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Star Trek: The Original Series

• A father doesn't destroy his children.
                                 — LT Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for Adonais?", Stardate 3468.1

• A little suffering is good for the soul.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", Stardate 1514.0

• 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.
                                 — LT Phillip Boyce, M.D., "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Stardate unknown

• A princess should not be afraid ― not with a brave knight to protect her.
                                 — LT CMDR Leonard H. McCoy, M.D., "Shore Leave", Stardate 3025.3

• A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "The Omega Glory", Stardate unknown

• A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "The Menagerie", Stardate 3012.4

• A woman should have compassion.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "Catspaw", Stardate 3018.2

• Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", Stardate 3193.0

• 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.
                                 — CMDR Spock, "Amok Time", Stardate 3372.7

• All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
                                 — CAPT James T. Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", Stardate 3259.2

Star Trek: The Next Generation

• …and 400 years before that, you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images. Since then, there are no indications
   that humans will ever change.
                                 — Q, "Encounter at Farpoint", Stardate 41153.7

• I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan.
                                 — RADM Leonard H. McCoy, "Encounter at Farpoint", Stardate 41153.7

• We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain. I have pores. Humans have pores. I have… fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints.
   My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me… do I not… leak?
                                 — LT CMDR Data, "The Naked Now", Stardate 41209.2

• If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it secret?
                                 — LT CMDR Data, "Datalore", Stardate 41242.4

• I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible, but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late and I say to
   any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
                                 — CAPT Jean-Luc Picard, "Justice", Stardate 41255.6

• Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
                                 — LT CMDR Data, "Haven", Stardate 41294.5

• Think about it: A blind man teaching an android to paint? That's got to be worth a couple of pages in someone's book.
                                 — CMDR William T. Riker, "11001001", Stardate 41365.9

• Ugly giant bags… of mostly water…
                                 — Microbrain, "Home Soil", Stardate 41463.9

• My brother, it is you who does not see. You look for battles in the wrong place. The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within! Here!
   Here is where we meet the challenge. It is the weaknesses in here a warrior must overcome.
                                 — LT Worf, "Heart of Glory", Stardate 41503.7

• Data, things are only impossible until they're not.
                                 — CAPT Jean-Luc Picard, "When the Bough Breaks", Stardate 41509.1

• Oh, I know "Hamlet." And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason. How
   infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god."
                                 — CAPT Jean-Luc Picard, "Hide and Q", Stardate 41590.5

• Death is that state where one lives only in the memory of others, which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes—just good memories.
                                 — LT Natasha Yar, "Skin of Evil", Stardate 41602.1

• You can't rescue a man from the place he calls his home.
                                 — Ramsey, "Angel One", Stardate 41636.9

• If you need a little something "special", be it for one target or multiple targets, we've got it, you'll see it, here on Minos, where we live by
   the motto, "Peace through superior firepower."
                                 — The Peddler, "The Arsenal of Freedom", Stardate 41798.2

• …you and me can find us a couple of low-mileage pit wolfies, and help 'em build a memory.
                                 — L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds, "The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41986.0