Kirk:
"Risk. Risk is our business. That's what
this starship is all about. That's why
we're aboard her."
McCoy :
"Let's get back to this solid rock
business."
Thalassa:
"Oblivion together does not frighten me,
beloved."
McCoy:
"Vulcans worship peace above all."
Sargon:
"There comes to all races an ultimate
crisis which you have
yet to face... One day our minds became
so powerful we dared think of ourselves
as gods."
Kirk:
"They used to say, if man could fly,
he'd have wings. But he did fly; he
discovered he had to. Do you wish that
the first Apollo mission hadn't reached
the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to
Mars and then to the nearest star?
That's like saying you wish that you
still operated with scalpels and sewed
your patients up with catgut, like your
great, great, great-grandfather used to
do... Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out
the enormous danger
potential in any contact with life and
intelligence as fantastically advanced
as this. But I must point out that
the possibilities -- the potential for
knowledge and advancement is
equally great. Risk -- risk is our
business."
Kirk: "We faced a
crisis in our earlier nuclear age. We found the wisdom not to
destroy ourselves."