This is the voyage of the Starship Enterprise...

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Below are some of the best of the Star Trek original series

quotes. Some are quite profound!

Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical.

That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim.

Kirk (Elaan of Troyius)

After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a

thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is

often true. Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7

The best diplomat that I know is a fully-loaded phaser bank.

Lt. Cdr. Montgomery Scott ("A Taste of Armageddon")

You! What planet is this?"

McCoy, to a homeless person upon appearing in 1930's Chicago

(City on the Edge of Forever)

"You can stop it!"

Anan 7, Leader of the High Council of Eminiar VII, describing

the horrors of the impending war to a hostage Kirk

"Stop it? I'm counting on it!"

Kirk (A Taste of Armegedon)

"Is there anyone on this ship, who even remotely, looks like

Satan?" -- Kirk

"I am not aware of anyone who fits that description, Captain" --

Spock

"No, Mr. Spock, I didn't think you would be"

Kirk (The Apple)

A little suffering is good for the soul.

Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on

and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.

Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2

... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once

foolish enough to play around with that.

McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown

Change is the essential process of all existence.

Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2

Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror.

That's what war is all about.

That's what makes it a thing to be avoided.

Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0

[Doctors and Bartenders], We both get the same two kinds of

customers-- the living and the dying.

Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown

Even historians fail to learn from history - they repeat the

same mistakes.

John Gill, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7

am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together

become greater than the sum of both of us.

Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.4

I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct

answer to any question.

Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3

If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.

Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9

Insults are effective only where emotion is present.

Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1

Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command

prerogative.

Kirk, "Obsession", stardate 3620.7

It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is

not hers.

Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7

It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor

felt can do so much harm.

"That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's

what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries.

A mistaken idea."

Vanna and Kirk, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5819.0

Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.

Kirk, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2

Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.

Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3220.3

Only a fool fights in a burning house.

Kank the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.

Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!" stardate 3287.2

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.

Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the

simplicity of play.

Kirk, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.8

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when then

get to know each other.

Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5

The release of emotion is what keeps us healthy. Emotionally

healthy.

That may be, Doctor. However, I have noted that the healthy

release of emotion is frequently unhealthy for those closest to

you.

McCoy and Spock, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3

There's a way out of any cage.

Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"),

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy.

There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5

Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we

can all be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses.

Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3

[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're

human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our

hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ...

but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes!

Knowing that we're not going to kill today!

Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0

We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a

machine.

But when it comes to your job -- that's different.

And it always will be different.

McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4729.4

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Spock, "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5

You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty

centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately.

Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1

[Amelia]

I admit it. I love "Star Trek".

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Me too! Of course, we were only infants when the series first aired :::cough, cough:::