Kirk quotes from Star Trek: The Animated Series

Kirk

If children are made totally dependent on the teachers, they'll never be anything but children.

It's beautiful. What kind of people could have built it? To touch even a starship with grace and beauty?

Kirk

A civilization that advanced 300 million years ago before life even emerged on Earth.

McCoy

Barely an instant in eternity, Jim.

You appear to have a propensity for trespassing in Neutral Zone, Captain Kirk.

Kirk

It was not deliberate, I assure you.

It never is.

It's a mobile plant. When it stops, its roots bore back into the ground. They're all over the place. I think it likes me.

Kirk

We always encourage our officers to make friends with the natives.

Kirk

Does it really matter, Bones?

Spock

It just might, Captain. If he was, this would be the second time Lucifer was cast out. And thanks to you, the first time he was saved.

Spock

The Queen of Hearts and her cards are characters from Alice Through the Looking Glass, Captain.

Kirk

I read the book as a child, Mr. Spock, but I wasn't aware you indulged in the literature of fantasy.

Spock

Light reading is considered relaxing, Captain. My mother was particularly fond of Lewis Carroll's work.

You will fail.

Kirk

We must try, Xerius. Elysia is, in many respects, a perfect society. But with all its virtues, it is not home. And home with all its faults... is where we prefer to be.

Kirk

The captain of a ship, no matter his rank, must follow the book.

Spock

A capability, I'm afraid, out of the reach of most humans.

McCoy

You Vulcans are the most impossible, unimaginative...

Kirk

Bones, that's not helping the situation.

Close

Spock

Far too close, Captain. I appreciate your action on my behalf, but your first duty is to the group and the mission.

Kirk

Quite right, Spock. And that responsibility includes not losing the best science officer in Starfleet.

You two going to argue honors or are we going to get on with it?

Kirk

That's it. End of a long hard journey.

We still have to go back, James. I'd tell you true, I find you an attractive man. If we were...together, the trip'd be easier. And if anything happened, why... we'd have some green memories.

Kirk

I already have... a lot of green memories.

McCoy

What's the use of being a doctor anyway? We're only as good as our drugs and technology make us. Underneath all the tricks, I might as well be practicing in the Middle Ages.

Kirk

If you really believed that, Bones, you wouldn't still be a doctor after 25 years.

Kirk

Mr. Spock, the difference is meaningless. In comparison, we're all still children.

In this one's case,Kirk Captain, this one is still an eggling.

Turn off those food synthesizers! We're knee-deep in deserts and they're still pouring out!

McCoy

Shall we tell them how they can reverse the effects of the field, Jim?

Kirk

Yes. But later. Let's not spoil their fun just yet.

Kirk

Now, now, Demos. You're hardly in a position to take on an entire crew.

And you are not in authority to conduct an investigation in our star system.

Kirk

You will remind me to report my conduct to the Federation, won't you, Mr. Spock?

Spock

Of course, Captain.

No matter where I've traveled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else.

Kirk

Yes, Commodore, I know the feeling.

To me she was always like my child. I was there in the San Francisco navy yards when her unit components were built.