Star Trek Quotes

“There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it.” This is a great Star Trek Quotes from Captain Jean-Luc Picard that teaches us to see possibility in impossibility. In addition, the quotes from Mr. Spock and Captain James T. Kirk are quite inspirational.

If you don’t know about Star Trek, let me tell you that it is a prevalent space exploration TV series from the 1960s which means more than 60 years old. This cycle even continues today. Star Trek 4 is also likely to release in 2023.

This science-fiction franchise was started by American television screenwriter and producer Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. Many video games, novels and comic books have been created from this series.

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Star Trek Creator, producer and writer
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Star Trek Creator, producer and writer

Star Trek has generated nearly $10.6 billion in revenue so far, declaring it the world’s highest-grossing media franchise.

The fanbase of Star Trek is so huge. Star Trek fans have got a new name, too. Its fans are known as “trekies” or “trekkers”. The series ushered in a new era of science fiction films. It was also the first series to feature multiracial actors in the American entertainment industry.

Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk
Commander Spock and Captain James T. Kirk

The Star Trek series stunned the film world in its time. Because there have been many such changes in it that no one would have seen before. And we all know how difficult it is to change any rote running tradition. I think “Change is the hardest thing to achieve.”

All these things make “Star Trek” historic from other series and movies. In this post, I have collected some topmost quotes from the new and old Star Trek series. So read, learn and enjoy.

Best Star Trek Quotes :

Best Star Trek Quotes
Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold. — Khan Noonian Singh

I canna’ change the laws of physics. — Montgomery Scott

Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. — Dr. McCoy

A lie is a very poor way to say hello. — Edith Keeler

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records. — Vina

A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it. — Mr. Atoz

Best Star Trek Quotes
You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. — Captain Cathryn Janeway

Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive. — Lai the Vian

When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous. — Dr. McCoy

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. — Dr. Boyce

It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid. — Q

Best Star Trek Quotes
There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it. — Star Trek Quotes

To all mankind – may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth. — Garth

Matter of internal security – the age-old cry of the oppressor. — Gene Roddenberry

Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. — Jean-Luc Picard

Things are only impossible until they’re not. — Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek Quotes
It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life. — Star Trek Quotes

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments. — Diane Duane

I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! — Samuel T. Cogley

To survive is not enough. To simply exist… is not enough! — Roga Danar

The intellect is not all… but its cultivation must come first, or the individual makes errors… wastes time in unprofitable pursuits. — Flint

Star Trek Quotes About Time
Time is the fire in which we burn. — Star Trek Quotes

Those who want war will find causes, no matter how many of them you take away. ― Diane Duane

If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are. — Jean-Luc Picard

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. — Jean-Luc Picard

Death is the most hateful thing. Don’t allow the destruction of what you can never restore. — Diane Duane

Spock Star Trek Quotes :

Spock Star Trek Quotes
Insufficient facts always invite danger. — Star Trek Quotes

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose. — Mr. Spock

Emotions are alien to me. I’m a scientist. — Mr. Spock

You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true. — Mr. Spock

Insults are effective only where emotion is present. — Mr. Spock

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. — Mr. Spock

Spock Star Trek Quotes on Change
Change is the essential process of all existence. — Star Trek Quotes

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. — Mr. Spock

I fail to comprehend your indignation. I have simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar. — Mr. Spock

It is the lot of ‘man’ to strive no matter how content he is. — Mr. Spock

When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Mr. Spock

Spock Star Trek Quotes
Superior ability breeds superior ambition. — Star Trek Quotes

Time is fluid…like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. — Mr. Spock

Violence in reality is quite different from theory. — Mr. Spock

One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present! — Mr. Spock

Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. — Mr. Spock

Spock Star Trek Quotes
Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. — Star Trek Quotes

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. — Mr. Spock

You earth people glorified organized violence for forty centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately. — Mr. Spock

How often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want. — Mr. Spock

Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose and excluding that which is painful. — Mr. Spock

Spock Star Trek Quotes About Genius
Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. — Star Trek Quotes

Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth. — Mr. Spock

Instruments register only through things they’re designed to register. Space still contains infinite unknowns. — Mr. Spock

Without followers, evil cannot spread. — Mr. Spock

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. — Mr. Spock

Captain Kirk Star Trek Quotes :

Captain Kirk Star Trek Quotes
It’s time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned. — Star Trek Quotes

The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other. — James T. Kirk

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. — James T. Kirk

Perhaps the man wasn’t meant for paradise. Maybe he was meant to claw, to scratch all the way. — Captain Kirk

Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die. — James T. Kirk

Captain Kirk Star Trek Quotes on Human
To be human is to be complex. You can’t avoid a little ugliness from within and from without. — Star Trek Quotes

It’s hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm. — James T. Kirk

To boldly go where no man has gone before. — James T. Kirk

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you know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things are temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. — James T. Kirk

If man was meant to fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. — James T. Kirk

Captain Kirk Star Trek Quotes on Freedom
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. — Star Trek Quotes

A species that enslave other beings is hardly superior – mentally or otherwise. — James T. Kirk

“We the people” … these words and the words that follow … must apply to everyone or they mean nothing. — James T. Kirk

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. — James T. Kirk

I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing. — James T. Kirk