Mirror Spock quotes from Star Trek: The Original Series

Mirror Spock

It is time.

Kirk

In every revolution, there's one man with a vision.

Mirror Spock

Captain Kirk, I shall consider it.

Mirror Spock

One man cannot summon the future.

Kirk

But one man can change the present.

Kirk

What I don't understand is how you were able to identify our counterparts so quickly.

Spock

It was far easier for you as civilized men to behave like barbarians, than it was for them as barbarians to behave like civilized men. I assume they returned to their Enterprise at the same time you appeared here.

Kirk

Probably. However, that Jim Kirk will find a few changes, if I read my Spocks correctly.

McCoy

Jim, I think I liked him with a beard better. It gave him character. Of course, almost any change would be a distinct improvement.

Kirk

What worries me is the easy way his counterpart fitted into that other universe. I always thought Spock was a bit of a pirate at heart.

Spock

Indeed, gentlemen. May I point out that I had an opportunity to observe your counterparts here quite closely. They were brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous; in every way, splendid examples of homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity. I found them quite refreshing. [he returns to the science station]

Kirk

I'm not sure, but I think we've just been insulted.

McCoy

I'm sure.

Kirk

Are you trying to get yourself killed? Do you know how much Starfleet has invested in you?

Spock

One hundred, twenty-two thousand, two hundred—

Kirk

Never mind. But… thanks.

McCoy

Well, I don’t agree with you at all, Mr. Spock.

Spock

That's not unusual, Doctor.

Spock

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor.

McCoy

In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky.

Spock

I believe I said that, Doctor.

Kirk

Mr. Spock, relieve Commodore Decker immediately. That's a direct order.

You can't relieve me and you know it, according to regulations...

Kirk

BLAST REGULATIONS! Mr. Spock, I order you to assume command on my personal authority as Captain of the Enterprise.

Spock

Commodore Decker, you are relieved of command.

I don't recognize your authority to relieve me.

Spock

You may file a formal protest with Starfleet Command, assuming we survive to reach a Starbase, but you are relieved. Commodore, I do not wish to place you under arrest.

You wouldn't dare.

You're bluffing.

Spock

Vulcans never bluff.

No. No, I don't suppose that they do. Very well, Mr. Spock, the bridge is yours.

Kirk

Spock, comment.

Spock

Very bad poetry, Captain.

Kirk

A more useful comment, Mr Spock.

Kirk

If we weren't missing two officers and a third one dead, I'd say someone was playing an elaborate trick or treat on us.

Spock

Trick or treat, Captain?

Kirk

Yes, Mr Spock. You'd be a natural.

Kirk

Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents?

Well, actually, Kirk, as a defender of the free enterprise system, I found myself in a rather ambiguous conflict as a matter of principle.

Spock

He did not pay royalties.

Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!

Kirk

Who caught you?

That, sir, is an outrageous assumption.

Kirk

Yes. Who caught you?

I sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesiser.

Kirk

And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.

How'd you know?

Kirk

That's what I would have done.

It's typical police mentality. They've got no sense of humour. They arrested me.

McCoy

Oh, I find that shocking.

Spock

The guilty party has his choice: death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging...

The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was..."death". Barbarians! Well, of course, I...left.

Kirk

He broke jail.

I, er, I borrowed transportation -

Kirk

He stole a spaceship.

The patrol reacted in a hostile manner -

Kirk

They fired at him.

They've got no respect for private property, they damaged the bloody spaceship!

Spock

[pointing to Alice #27] I love you. [looking to Alice #210] However, I hate you.

But I am identical in every way with Alice 27.

Spock

Yes, of course. That is exactly why I hate you. Because you are identical.

Spock

Fascinating. [departs]

McCoy

There's nothing disgusting about it. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things.

You're as bad as it is.

Spock

Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless. It may indeed have been quite beneficial.

Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Maybe I'm a hundred and fifty years out of style, but I'm not going to be fodder for any inhuman monster. [leaves]

Spock

Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude.

Doctor, Doctor...

McCoy

Right here, Miss Hedford.

[speaking weakly from her fever] I heard. He was loved. And he resents it.

McCoy

You just rest.

I've always been good at my job. But I've never been loved. Never. What sort of a life is that? Never being loved. Never... to have shown love. And he runs away from love. [breaks down sobbing]

Amanda Grayson

After all these years among humans, you still haven't learned to smile.

Spock

Humans smile with so little provocation.

Spock

There is no logic in Gav's murder.

Perhaps you should forget logic and devote yourself to motivations of passion or gain; these are reasons for murder.

Spock

It means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life, which is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.

Amanda Grayson

When you were five years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished, because the other boys tormented you, saying that you weren't really Vulcan, I watched you knowing that, inside... that the human part of you was crying, and I cried, too. There must be some part of me in you, some part that I still can reach. If being Vulcan is more important to you, then you'll stand there speaking rules and regulations from Starfleet and Vulcan philosophy and... and let your father die, and... then I'll hate you for the rest of my life.

Spock

Mother...

Amanda

Oh, go to him. Now. Please.

Spock

I cannot. [gets slapped by Amanda, who leaves the room]