Star Trek: The Original Series

She cant take much more of this, Captain. - Montgomery ScottWhile Scotty frequently expressed concern for the health of the Enterprise in dangerous situations, neither he nor anyone else ever used that famous and oft-parodied line during the original series. The closest variation came in The Doomsday Machine, when Spock reported to Commodore Decker that the deflector shields were at full power, then added, They cant take much more of this. The nearest line from Scotty was in Who Mourns for Adonais?; as Apollos giant hand slowly crushes the ship, he reports, Its becoming critical, Captain. We cant handle it.

— Star Trek: The Original Series power

Spock: Doctor, I am well aware of human characteristics. I am frequently inundated by them, but Ive trained myself to put up with practically anything.

— Star Trek: The Original Series war

Spock: Doctor, Im chasing the Captain, Lieutenant Uhura and Ensign Chekov, not some wild aquatic fowl.

— Star Trek: The Original Series sin

Spock: Women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species.

— Star Trek: The Original Series women

Romulan Commander: Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion.

— Star Trek: The Original Series women

Metron: We are the Metrons. You are one of two crafts which have come into our space on a mission of violence. This is not permissible. Yet we have analyzed you and have learned that your violent tendencies are inherent. So be it. We will control them.

— Star Trek: The Original Series violence

Spock: Being split in two halves is no theory with me, Doctor. I have a human half, you see, as well as an alien half, submerged, constantly at war with each other. Personal experience, Doctor. I survive it because my intelligence wins out over both, makes them live together. Your intelligence would enable you to survive as well.

— Star Trek: The Original Series intelligence

Spock: James Kirk. Enjoy yourself, Captain. Its an interesting planet. I believe youll find it quite pleasant, very much like your Earth. Scouts have detected no animals, artifacts, or forcefields of any kind. Only peace, sunshine, and good air. Youll have no problems.

— Star Trek: The Original Series art

Unknown: Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu. Checked: Kirk never actually utters these words in the series. At the end of the Man Trap, he does say, for the first time, Warp One, Mr. Sulu. Kirk also says this in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

— Star Trek: The Original Series war

Beam me up, Scotty. - James T. KirkSeveral variants of this do occur in the series, such as Beam me aboard, Beam us up home, or Two to beam up, but Beam me up, Scotty was never said during the run of the original Star Trek series. However, the quote Beam me up, Scotty was uttered in Star Trek: The Animated Series. The film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home included the closest other variation: Scotty, beam me up.

— Star Trek: The Original Series quote

Several variants of this do occur in the series, such as Beam me aboard, Beam us up home, or Two to beam up, but Beam me up, Scotty was never said during the run of the original Star Trek series. However, the quote Beam me up, Scotty was uttered in Star Trek: The Animated Series. The film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home included the closest other variation: Scotty, beam me up.

— Star Trek: The Original Series quote

Damn it, Jim! Im a doctor not a - Leonard McCoyMcCoy had several lines of this sort, except that he never said damn it in this context.

— Star Trek: The Original Series

Youre dead, Jim. - Leonard McCoyMcCoy had several lines of this sort, but he never said Youre dead to Kirk. This is often attributed when it appears that Kirk dies, particularly in Amok Time and The Tholian Web.

— Star Trek: The Original Series time

McCoy had several lines of this sort, but he never said Youre dead to Kirk. This is often attributed when it appears that Kirk dies, particularly in Amok Time and The Tholian Web.

— Star Trek: The Original Series time

Computer: No decipherable reading on females. However, unusual reading on male board members. Detecting high respiration patterns, perspiration rates up, heartbeat rapid, blood pressure higher than normal.

— Star Trek: The Original Series art

Dr. Korby: Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with jealousy, greed, hate?

— Star Trek: The Original Series life

Flint: The intellect is not all but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors wastes time in unprofitable pursuits.

— Star Trek: The Original Series time

Hikaru Sulu: Once in Siberia, there was a meteor so great that it flattened whole forests and was felt as

— Star Trek: The Original Series great

James T. Kirk: A star captains most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.

— Star Trek: The Original Series life

James T. Kirk: The illogic of waste, Mr. Spock. The waste of lives, potential, resources, time I submit to you that your Empire is illogical, because it cannot endure. I submit that you are illogical to being a willing part of it.

— Star Trek: The Original Series time

James T. Kirk: They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, hed have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to.

— Star Trek: The Original Series man

Kirk: Another Armenia, Belgiumthe weak innocentsthey always seem to be located along the natural invasion routes.

— Star Trek: The Original Series men

Kirk: Captain to crew. Those of you who have served for long on this vessel have encountered alien life-forms. You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But theres no such thing as the unknown-- only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. In most cases we have found that intelligence capable of a civilization is capable of understanding peaceful gestures. Surely a life-form advanced enough for space travel is advanced enough to eventually understand our motives. All decks stand by. Captain out.

— Star Trek: The Original Series life

Kirk: Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you cant have. Its no fun facing that, but thats the way things are.

— Star Trek: The Original Series universe

Kirk: Programming. Different word, but the same old promises made by Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Hitler, Ferris, Maltuvis.

— Star Trek: The Original Series different

Kor: You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the soldiers.

— Star Trek: The Original Series courage

McCoy: Blast medicine anyway. Weve learned to tie into every human organ in the body except one -- the brain. The brain is what life is all about. That man can think any thought that we can, and love, hope, dream as much as we can, but he cant reach out, and no one can reach in.

— Star Trek: The Original Series love

McCoy: The machine is capable of almost anything, but Ill still put my trust in a healthy set of tonsils.

— Star Trek: The Original Series trust

Mr. Spock: You may file a formal protest with Starfleet Command, assuming we survive to reach a Starbase, but you are relieved. Commodore, I do not wish to place you under arrest.

— Star Trek: The Original Series man

Odona: There are so many of us. So many. There is no place no street, no house, no garden, no beach, no mountain that is not filled with people. Each one of us would kill in order to find a place alone to himself. They would willingly die for it if they could.

— Star Trek: The Original Series people

Pavel Chekov: I believe I know one of them. At least, I think I recognize her voice. Her name is Irina Galliulin. We were in Starfleet Academy together.

— Star Trek: The Original Series believe

Scotty: Ive seen the captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad. But up to now, I have never seen him red-faced with hysteria.

— Star Trek: The Original Series joy

Spock: Explaining to Kirk how the mirror versions were so quickly spotted It was far easier for you as civilized men to behave like barbarians than it was for them as barbarians to behave like civilized men.

— Star Trek: The Original Series men

Spock: Has it occurred to you that theres a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things youve already made up your mind about?

— Star Trek: The Original Series mind

Spock: Hes becoming irritable and quarrelsome, yet he refuses to take rest and rehabilitation. Now he has that right, butwe found -

— Star Trek: The Original Series right

Spock: Logic is a little tweeting bird, chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad.

— Star Trek: The Original Series logic

Spock: Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality. All of thisis unreal.

— Star Trek: The Original Series reality

Spock: They regard themselves as aliens in their own world, a condition with which I am somewhat familiar.

— Star Trek: The Original Series world

Vina: When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.

— Star Trek: The Original Series dreams

Vina: When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit, living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.

— Star Trek: The Original Series dreams

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