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	Spock: "An ancestor of mine maintained, that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
	Chancellor Gorkon: "I offer a toast: the undiscovered country . . . the future." Spock: "Hamlet: act three, scene one."
	Helmsman: "She'll fly apart." Capt. Hikaru Sulu: "Fly her apart then!"
	Kirk: "Please, let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight."
	Lt. Valeris: "Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them . . . hence the word: sabotage."
	Martia: "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain."
	McCoy: "Lock 'n' load!"
	Lt. Valeris: "A lie?" Capt. Spock: "An omission."
	Lt. Valeris: "A lie?" Capt. Spock: "An error."
	Capt. Spock: A lie?" Lt. Valeris: "A choice."
	Gen. Chang: "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!"
	Capt. Spock: "Doctor, would you care to assist me in preforming surgery on a torpedo?" McCoy: "Fascinating"
	Capt. James T. Kirk: "First rule of assassination: kill the assassins."
	Chancellor Gorkon: "You have not experienced Shakespeare, until you've read it in the original Klingon."
	Capt. Spock: "What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand!"
	Cmdr. Pavel Chekov: "Guess who's coming to dinner."
	Capt. James T. Kirk: "We surrender!"
	Spock: "The Lieutenant was the first Vulcan to be graduated at the top of her class at the academy." Kirk: "You must be very proud." Lieutenant: "I don't believe so sir." Bones: "She's a Vulcan all right."
	Kirk: "Scotty?" Mr. Scott: "Aye, sir." Kirk: "Did you find the engine room?" Mr. Scott: "Right where I left her sir."
	Chekov: "Course heading Captain?" Kirk: "Second star to the right--and straight on 'til morning."
	[Dictating his personal log.] Capt. Kirk: "Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?"
	[On whether to help the Klingons.] Kirk: "They're animals." Spock: "Jim, there is an historic opportunity here." Kirk: "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!" Spock: "They're dying." Kirk: "Let them die."
	Kirk: "Bones, are you afraid of the future?" Bones: "I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey." Kirk: "I don't mean this future." Bones: "What is this, multiple choice?"
	Chang: "I am constant as the Northern Star..." McCoy: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."
	Chang: "We need breathing room." Kirk: "Earth, Hitler, 1938."
	Spock: "Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."
	Spock: "What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand."
	Chancellor Gorkon: "You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."
	Spock: "There is the old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China."
	Spock: "If I were human I believe my response would be go to hell. ...If I were human."
	Spock: "What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity."
	Spock: "Mr. Scott, I understand you are experiencing difficulties with the warp engines?" Scott: "There's nothing wrong with the bloody -" Spock: "Mr. Scott, if the Enterprise responds to hails and returns to Starbase, there is a good chance that we will never see Captain Kirk or Doctor McCoy alive again." Scott: "Could take weeks, sir..."
	Chang: "I can see you Kirk. Can you see me?" Kirk: "Chang!" Chang: "Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

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