The Blue Origin flight crew aboard the New Shepard spacecraft included a Star Trek legend: actor William Shatner (aka Captain James T. Kirk). After today’s mission, the 90-year-old Shatner is now the oldest person to travel to space. In honor of Shatner’s historic flight, please enjoy this list of our favorite Star Trek quotes.
- “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”–Spock
- “Highly illogical.”–Spock
- “Live long, and prosper.”–Spock
- “Things are only impossible until they’re not.”–Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- “Insufficient facts always invite danger.”–Spock
- “Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.”–Dr. McCoy
- “We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we’re human–and maybe that’s the word that best explains us.”–Captain James T. Kirk
- “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.”–Khan Noonien Singh
- “I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.”–Surak
- “It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”–Captain Jean-Luc Picard to Data
- “I canna’ change the laws of physics.”–Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
- “KHAAANNN!”–Captain James T. Kirk
- “One man cannot summon the future.”–Spock
- “But one man can change the present!”–Kirk
- “Change is the essential process of all existence.”–Spock
- “It is the lot of ‘man’ to strive no matter how content he is.”–Spock
- “Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.”–Spock
- “Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.”–Captain James T. Kirk
- “You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And its flaw.”–Captain Cathryn Janeway
- “There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it.”–Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- “To boldly go where no man has gone before.”–Captain James T. Kirk
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