Spock's Series Quotes

  1. Spock: "There were no survivors in the encampment. This was all some sort of trap. We've lost the captain."; The Cage, Stardate Unknown, Episode 1
  2. Spock: "I'll have you checkmated your next move."; Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  3. Spock: "He played most illogically. His next move should have been the rook."; Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  4. Spock: "I felt for him (Gary) too." Kirk: "Spock, there may be hope for you yet."; Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  5. Spock: "And if you're asking for the logical decision to make..." Kirk: "No, I'm not. The mission of this vessel is to seek out and contact alien life." Spock "Isn't there some inefficiency in asking me advice on matters you've already decided?"; The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  6. Spock: "Radiation now passing the danger level, entering lethal zone."; The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  7. Spock: "Chess. When the opponent is outmatched ... checkmate." Kirk: "Is that your best recommendation, Spock." Spock: "I'm sorr ... I regret that I can come up with no other logical alternative."; The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  8. Spock: "State your name for the record." Harcourt Fenton Mudd: "Leo Francis Walsh." Computer: "Incorrect." Spock (sigh): "State your real name for the record."; Mudd's Women, Stardate 1329.1, Episode 4
  9. Spock: "Space debris, same as before ... except for ... ONE CYLINDRICAL METAL OBJECT!!!"; Balance Of Terror, Stardate 1709.1, Episode 9
  10. Spock: "You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately."; Dagger of the Mind, Stardate 2715.1, Episode 11
  11. Spock: "Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence."; Dagger of the Mind, Stardate 2715.1, Episode 11
  12. Spock: "I realize that command does have its fascinations, 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."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2812.7, Episode 14
  13. McCoy: "Life and death are seldom logical." Spock: "But attaining a desired goal always is."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2821.7, Episode 14
  14. Spock: "I am frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  15. Spock: "There are always alternatives."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  16. Spock: "It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six, doctor."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  17. Spock: "No! Leave me!"; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  18. Spock: "By coming back and helping me, you may have destroyed your chances of rescue. The logical thing to do was to leave me." McCoy: "Spock, I'm sick to death of your logic."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  19. Spock: "Totally illogical, there was no chance." McCoy: "Exactly."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  20. Scotty: "You said there are always alternatives." Spock: "I did? I may have been mistaken." McCoy: "Well at least I lived long enough to hear that."; The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  21. Kirk: "You're not going to admit that for the first time in your life, you performed a totally illogical act?" Spock: "No sir." Kirk: "Mr. Spock, you're a stubborn man." Spock: "Yes sir." (laughter erupts all over the bridge); The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2823.2, Episode 14
  22. Spock: "I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."; The Squire of Gothos, Stardate 2124.5, Episode 18
  23. Spock: "Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal."; The Alternative Factor, Stardate 3088.7, Episode 20
  24. Spock: "There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder."; A Taste Of Armageddon, Stardate 3193.9, Episode 23
  25. Spock: "Please move away or you may be injured."; A Taste Of Armageddon, Stardate 3193.9, Episode 23
  26. Spock: "Superior ability breeds superior ambition."; Space Seed, Stardate 3141.9, Episode 24
  27. Spock: "Insufficient facts always invite danger."; Space Seed, Stardate 3141.9, Episode 24
  28. Spock: "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist."; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  29. Spock: "I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question."; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  30. Spock (to Leila Kalomi): "I love you ... I can love you."; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  31. Spock: "Yes ... whatdidyouwant?"; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  32. Spock: "I didn't want to." Kirk: "Yes I see that. Report to the bridge immediately." Spock: "I don't think so." Kirk: "You ... don't think so, what?" Spock: "I don't think so, SIR."; This Side of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  33. Spock: "If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them."; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  34. Spock: "For the first time in my life, I was happy."; This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  35. Spock: "To kill it (The Horta), would be a crime against science."; The Devil In the Dark, Stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  36. The Horta (speaking through Spock's mind-meld): "Death is welcome. The murderers have won."; The Devil In The Dark, Stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  37. Spock: "There is a theory ... that time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash."; The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  38. Kirk: "We have a flop." Spock: "A what?" Kirk: "A place to stay for the night." Spock: "One might have said so in the first place."; The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  39. Spock: "You're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins."; The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  40. Spock: "I am attempting to build a mnemonic memory circuit, with stone knives and bearskins."; The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  41. Spock: "Where would you say we belong?" Edith Keeler: "You ... at his (Kirk's) side. As if you've always been there and always will be."; The City On The Edge Of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  42. Spock: "I'll finish up down here." Edith Keeler: "... Captain. Even when he doesn't say it, he does."; The City On The Edge Of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  43. Spock: "Save her ... do what your heart, tells you ... and millions will die, who did not die before."; The City On The Edge Of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  44. Spock: "NO, Jim!!!"; The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  45. Spock: "Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled."; Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  46. Spock (to himself): "There is no pain."; Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  47. Kirk: "I ordered you to stay in the sickbay." Spock: "Until the pain was gone ... It has been discontinued."; Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  48. Spock: "I am free of the creature. I am also ... quite blind."; Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  49. McCoy (in a low voice to Kirk): "Please don't tell Spock I said he was the best First Officer in the fleet." Spock: "Why thank you doctor." Kirk: "So concerned about his Vulcan eyes, you forgot about his Vulcan ears."; Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  50. Spock: "Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude."; Metamorphosis, Stardate 3219.8, Episode 31
  51. Spock: "Virtue is a relative term."; Friday's Child, Stardate 3499.1, Episode 32
  52. Spock: "Insults are effective only where emotion is present."; Who Mourns for Adonais?, Stardate 3468.1, Episode 33
  53. Spock: "It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers."; Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  54. Spock: "I burn."; Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  55. Spock: "Stonn, she is yours. After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true."; Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  56. Spock: "Live long and prosper, T'Pau." T'Pau: "Live long and prosper, Spock." Spock: "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain ... and my friend."; Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  57. Spock: "CAPTAIN ... JIM!!!"; Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  58. Kirk: "You mean you're the lunatic who's responsible for almost destroying my ship!" Matt Decker: "You are speaking to a senior officer, Kirk." Kirk: "Get me Spock." Matt Decker: "I told you I am in command here according to every rule in the book, Captain. If you have anything to say at all you will say it to me." Kirk: "There's only one thing I want to say to you Commodore, 'Get my ship out of there.'" (pause) Kirk: "Mr. Spock, ship's status?" Spock: "Commodore?" Matt Decker (motions to the comm channel on the command chair): "Down here." Spock: "Warp drive out. Deflector shields down. Transporter under repair. We are on emergency impulse power." Kirk: "How long to repair warp drive?" Spock: "At least one solar day. At our present rate of consumption we'll exhaust our impulse power long before then." Sulu: "It's gaining on us, sir." Kirk: "Take evasive action, Mr. Sulu." Matt Decker: "I told you I am in command here, and I will give the orders, Captain. We are going to turn and attack." Kirk: "Not with my ship you don't. Mr. Spock, relieve Commodore Decker immediately. That's a direct order." Matt Decker: "You can't relieve me and you know it, according to regulations..." Kirk: "Blast regulations! Mr. Spock, I order you to assume command on my personal authority as Captain of the Enterprise." Spock: "Commodore Decker, you are relieved of command." Matt Decker: "I don't recognize your authority to relieve me." Spock: "You may file a formal protest with Starfleet command, assuming we survive to reach a Starbase. But you are relieved." (pause) Spock: "Commodore I do not wish to place you under arrest." Matt Decker: "You wouldn't dare." Spock: (motions to security personnel who then move toward Decker) Matt Decker: "You're bluffing." Spock: "Vulcans never bluff." Matt Decker: "No ... No, I don't suppose that they do." (pause) Matt Decker: "Very well Mr. Spock, the bridge is yours."; The Doomsday Machine, Stardate 4202.1, Episode 35
  59. Spock: "In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death ... even vegetarians."; Wolf in the Fold, Stardate 3615.4, Episode 36
  60. Spock: "That unit is a woman." Nomad: "A mass of conflicting impulses."; The Changeling, Stardate 3541.9, Episode 37
  61. Spock: "May I point out that I have gotten a chance to examine your counterparts closely. They are brutal, savage, uncivilized and illogical. They are in every way examples of homosapiens, the very flower of humanity." Kirk: "I'm not sure ... but I think we've just been insulted." McCoy: "I'M sure."; Mirror, Mirror, Episode 39
  62. Spock: "That's right ... you humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. 'You're welcome', I believe, is the correct response."; Bread And Circuses, Stardate 4041.2, Episode 43
  63. Spock (to McCoy): "What would you have me say."; Bread And Circuses, Stardate 4041.2, Episode 43
  64. Spock: "It would be illogical to kill without reason." Kirk: "But if he had a reason." Spock: "Ambassador Sarek is well capable of killing in such a way."; Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  65. Spock: "Vulcans do not approve of violence."; Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  66. Spock: "It (being a Vulcan) means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be."; Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  67. Spock: "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." McCoy: "You admit that?" Spock: "To deny the facts would be illogical, doctor" -- Spock, A Piece of the Action, Stardate 4598.0, Episode 49
  68. Spock: "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him."; The Ultimate Computer, Stardate 4729.4, Episode 53
  69. Spock: "Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition."; Assignment: Earth, Stardate unknown, Episode 55
  70. Spock: "I did not have time to prepare for his attack. I instinctively used the Vulcan death grip." McCoy: "Well your instincts are still good, Mr. Spock. The Captain's dead!"; The Enterprise Incident, Stardate 5027.4, Episode 59
  71. Spock: "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. I hope we exchanged something more lasting."; The Enterprise Incident, Stardate 5027.4, Episode 59
  72. Spock: "It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable."; The Enterprise Incident, Stardate 5027.3, Episode 59
  73. Spock: "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." McCoy: "Or by misleading the innocent."; And The Children Shall Lead, stardate 5029.5, Episode 60
  74. Spock: "Without followers, evil cannot spread."; And The Children Shall Lead, stardate 5029.5, Episode 60
  75. Dr. Miranda Jones: "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity." Spock: "And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."; Is There in Truth No Beauty?, stardate 5630.8, Episode 62
  76. Spock: "No one can guarantee the actions of another."; Day Of The Dove, stardate unknown, Episode 66
  77. Spock: "Beauty is transitory." Kirk: "Beauty ... survives."; That Which Survives, stardate unknown, Episode 69
  78. Spock: "Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion (love)."; The Lights of Zetar, stardate 5725.6, Episode 73
  79. Spock: "Violence in reality is quite different from theory."; The Cloud Minders, stardate 5818.4, Episode 74
  80. Spock: "Many 'myths' are based on truth."; The Way to Eden, stardate 5832.3, Episode 75
  81. Spock: "The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile." Lincoln: "Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.'" -- Lincoln, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.4, Episode 77
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