still haven't raised their shields.

    Khan: Raise ours.

    [Joachim raises shields]

    Spock: Their shields are going up.

    Khan: Lock phasers on target.

    Joachim: [looks at targeting computer] Locking phasers on target.

    Spock: They're locking phasers.

    Kirk: Raise shields!

    Khan: Fire!

    [Joachim fires phasers]

  • Khan: Surely, I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I deprived your ship of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life.

  • [Kirk remotely commands Reliant's shields to drop]

    Joachim: Our shields are dropping.

    Khan: Then raise them!

    Joachim: [pounds fists on console] I can't!

    Khan: The override. Where's the override?

  • [Khan discovers the Enterprise and realizes it isn't as badly damaged as he thought]

    Khan: There she is! There she is! Ah... not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better!

  • Captain Terrell: Sir, I demand...

    Khan: You are in a position to demand *nothing*. I, on the other hand, am in a position to *grant* nothing.

  • Kirk: Khan!

    Khan: You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember you.

  • Kirk: Khan, how do I know you'll keep your word?

    Khan: Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative.

  • Khan: I know you. You are the brother... How perfect. I will send you to hell... to join your brother!

    Jake Donahue: I've been there... for 10 years! AAAHHHH!

  • Khan: Mr. Fletcher, I have Sophie here for you.

    Alex Fletcher: Well, that sounds like fun. Who is she?

    Khan: She says she's here to do your plants.

    Alex Fletcher: No, tell her Jane does my plants.

    Khan: She says it will only take five minutes and this is a good time for her.

    Alex Fletcher: It seems she cannot be stopped. Send her up.

  • Khan: You are very successful.

    Jake Gittes: Oh, I can't complain.

    Khan: Does that mean you are happy?

    Jake Gittes: Who can answer that question off the top of their head?

    Khan: Anyone who's happy.

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