William Shatner: Kirk
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Kirk : Klingon bastard! You killed my son!
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[last lines]
Captain Spock : My father says that you have been my friend. You came back for me.
Kirk : You would have done the same for me.
Captain Spock : Why would you do this?
Kirk : Because the needs of the one... outweigh the needs of the many.
Captain Spock : [begins to remember] I have been and ever shall be your friend.
Kirk : Yes. Yes, Spock.
Captain Spock : The ship... out of danger?
Kirk : You saved the ship. You saved us all. Don't you remember?
Captain Spock : Jim... your name is Jim.
Kirk : Yes.
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Kirk : [46:41] Scotty, you're as good as your word.
Scotty : Aye, sir. The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
[giving McCoy a handful of computer chips]
Scotty : Here, Doctor, souvenirs from one surgeon to another. I took them out of her main transwarp computer drive.
McCoy : Nice of you to tell me in advance.
Kirk : That's what you get for missing staff meetings, Doctor. Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding and I intend to recommend you all for promotion... in whatever fleet we end up serving.
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Kirk : [7:02] How much refit time 'til we can take her out again?
Scotty : Eight weeks, sir. But ye don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ye in two.
Kirk : Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty : Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Kirk : Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
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[their first look at the USS Excelsior]
Uhura : Would you look at that.
Kirk : My friends, the great experiment: The Excelsior. Ready for trial runs.
Sulu : She's supposed to have transwarp drive.
Scotty : Aye. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
Kirk : Come, come, Mr. Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant.
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McCoy : [1:18:52] Rapid aging. All genetic functions highly accelerated.
Kirk : What about his mind?
McCoy : His mind is a void. It seems, Admiral, that I've got all his marbles.
Kirk : Is there anything we can do?
Saavik : Only one thing, sir. Get him off this planet. His aging is part of what's going on around us.
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Kirk : [stomping on Kruge] I... have had... enough... of YOU!
[Kruge falls screaming into the lavascape below]
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Kirk : Klingon Commander, this is Admiral James T. Kirk. I'm alive and well on the planet's surface. I know that this will come as a pleasant surprise to you, but our ship was a victim of an "unfortunate accident". Sorry about your crew, but as we say on Earth, c'est la vie.
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[Kirk finds McCoy in Spock's quarters]
McCoy : [14:10] Jim. Help me
McCoy : Jim... help me. You left me... on Genesis... why did you do that? Help me...
Kirk : Bones? What the hell are you doing? Have you lost your mind?
McCoy : Help me, Jim. Take me home.
McCoy : Bones, we are. We are home.
McCoy : Then perhaps it's not too late. Climb the steps, Jim. Climb the steps of Mount Seleya.
Kirk : Mount Seleya? Bones, Mount Seleya is on Vulcan. We're home, on Earth.
McCoy : Remember...
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Mr. Adventure : Look at you. You're a twenty-year space veteran, yet you pick the worst duty station in town. I mean, look at this place. This is the hind end of space.
Uhura : Peace and quiet appeals to me, Lieutenant.
Mr. Adventure : Well, maybe that's okay for someone like you, whose career is winding down. But me, I need some excitement, some adventure... maybe even just a surprise or two.
Uhura : Well, you know what they say, Lieutenant. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
[Kirk, McCoy and Sulu enter the transporter room]
Kirk : Uhura, is everything ready?
Uhura : Step into my parlor, gentlemen.
Mr. Adventure : That's Admiral Kirk, my God!
Uhura : Very good for you, Lieutenant.
Mr. Adventure : But it's damned irregular. No destination points, no encoded ID's.
Uhura : All true.
Mr. Adventure : So what are we gonna do about it?
Uhura : I'm not gonna do anything about it. You're gonna sit in the closet.
Mr. Adventure : The *closet*? Have you lost your sense of reality?
Uhura : This isn't reality.
[Turns a phaser on him]
Uhura : This is fantasy. You wanted adventure, how's this? The old adrenaline going, huh? Good boy. Now get in the closet.
Mr. Adventure : All right...
Uhura : Go on.
Mr. Adventure : I'll just get in the closet. All right! Damn!
[Falls into the closet and shuts the door]
McCoy : I'm glad you're on *our* side!
Kirk : [Pointing to the closet] Are you sure you can handle...?
Uhura : Oh, I'll have "Mr. Adventure" eating out of my hand, sir. And I'll see all of you at the rendezvous.
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Security Guard : Make it quick, Admiral. They're moving him to the Federation funny farm.
Kirk : [about McCoy] Yes, poor friend. I hear he's fruity as a nutcake.
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Captain Styles : [on the comm speakers] Kirk, you do this, you'll never sit in the Captain's chair again.
Kirk : Warp speed.
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Kirk : [1:08:12] David, what went wrong?
David Marcus : I went wrong.
Kirk : I don't understand.
David Marcus : I'm sorry, sir. Just don't surrender. Genesis doesn't work. I can't believe they'd kill us for it.
Kruge : Admiral, your young friend is mistaken. I meant what I said. And now to show that my intentions are sincere, I shall kill one of the prisoners.
Kirk : Wait a minute! Give me a chance to talk.
Kruge : [in Klingon] Kill one of them. I don't care which.
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Kruge : Genesis, I want it!
Kirk : Beam the Vulcan up, and we'll talk.
Kruge : Give me what I want, and I'll consider it.
Kirk : You fool, look around you! The planet's destroying itself!
Kruge : Yes, exhilarating, isn't it?
Kirk : If we don't help each other, we'll die here.
Kruge : Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be.
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[first lines]
[Spock's dying words, repeated from the previous film]
Captain Spock : Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh...
Kirk : ...the needs of the few.
Captain Spock : Or the one. I have been and always shall be your friend. Live long and prosper.
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Sarek : Forgive me, it is not here. I had assumed he mind-melded with you. It is the Vulcan way when the body's end is near.
Kirk : We were separated. He couldn't touch me.
Sarek : I see. Then, everything that he was... everything he knew... is lost.
Kirk : [Sarek turns to go] Please wait. He would have found a way. If there were that much at stake, Spock would have found a way.
Sarek : Yes. But how?
Kirk : What if he joined with someone else?
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Kirk : [gathers himself after David's murder] Mr. Sulu, what is the crew compliment of a Bird-of-Prey?
Sulu : About a dozen officers and men.
Kirk : With some of them on the planet... I swear to you, we're not finished yet. Bones, you and Sulu to the transporter room. The rest of you with me, we have a job to do.
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Kirk : USS Enterprise Captain's Personal Log: With most of our battle damage repaired we're almost home. Yet I feel uneasy and I wonder why? Perhaps it is the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our training crew have been reassigned. Lt. Saavik and my son David are exploring the Genesis planet which he helped create and Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No more empty even then that. The death of Spock is like an open wound. It seem that I have left the most noblest part of myself back there on that newborn planet.
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Kirk : [Sarek angrily confronts Kirk about Spock] Ambassador. I would had come to Vulcan to express my deepest sympathies.
Sarek : Spare me your human platitutes, Kirk. I have been to your government and I've seen the Genesis information and your report.
Kirk : Then you know how bravely your son met his death.
Sarek : Why did you leave him on Genesis? Spock trusted you! and you denied him his future.
Kirk : I saw no future.
Sarek : Only his body was in death, Kirk! and you were the last one to be with him.
Kirk : Yes! I was.
Sarek : And you must know that you should had to come with him to Vulcan.
Kirk : But - why?
Sarek : Because he asked you too! He entrusted you! With his very esscence. With everything that was not of the body. He asked you to bring him to us and to bring that which he gave you. His Katra. His living spirit.
Kirk : Sir. Your son meant to me more than you could know. I would had given my life if I could save his. Believe me when I tell you, he made no request of me.
Sarek : He would not had spoken of it openly.
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Kirk : Computer, this is Admiral James T. Kirk. Request security access. Computer, destruct sequence one: code 1-1-a.
Scotty : Computer, Commander Montgomery Scott, chief engineering officer. Destruct sequence two: code 1-1-a-2-b.
Chekov : Computer, this Commander Pavel Chekov, acting science officer. Destruct sequence three: code 1-b-2-b-3.
Enterprise Computer : Destruct sequence completed and engaged. Awaiting final code for one minute countdown.
Kirk : Code 0-0-0-destruct-0.
Enterprise Computer : Destruct sequence is activated.
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Kirk : This is Admiral James T. Kirk of Federation starship Enterprise.
Kruge : So... the Genesis commander himself.
Kirk : ...a violation of treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Your presence here is an act of war. You have two minutes to surrender your crew and your vessel, or we will destroy you.
Kruge : He's hiding something. We may have dealt him a more serious blow than I thought.
Torg : How can you tell that?
Kruge : I trust my instincts.
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Admiral Morrow : No. Absolutely not, Jim. You're my best officer, but I am commander, Starfleet, so I don't break rules.
Kirk : Don't quote rules to me. I'm talking about loyalty and sacrifice. One man who's died for us, another with deep emotional problems.
Admiral Morrow : Now, wait a minute. This business about Spock and McCoy; honestly, I never understood Vulcan mysticism.
Kirk : You don't have to believe. I'm not even sure that I believe. But if there's even a chance that Spock has an eternal soul, then it's my responsibility.
Admiral Morrow : Yours?
Kirk : As surely as if it were my very own. Give me back the Enterprise. With Scotty's help, I can...
Admiral Morrow : No, Jim! The Enterprise would never stand the pounding and you know it.
Kirk : Then I'll find a ship. I'll hire a ship.
Admiral Morrow : Out of the question, my friend. The council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis. Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not for intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behavior and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself. Do you understand me, Jim?
Kirk : I hear you. I had to try.
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Kruge : Admiral Kirk, this is your opponent speaking. Dot not lecture me about treaty violations. The Federation, in creating an ultimate weapon, has become a gang of intergalactic criminals. It is not I who will surrender. It is you. On the planet below, I have three prisoners from the team who developed your doomsday weapon. If you do not surrender immediately, I will execute them one at a time as enemies of galactic peace!
Kirk : Who is this? How dare you take prisoners?
Kruge : Who I am is not important. That I have them is.
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Sarek : [mind-melding with Kirk] He spoke of your friendship.
Kirk : Yes.
Sarek : Asked you not to grieve.
Kirk : Yes.
Sarek : The needs of the many... outweigh...
Kirk : The needs of the few.
Sarek : Or the one.
Kirk : Spock.
Sarek : I have been... and always shall be... your friend. Live long... and prosper.
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Trainee Foster : I was wondering, are they planning a ceremony when we get in? I mean a reception?
Kirk : A hero's welcome, son, is that what you'd like? Well, God knows there should be. This time, we've paid for the party with our dearest blood.
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Sulu : Keeping you busy?
Prison Guard #2 : [getting to his feet, he towers over Sulu] Don't get smart, tiny.
Prison Guard #1 : [entering Bones' cell] Admiral, Starfleet...
Kirk : This man is sick. Here, take a look.
[as the guard gets closer, Kirk knocks him out]
Sulu : [restraining the second guard as Kirk and Bones come out] Side elevator. Agents on their way up.
[flipping the guard over and zapping the control station]
Sulu : Don't call me tiny.
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Admiral Morrow : You've all done remarkable service under the most difficult conditions. You'll be receiving Starfleet's highest commendation, and more importantly, extended shore leave. That is, all but you, Mr. Scott. They need your wisdom on the new Excelsior. Report there tomorrow as captain of Engineering.
Scotty : With all appreciation, sir, I'd prefer to supervise the refit of Enterprise.
Admiral Morrow : I'm afraid that won't be necessary.
Scotty : But, sir...
Admiral Morrow : I'm sorry, Mr. Scott, but there will be no refit.
Kirk : Admiral. I don't understand. The Enterprise is not...
Admiral Morrow : Jim, the Enterprise is 20 years old. We feel her day is over.
Kirk : But we had requested... we'd hoped to take her back to Genesis.
Admiral Morrow : That is out of the question.
Kirk : May I ask why?
Admiral Morrow : In your absence, Genesis has become a galactic controversy. Until the Federation Council makes policy, you are all under orders not to discuss with anyone your knowledge of Genesis. Consider it a quarantined planet and a forbidden subject.
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Chekov : Admiral? This is not possible.
Kirk : Mr. Chekov?
Chekov : An energy reading from C deck, from... inside Mr. Spock's quarters.
Kirk : I ordered Spock's quarters sealed.
Chekov : Yes, sir. I sealed the room myself. Nevertheless, I am reading a life form there.
Kirk : This entire crew seems on the edge of obsessive behavior concerning Mr. Spock.
Uhura : Sir, security reports the door to Spock's quarters has been forced.
Kirk : I'm on my way.
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Saavik : [1:09:32] Admiral, David is dead
Kirk : Klingon bastard, youkilled my son! Klingon bastard you killed my son. Klingon bastard.
Kruge : There are two more prisoners. Do you want them killed, too? Surrender your vessel
Kirk : All right. All right damn you. All right. Give me a minute to inform my crew
Saavik : I give two minutes for you and your gallant crew
