Quotes from
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
[Dictating his personal log]Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?
[on whether to help the Klingons]
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
[pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise. Kirk recoils and proceeds]
Captain James T. Kirk: Has it occured to you that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bit for king and country! You should have trusted me.
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, are you afraid of the future?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey.
Captain James T. Kirk: I don't mean this future.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What is this, multiple choice?
General Chang: We need breathing room.
Captain James T. Kirk: Earth, Hitler, 1938.
Captain Spock: Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
Captain Spock: What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.
Captain Spock: What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity.
Chancellor Gorkon: You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.
Captain Spock: There is the old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.
Captain Spock: If I were human I believe my response would be "go to hell."... If I were human.
Captain Spock: Mr. Scott, I understand you are experiencing difficulties with the warp drive?
Scotty: There's nothing wrong with the bloody...
Captain Spock: Mr. Scott, if the Enterprise responds to hails and returns to Starbase, there is a good chance that we will never see Captain Kirk or Doctor McCoy alive again.
Scotty: Could take weeks, sir...
General Chang: I can see you Kirk. Can you see me?
Captain James T. Kirk: Chang.
General Chang: Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
General Chang: "I am constant as the northern star..."
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'd give real money if he'd shut up.
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no one has gone before.
Commander Pavel Chekov: Course heading, Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
[after Kirk and Martia kiss passionately]
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What IS it with you, anyway?
Captain James T. Kirk: Names, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Valeris: I do not remember.
Captain Spock: A lie?
Lieutenant Valeris: A choice.
[Kirk's final Captain's Log]
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of a new generation. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.
[Sulu's ship witnesses a huge explosion on the Klingon moon, Praxis]
Brigadier Kerla: This is Brigadier Kerla speaking for the High Command. There has been an incident on Praxis. However, everything is under control, we have no need for assistance. Obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. This transmission ends now.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: An "incident"?
Commander Janice Rand: Do we report this, sir?
Captain Hikaru Sulu: Are you kidding?
[Considering a military strike against the Klingons]
Ambassador Nanclus: Mr. President, they are vulnerable... there will never be a better time.
Colonel West: Quite frankly, Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers.
[In a conversation with Spock]
Captain James T. Kirk: You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists. Reality has brought us somewhere in-between.
[Kirk is fighting with Marta disguised as Kirk]
Captain James T. Kirk: I can't believe I kissed you.
Martia: [as Kirk] Must have been your lifelong ambition.
Kirk: Spock, you want to know something?, Everybody's Human.
Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting.
Captain Spock: The lieutenant was the first Vulcan to be graduated at the top of her class.
Captain James T. Kirk: You must be very proud.
Lieutenant Valeris: I don't believe so.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: She's a Vulcan all right.
Scotty: ...then we're dead.
Captain Spock: I've been dead before.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: Guess who's coming to dinner.
[Quote adaptation from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962]
General Chang: Indeed. The record shows that Captain Kirk once held the rank of Admiral. And that Admiral Kirk was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of regulations of the law. Do you deny being demoted for these charges? DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION. Answer me now.
[after Kirk wins a fight against an alien twice his size]
Martia: They'll respect you now.
Kirk: That's a comfort. I was lucky that thing had knees.
Martia: That was not his knee.
[Kirk looks at Martia in surprise]
Martia: Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.
General Chang: Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War.
Captain Kirk: Note to Galley; Romulan Ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.
Captain Kirk: Checkov you know anything about a radiation surge?
Commander Pavel Chekov: Only the size of my head
Captain Kirk: I know what you mean
[after Kirk and Chang exchange words & stares]
Chancellor Gorkon: Well... I see we have a long way to go.
[His ship is about to be destroyed by The Enterprise]
General Chang: To be... or not to be?
Admiral Cartwright: I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim.
Dr. McCoy: I wouldn't.
[the crew enter the bridge]
Kirk: Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it.
McCoy: And the good news is they're not going to prosecute.
Uhuru: They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lt Valeris.
McCoy: [looks at Spock] Well, they don't prosecute people for having feelings.
Chekov: Just as well, or we'll all have to turn ourselves in.
Federation President: Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.
General Chang: "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
Chief in Command Smillie: Sir, those men have literally saved this planet.
Federation President: Yes Bill, I know. And now they're going to save it again... by standing trial.
Captain Sulu: Nice to see you action for one last time Captain Kirk, take care.
Kirk: I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight.
Captain Spock: Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a photon torpedo?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Fascinating!
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: You are Crewman Dax?
Crewman Dax: Yes Commander. What is the problem?
Commander Pavel Chekov: Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella? If shoe fits, wear it!
[drops magnetic boots at Dax's feet]
Captain Spock: Mr. Chekov...
[camera pans down to show that Dax's feet are incapable of fitting into boots]
Captain Hikaru Sulu: In range?
Helmsman Lojur: Not yet sir.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: Come on, come on.
Helmsman Lojur: She'll fly apart!
Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'm gonna find myself a black pot of coffee
General Chang: Ahh... parting is such sweet sorrow. Don't we hear the chimes at midnight?
Scotty: That Klingon bitch killed her father.
Scotty: [referring to Gorkon's daughter, whom he believes killed Gorkon] Mark my word, she did not shed one bloody tear.
Captain Spock: Hardly conclusive, Mr. Scott, since Klingons have no tear ducts.
Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott?
Scotty: [over intercom] Aye, sir?
Captain James T. Kirk: Did you find the engine room?
Scotty: Right where I left it, sir!
General Chang: [prosecuting] Doctor McCoy. What is your current medical status?
McCoy: Well, apart from a bit of arthritis, I'd say pretty good.
Klingons: [actually laugh at the joke, much to McCoy's delight]
Uhuru: You understand, we have lost all contact with the Captain and Dr. McCoy.
Captain Spock: Yes, at the moment, they are surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the Captain, by this time, he is deep into planning his escape.
[Cut to Captain Kirk on the losing end of a fist fight with an alien at least twice his size]
Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why, that cunning little Vulcan!
Captain James T. Kirk: People think the future means the end of history, well, we haven't run out of history just yet.
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