Spock's Series Quotes

  1. Spock: "There were no survivors in the encampment. This was all some sort of trap. We've lost the captain." -- The Cage, Stardate Unknown, Episode 1
  2. Spock: "I'll have you checkmated your next move." -- Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  3. Spock: "He played most illogically. His next move should have been the rook." -- Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  4. Spock: "I felt for him (Gary) too." Kirk: "Spock, there may be hope for you yet." -- Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate 1312.4, Episode 2
  5. "If you're asking for the logical decision to make..." -- Spock, "No, I'm not. The mission of this vessel is to seek out and contact alien life." -- Kirk, "Isn't there some inefficiency in asking me advice on matters you've already decided?" -- Spock, The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  6. "Radiation now passing the danger level, entering lethal zone." -- Spock, The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  7. "Chess. When the opponent is outmatched...checkmate." -- Spock, "Is that your best advice." -- Kirk, "I'm sorr...I regret that I can come up with no other logical alternative." -- Spock, The Corbomite Maneuver, Stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  8. "State your name for the record." -- Spock, "Leo Francis Walsh." -- Harry Mudd, "Incorrect." -- computer, "(sigh) State your real name for the record." -- Spock, Mudd's Women, Stardate 1329.1, Episode 4
  9. "Space debris, same as before...except for...ONE CYLINDRICAL METAL OBJECT!!! -- Spock, Balance Of Terror, Stardate 1709.1, Episode 9
  10. "You Earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately." -- Spock, Dagger of the Mind, Stardate 2715.1, Episode 11
  11. "Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence." -- Spock, Dagger of the Mind, Stardate 2715.1, Episode 11
  12. "I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2812.7, Episode 14
  13. "Life and death are seldom logical." -- McCoy, "But attaining a desired goal always is." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2821.7, Episode 14
  14. "I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  15. "There are always alternatives." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  16. "It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  17. "No! Leave me!" -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  18. "By coming back and helping me, you may have destroyed your chances of rescue. The logical thing to do was to leave me." -- Spock, "Spock, I'm sick to death of your logic." -- McCoy, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  19. "Totally illogical, there was no chance." -- Spock, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  20. "You said there were always alternatives." -- Scotty, "I did? I may have been mistaken." -- Spock, "Well at least I lived long enough to hear that." -- McCoy, The Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  21. "I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose." -- Spock, The Squire of Gothos, Stardate 2124.5, Episode 18
  22. "Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal." -- Spock, The Alternative Factor, Stardate 3088.7, Episode 20
  23. "There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." -- Spock, A Taste Of Armageddon, Stardate 3193.9, Episode 23
  24. "Please move away or you may be injured." -- Spock, A Taste Of Armageddon, Stardate 3193.9, Episode 23
  25. "Superior ability breeds superior ambition." -- Spock, Space Seed, Stardate 3141.9, Episode 24
  26. "Insufficient facts always invite danger." -- Spock, Space Seed, Stardate 3141.9, Episode 24
  27. "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist." -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  28. "I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question." -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  29. "I love you...I can love you." -- Spock to Leila Kalomi, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  30. "Yes ... whatdidyouwant?" -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  31. "If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them." -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  32. "For the first time in my life, I was happy." -- Spock, This Side Of Paradise, Stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  33. "To kill it [The Horta], would be a crime against science." -- Spock, The Devil In the Dark, Stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  34. "Death is welcome. The murderers have won." -- The Horta speaking through Spock in the mind-meld, The Devil In The Dark, Stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  35. "Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash." -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  36. "We have a flop." -- Kirk, "A what?" -- Spock, "A place to stay for the night." -- Kirk, "One might have said so in the first place." -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  37. "You're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins." -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  38. "I am attempting to build a nemonic memory circuit, with stone knives and bearskins." -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  39. "I'll finish up down here." -- Spock, "...captain. Even when he doesn't say it, he does." -- Edith Keeler, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  40. "Save her...do what your heart tells you...and millions will die, who did not die before." -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  41. "NO, Jim!!!" -- Spock, The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  42. "Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled." -- Spock, Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  43. "I am also...quite blind." -- Spock, Operation: Annihilate!, Stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  44. "Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude." -- Spock, Metamorphosis, Stardate 3219.8, Episode 31
  45. "Virtue is a relative term." -- Spock, Friday's Child, Stardate 3499.1, Episode 32
  46. "Insults are effective only where emotion is present." -- Spock, Who Mourns for Adonais?, Stardate 3468.1, Episode 33
  47. "It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers." -- Spock, Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  48. Spock: "I burn." -- Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  49. Spock: "After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true." -- Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  50. Spock: "Live long and prosper, T'Pau."; T'Pau: "Live long and prosper, Spock."; Spock: "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain...and my friend." -- Amok Time, Stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  51. Kirk: "You mean you're the lunatic who's responsible for almost destroying my ship!"; Decker: "You are speaking to a senior officer, Kirk."; Kirk: "Get me Spock."; Decker: "I told you I am in command here according to every rule in the book, Captain. If you have anything to say at all you will say it to me."; Kirk: "There's only one thing I want to say to you Commodore, 'Get my ship out of there.'"; (pause) Kirk: "Mr. Spock, ship's status?"; Spock: "Commodore?"; Decker: "Down here."; Spock: "Warp drive out. Deflector shields down. Transporter under repair. We are on emergency impulse power."; Kirk: "How long to repair warp drive?"; Spock: "At least one solar day. At our present rate of consumption we'll exhause our impulse power long before then."; Sulu: "It's gaining on us, sir."; Kirk: "Take evasive action, Mr. Sulu."; Decker: "I told you I am in command here, and I will give the orders, Captain. We are going to turn and attack."; Kirk: "Not with my ship you don't. Mr. Spock, relieve Commodore Decker immediately. That's a direct order."; Decker: "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."; Decker: "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."; (pause) Spock: "Commodore I do not wish to place you under arrest."; Decker: "You wouldn't dare."; Spock: (motions to security personnel who then move toward Decker); Decker: "You're bluffing."; Spock: "Vulcans never bluff."; Decker: "No. No, I don't suppose that they do."; (pause) Decker: "Very well Mr. Spock, the bridge is yours." -- The Doomsday Machine, Stardate 4202.1, Episode 35
  52. Spock: "In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death ... even vegetarians." -- Wolf in the Fold, Stardate 3615.4, Episode 36
  53. Spock: "That unit is a woman."; Nomad: "A mass of conflicting impulses." -- The Changeling, Stardate 3541.9, Episode 37
  54. Spock: "May I point out that I have gotten a chance to examine your counterparts closly. They are brutal, savage, uncivilized and illogical. They are in evey way examples of homo-sapians, the very flower of humanity."; Kirk: "I'm not sure...but I think we've just been insulted."; McCoy: "I'M sure." -- Mirror, Mirror, Episode 39
  55. "That's right...you humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. 'You're welcome', I believe, is the correct response." -- Spock, Bread And Circuses, Stardate 4041.2, Episode 43
  56. "What would you have me say." -- Spock to McCoy, Bread And Circuses, Stardate 4041.2, Episode 43
  57. "It would be illogical to kill without reason." -- Spock, Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  58. "Vulcans do not approve of violence." -- Spock, Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  59. "It [being a Vulcan] 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." -- Spock, Journey to Babel, Stardate 3842.4, Episode 44
  60. "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." -- Spock, "You admit that?" -- Mccoy, "To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor" -- Spock, A Piece of the Action, Stardate 4598.0, Episode 49
  61. "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him." -- Spock, The Ultimate Computer, Stardate 4729.4, Episode 53
  62. "Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on your human intuition." -- Spock, Assignment: Earth, stardate unknown, Episode 55
  63. "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all." -- Spock, The Enterprise Incident, stardate 5027.4, Episode 59
  64. "It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable." -- Spock, The Enterprise Incident, stardate 5027.3, Episode 59
  65. "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." -- Spock, "Or by misleading the innocent." -- McCoy, And The Children Shall Lead, stardate 5029.5, Episode 60
  66. "Without followers, evil cannot spread." -- Spock, And The Children Shall Lead, stardate 5029.5, Episode 60
  67. "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity." -- Dr. Miranda Jones, "And in the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty." -- Spock, Is There in Truth No Beauty?, stardate 5630.8, Episode 62
  68. "No one can guarantee the actions of another." -- Spock, Day Of The Dove, stardate unknown, Episode 66
  69. "Beauty is transitory." -- Spock, "Beauty survives." -- Kirk, That Which Survives, stardate unknown, Episode 69
  70. "Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion (love)." -- Spock, The Lights of Zetar, stardate 5725.6, Episode 73
  71. "Violence in reality is quite different from theory." -- Spock, The Cloud Minders, stardate 5818.4, Episode 74
  72. "Many 'myths' are based on truth." -- Spock, The Way to Eden, stardate 5832.3, Episode 75
  73. "The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile." -- Spock, "Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.'" -- Lincoln, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.4, Episode 77
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