Star Trek Quotes
Star Trek is an American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. The sci-fi television series has earned millions of fans over the years. Star Trek was originally aired 1996 on CBS.
In this article, you will find a collection of famous and insightful Star Trek quotes.
60 Famous Star Trek Quotes
“A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.” — Captain Kirk
“Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.” — Captain Kirk
“I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done.” — Spock
“You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And it’s flaw.” — Captain Cathryn Janeway
“Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.” James T. Kirk
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” Dr. Boyce
“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.” — Spock
“When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.” ― Diane Duane
“It is the lot of ‘man’ to strive no matter how content he is.” — Spock
“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.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.” ― Q
“Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” — Dr. McCoy
“Curious, how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.”— Spock
“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” — Spock
“I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I have simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar” — Spock
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” Mr. Spock
“One man cannot summon the future.” — Spock
“Time is the fire in which we burn.” ― Malcolm McDowell J. M. Dillard
“There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“Perhaps man wasn’t meant for paradise. Maybe he was meant to claw, to scratch all the way.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know … Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.” ― Lai the Vian
“Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.” — Khan Noonien Singh
“To boldly go where no man has gone before.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose — and excluding that which is painful.” — Spock
“We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we’re human–and maybe that’s the word that best explains us.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“Without followers, evil cannot spread.” — Spock
“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.” James T. Kirk
“I canna’ change the laws of physics.” — Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
“But one man can change the present!” — Captain Kirk
“If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.”— Spock
“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.” — Surak
“To be human is to be complex. You can’t avoid a little ugliness — from within — and from without.” — Captain James T. Kirk
“Emotions are alien to me. I’m a scientist” – Mr Spock
“Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.” – Mr Spock
“Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.” — Spock
“You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.” Mr. Spock,
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” — Captain Kirk
“The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.” — Captain Kirk
“… The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Spock
“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler
“To all mankind — may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth”. — Garth
“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.” – James T. Kirk
“You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately” – Mr Spock
“A lie is a very poor way to say hello.” – Edith Keeler
“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” Jean-Luc Picard
“Live long, and prosper.” — Spock
“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“To survive is not enough. To simply exist… is not enough!” – Roga Danar
“Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.” — Spock
“I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! ” – Samuel T. Cogley
“The intellect is not all… but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors… wastes time in unprofitable pursuits.”–Flint
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true” – Mr Spock
“Time is fluid…like a river with currents, eddies, backwash.” — Spock
“Change is the essential process of all existence.”— Spock
“Highly illogical.” — Spock
“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” Mr. Spock