Spock Quotes in Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Bones: [hears song "Sabotage" blaring] Is that classical music I'm hearing?

Spock: Yes, doctor, I believe it is.

Vulcan Council President: You have surpassed the expectations of your instructors. Your final record is flawless, with one exception: I see that you have applied to Starfleet as well.

Spock: It was logical to cultivate multiple options.

Vulcan Council President: Logical, but unnecessary. You are hereby accepted to the Vulcan Science Academy. It is truly remarkable, Spock, that you have achieved so much despite your disadvantage. All rise.

[the Vulcan Council stands in honor of Spock, who now looks slightly pissed]

Spock: If you would clarify, Minister: to what disadvantage are you referring?

Vulcan Council President: Your human mother.

Spock: Council... Ministers, I must decline.

Vulcan Council President: No Vulcan has ever declined admission to this academy!

Spock: Then, as I am half-human, your record remains untarnished.

Sarek: Spock, you have made a commitment to honor the Vulcan way.

Vulcan Council President: Why did you come before this council today? Was it to satisfy your emotional need to rebel?

Spock: The only emotion I wish to convey is gratitude. Thank you, Ministers, for your consideration.

[In a tone reserved for telling someone to 'Go to Hell']

Spock: Live long and prosper.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Permission to speak freely, sir?

Spock: I welcome it.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Do you? OK, then. Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Are you making a logical choice, sending Kirk away? Probably. But, the right one? You know, back home we have a saying: "If you're gonna ride in the Kentucky Derby, you don't leave your prize stallion in the stable."

Spock: A curious metaphor, doctor, as a stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: My God, man, you could at least ACT like it was a hard decision.

Spock: I intend to assist in the effort to reestablish communication with Starfleet. However, if crew morale is better served by my roaming the halls weeping, I will gladly defer to your medical expertise. Excuse me.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [as Spock leaves] Green-blooded hobgoblin.

Spock: If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Spock: [standing across Lt. Uhura before he and Kirk are about to be beamed onto the Romulan warship] I will be back.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [leaning in] You better be! I'll be monitoring your frequency.

Spock: [actually quite emotional] Thank you, Nyota.

James T. Kirk: [after Uhura leaves] So her first name's Nyota?

Spock: I have no comment on the matter.

Spock: I am as conflicted as I once was as a child.

Sarek: You will always be a child of two worlds. I am grateful for this, and for you.

Spock: I feel anger for the one who took Mother's life - an anger I *cannot* control.

Sarek: I believe... that she would say, "Do not try to." You asked me once why I married your mother. I married her because I loved her.

James T. Kirk: Now, what is it with you, Spock? Hm? Your planet was just destroyed, your mother murdered, and you're not even upset!

Spock: If you are presuming that these experiences in any way impede my ability to command this ship, you are mistaken.

James T. Kirk: And yet you were the one who said fear was necessary for command. I mean, did you see his ship? Did you see what he did?

[pause]

Spock: Yes, of course I did.

James T. Kirk: So are you afraid or aren't you?

Spock: I will not allow you to lecture me about the merits of emotion.

James T. Kirk: Then why don't you stop me?

Spock: Step away from me, Mister Kirk.

James T. Kirk: What is 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.

James T. Kirk: You feel NOTHING! It must not even COMPUTE for you! You NEVER loved her!

[Spock snaps and attacks Kirk, nearly killing him]

Sarek: SPOCK!

[Spock regains control]

[Spock notices a elder Vulcan walking in the docking bay]

Spock: Father!

[the elder Vulcan turns and is revealed as Spock Prime]

Spock Prime: I am not our father.

[Young Spock, now recognizing who he is, approaches]

Spock Prime: 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: Aww... 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 on which to establish a Vulcan colony. Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor: Put aside logic. Do what feels right.

[Spock Prime turns and leaves]

Spock Prime: Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say...

[Shows Vulcan hand salute]

Spock Prime: Good luck.

Spock: [on intercom] Dr Puri, report.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: It's McCoy. Dr. Puri was on Deck 6. He's dead.

Spock: Then you have just inherited his responsibility as Chief Medical Officer.

[McCoy looks at a burning medical room full of casualties from the attack]

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Yeah, tell me something I DON'T know!

James T. Kirk: Your ship is compromised, too close to the singularity to survive without assistance, which we are willing to provide.

Spock: [speaking privately] Captain, what are you doing?

James T. Kirk: Showing them compassion 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: [replying to the offer of assistance] I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony than accept assistance from you.

James T. Kirk: You got it! Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got!

Spock: [Kirk has been appointed captain, and the Enterprise is preparing to depart. Spock enters the bridge] Permission to come aboard, Captain.

James T. Kirk: Permission granted.

Spock: As you have yet to select a first officer, respectfully, I would like to submit my candidacy. Should you desire, I can provide character references.

James T. Kirk: It would be my honor, Commander.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Having just learned that she is assigned to the Farragut] Commander, a word?

Spock: Yes, Lieutenant?

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Was I not one of your top students?

Spock: Indeed you were.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [the scene cuts to another location, where Uhura is still hounding Spock] And did I not, on multiple occasions, demonstrate an exceptional aural sensitivity, and I quote, "an unparalleled ability to identify sonic anomalies in subspace transmissions tests?"

Spock: Consistently, yes.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: And while you are well aware of my own qualified desires to serve on the U.S.S. Enterprise, I'm assigned to the Farragut?

Spock: It was an attempt to...

[he glances around, keeping his voice low]

Spock: ...avoid the appearance of favoritism.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [Adamantly] No. I'm assigned to the Enterprise.

Spock: [He adjusts his roster list] Yes, I believe you are.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Thank you.

James T. Kirk: [to Spock] The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean, you programmed it to be unwinnable.

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

James T. Kirk: 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.

James T. Kirk: Please enlighten me.

Spock: You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk, a captain cannot cheat death.

James T. Kirk: [reminiscing] I of all people...

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

James T. Kirk: 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.

James T. Kirk: 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 the quality expected in every Starfleet captain.

[Kirk rushes onto the bridge, urging the ship to stop. Three-way arguing ensues between him, Spock, and Pike]

Spock: I can remove the cadet...

James T. Kirk: Try it!

Christopher Pike: Kirk!

James T. Kirk: This cadet is trying to save the bridge!

Spock: By recommending a full stop, mid-warp, during a rescue mission?

James T. Kirk: It's not a rescue mission. Listen to me, it's an attack!

Spock: Based on what facts?

James T. Kirk: That same anomaly, a "lightning storm in space" that we saw today, also occurred on the day of my birth, shortly before a Romulan ship attacked the U.S.S. Kelvin. You know that, sir, I read your dissertation. That ship, which had formidable and advanced weaponry, was never seen or heard from again. The Kelvin attack took place at the edge of Klingon space, and at 2300 hours last night, there was an attack: forty-seven Klingon warbirds destroyed by Romulans, sir, and it was reported that the Romulans were in one ship, one massive ship.

Christopher Pike: And you know of this Klingon attack how?

[Kirk glances at Uhura]

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Sir, I intercepted and translated the message myself. Kirk's report is accurate.

James T. Kirk: We're warping into a trap, sir. The Romulans are waiting for us, I promise you that.

[Unsettled, Pike looks at Spock]

Spock: The cadet's logic is sound. And Lt. Uhura is unmatched in xenolinguistics, we would be wise to accept her conclusion.

Hikaru Sulu: The fleet has cleared spacedock, Captain. All ships ready for warp.

Christopher Pike: Set a course for Vulcan.

Hikaru Sulu: Aye-Aye, Captain. Course laid in.

Christopher Pike: Maximum warp. Punch it.

[One by one, the rest of the star fleet jumps into warp drive, leaving the Enterprise behind. Sulu frowns at the console, puzzled]

Christopher Pike: Lieutenant, where is Helmsman McKenna?

Hikaru Sulu: He has lungworms, sir. He couldn't report to his post. I'm Hikaru Sulu.

Christopher Pike: And you are a pilot, right?

Hikaru Sulu: Very much so, sir.

[he trails off, hitting buttons]

Hikaru Sulu: I'm, uh, I'm not sure what's wrong here.

Christopher Pike: Is the parking brake on?

Hikaru Sulu: Uh, no. I'll figure it out. I'm just...

Spock: Have you disengaged the external inertial dampener?

Hikaru Sulu: [Embarrassed. Without looking at anyone, he punches in the correct sequence] Ready for warp, sir.

Christopher Pike: Let's punch it.

Spock: [volunteering for what could be a suicide mission] Romulans and Vulcans share a common ancestor. Our cultural similarities will make it easier for me to access the ship's computer to locate the device. Also, my mother was human, which makes Earth the only home I have left.

James T. Kirk: I'm coming with you.

Spock: I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

James T. Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.

Sarek: Speak your mind, Spock.

Spock: That would be unwise.

Sarek: What is necessary is never unwise.

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.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Wait a minute, kid. How old are you?

Pavel Chekov: Seventeen, sir.

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Oh... oh, good, he's seventeen.

Spock: Doctor... Mr. Chekov is correct.

Spock: We are traveling at warp speed. How did you manage to beam aboard this ship?

James T. Kirk: Hey, you're the genius. You figure it out.

Spock: As acting captain of this vessel, I order you to answer the question.

James T. Kirk: Well, I'm not telling, "Acting Captain." What, did...?

[Kirk smiles]

James T. Kirk: What, now, that doesn't frustrate you, does it? My lack of cooperation? That-that doesn't make you angry...

Spock: [Spock turns to Scotty] Are you a member of Starfleet?

Scotty: I, um, yes. Can I get a towel, please?

Spock: Under penalty of court martial, I order you to explain to me how you were able to beam aboard this ship while moving at warp.

Scotty: Well...

James T. Kirk: Don't answer him.

Spock: You will answer me.

Scotty: [pause] I'd rather not take sides.

Spock: [to Kirk] Out of the chair.

Admiral Richard Barnett: This is Commander Spock. He is one of our most distinguished graduates. He's programmed the Kobayashi Maru exam for the last four years. Commander?

Spock: Cadet Kirk, you somehow managed to install and activate a subroutine in the programming code, thereby changing the conditions of the test.

James T. Kirk: Your point being?

Admiral Richard Barnett: In academic vernacular, you cheated.

Amanda Grayson: There's no need to be anxious. You'll do fine.

Spock: I am hardly anxious, Mother. And "fine" has variable definitions. "Fine" is unacceptable.

Amanda Grayson: Okay.

Spock: May I ask a personal query?

Amanda Grayson: Anything.

Spock: Should I choose to complete the Vulcan discipline of Kolinahr and purge all emotion, I trust you will not feel it reflects judgment on you.

Amanda Grayson: Oh, Spock. As always, whatever you choose to be, you will have a proud mother.

Christopher Pike: Mr. Spock, I'm leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have transport capability and communications back up, you'll contact Starfleet and report what the hell's going on here. And if all else fails, fall back, rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system. Kirk, I'm promoting you to First Officer.

James T. Kirk: What?

Spock: Captain? Please, I apologize. The complexities of human pranks escape me.

Christopher Pike: It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the captain. You are.

Christopher Pike: [to Kirk] Let's go.

James T. Kirk: Sir, after we knock out that drill, what happens to you?

Christopher Pike: Ah, I guess you'll have to come and get me.

Christopher Pike: [last word to Spock] Careful with the ship, Spock. She's brand new.

Spock: [finding himself aboard the ship of his future self] It appears that you have been keeping important information from me.

James T. Kirk: You'll be able to fly this thing, right?

Spock: Something tells me I already have.

James T. Kirk: Good luck.

Spock: Jim... the statistical likelihood that our plan will succeed is less than 4.3%.

James T. Kirk: It'll work.

Spock: In the event that I do not return, please tell Lieutenant Uhura...

James T. Kirk: Spock. IT'LL WORK.

Spock: [sits in the cockpit of his future self's ship, which springs to life] Fascinating!

Test Administrator: How the hell did that kid beat your test?

Spock: I do not know.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [to Spock, after the destruction of Vulcan] I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.

[She kisses him along his face and hugs him; after a short hesitation, he hugs her back and leans into her]

Lt. Nyota Uhura: What do you need? Tell me.

[Uhura takes his face into her hands]

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Tell me.

Spock: [fighting for control] I need everyone to continue performing admirably.

[pushes the elevator button to continue]

Lt. Nyota Uhura: [tears in her eyes, nods] Okay.

[She kisses him and he kisses her back and when the elevator doors open and leaves her behind without a backward glance]

Spock: Get him off this ship.

Spock: We must gather with the rest of Starfleet... to balance the terms of the next engagement!

James T. Kirk: There won't BE a next engagement! By the time we've "gathered," it'll be too late! But you say he's from the future - knows what's gonna happen? - then the logical thing is to be unpredictable!

Spock: You're assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold. The contrary, Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the U.S.S. Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: An alternate reality.

Spock: Precisely. Whatever our lives might have been, if the time continuum was disrupted, our destinies have changed.

Spock: KHAAANNNN!

[from trailer]

[the Enterprise crew steer a ship towards a closing portal]

Spock: Captain, this ship will not fit.

James T. Kirk: IT WILL FIT, WILL FIT, WILL FIT!

[the ship scrapes through]

James T. Kirk: See, I told you it would fit!

Spock: I am not sure that qualifies.

James T. Kirk: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Spock: An Arabic proverb attributed to a prince who was betrayed and decapitated by his own subjects.

James T. Kirk: Well, still, it's a hell of a quote.

Christopher Pike: That's a technicality.

Spock: I am Vulcan, sir. We embrace technicality.

Christopher Pike: Are you giving me attitude, Spock?

Spock: I am expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously. To which are you referring?

James T. Kirk: I'm scared, Spock... help me not to be... how do you choose not to feel?

Spock: I do not know. Right now, I am failing.

James T. Kirk: I wanted you to know why I couldn't let you die... why I went back for you...

Spock: Because you are my friend.

Bones: Don't agree with me, Spock, it makes me very uncomfortable.

Spock: Perhaps, you too should learn to govern your emotions, Doctor.

Bones: Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!

Spock: The fact that your are a doctor is precisely why I need you to listen very carefully.

Nyota Uhura: At that volcano, you didn't give a thought to us. What it would do to me if you died, Spock. You didn't feel anything. You didn't care. And I'm not the only one who's upset with you. The Captain is, too.

James T. Kirk: No, no, no. Don't drag me into this. She is right.

Spock: Your suggestion that I do not care about dying is incorrect. A sentient being's optimal chance at maximizing their utility is a long and prosperous life.

Nyota Uhura: Great.

James T. Kirk: Not exactly a love song, Spock.

Spock: You misunderstand. It is true I chose not to feel anything upon realizing my own life was ending. As Admiral Pike was dying, I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing. Anger. Confusion. Loneliness. Fear. I had experiences those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. Well, I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite.

Spock: I will go with you, Captain.

James T. Kirk: No, I need you on the bridge.

Spock: I can not allow you to do this. It is my function aboard the ship to advise you in making the wisest decisions possible, something I firmly believe you are incapable of doing in this moment.

James T. Kirk: You're right! What I am about to do, it doesn't make sense, it's not logical, it is a gut feeling! I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I only know what I can do. The Enterprise and her crew needs someone on that chair who knows what he's doing. That's not me. It's you, Spock.

James T. Kirk: When were you going to tell me that?

Spock: When it became relevant, as it just did.

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.

James T. Kirk: [Kirk's HUD breaks midway through his space-jump] Spock my display is down, I'm flying blind.

Spock: Captain, without your display compass hitting your target destination is mathematically impossible.

James T. Kirk: Spock, if I get back, we really need to talk about your bedside manner.

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.

Spock: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

James T. Kirk: Spock, we're talking about your life!

James T. Kirk: You filed a report? Why didn't you tell me?

Spock: I incorrectly assumed that you would be truthful in your captain's log.

James T. Kirk: Yeah, I would have been if I didn't have to save your life.

Spock: A fact for which I am grateful immeasurably grateful and the very reason to take responsibility for the actions...

James T. Kirk: Take responsibility, yeah. That'd be so noble, pointy, if you were also throwing me under the bus.

Spock: "Pointy"? Is that a derogatory reference to me?

[last lines]

James T. Kirk: Where should we go?

Spock: As a mission of this duration has never been attempted, I defer to your good judgment Captain.

James T. Kirk: Mr. Sulu, take us out!

Sulu: Aye, Captain.

[outtake]

Spock Prime: ...he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you.

Spock: Did you defeat him?

Spock Prime: At great cost, yes.

Spock: How?

Spock Prime: We took a hammer...

[from trailer]

Spock: [stuck in a volcano] We must maintain the Prime Directive...

James T. Kirk: Nobody knows the rules better than you, Spock, but sometimes exceptions have to be made!

Spock: [after the Vengeance crashes] Scan the enemy ship for any signs of life.

Sulu: [confused] Sir... there's no way anyone could've survived that.

Spock: [swings round with a snarl] HE COULD!

Sulu: [as Khan leaps from the wreckage] Whoa... he just jumped thirty meters.

[from trailer]

Spock: Captain, I cannot allow you to do this!

Bones: Jim, you're not actually going after this guy, are you?

James T. Kirk: I have no idea what I'm supposed to do! I only know what I *can* do!

Scotty: No! I'm not signing anything! Now get these bloody things off my ship!

[sees Kirk]

Scotty: Captain!

James T. Kirk: Is there a problem, Mr. Scott?

Scotty: Aye, sir! I was just explaining to this gentlemen that I cannae authorize any weapons on board this ship without knowing what's inside them!

Spock: Mr. Scott raises yet another point that le...

James T. Kirk: Report to the bridge.

Spock: Captain.

[leaves the engineering room]

James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott, I understand your concerns but we need these torpedoes on board!

Scotty: Due respect, sir, but photo torpedoes run on fuel, now I cannae detect the type of fuel that's in the compartments on these torpedoes because it's shielded. Now I asked for the specifications but he says...

[gestures to Torpedo Security]

Torpedo Security: It's classified.

Scotty: [repeating exasperatedly] It's classified. So I said; no specs, no signature!

Sulu: [from deck above] Captain, flight checks complete, we're good to go, sir.

James T. Kirk: Thank you, Mr. Sulu.

Sulu: Yes, sir.

Scotty: Now if you'll excuse me, sir, I have a warp core to prime.

[walks away]

Scotty: [to Keenser] Get down!

Bones: Jim, your vitals are way off...

James T. Kirk: Report to the medbay.

[follows Scotty to the warp core]

James T. Kirk: Scotty! I need you to approve those weapons.

Spock: Mr. Spock.

Spock Prime: Mr. Spock.

Spock: I will be brief. In your travels, did you ever encounter a man named Khan?

Spock Prime: As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, and yours alone. That being said, Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you.

Spock: Did you defeat him?

Spock Prime: At great cost, yes.

McCoy: [Kirk runs in to the engine room and sees Spock inside the reactor compartment. He rushes over but McCoy and Scotty hold him back] No! You'll flood the whole compartment!

Kirk: He'll die!

Scotty: Sir! He's dead already.

McCoy: It's too late.

[They let go and Kirk walks to the glass and pushes the intercom button]

Kirk: Spock!

[Spock slowly walks over to the glass and pushes the intercom]

Spock: The ship... out of danger?

Kirk: Yes.

Spock: Do not grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many, outweigh...

Kirk: The needs of the few.

Spock: Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?

Kirk: Spock.

[Spock sits down]

Spock: [Gasping] I have been... and always shall be... your friend.

[he places a Vulcan salute on the glass]

Spock: [Gasping] Live long... and prosper.

[Spock dies]

Kirk: No.

Saavik: [speaking to Spock in Vulcan] He's never what I expect, sir.

Spock: What surprises you, Lieutenant?

Saavik: He's so - human.

Spock: Nobody's perfect, Saavik.

[last lines]

Spock: [closing monologue] Space: the final frontier. These are the continuing 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 man has gone before.

[On whether Kirk should assume command from Spock]

Spock: If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny; anything else is a waste of material.

Kirk: I would not presume to debate you.

Spock: That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Kirk: Or the one.

Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.

Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique?

Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.

[Discussing the effects of the Genesis torpedo]

McCoy: Dear Lord. You think we're intelligent enough to... suppose... what if this thing were used where life already exists?

Spock: It would destroy such life in favor of its new matrix.

McCoy: Its "new matrix"? Do you have any idea what you're saying?

Spock: I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications, Doctor. As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create.

McCoy: Not anymore; now we can do both at the same time! According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now, watch out! Here comes Genesis! We'll do it for you in six minutes!

Spock: Really, Dr. McCoy. You must learn to govern your passions; they will be your undoing. Logic suggests...

McCoy: Logic? My God, the man's talking about logic; we're talking about universal Armageddon! You green-blooded, inhuman...

Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

Saavik: You lied!

Spock: I exaggerated.

Kirk: Hours instead of days! Now we have minutes instead of hours!

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]

Spock: You proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise.

Kirk: [reading] "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Message, Spock?

Spock: None that I'm conscious of. Except of course; happy birthday! -Surely the best of times.

McCoy: [grabbing Spock's arm] You're not going in there!

Spock: Perhaps you're right. What is Mr. Scott's condition?

McCoy: [turns to Scotty] Well I don't think that he...

[Spock use the vulcan nerve pinch on McCoy]

Spock: I'm sorry, Doctor, I have no time to explain this logically.

[sits McCoy down and performs mind meld]

Spock: Remember!

Saavik: Trouble with the nebula, sir. All that static discharge and gas will cloud our visual display. Tactical won't function, and shields will be useless!

Spock: Sauce for the goose, Mr Saavik - the odds will be even!

Dr. McCoy: [Spock is preparing to enter the radiated warp core] Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!

Spock: As you are so fond of observing, doctor, I am not human.

[Kirk and McCoy are beaming down to Regula One]

Spock: Jim, be careful.

McCoy: *We* will!

Kirk: Kirk to Enterprise.

Spock: Spock here.

Kirk: Captain Spock, damage report.

Spock: Admiral, if we go "by the book". like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.

Kirk: I read you captain. Let's have it.

Spock: The situation is grave, Admiral. We won't have main power for six "days". Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible, in two "days". By the book, Admiral.

Kirk: Meaning you can't even beam us back?

Spock: Not at present.

Kirk: Captain Spock, if you don't hear from us within one hour, your orders are to restore what power you can, take the Enterprise to the nearest star base, and alert Starfleet Command as soon as you're out of jamming range.

Commander Nyota Uhura: Sir, we won't leave you behind!

Kirk: Uhura, if you don't hear from us, there won't be anybody behind. Kirk out.

Kirk: I suppose you're about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions?

Spock: I would not remind you of that which you know so well.

Spock: We are now in violation of treaty, Captain.

Kirk: What does God need with a starship?

McCoy: Jim, what are you doing?

Kirk: I'm asking a question.

"God": Who is this creature?

Kirk: Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?

Sybok: He has his doubts.

"God": You doubt me?

Kirk: I seek proof.

McCoy: Jim! You don't ask the Almighty for his ID!

"God": Then here is the proof you seek.

[Shoots Kirk with lightning]

Kirk: Why is God angry?

Sybok: Why? Why have you done this to my friend?

"God": He doubts me.

Spock: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?

"God": [shoots Spock with lightning; then addresses McCoy] Do you doubt me?

McCoy: I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure.

Kirk: Damn it Spock! God damn it!

Spock: Captain, what have I done?

Kirk: What you've done is betray every man on this ship!

Spock: Worse I've betrayed you. I do not expect you to forgive me.

Kirk: Forgive you? I oughta knock you on your goddamned ass!

Spock: If you think it would help.

McCoy: Do you want me to hold him, Jim?

Kirk: You stay out of this! Why, Spock, why? All you had to do is pull the trigger!

Spock: If I had done that Sybok would be dead.

Kirk: I ordered you to defend your ship!

Spock: You ordered me to kill my brother.

Kirk: But the man may be a fellow Vulcan but he...

Spock: No, no you do not understand. Sybok also is a son of Sarek.

Kirk: You mean he's your "brother" brother?

[Spock nods]

Kirk: You made that up.

Spock: I did not.

Kirk: You did too! Sybok couldn't possibly be your brother because I happen to know for a fact that you don't have a brother.

Spock: Technically you are right I do not have a brother.

Kirk: There! You see?

Spock: I have a half-brother.

Kirk: I gotta sit down.

McCoy: I'll tell you one thing, Spock: You never cease to amaze me.

Spock: Nor I, myself.

Kirk: I thought I was going to die.

Spock: Not possible. You were never alone.

[Kirk moves to hug Spock, and Spock stops him]

Spock: Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons.

J'Onn: Where did you get this power?

Sybok: The power was within you.

J'Onn: I feel... as if a weight has been lifted from my heart. How can I repay you for this miracle?

Spock: Join my quest.

J'Onn: What is it you seek?

Sybok: What you seek. What all men have sought since time began. The ultimate knowledge.

Sybok: Spock. It's me. It's Sybok. After all these years you've finally caught up with me. Don't you have anything to say to me?

Spock: You are... under arrest. For seventeen violations of the Neutral Zone Treaty.

Kirk: Go to bed, Spock. Good night, Bones.

McCoy: Good night, Jim.

Spock: Good night, doctor.

McCoy: Good night, Spock.

Spock: Good night, captain.

Kirk: [to himself] ... I don't know... I just don't know...

Spock: I've lost a brother.

Kirk: Yes. I lost a brother once. I was lucky I got him back?

McCoy: I thought you said men like us don't have families.

Kirk: I was wrong.

Scotty: [to Kirk about ship status] Ah. All I can say is they don't make them like they used to.

Kirk: You told me you could get this ship operational in two weeks, I gave you three, what happened?

Scotty: I think you gave me too much time, Captain.

Kirk: Very well, Mr Scott. Carry on.

Scotty: Aye, sir.

[Spots a junior engineer nearby]

Scotty: How many times do I have to tell you, the right tool for the right job!

McCoy: [laughs] I don't think I've ever seen him happier.

[They enter the turbolift]

Computer: Le-le-level?

Kirk: Bridge... I hope. I could use a shower.

Spock: [looks at Kirk] Yes.

Spock: This is a new brig, Captain. It is escape-proof.

Kirk: How do you know?

Spock: The designers tested it, using the most intelligent and resourceful person they could find. He failed to escape.

Kirk: This person... he didn't by any chance have pointed ears, and an unerring capacity for getting his shipmates into trouble, did he?

Spock: He did have pointed ears.

Kirk: [responds to a tapping within the wall] What's that noise?

Spock: [tapping continues] I believe it is a primitive form of communication known as morse Code.

Kirk: You're right. I'm out of practice.

[tapping]

Kirk: That's an "S".

Spock: "T".

Kirk: "A"... "N"... "D", end of word.

McCoy: "Stand".

Kirk: New word... "B"... "A"...

Spock: "C"... "K".

McCoy: "Back". "Stand back".

Kirk, Spock, McCoy: "Stand back"?

[the wall explodes]

Scotty: [on the other side of the wall] What are you standing around for? Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?

[eating a campfire dinner]

Spock: Bipodal seeds, Doctor?

McCoy: Beans, Spock. But no ordinary beans. These are from a special Southern recipe handed down by my father. And if you stick your Vulcan nose up at these, you're not only insulting me, but generations of McCoys.

Spock: In that case, I have little choice but to sample your beans.

Kirk: What are you doing?

Spock: I am preparing to toast a marsh melon.

McCoy: Well, I'll be damned. A marsh melon. Where'd you learn to do that?

Spock: Before leaving the ship, I consulted the computer library to familiarize myself with the customs associated with "camping out".

McCoy: Well, tell me, Spock. What do you do after we toast the marsh - er, marsh melons?

Spock: We consume them.

McCoy: I know we consume them. I mean after that.

Spock: Oh. I believe we are required to engage in a ritual known as the sing-a-long.

Spock: [Kirk clings precariously to El Capitan] I do not believe you realize the gravity of your situation.

Kirk: [Almost slips; a rock drops] Gravity was foremost on my mind.

Spock: [after Kirk has fallen off El Capitan] Perhaps "because it is there" is not sufficient reason for climbing a mountain.

Kirk: I am hardly in a position to disagree.

[see McCoy running toward him]

Kirk: Hi, Bones! Mind if we drop in for dinner?

Spock: [about Sybok] He reminds me of someone I knew in my youth.

McCoy: Why, Spock, I didn't know you had one.

Spock: I do not often think of the past.

[Around a campfire singing "Row Row Row Your Boat"]

Kirk: Come on. Spock... Why didn't you jump in?

Spock: I was trying to comprehend the meaning of the words.

McCoy: It's a song, you green-blooded... Vulcan. You sing it. The words aren't important. What's important is that you have a good time singing it.

Spock: Oh, I am sorry, Doctor. Were we having a good time?

McCoy: God, I liked him better before he died.

Spock: Captain.

Kirk: Spock, we're on leave you can call me 'Jim'.

Spock: Jim.

Kirk: Yes, Spock?

Spock: Life... is not a dream.

Kirk: Go to sleep, Spock.

Kirk: Spock?

Spock: Yes, captain?

Kirk: Be one with the horse.

Spock: Yes, captain.

Spock: [the Enterprise is being attacked by Klaa] General, I am in need your assistance.

Korrd: *My* assistance?

Spock: You are his superior officer.

Korrd: I am a foolish old man.

Spock: Damn you, sir. You will try.

Kirk: "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer by."

McCoy: Melville.

Spock: John Masefield.

McCoy: Are you sure about that?

Spock: I am well-versed in the classics, Doctor.

McCoy: Then how come you don't know "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?

[Spock raises his eyebrows]

[Kirk and McCoy agree to let Spock carry them up the shaft using rocket boots, only for the trio to float downwards]

Spock: It appears we're too heavy.

Kirk: Must be all those marsh melons.

[last lines]

[around a campfire]

Kirk: [to Spock] Are you just gonna sit there and pluck that thing? Or are you gonna play something?

Spock: [starts playing]

Kirk, McCoy, Spock: [singing in canon] Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream...

[Spock is still learning how to use profanity correctly]

Spock: They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales.

Dr. Gillian Taylor: I suppose they told you that.

Spock: The hell they did.

Punk on bus: [Playing loud music on the bus]

Kirk: Excuse me.

Punk on bus: [He ignores him]

Kirk: Excuse me. Would you mind stopping that noise?

Punk on bus: [He turns it up louder]

Kirk: [louder and firmer] Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that damn noise?

Punk on bus: [He flips him off]

Kirk: [He looks at Spock]

Spock: [He gives the punk the Vulcan neck-pinch, followed by the delighted applause of the grateful bus passengers]

Dr. Gillian Taylor: Do you guys like Italian?

Spock: No.

Kirk: Yes.

Spock: No.

Kirk: [at Spock] No, Yes.

Spock: No.

Kirk: Yes, I love Italian...

[looks at Spock]

Kirk: And so do you.

Spock: Yes.

Kirk: Spock, where the hell's the power you promised?

Spock: One damn minute, Admiral.

Dr. Gillian Taylor: Sure you won't change your mind?

Spock: Is there something wrong with the one I have?

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

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

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

Spock: [to Dr. McCoy] I don't think he understands.

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

Spock: Then you're saying...

[pause]

Spock: It is a compliment?

McCoy: It is.

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

McCoy: Please do.

[Kirk has just spoken very abruptly to Mr. Scott]

Scotty: He's in a wee bit of a snit, isn't he?

Spock: He is a man of deep feelings.

Scotty: Aye, what else is new?

Spock: [in response to Kirk pawning his antique spectacles from The Wrath of Khan] Excuse me, Admiral. But weren't those a birthday gift from Dr. McCoy?

Kirk: And they will be again, that's the beauty of it.

[to the Antique Store Owner]

Kirk: How much?

Antique Store Owner: Well, they'd be worth more if the lenses were intact. I'll give you one hundred dollars for them.

Kirk: [pause] Is that a lot?

Spock: Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, "double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.

Kirk: Oh, you mean the profanity?

Spock: Yes.

Kirk: Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word.

Ambassador Sarek: Do you have a message for your mother?

Spock: Yes. Tell her I feel fine.

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

Spock: How will playing cards help?

Gillian: You're not from the military are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that?

Kirk: No, ma'am. No dipshit.

Gillian: Well, good. That was one thing, I would have dropped you off right here.

Spock: Gracie is pregnant.

[Gillian brakes to a sudden stop]

Gillian: All right, who are you? And don't jerk me around anymore, I want to know how you know that!

Kirk: We can't tell you.

Gillian: But...

Kirk: Please, just let me finish. I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales. In fact, we may be able to help - in ways that, frankly, you couldn't possibly imagine.

Gillian: Or believe, I'll bet.

Kirk: Very likely.

Spock: Admiral, may I ask you a question?

Kirk: Spock, don't call me "Admiral". You used to call me Jim. Don't you remember, "Jim"?

Spock: [He gives a blank look]

Kirk: [He gives up] What's your question?

McCoy: I mean, I may have carried your soul, but I sure couldn't fill your shoes.

Spock: My shoes?

McCoy: Forget it.

[Kirk and Spock enter a bus headed for the aquarium - only to exit the bus about two seconds later]

Spock: [to Kirk] What does it mean, "exact change"?

Amanda: Spock, does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?

Spock: I would accept that as an axiom.

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

Spock: Humans make illogical decisions.

Amanda: They do, indeed.

Ambassador Sarek: As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.

Spock: They are my friends.

Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.

Dr. Gillian Taylor: Whoever said the human race was logical?

Vulcan Computer: What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?

Spock: Nothing unreal exists.

McCoy: Perhaps, we could cover a little philosophical ground. Life

[pause]

McCoy: Death

[pause]

McCoy: Life.

[pause]

McCoy: Things of that nature.

Spock: I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.

McCoy: C'mon, Spock, it's me, McCoy. You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?

Spock: It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.

McCoy: You're joking!

Spock: A joke

[pause]

Spock: is a story with a humorous climax.

McCoy: You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?

Spock: Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls.

McCoy: I don't doubt it.

Dr. Gillian Taylor: Wait a minute. How did you know Gracie's pregnant? Nobody knows that.

Spock: Gracie does.

Spock: Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?

Kirk: You're not exactly catching us at our best.

Spock: That much is certain.

Kirk: You mean the profanity? That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.

Spock: For example?

Kirk: Oh the collected works of Jacqueline Susann. The novels of Harold Robbins...

Spock: Ah, the "Giants".

Spock: Admiral, if we were to assume these whales were ours to do with as we pleased, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction.

Spock: Ready to engage computer, Admiral.

Kirk: What's our target in time?

Spock: Late twentieth century.

Kirk: Can you be more specific?

Spock: Not with this equipment. I've had to program some of the variables from memory.

Kirk: What are some of the variables?

Spock: The availability of fuel components, mass of the vessel through a time continuum, and probable location of humpback whales - in this case, the Pacific Basin.

Kirk: And you programmed all that from memory?

Spock: I have.

McCoy: Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!

Spock: [recognizing the quote] Hamlet, Act One, Scene Four.

Kirk: [smiling] No doubt about your memory, Spock. Engage computers. Prepare for warp speed.

Spock: Father.

Ambassador Sarek: I am returning to Vulcan within the hour, I would like to take my leave of you.

Spock: It was most kind of you to make this effort.

Ambassador Sarek: It was no effort. You are my son. And besides, I am most impressed with your performance in this... crisis.

Spock: Most kind.

Ambassador Sarek: As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.

Spock: They are my friends.

Ambassador Sarek: Yes, of course. Do you have a message for your mother?

Spock: Yes. Tell her, "I feel fine." Live long and prosper, father.

Ambassador Sarek: Live long and prosper, my son.

McCoy: Hi. Busy?

Spock: Uhura is busy. I am monitoring.

Federation Council president: Captain Spock, you do not stand accused.

Spock: Mister President, I stand with my shipmates.

Federation Council president: As you wish.

Federation Council president: The Council is now in session. If you will all take your seats. Bring in the accused.

[Spock leaves his seat and he moves at side of Kirk]

Federation Council president: Captain Spock, you do not stand accused.

Spock: Mister President, I stand with my shipmates.

Federation Council president: As you wish. The charges and specifications are: conspiracy, assault on Federation Officers, theft of Federation Property namely the Starship Enterprise, sabotage of the U.S.S. Excelsior, wilful destruction of Federation Property specifically the aforementioned U.S.S. Enterprise, and finally disobeying direct orders of the Starfleet Commander. Admiral Kirk, how do you plead?

Kirk: On behalf of all of us, Mister President, I am authorised to plead guilty.

Federation Council president: So entered. Because of certain mitigating circumstances, all charges but one are summarily dismissed. The remaining charge, disobeying orders of a superior officer is directed solely at Admiral Kirk. I'm sure the Admiral will recognise the necessity of keeping discipline in any chain of command.

Kirk: I do, sir.

Federation Council president: James T. Kirk. It is the judgment of this Council that you be reduced in rank to Captain, and that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the duties for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability: the command of a starship.

McCoy: So, this is the probe's way of saying, "hello" to the people of Earth?

Spock: [looking annoyed] There are other species on earth. Only human arrogance would assume the signal must be meant for mankind.