“Star Trek” quotes

(2009)
Movie Star Trek
J.J. Abrams directed this movie in 2009
Title Star Trek
Year 2009
Director J.J. Abrams
Genre Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Plot – U.S.S. Enterprise leaves for its maiden voyage with a very young crew on board. James Kirk is a rebellious teenager from Iowa, he's a born leader, while Spock is a Vulcan, always driven by reason, but also by emotions, due to his both human and alien nature. He's the first Vulcan to be admitted to the Starfleet Academy and he is Kirk's fierce rival. During the voyage, the new recruits must prevent an evil being to complete his mad mission that threatens all humanity.
All actors – Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Winona Ryder
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  • “- Scotty: I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system, which is easy, by the way, I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.
    - James T. Kirk: Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
    - Scotty: I'll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I...” (continue)
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    Simon Pegg - Scotty
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
  • “Space: the final frontier. These are the 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 one has gone before.”
    Leonard Nimoy - Spock Prime
  • “- Scotty: [to Spock Prime] Are you from the future?
    - James T. Kirk: Yeah, he is. I'm not.
    - Scotty: Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?”

    Simon Pegg - Scotty
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    [Tag:food, future]
  • “- James T. Kirk: My mouth is itchy. Is that normal?
    - Bones: Well, those symptoms won't last long. I'm going to give you a mild sedative.
    - James T. Kirk: Oh, I wish I didn't know you.”

    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    Karl Urban - Bones
    [Tag:pain]
  • “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.”

    Zachary Quinto - Spock
  • “Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.”
    Karl Urban - Bones
    [Tag:danger, disease, space]
  • “- 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.”

    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    [Tag:anger, commanding]
  • “I got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.”
    Karl Urban - Bones
    [Tag:divorce]
  • “- Burly Cadet: Hey, farm-boy, maybe you can't count, but there are four of us and one of you.
    - James T. Kirk: So go get some more guys and then it'll be an even fight.”

    Jason Matthew Smith - Burly Cadet
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
  • “If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Zachary Quinto - Spock
  • “- 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.”

    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    [Tag:answers, genius, order]
  • “What is necessary is never unwise.”
    Ben Cross - Sarek
    [Tag:wisdom]
  • “- Young Spock: I presume you've prepared new insults for today.
    - Vulcan Bully: Affirmative.
    - Young Spock: This is your thirty-fifth attempt to elicit an emotional response from me.”

    Jacob Kogan - Young Spock
    Colby Paul - Vulcan Bully
    [Tag:emotion, insult]
  • “- Uhura: Gaila, who is he?
    - Gaila: Who's who?
    - Uhura: The mouth-breather hiding under your bed?
    - James T. Kirk: [comes out from under Gaila's bed] You can hear me breathing?”

    Zoe Saldana - Uhura
    Rachel Nichols - Gaila
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    [Tag:hearing]
  • “Coming back in time, changing history... that's cheating.”
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    [Tag:cheating, past]
  • “- Flight Officer: You need to get back in your seat, now.
    - Bones: I suffer from aviophobia, it means fear of dying in something that flies!
    - Flight Officer: Sir, for your own safety, sit down or else I'll make you sit down!”

    Darlene Tejeiro - Flight Officer
    Karl Urban - Bones
    [Tag:death, fear, flying]
  • “- 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.”

    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    [Tag:helping, rules]
  • “- 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.”

    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    Tyler Perry - Admiral Richard Barnett
    [Tag:cheating, test]
  • “- Uhura: I'm impressed. For a moment there, I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals.
    - James T. Kirk: Well, not only.”

    Zoe Saldana - Uhura
    Chris Pine - James T. Kirk
    [Tag:animals, sex]
  • - 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.

    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    Ben Cross - Sarek
    [Tag:anger, love, murder]
  • “- 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...” (continue)
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    Zachary Quinto - Spock
    Leonard Nimoy - Spock Prime
    [Tag:logic, planets]
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