Kirk, Admiral Reeger and others in “Unfinished Business”

You said in the chair, there's no hiding who you are. Well, George Kirk wasn't afraid of command, was he? You were injured at the Battle of Zeta Reticuli! My father fought the Klingons and evacuated the medical base, not you. But you altered the logs and you took the credit!

I saved his career! He had no right to take that chair -- my chair! I was fine! I was going to be fine! I would've triumphed -- won that day! Yes, Constitution was damaged, but another ship would've come! All I needed was time to withdraw, regroup, and that's all!

You were incapacitated in the middle of a battle. If you had withdrawn, your ship would've been destroyed!

You don't know that, you were not there!

What I know is that George Kirk is the real hero, and you have been punishing him for it ever since! You made sure that he never got his own ship!

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT! That was my ship! My mission! My victory!

No. It was his. My father's. I am my father's son.