Star Trek Club

“Change is the essential process of all existence.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series

“Seize the time.  Live now!  Make now always the most precious time.  Now will never come again.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Seize the time.  Live now!  Make now always the most precious time.  Now will never come again.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series

“The more difficult the task, the sweeter the victory.” - William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot.  Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.  Vigilance is the price we must continually pay.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Being an outsider isn’t so bad.  It gives one a unique perspective.” - Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“ ‘With the first link, the chain is forged.  The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’  Those words were uttered as wisdom and warning.  The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Unexpected acts of kindness are common among our group.  That’s one of the ways we define ourselves.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

“The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“If you want to know who you are, it’s important to know who you’ve been.” - Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“There are certain things men must do to remain men.  Your computer would take that away.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series

“We all have a past.  What matters is now.” - Tom Paris, Star Trek: Voyager

“Most everyone has a moment in their lives when they exceed their own limits … achieve what seems to be impossible. … You almost always feel a sense of loss.  But it’s possible to carry something of that experience through the rest of your life-in ways that you’re not even aware of now.” - Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had.  Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” - Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Original Series

“If being human is not simply a matter of being born flesh and blood … if it is instead a way of thinking, acting … and feeling … then I am hopeful that one day I will discover my own humanity.  Until then, I will continue … learning, changing, growing … and trying to become more than what I am.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“In this galaxy, there’s a mathematical probability of three million earth-type planets … and in all the universe, three million million galaxies like this one.  And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us.” - Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Original Series

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series

“Too much of anything, even love, isn’t necessarily a good thing.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series

“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.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series

“Centuries ago in most places on Earth, only landowners of a particular gender and race had any rights at all.  Over time, those rights were extended to all humans, and later, as we explored the galaxy, to thousands of other sentient species.  Our definition of what constitutes a person has continued to evolve.  Now we’re asking that you expand that definition once more, to include our Doctor.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

“Buried deep within you, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man.  And that is what it is to be human.  To make yourself more than you are.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Nemesis

“Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life … learning to live with them.  No matter what the circumstances. … Sometimes it takes courage to try.  Courage can be an emotion too.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Generations

“A single Data is a curiosity, a wonder, but a thousand Datas, doesn’t that become a new race?  And aren’t we going to be judged as a species about how we treat these creations?  If they’re expendable, disposable, aren’t we?  What is Data?” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Poke your head up every once in a while.  Take a look around.  See what’s going on.  It’s life.  And you can miss it if you don’t open your eyes.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of.  There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove.  But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Consider that in the history of many worlds there have always been disposable creatures.  They do the dirty work.  They do the work that no one else wants to do, because it’s too difficult and too hazardous.  With an army of Datas, all disposable, you don’t have to think about their welfare, or you don’t think about how they feel.  Whole generations of disposable people.” - Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“One voice can be stronger than a thousand voices.  Your mind is independent now, with its own unique identity.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

“Omega’s too dangerous.  I won’t risk half the quadrant to satisfy our curiosity.  It’s arrogant, and it’s irresponsible.  The final frontier has some boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed, and we’re looking at one.” - Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

“We change.  We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek Beyond

“The most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is I do not know.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“We must strive to be more than what we are.  It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal.  The effort yields its own rewards.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“What seems to be impossible often is possible given the scientific analysis of the phenomenon.” - Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.  That is not a weakness; that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“In every revolution, there’s one man with a vision.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series

“There are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have.  It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series

“Without trust, there can be no friendship, no closeness.  None of the emotional bonds that make us what we are.  Love itself is a leap of faith.” - William Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future.  A man’s life, his future, hinges on each of a thousand choices.  Living is making choices.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“It is the unknown that defines our existence.  We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions.  We are explorers.  We explore our lives, day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge.” - Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“ ‘Impossible’ is a word that humans use far too often.” - Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager

“As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them.  The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent.” - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation

“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown.  But there’s no such thing as the unknown-only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.” - James T. Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series