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James T. Kirk Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“ Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 2: Metamorphosis
Tagged: Species, survive, Obstacles
“What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion for something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized but only dreamed, the highest reality?”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 2: I, Mudd
Tagged: Spirit, enterprise, Devotion
“Capt. Kirk: Bones, you ever hear of a doomsday machine?

Dr. McCoy: No, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 2: The Apple
Tagged: doomsday machine, I'm a Doctor
“[to Spock] All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed. We'll see about you deserting my ship.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: This Side of Paradise
Tagged: mutinous, disloyal, half-breed, mutiny
“Captain James T. Kirk: You suspect some danger?

Mr. Spock: Insufficient facts always invites danger, Captain.

Captain James T. Kirk: Well, I'd better get some facts.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: Space Seed
Tagged: danger, Facts
“Beam me up, Mr. Spock. We're free to go.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: The Squire of Gothos
Tagged: beam me up
“Capt. Kirk: You're not going to admit that for the first time in your life you committed a purely human, emotional act?

Spock: No, sir.

Capt. Kirk: Mr. Spock, you're a stubborn man.

Spock: Yes, sir.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: The Galileo Seven
Tagged: emotions, Logic, stubborn
“There's no such thing as the unknown—only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: The Corbomite Maneuver
Tagged: unknown, understood
“One of the advantages of being a captain, Doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: Dagger of the Mind
Tagged: doctors, Advice
“There's nothing wrong with you that hasn't gone wrong with every other human male since the model first came out.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: Charlie X
Tagged: humans, imperfect
“Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: Charlie X
Tagged: perseverance, hang on tight, survive
“It's a mystery. And I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: The Man Trap
Tagged: Mystery, bellyache
“You could learn something from Mr. Spock, Doctor. Stop thinking with your glands.”
— James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Season 1: The Man Trap
Tagged: glands, Thinking, Logic
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