James T. Kirk's Series Quotes

  1. Kirk: "Did I ever tell you you play a very irritating game of chess, Mr. Spock." -- Kirk, "Ah, irritation. One of your human emotions." -- Spock, (Kirk Checkmates Spock), "Are you sure you don't know what irritation is, Mr. Spock?" -- Kirk, "The fact one of my ancestors is human..." -- Spock, "Terrible having bad blood like that." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  2. "Would you for once try to have a heart. We're talking about Gary." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  3. "If you mean strand Gary there, I won't do it." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  4. "Are you reading all our thoughts, Gary?" -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  5. "Nobody here but us chickens." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  6. "You said, in my place, you'd kill a mutant such as yourself." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  7. "GARY NO!" -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  8. "Of all things, a 'god' needs compassion." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  9. "ONE JELOUS 'GOD'." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  10. "What's your prognosis, Doctor?" -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  11. "God forgive me." -- Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Ep 2/1312.4
  12. "You saw the alert light. Why didn't you tell me?" -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  13. "Lock phasers on target...Mr. Bailey, lock phasers." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  14. "You've said before a little suffering is good for the soul." -- Kirk, "I never said that." -- McCoy, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  15. "When I get my hands on the person who game me a female yeoman..." -- Kirk, "What's the matter, don't you trust yourself?" -- McCoy, "I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  16. "Ship to ship." -- Kirk, "Hailing frequencies open." -- Uhura, "This is the Captain of the Enterprise. We came seeking friendship, but have no desire to trespass. We will now leave the way we came." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  17. "Bailey you're relieved...Escort him to his quarters, Doctor." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  18. "I intend to challenge your actions in my medical log. Now that's no bluff." -- McCoy, "Anytime you can BLUFF me DOCTOR...Alright, lets hope we have time to argue about it later." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  19. "Not chess, Spock. Poker. You know the game?" -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  20. "Ship to ship." -- Kirk, "Hailing frequencies open." -- Uhura, "This is the Captain of the Enterprise. Our respect for other lifeforms requires that we give you this...warning. There is one critical item of information that has never been incorporated into the memory banks of any Earth ship. Since the early years of space exploration, Earth vessels have had incorporated into them, a substance known as...Corbomite. It is a material and a device which prevents...attack...on us. If any destructive energy touches our vessel, a reverse reaction of equal strength is created, destroying..." -- Kirk, "You now have two minutes." -- Balok, "...DESTROYING the attacker. It may interest you to know...that since the initial use of Corbomite more than two of our centuries ago, no attacking vessel has survived the attempt. Death has...little meaning to us. If it has none to you...then attack us now. We grow annoyed at your foolishness." -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  21. "Don't you think..." -- McCoy, "What's the mission of this vessel? To seek out and contact alien life. And to demonstrate our high sounding morals. Any questions?" (looks around the room) -- Kirk, The Corbomite Maneuver, Ep 3/1512.2
  22. I'm convening a hearing on your actions. Mr. Spock will give you any...legal advice you may need...for your defense." -- Kirk, "You're a hardnosed one, Captain." -- Harry Mudd, "And you're a liar Mr. Walsh. I think we understand one another." -- Kirk, Mudd's Women, Ep 4/1329.1
  23. "If it's any consolation, that one Captain we're going to see strung up." -- Kirk, Mudd's Women, Ep 4/1329.1
  24. "If we only had those crystals." -- Scotty, "But we don't. I didn't get them. SATISFIED?" -- Kirk, Mudd's Women, Ep 4/1329.1
  25. "There's only one kind of woman...or man, for that matter. You either believe in yourself or you don't." -- Kirk, Mudd's Women, Ep 4/1329.1
  26. "I'll show up at your trial as a character witness...If you think that'll help." -- Kirk, "They'll throw away the key." -- Harry Mudd, Mudd's Women, Ep 4/1329.1
  27. "Just gimme the brandy!" -- Evil Kirk to McCoy, The Enemy Within, Ep 5/1672.1
  28. "You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman." -- Evil Kirk to Yeoman Rand, The Enemy Within, Ep 5/1672.1
  29. "Prepare to leave orbit...those men can't be saved." -- Evil Kirk, The Enemy Within, Ep 5/1672.1
  30. "I wanna live! I wanna live!" -- Evil Kirk, "You will." -- Kirk, The Enemy Within, Ep 5/1672.1
  31. "Scotty, beam those men up at once." -- Kirk, The Enemy Within, Ep 5/1672.1
  32. "Three men are dead. I wanna know why!" -- Kirk, The Man Trap, Ep 6/1531.1
  33. "Aaaaaauugggghhhhh!" -- Kirk doing his Checkov impression as the Salt Creature attempts to suck every last ounce of salt from his body, The Man Trap, Ep 6/1531.1
  34. "We've got to risk implosion. We may explode into the biggest fireball this part of the galaxy has seen, but we've got to take that one in a million chance." -- Kirk, The Naked Time, Ep 7/1704.2
  35. "You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street...you know how you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press. If the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know." -- Kirk, Charlie X, Ep 8/1533.6
  36. "Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge." -- Kirk, Balance of Terror, Ep 9/1709.1
  37. "Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with jealousy, greed, hate..." -- Roger Corby, "It can also be improved by eliminating love, tenderness, sentiment...the other side of the coin" -- Kirk, What are Little Girls Made Of?, Ep 10/2712.4
  38. "One of the advantages of being a Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it." -- Kirk, Dagger of the Mind, Ep 11/2715.1
  39. "No more blah, blah, blah!" -- Kirk, Miri, Ep 12/2713.5
  40. "Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed...but a woman is always a woman." -- Kirk, Conscience of the King, Ep 13/2817.6
  41. "Worlds may change, galaxies disintegrate, but a woman always remains a woman." -- Kirk, The Conscience of the King, Ep 13/2817.6
  42. "Finding a needle in a haystack would be childsplay." -- Kirk, The Galileo Seven, Ep 14/2821.5
  43. "What would you have me do?" -- Kirk, The Galileo Seven, Ep 14/2821.5
  44. "I intend to continue the search until the very last minute, by candlelight if necessary." -- Kirk, The Galileo Seven, Ep 14/2821.5
  45. "Now if you'd keep your nose off my bridge, I'd be thankful." -- Kirk to High Commissioner Ferris, The Galileo Seven, Ep 14/2821.5
  46. "Prepare to abandon search. Set course for Makus III...At space normal speed." -- Kirk, The Galileo Seven, Ep 14/2821.5
  47. "A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing." -- Kirk, The Menagerie, Ep 16/3012.4
  48. "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." -- Kirk, Shore Leave, Ep 17/3025.3
  49. "Our missions are peaceful...not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice." -- Kirk, The Squire of the Gothos, Ep 18/2124.5
  50. "Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. The body dies." -- Kirk, The Return Of The Archons, Ep 22/3156.2
  51. "Your duty, does not include stepping into a disintegration machine." -- Kirk, "I'm afraid it does Captain. I was counted as a casulty in the last attack." -- Mea 3, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  52. "You said it yourself. I'm a barbarian." -- Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  53. "If I were you, I'd start worrying about my own life." -- Kirk pointing a disruptor at Anan 7, Ep 23/3192.1
  54. "General order 24 in two hours, Scotty. In two hours." -- Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  55. "Do you realize what you've done?" -- Anan 7, "I do sir. I've given you back the horrors of war. Death, destruction, that's what war is all about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. You've made everything so neat and tidy, you've had no reason to stop it." -- Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  56. "[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not going to kill...today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill...today!" -- Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  57. "Peace or...UTTER DESTRUCTION...it's up to you." -- Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  58. "Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on." -- Kirk, A Taste of Armageddon, Ep 23/3192.1
  59. "Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder." -- Kirk, This Side Of Paradise, Ep 25/3417.3
  60. "Get back to your stations!" -- Kirk, "We're beaming down to the planet, sir." -- Mr. Leslie, This Side Of Paradise, Ep 25/3417.3
  61. "Alright you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed, we'll see about you desserting my ship." -- Kirk, "The term half-breed is somewhat applicable, but computerized is inaccurate. A machine can be computerized, not a man." -- Spock, "What makes you think you're a man. You're an overgrown jackrabbit. An elf with a hyperactive thyroid." -- Kirk, "Jim, I don't understand." -- Spock, "Of course you don't understand. You don't have the brains to understand. All you have is printed circuits." -- Kirk, "Captain, if you'll excuse me." -- Spock, "What else would you expect from a simpering devil eared freak who's father was a computer and who's mother was an encyclopedia." -- Kirk, "My mother was a teacher; my father an ambassador." -- Spock, "Your father was a computer, like his son ... from a planet of traitors. The Vulcan never lived to have an ounce of intregrity." -- Kirk, "Jim, please don't..." -- Spock, "You're a traitor from a race of traitors. Disloyal to the core; rotten like the rest of your sub-human race, and you've got the GALL...to make love to that girl. Does she know what she'd getting, Spock; a carcass full of memory banks who should be squatting on a mushroom, instead of passing himself off as a man. You belong in a circus, Spock not a Starship; right next to the dog-faced boy." -- Kirk, (Spock attacks Kirk, just as he wanted him to do, and the effect of the spores is destroyed.), This Side Of Paradise, Ep 25/3417.3
  62. "I'll tell you something, It's not every First Officer that gets to belt his Captain...several times." -- Kirk, "You did that to me deliberately." -- Spock, "Spock, believe me it was painful...in more ways than one." -- Kirk, This Side Of Paradise, Ep 25/3417.3
  63. "Striking a fellow officer is a court-martial offense." -- Spock, "Weeelll, if we're both in the brig, who's going to build the subsonic transmitter?" -- Kirk, "That is quite logical." -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Ep 25/3417.3
  64. "Spock...Capture it? I don't recall giving such a command." -- Kirk, The Devil In The Dark, Ep 26/3196.1
  65. "Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not." -- Kirk, The Devil In The Dark, Ep 26/3196.1
  66. "That thing is killing my men." -- Chief Engineer Vanderberg, "And you've killed hundreds of her children." -- Kirk, The Devil In The Dark, Ep 26/3196.1
  67. "You're a doctor. There's your patient. That's an order." -- Kirk, The Devil In The Dark, Ep 26/3196.1
  68. "They tunnel, and you collect the minerals. And your mining would be 1000 times more profitable." -- Kirk, The Devil In The Dark, Ep 26/3196.1
  69. "Another Armenia, Belgium...the weak innocents who always seem to be located on a natural invasion route." -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, Ep 27/3198.4
  70. "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth." -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, Ep 27/3198.4
  71. "There are some things worth dying for." -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, Ep 27/3198.4
  72. "Go to the devil." -- Kirk, "We have no devil." -- Kor, Errand Of Mercy, Ep 27/3198.4
  73. "No one wants war." -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, Ep 27/3198.4
  74. "Cordrazine. That's tricky stuff. Are you sure you want to..." -- Kirk (McCoy gives Sulu the shot and he revives), "You were about to make a medical comment, Jim?" -- McCoy, "Who, me doctor?" -- Kirk, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  75. "If Mr. Spock says that he needs the tools and that they'd be returned in the morning, you can...bet your reputation on that, Miss Keeler." -- Kirk, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  76. "McCoy in his state of mind...does he kill her?" -- Kirk, "Or perhaps he keeps her from being killed. We don't know which." -- Spock, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  77. "Peace was the way." -- Kirk, "But at the wrong time." -- Spock, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  78. "I think they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war and death..." -- Edith Keeler, "And make them spend it on life." -- Kirk, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  79. "Spock, I think I'm in love with Edith Keeler." -- Kirk, "Jim, Edith Keeler, MUST DIE." -- Spock, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  80. "I did not mean to eavesdrop, but when she might have fallen down the stairs had you not helped." -- Spock, "It's not yet time. McCoy hasn't arrived." -- Kirk, "We're not totally clear on the facts of her death. Save her, do as your Heart tells you, and millions will die who did not die before." -- Spock, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Ep 28/3134.0
  81. "You mean Spock need not to have been blinded?" -- Kirk, Operation: Annihilate!, Ep 29/3287.2
  82. "Please don't tell Spock I said he was the best First Officer in the fleet." -- McCoy in a low voice to Kirk, "Why thank you, Doctor." -- Spock, "You were so concerned about his Vulcan eyes, you forgot about his Vulcan ears." -- Kirk, Operation: Annihilate!, Ep 29/3287.2
  83. "Why all the mumbo-jumbo?" -- Kirk, Catspaw, Ep 30/3018.2
  84. "Analysis, Mr. Spock?" -- Kirk, "Very bad poetry, Captain." -- Spock, Catspaw, Ep 30/3018.2
  85. "Not one hundred percent efficient, of course...but nothing ever is." -- Kirk, Metamorphosis, Ep 31/3219.8
  86. "The idea of male and female are universal constants." -- Kirk, Metamorphosis, Ep 31/3219.8
  87. "He's saved my life a dozen times over, isn't that worth a career." -- Kirk, Amok Time, Ep 34/3372.7
  88. "Kill Spock? That's not what I came here for." -- Kirk, Amok Time, Ep 34/3372.7
  89. "C'mon Spock, let's go mind the store." -- Kirk, Amok Time, Ep 34/3372.7
  90. "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard." -- Kirk, The Doomsday Machine, Ep 35/4202.9
  91. "I know a little place...across town where the women..." -- Kirk, "Oh yes. I know the place. I know the place. Lets go." -- McCoy, Wolf In The Fold, Ep 36/3614.9
  92. "Well get on with it man, just don't stand there!" -- Kirk, Wolf In The Fold, Ep 36/3614.9
  93. "But! YOU! Are! Imperfect! NOMAD!" -- Kirk, The Changeling, Ep 37/3451.9
  94. "You'll learn something about men and women...the way they're supposed to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good to each other. That's what we call love. You'll like that a lot." -- Kirk, The Apple, Ep 38/3715.6
  95. "You traitorous pig...I'll hang you up by your vulcan ears. I'LL HAVE YOU ALL EXECUTED!!" -- Mirrored Kirk, Mirror, Mirror, Ep 39/Unknown
  96. "Conquest is easy. Control is not." -- Kirk, Mirror, Mirror, Ep 39/Unknown
  97. "I submit to you that your universe is illogical. I submit to you that YOU are illogical." -- Kirk, Mirror, Mirror, Ep 39/Unknown
  98. "What is a Man, but that...lofty spirit, that sense of...ENTERPRISE! (Ribs Mudd) That devotion to something that cannot be sensed, cannot be...realized, but only...DREAMED: The HIGHEST Reality!!!!" -- Kirk, I, Mudd, Ep 41/4513.3
  99. "Mr. Baris, I was not aware that twelve Klingons constitute a 'swarm'." -- Kirk, The Trouble With Tribbles, Ep 42/4523.3
  100. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a ship to tend to, aurevoir." -- Kirk, The Trouble With Tribbles, Ep 42/4523.3
  101. "Yes, well, until that inquiry, I'm still the Captain. And as Captain I want two things. First, find Cyrano Jones, and second,...close that door." -- Kirk, The Trouble With Tribbles, Ep 42/4523.3
  102. "The only solution is...a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power...the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides." -- Kirk, A Private Little War, Ep 45/4211.4
  103. "War isn't a good life, but it's life." -- Kirk, A Private Little War, Ep 45/4211.4
  104. "We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior development." -- Kirk, The Gamesters of Triskelion, Ep 46/3211.7
  105. "All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars." -- Kirk, The Gamesters of Triskelion, Ep 46/3211.7
  106. "Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative." -- Kirk, Obsession, Ep 47/3619.2
  107. "Which one of my friends do I condemn to death." (talking to himself) -- Kirk, The Immunity Syndrome, Ep 48/4307.1
  108. "Risk IS our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her." -- Kirk, Return To Tomorrow, Ep 51/4768.3
  109. "I don't care if you hit the side of a barn!" -- Kirk, "Why should I try to hit such a structure?" -- Spock, Patterns Of Force, Ep 52/2534.0
  110. "Do you know the one 'All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by...'? You could feel the wind at your back, about you...the sounds of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours...you can feel her...and the stars are still there." -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, Ep 53/4729.4
  111. "There are certain things men must do to remain men." -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, Ep 53/4729.4
  112. "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'" -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, Ep 53/4729.4
  113. "A starship captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive." -- Kirk, The Omega Glory, Ep 54/Unknown
  114. "...freedom...is a worship word..." -- Cloud William, "It is our worship word too." -- Kirk, The Omega Glory, Ep 54/Unknown
  115. "...The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other." -- Kirk, Elaan of Troyius, Ep 57/4372.5
  116. "I am Kirok!" --Kirk, The Paradise Syndrome, Ep 58/4842.6
  117. "Most legends have their basis in facts." -- Kirk, And The Children Shall Lead, Ep 60/5029.5
  118. "There's another way to survive. Mutual trust...and help." -- Kirk, Day of the Dove, Ep 66/Unknown
  119. "What a terrible way to die." -- Sulu, "There are no good ways." -- Kirk, That Which Survives, Ep 69/Unknown
  120. "Beauty is transitory." -- Spock, "Beauty survives." -- Kirk, That Which Survives, Ep 69/Unknown
  121. "At five, no voice in the universe can stop the count." -- Kirk, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Ep 70/5730.2
  122. "How would you respond to Queen to Queen's level three? -- Garth, "I'm sure you know there's an infinite number of countermoves." -- Kirk, "Yes, but I'm interested only in one." -- Garth, "I can't for the...life of me think of what that would be." -- Kirk, "'For the life of me', is a good choice of words. It could come to that." -- Garth, "Dead, I am of no use to you." Kirk, Whom gods Destroy, Ep 71/5718.3
  123. "You could serve as human sacrifice." -- Garth, "No I wouldn't enjoy that at all. Besides you seem to need me alive." -- Kirk, Whom gods Destroy, Ep 71/5718.3
  124. "If it happens to me, it happens to you." -- Kirk, "Your stubborness defies all logic." -- Garth, Whom gods Destroy, Ep 71/5718.3
  125. "I was not prepared!", -- Kirk, All Our Yesterdays, Ep 78/5943.7

"The man on top walks a lonely street; the 'chain' of command is often a noose." -- Kirk, (Anyone know where this quote came from?)

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