Season 3

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Spock's Brain

Kara: "Brain and brain, what is brain?"

Kirk: "No one may kill a man.  Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned."

Kirk: "You'll learn to build houses to keep warm.  You'll work…. Humans have survived under worse conditions.  It's a matter of evolution.  Give it time."

Spock: "While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I cannot trust him to replace a brain."

McCoy: "Of course -- a child could do it!"

The Enterprise Incident

Romulan Commander: "I have heard of Vulcan integrity and personal honor.  There is a well-known saying, or is it a myth, that Vulcans are incapable of lying."

Romulan Commander (re: Romulan society): "As a Vulcan you will study it.  As a human, you would find ways to appreciate it."

Romulan Commander: "Romulan women are not like Vulcan females.  We are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion."

Romulan Commander: "Our people are warriors, often savage, but we are also many other pleasant things."

Romulan Commander: "You must have your own ship."

Spock: "It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable."

Spock: "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all."

Spock: "It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself."

Uhura: "The channels are open and you are tied in."

Trivia

The second time Spock "kills" Kirk during the TOS episodes.  The first was in Amok Time. 

The non-existent "Vulcan death grip" is introduced.

The Paradise Syndrome

Miramanee, Kirk's wife: "There are no lacings...how is this thing removed?"

Miramanee: "There is much time...for everything."

Miramanee: "Each kiss is as the first."

Miramanee: "The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last."

Salish: "Behold, the god who bleeds!"

And the Children Shall Lead

Don: "Parents like stupid things."

Kirk: "Most legends have their basis in facts."

Spock: "Without followers, evil cannot spread."

Spock: "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." 
McCoy: "Or by misleading the innocent."

Spock: "Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose - and excluding that which is painful."

Related Quotations

Man is the only animal that fears children. - Sparrow

Is There in Truth No Beauty?

Dr. Miranda Jones: "The Glory of creation is in its infinite diversity." 
Spock: "And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."

Dr. Jones: "Joy can be many things."

Kirk: "Most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness - one of the last of our prejudices."

Kirk: "We're all vulnerable in one way or another."

Kolios, the Medusan Ambassador (through Spock): "…aloneness.  You are so alone.  You live out your lives in this shell of flesh, self-contained, separate.  How lonely you are; how terribly lonely."

Kolios (through Spock): "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?"

Marvick: "She'll kill you if you love her."

Spock: "The ways our differences combine to create meaning and beauty!"

Spectre of the Gun

Kirk: "We fight only when there is no other choice.  We prefer the ways of peaceful contact."

Spock: "Physical reality is consistent with universal laws.  Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality…we judge reality by the responses of our senses.  Once we are convinced of the reality of a given situation, we abide by its rules."

Spock: "Physical laws simply cannot be ignored.  Existence cannot be without them."

Spock: "Mankind - ready to kill." 
Kirk: "That's the way it was in 1881." 
Spock: "I wonder how humanity managed to survive?" 
Kirk: "We overcame our instinct for violence."

Day of the Dove

Kang: "For the present, only a fool fights in a burning house."

Kirk: "In the heart, in the head, I won't stay dead."

Kirk: "If some day we are defeated, well, war has it fortunes, good and bad."

Kirk: "There's another way to survive: Mutual trust and help."

Klingon soldier: "Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."

Mara: "We have always fought. We must; we are hunters…tracking and taking what we need.  There are poor planets in the Klingon systems…we must push outward if we are to survive."

Spock: "No one can guarantee the actions of another." 

Spock: "Those who hate and fight must stop themselves.  Otherwise it is not stopped."

Spock: "I suggest that good spirits might make an effective weapon."

Trivia

Only TOS episode to show a female Klingon.

For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

McCoy: "Honesty is usually wise."

Natira: "Is truth not truth for all?"

Natira: "Is not that the nature of man and woman?  That the pleasure is in the learning of each other?"

Natira: "Until I saw you, there was nothing in my heart.  It sustained my life, but nothing more.  Now it sings!"

The Tholian Web

Spock: "We exist in a universe which co-exists with a multitude of others in the same physical space.  For certain brief periods of time, an area of their space overlaps an area of ours."

Spock: "In critical moments men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see." 

Plato's Stepchildren

Dionyd: "Too much love is dangerous." 
Eraclitus: "Cupid's arrow kills Vulcans."

Kirk: "Where I come from, size, shape or color makes no difference."

Kirk: "To us, killing is murder, even for revenge."

McCoy: "The release of emotion is what keeps us healthy.  Emotionally healthy, that is."

Parmen: "Uncontrolled, power will turn even saints into savages.  And we can all be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses."

Parmen: "Philosophic kings have no need of titles."

Spock: "I have noted that the healthy release of emotion is frequently unhealthy for those closest to you."

Trivia

First network television show to feature and inter-racial kiss.

Wink of an Eye

Deela: "We have the right to survive." 
Kirk: "Not by killing others."

Deela (re: human): "The species is capable of much affection."

Kirk: "A room should reflect its occupant."

The Empath

Kirk: "The best defense is a strong offense.  And I intend to start offending right now!"

Kirk: "Love and compassion are dead in you.  You're nothing but intellect."

Lal the Vian: "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know….  Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed by you.  Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive."

McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner."

McCoy: "I'm not an engineer."

McCoy: "I will not destroy life.  Not even to save my own."

Scott: "She must have been a pearl of great price."

Elaan of Troyius

Kirk: "It's been my experience that the prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other."

Kirk: "Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical.  That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim."

Kirk: "Be pleasant no matter how much it hurts."

Kirk: "Stop trying to kill each other, then worry about being friendly."

Whom Gods Destroy

Kirk: "...a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars"

Mara: "He's my lover and I have to kill him."

Spock: "As you wish."

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Chekov: "We are not killers."

Kirk: "The need to resort to violence and force has long since passed."

Lokai of Cheron: "You're from the planet Earth.  There is no persecution on your planet." 
Chekov: "There was persecution on Earth once; I remember reading about it in my history class."

Spock: "Yet you are pumping him full of your noxious potions, as if he were a human."

Spock: "Change is the essential process of all existence."

Spock: "The actual theory is that all life forms evolved from the lower levels to the more advanced stages."

 Sulu: "No one knows how he'll act under pressure."

The Mark of Gideon

Hodin: "The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred.  That the love of life is the greatest gift…we are incapable of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so deeply - life in every form from fetus to developed being."

Hodin: "The only tool diplomacy has is language."

Kirk: "Most people are afraid of being alone."

Odona: "It is like…when you see that the people have no hope for happiness…you feel great despair…your heart is heavy because you know you can do nothing…pain is like that."

Spock: "We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis."

Spock: "Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results."

That Which Survives

Losira: "Killing is wrong." 

Losira: "I am for you James Kirk."

Spock: "Beauty is transitory." 
Kirk: "Beauty survives."

Spock: "What is it in you humans that requires an overwhelming display of emotion in a situation such as this?  Two men pursue the only reasonable course of action indicated, and yet you feel that something else is necessary."

Spock: "I suggest you avoid emotionalism."

Sulu: "What a terrible way to die." 
Kirk: "There are no good ways."

The Lights of Zetar

McCoy: "When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous."

Spock (re: love): "Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion."

Requiem for Methuselah

Flint (re: loneliness): "It is thirst…it is a flower, dying in a desert…"

Flint: "Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing."

Flint: "To be human is also to seek pleasure.  To laugh - to dance."

Flint: "…the intellect is not all - but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors - wastes time in unprofitable pursuits."

Kirk: "Those pressures are everywhere - in everyone, urging him to what you call 'savagery.'  The private hells - the inner needs and mysteries - the beast of instinct.  As human beings, that is the way it is.  To be human is to be complex.  You can't avoid a little ugliness - from within - and from without."

McCoy: "…the things love can drive a man to - the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, and the glorious victories."

McCoy: "You'll never understand the things that love can drive someone to."

Spock: "The joys of love made her human, and the agonies of love destroyed her."

Spock: "Your primitive impulses will not alter the circumstances."

Spock: "Forget!"

The Way to Eden

Chekov: "I am proud of what I am. I believe in what I do."

Spock: "Many myths are based on truth."

Spock: "There are many who are uncomfortable with what we have created. It is almost a biological rebellion. A profound revulsion against the planned communities, the programming, the sterilized, artfully balanced atmospheres. The hunger for an Eden, where spring comes." 
Kirk: "We all do. The cave is deep in our memories."

The Cloudminders

Droxine: "And can nothing disturb this cycle?"

Kirk: "Light and warmth! That's necessary to all humanoids."

Spock: "Violence in reality is quite different from theory."

Spock (re: Ardana): "This troubled planet is a place of most violent contrasts.  Those who receive the rewards are totally separated for those who shoulder the burdens.  It is not wise leadership."

Spock: "Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing."

Spock: "All the little things you and I understand and expect from life, such as: equality; kindness; justice…."

 Spock: "To restrict a segment of the population to such hardship is unthinkable in an evolved culture."

Vanna the Troglyte: "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm." 
Kirk: "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt.  And that's what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries. A mistaken idea."

Vanna: "Hours can be centuries."

The Savage Curtain

Colonel Green: "History tends to exaggerate."

Colonel Green: "No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war." 
Surak: "He talks of peace if it is the only way to live."

Kirk: "We've each learned to be delighted with what we are."

Abraham Lincoln: "There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."

Spock: "The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile." 
Lincoln: "Yes…philosophy of 'nome,' meaning 'All.'"

Spock (re: bravery): "Men of peace usually are." 

Surak of Vulcan: "I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us."

Surak: "The face of war has never changed.  Surely it is more logical to heal than kill."

Uhura: "In our century, we've learned not to fear words."

Yarnek: "It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted."

Trivia

Scott wears a kilt.

All Our Yesterdays

Arresting officer: "I heard the spirit talk to him.  He answered and did call it 'Bones'."

Atoz of Sarpeidon: "A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it."

Zarabeth: "Do you know what it's like to be alone, really alone…?  …if that is not death, what is?"

Turnabout Intruder

Dr. Janice Lester (in Kirk's body): "Youth doesn't excuse everything."

Lester: "We could have roamed the stars together."

Scott: "It may not be scientific, but if Mr. Spock thinks it happens, then it must be logical."