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Captain Kirk Quotes

You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown – only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Corbomite Manauver’.

Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future.
Capt. James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present.

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Mirror, Mirror’.

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!

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘A Taste of Armageddon’.

Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Metamorphosis’.

A balance of power, the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘A Private Little War’.

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

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘A Taste of Armageddon’.

There are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Charlie X’.

Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Charlie X’.

Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That’s what war is all about. That’s what makes it a thing to be avoided.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘A Taste of Armageddon’.

We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we’re human – and maybe that’s the word that best explains us.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘I, Mudd’.

Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Return of the Achrons’.

Maybe we weren’t meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘This Side of Paradise’.

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Elaan of Troyius’.

Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. You can’t simply say, ‘Today I will be brilliant.’

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’.

Beauty…survives.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘That Which Survives’.

Capt. James T. Kirk: You’d make a splendid computer, Mr. Spock.
Spock: [taken aback] That is very kind of you, Captain!

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Return of the Archons’.

They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Return to Tomorrow’.

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

– The Borg

Star Trek: First Contact (1996 Film).

Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Metamorphosis’.

I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing.

– Admiral James T. Kirk

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).

What does God need with a starship?

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989 Film).

There’s another way to survive – mutual trust and help.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Day of the Dove’.

You either believe in yourself or you don’t.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Mudd’s Women’.

I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.

– Admiral James T. Kirk

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film) .

Capt. James T. Kirk: We’re a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you know that?
Capt. James T. Kirk: I don’t. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we’ll be able to prove it.

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Arena’.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

– Admiral James T. Kirk

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film).

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

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Space Seed’.

I have to take him back inside myself. I can’t survive without him. I don’t want to take him back. He’s like an animal. a thoughtless, brutal animal. And yet it’s me. Me!

– Capt. James T. Kirk

About Evil Kirk. Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Enemy Within’.

We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic cannot solve.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of’.

Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate – but a woman is always a woman.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Conscience of the King’.

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