Best quotes from TOS...?

[Joel_Kirk]

"Yes, but my judgement prevails!"-Mark Lenard's Romulan Commander from Balance of Terror

(The quote is followed immediately by the ominous theme: DUUUH....duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUUUUHHH!)

"...And neither am I a man. I'm a Vulcan."-Spock, from Amok Time

What are yours?

 

[Shatnertage]

"On the contrary, sir. I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly."
- Kirk to Baris, in The Trouble with Tribbles. He obviously enjoyed saying that.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

"On the contrary, sir. I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly."
- Kirk to Baris, in The Trouble with Tribbles. He obviously enjoyed saying that.

Indeed.

Trouble with Tribbles had some of the best lines in the series, IMO....

 

[jtkirk]

Kirk's lengthy speech from "Return to Tomorrow"

KIRK: They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not because, Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what the starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote? (silence around the table) Engineer, stand by to beam aboard three receptacles.

 

[Captrek]

No blah blah blah!


Headin' out to Eden, yea, brother.


Captain, I’m frightened.


Oochie-woochie-coochie-coo!


Hail, hail, fire and snow! Call the angel, we will go! Far away, for to see, friendly angel come to me! Hail, hail, fire and snow! Call the angel, we will go! Far away, for to see, friendly angel come to me!


Brain and brain, what is brain?!


KIRK: This was not written for chiefs. Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone... no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying WE, THE PEOPLE. That which you call Ee'd Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for ALL THE PEOPLE! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning... of the words... 'WE... THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish (fist pump) justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, (dramatically lifting an invisible object in one hand) provide for the common defence... promote the general welfare... and secure (fist pump) the blessings of liberty... to ourselves and our posterity... do ordain and establish (emphatic fist pump) this constitution.' These words and the words that follow... ... were not written... only for the Yangs... but for the Kohms as well!
CLOUD: The Kohms?
KIRK: They must apply to EVERYONE (jabbing finger into Cloud’s chest) or they mean nothing!!! Do you understand?
CLOUD: I do not fully understand, one named Kirk. But the holy words will be obeyed. I swear it.

 

[Sky]

"I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's."

 

[TheKeeper]

double post

 

[TheKeeper]

"Yes, but my judgement prevails!"-Mark Lenard's Romulan Commander from Balance of Terror

(The quote is followed immediately by the ominous theme: DUUUH....duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUUUUHHH!)

That brassy music cue followed just about everything the Romulans said or did, didn't it?

"The body of the Centurion, as well."
DUUUH....duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUUUUHHH!

Anyway, one of my favorites,

T'PAU: Live long and prosper, Spock.
SPOCK: I shall do neither. I have killed my Captain, and my friend.

 

[Wynterhawk]

McCoy: Damn it, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

 

[Isis]

Among many great lines, there's Uhura's "Sorry, neither" (The Naked Time) in response to Sulu's "I'll protect you, fair maiden."

 

[Sky]

Among many great lines, there's Uhura's "Sorry, neither" (The Naked Time) in response to Sulu's "I'll protect you, fair maiden."

Yeah, that was awesome.

 

[Shatnertage]

Kirk reading the preamble to the Constitution is pretty awesome.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

"Yes, but my judgement prevails!"-Mark Lenard's Romulan Commander from Balance of Terror

(The quote is followed immediately by the ominous theme: DUUUH....duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUUUUHHH!)

That brassy music cue followed just about everything the Romulans said or did, didn't it?

"The body of the Centurion, as well."
DUUUH....duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUUUUHHH!

Anyway, one of my favorites,

T'PAU: Live long and prosper, Spock.
SPOCK: I shall do neither. I have killed my Captain, and my friend.

That's a good one...

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I've always liked:

"In every revolution, there's one man with a vision." - Kirk, Mirror, Mirror, written by Jerome Bixby.

"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." - Mr. Spock, Amok Time, written by Theodore Sturgeon.

 

[Ziz]

Nomad: That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic.
Spock: That unit is a woman.
Nomad: A mass of conflicting impulses.

 

[Warped9]

Nomad: That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic.
Spock: That unit is a woman.
Nomad: A mass of conflicting impulses.

 

[BillJ]

From Bread and Circuses

Claudius - Would you leave us, Merik? The thoughts of one man to another cannot possibly interest you.

From The Ultimate Computer

Kirk - Come along, Doctor Daystrom... M-5 is out of a job.

 

[Sky]

"Curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want." -Spock, Errand Of Mercy

 

[Orcus]

"THE WOMEN!"

 

[jtkirk]

From "Charlie X", Kirk trying to explain an inappropriate action to Charlie. Kirk is obviously uncomfortable with the topic & can't quite get the words out coherently.

CHARLIE: Captain? I'm supposed to ask you something. Why shouldn't I? I don't know how to explain it.
KIRK: Say it right out, Charlie. That usually works.
CHARLIE: Well, in the corridor I saw. When Janice, when Yeoman Rand was. (slaps Kirk's bottom) I did that to her. She didn't like it. She said you'd explain it to me.
KIRK: Me. I see. Well, um, er, there are things you can do with a lady, er, Charlie, that you er. There's no right way to hit a woman. I mean, man to man is one thing, but, er, man and woman, er, it's, er, it's, er. Well it's, er, another thing. Do you understand?
CHARLIE: I don't know.