Eldtreth Leader, Spock and others in “Unfinished Business”

We have been in conflict with a seditious faction for centuries. This is our opportunity to end that conflict.

Spock

Through mass murder?

Have your people never put down civil unrest?

Christopher Pike

Negotiation. Debate. These are the tools to build a lasting peace.

Tell me: Are there groups who refuse to negotiate with you? Powerful groups?

Christopher Pike

Oh, yes.

And with those?

Christopher Pike

You remember that, when elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. The Kikuyu people of Kenya, Africa, on Earth, they teach us that lesson every day.

You've given me a proverb, which is less useful than a big stick. Whoever has the biggest stick wins.