Quotable Star Trek - Softcover

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Jill Sherwin is the author of The Quotable Star Trek and The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book. She is also a former assistant to the producers of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

 

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It makes us wonder. It makes us smile. But most of all, it makes us think.

More than any other single aspect, Star Trek is defined by the strength of its ideas. For decades this television and movie phenomenon has reached out to its audience, spanning generations and inspiring them not simply with the power of its voice, but with the meaning behind it.

Quotable Star Trek demonstrates the truly universal appeal of Gene Roddenberry's extraordinary creation. Words of wit, wisdom, and compelling insight applicable to everyday life from The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation "RM", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "RM", Star Trek: Voyager "RM", and eight Star Trek motion pictures have been meticulously researched and collected in one volume. Intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining, Quotable Star Trek has something for everyone, and is a must-have resource for every devoted fan.

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Chapter 1: The Human Condition
"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."
-- Dr. Philip Boyce to Captain Christopher Pike
Star Trek: The Original Series/"The Cage"
"Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are."
"Then what am I going to do?"
"Hang on tight. And survive. Everybody does."
-- Captain James T. Kirk and Charlie Evans
TOS/"Charlie X"
"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that...and perhaps more, only one of each of us."
-- Dr. Leonard McCoy to Kirk
TOS/"Balance of Terror"
"Being a red-blooded human obviously has its disadvantages."
-- Commander Spock to McCoy
TOS/"Miri"
"Here you stand...a perfect symbol of our technical society. Mechanized, electronicized, and not very human. You've done away with humanity, the striving of man to achieve greatness through his own resources..."
"We've armed man with tools. The striving for greatness continues."
-- Anton Karidian and Kirk
TOS/"The Conscience of the King"
"We're a most promising species, Mister Spock, as predators go. Did you know that?"
"I've frequently had my doubts."
"I don't. Not any more. And maybe, in a thousand years or so, we'll be able to prove it."
-- Kirk and Spock, on the Metron's judgment
TOS/"Arena"
"Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure."
-- Kirk to McCoy
TOS/"The Alternative Factor"
"Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold."
-- Khan Noonien Singh to senior staff
TOS/"Space Seed"
"Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to music of the lute, we must march to the sound of drums."
-- Kirk to McCoy
TOS/"This Side of Paradise"
"We're the same. We share the same history, the same heritage, the same lives. We're tied together beyond any untying. Man or woman, it makes no difference. We're human. We couldn't escape from each other even if we wanted to. That's how you do it, Lieutenant. By remembering who and what you are, a bit of flesh and blood afloat in a universe without end and the only thing that's truly yours is the rest of humanity."
-- Kirk to Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas
TOS/"Who Mourns for Adonais?"
"It's the custom of my people to help one another when we're in trouble."
-- Kirk to Shahna
TOS/"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
"She seems very vulnerable."
"We're all vulnerable in one way or another."
-- McCoy and Kirk, on Dr. Miranda Jones
TOS/"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
"How compact your bodies are. And what a variety of senses you have. This thing you call...language, though...most remarkable. You depend on it for so very much. But is any one of you really its master? But most of all...the aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in this shell of flesh. Self-contained. How terribly lonely."
-- Spock/Kollos
TOS/"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
"Well, when the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous."
-- McCoy to Spock, on the long-term effects of the Zetarian possession of Mira
TOS/"The Lights of Zetar"
"But you can't deny, Captain, that you're still a dangerous, savage child-race."
-- Q to Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Star Trek: The Next Generation/ "Encounter at Farpoint"
"You see of all the species, yours cannot abide stagnation. Change is at the heart of what you are. But change into what? That's the question!"
-- Q to Commander William Riker
TNG/"Hide and Q"
"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...'"
"Surely you don't see your species like that, do you?!"
"I see us one day becoming that, Q. Is it that which concerns you?"
-- Picard and Q
Source: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2
TNG/"Hide and Q"
"You humans are puny. Weak."
"But our spirit is indominatable."
-- Armus and Picard
TNG/"Skin of Evil"
"A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of 'things.' We have eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy."
-- Picard to Ralph Offenhouse
TNG/"The Neutral Zone"
"It's a blessing to understand that we are special...each in his own way."
-- Woman to Lieutenant Geordi La Forge
TNG/"Loud as a Whisper"
"Haven't we grown beyond the point where we resolve our problems with physical conflict?"
-- Dr. Katherine Pulaski to Riker
TNG/"The Icarus Factor"
"You see, lad, every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain."
-- Danilo Odell to Lieutenant Worf
TNG/"Up the Long Ladder"
"They're so different."
"It is the differences that have made us strong."
-- Prime Minister Granger and Picard, on the group of people about to join Granger's colony
TNG/"Up the Long Ladder"
"Different in appearance, yes. But we are both living beings -- we are born, we grow, we live, and we die. In all the ways that matter, we are alike!"
-- Picard to Nuria. The captain tries to convince Nuria that though he is an alien to her world, his people are no different from her people TNG/"Who Watches the Watchers?"
"There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions -- no pain. And yet you covet those qualities of humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you...you're a better human than I."
-- Q to Lieutenant Commander Data, on Q's punishment to live as a human
TNG/"Deja Q"
"Being afraid all of the time of forgetting somebody's name. Not...not knowing what to do with your hands...I mean, I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there's a party. And then when he finally gets there, he winds up alone in the corner trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant."
-- Lieutenant Reginald Barclay to La Forge
TNG/"Hollow Pursuits"
"All this magnificent technology, we still find ourselves susceptible to the ravages of old age. The loss of dignity, the slow betrayal of our bodies by forces we cannot master."
-- Picard to Data
TNG/"Sarek"
"Is that not part of the human experience -- growth and change?"
-- Data to Wesley Crusher
TNG/"Ménage à Troi"
"When the Borg destroyed my world, my people were scattered throughout the universe. We survived. As will humanity survive. As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive. You will prevail. Even if it takes a millennium."
-- Guinan to Picard
TNG/"The Best of Both Worlds, Part I"
"You know what the worst part of growing old is? So many of the people you've known all your life are gone...and you realize you didn't take the time to appreciate them while you still could...."
-- Dr. Dalen Quaice to Dr. Beverly Crusher
TNG/"Remember Me"
"There is something to be learned when you're not in control of every situation."
-- Counselor Deanna Troi to Riker
TNG/"The Loss"
"If being human is not simply a matter of being born flesh and blood...if it is...