Kelvin Timeline

"Spock, nobody knows the rules better than you but there has got to be an exception!"

"If Spock were here and I were there... what would he do?"

"He'd let you die."

"A five year mission Spock! That's deep space, that's uncharted territory, think how incredible that's going to be!"

"Well sir volatile is all relative, maybe our data was off."

"Or maybe it didn't erupt because Mr. Spock detonated a cold fusion device inside it right after a civilisation that's barely invented the wheel happened to see a starship rising out of their ocean!"

"Had the mission gone to plan, Admiral, the indigenous species would not have been aware of our interference."

"That's a technicality!"

"I am Vulcan sir, we embrace technicality."

"That's your problem, you think you're infallible. You think you can't make a mistake. It's a pattern with you. The rules are for other people. And what's worse is, you're using blind luck to justify your playing god!"

"You're going to be my first officer. Admiral Marcus took some convincing. But every now and then I can make a good case."

"What did you tell him?"

"The truth. That I believe in you. That if anybody deserves a second chance it's Jim Kirk.

"I don't know what to say..."

"That is a first. It's going to be okay, son."

"You park at the edge of the neutral zone, you lock on to Harrison's position, you fire, you kill him, and you haul ass."

"That's what scares me! This is clearly a military operation... is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!"

"Attention John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked on to your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. And If you test me, you will fail."

"You misunderstand. It is true I chose not to feel anything on realising that my own life was ending. As Admiral Pike was dying I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing. Anger... confusion... loneliness... fear. I have experienced those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. Well I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite."

"Let me explain what's happening here. You are a criminal. I watched you murder innocent men and women. I was authorised to end you, and the only reason why you are still alive is because I am allowing it. So shut your mouth!"

"Oh, well now! If it isn't Captain James Tiberius Perfect-hair!"

"My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?"

"You're right! What I'm about to do, it doesn't make any sense. It's not logical, it is a gut feeling. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do... I only know what I can do. The Enterprise and her crew need someone in that chair who knows what he's doing. And it's not me. It's you, Spock."

"As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, yours alone. That being said... Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless, and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you."

"Did you defeat him?"

"At great cost... yes."

"Dammit man I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!"

"I thought he was helping us!"

"I'm pretty sure we're helping him."

"Well Kirk. Seems apt to return you to your crew. After all, no ship should go down without her Captain."

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

"Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead."

"Once we caught him, I synthesised a serum from his... super blood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal, power mad, despotic?"

"No more than usual."

"There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are. We are here today to re-christen the USS Enterprise and to honour those who lost their lives nearly one year ago. When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath. Words I didn't appreciate at the time. Now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words? Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, her five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence!"

"Spock... you are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is... which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide"

"Your father was captain of a Starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mothers... and yours. I dare you to do better."

"While the essence of our culture has been saved in the elders who now reside upon this ship, I estimate no more than ten thousand have survived. I am now a member of an endangered species."

"You asked me once why I married your mother. I married her because I loved her."

"Jim, I just lost my planet. I can tell you, I am emotionally compromised."

"I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony, than accept assistance from you."

"You got it. Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got."

"Pike made him first officer."

"You gotta be kidding me!"

"Thanks for the support."

"I'm coming with you."

"I would cite regulation but I know you will simply ignore it."

"See? We are getting to know each other."

"My dad joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare."

"You joined to see if you could live up to him. You've spent all this time trying to be your dad. Now you're wondering... what it means to be you."

"It isn't uncommon, you know. It's easy to get lost, in the vastness of space. There's only yourself, your ship, your crew."

"Is that classical music?"

"I believe so."

"Our Captain will come for us. And mercy will be the last thing on his mind."

"I am counting on it!"

"Fear of death is illogical."

"Fear of death is what keeps us alive."

"How are we gonna get out of this one, Spock. We got no ship, no crew. Not the best odds."

"We will do what we always done Jim, we will find hope in the impossible."

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

"Lieutenant Uhura wears a Vulcaya amulet which I presented to her as a token of my affection and respect."

"You gave your girlfriend radioactive jewellery?"

"The emission is harmless Doctor, but its unique signature makes it very easy to identify."

"You gave your girlfriend a tracking device?"

"...that was not my intention."

"Well I'm glad he doesn't respect me!"

"You cannot go to this place. Everyone who goes there, he kills."

"My wee Granny used to say, ye canna' break a stick in a bundle. You're part of something bigger now, lass. Don't you give up on that, because we'll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about."

"The world that I was born into was very different from yours, Lieutenant. We knew pain, we knew terror. Struggle made us strong - not peace, not unity. These are myths the Federation would have you believe."

"The Federation has pushed the frontier for centuries, but no longer. This is where it begins, Lieutenant. This is where the frontier pushes back."

"Spock! What are you doing here?"

"Clearly, I am here to rescue you."

"You take my house. And you make it fly!"

"Mister Sulu... you can, you know, fly this thing. Right?"

"Are you kidding me, sir?"

"We change. We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles."

"I read your ship's log, Captain James T Kirk. At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!"

"You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace."

"Peace... is not what I was born into."

"Better to die saving lives than live with taking them. That's what I was born into."

"For decades, the Federation thought that he was a hero. I guess time will judge us all."

"You saved this entire base, Kirk. Millions of souls. Thank you."

"It wasn't just me. It never is."

"Vice Admirals don't fly, do they?"

"No. They don't."

"No offence Ma'am, but... where's the fun in that?"

"Ambassador Spock has died."

"Oh Spock, I'm sorry. I can't imagine what that must feel like."

"When you have lived as many lives as he, fear of death is illogical."

"My name is Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the United Federation of Planets. I'm appearing before you as a neutral representative of the Fibonan Republic. I bring you a message of goodwill and present to you, esteemed members of the Teenaxi delegation, a gift from the Fibonan high council, with the highest regards."

"...excuse me?"

"Um, well, this was once a piece of an ancient weapon. And now they offer it as a symbol of... of peace. In the Fibonan culture to surrender a weapon is an offer of truce."

"They told me they acquired it a long time ago."

"No. Ummm..."