Quotes from
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Captain James T. Kirk: Evaluation, Mr. Spock.Commander Spock: Fascinating.
Commander Spock: It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it.
[Kirk apologizes for assuming command over Captain Decker]
Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, Will.
Commander Willard Decker: No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damned bit. I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get a starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way.
[a transporter accident has just occurred]
Transporter chief: Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately.
Captain James T. Kirk: Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet...
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used "reserve activation clause." In simpler language, Captain, they DRAFTED me!
Captain James T. Kirk: [In mock horror] They didn't.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, there's a... thing... out there.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why is any object we don't understand always called "a thing"?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well Jim... I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm gonna need a top nurse... not a doctor who'll argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too! I know engineers, they LOVE to change things.
Captain James T. Kirk: Well, Bones. Do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center.
Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura: It could hold a crew of... tens of thousands.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
[after Spock comments that, mentally, V'ger is a child]
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Spock, this "child" is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
Commander Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us... it does not know what.
Chief DiFalco: Heading sir?
Captain James T. Kirk: Out there... thataway.
Commander Willard Decker: V'ger... expects an answer.
Captain James T. Kirk: An answer? I don't know the question.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let's take a look. Full sensor scan, Mr. Spock. They can't expect us not to look them over now.
Commander Willard Decker: Now that we're looking down their throat.
Captain James T. Kirk: Right, now that we've got them just where they want us.
Commander Spock: [Kirk sees Spock crying for V'ger]
Commander Spock: Each of us... at some time in our lives, turns to someone - a father, a brother, a God... and asks..."Why am I here? What was I meant to be?"
[Kirk has just gotten command back of the Enterprise]
Lt. Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu: He wanted her back. He got her.
Alien Ensign: And Captain Decker? He's been with this ship every minute of her refitting.
Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura: Ensign, the possibilities of our returning from this mission in one piece may... have just doubled.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well, It's been a long time since I delivered a baby. I hope we got this one off to a good start!
Decker: I'm sure the Captain didn't mean anything personal.
Lt. Ilia: I would never take advantage of a sexually immature species. You can assure him that's the truth, can't you?
Commander Willard Decker: We all create God in our own image.
Lt. Ilia: My oath of celibacy is on record, Captain.
Scotty: The crew hasn't had near enough transition time with all the new equipment. And an untried captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a little stale, but I wouldn't consider myself untried... They gave her back to me Scotty!
Scotty: Gave her back sir? I hardly think it was that easy with Nogura.
Captain James T. Kirk: [in a mock Scottish accent] You're right!
Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura: Captain, our final six replacements are ready to beam aboard, but one of them is refusing to step into the transporter.
Captain James T. Kirk: Oh! I'll make sure he beams up!
[Steps into the Turbolift]
Captain James T. Kirk: Ensign. What was the problem down there?
Female Ensign: He insisted that we go first, Sir. He said he wanted us to see how it scrambled our molecules!
[leaves]
Captain James T. Kirk: [whispering to Rand] That has a familiar ring, doesn't it?
Commander Spock: V'Ger must evolve. It's knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve. What it requires of it's god, doctor, is the answer to it's question, "is there nothing more"?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What more is there than the universe, Spock?
Commander Willard Decker: Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.
Commander Spock: The existance of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them.
Captain James T. Kirk: What it needs in order to evolve... Is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.
Commander Willard Decker: And joining with it's creator might accomplish that.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
Commander Willard Decker: Let's find out.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.
Commander Spock: Nor have you, doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.
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