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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."
   
Spock: "Live long and prosper."
   
Kirk: "I suppose most of us overlook that fact that even Vulcans aren't indestructible."
   
Spock: "We shield it with ritual and custom shrouded in antiquity. You humans have no conception. It strips our minds from us. It brings a madness which rips away the veneer of civilization. It is the "pon-far" -- the time of mating."
   
McCoy: "You're dead, Jim."
   
McCoy: "You can't tell me that when you first saw Jim alive, that you weren't on the verge of an emotional scene that would have brought the house down!"
Spock: "Merely my quite logical relief that Starfleet had not lost a highly proficient captain.
Kirk: Yes, Mr. Spock, I understand."
McCoy: "Of course, Mr. Spock, your reaction was quite logical. In a pig's eye!"
   
McCoy: "Is this Vulcan chivalry? The air's too hot and thin for Kirk. He's not used to it."
T'Pau: "The air is the air."