Chris Pine credited as playing...
Kirk
- Spock Prime: James T. Kirk!
- James T. Kirk: Excuse me?
- Spock Prime: How did you find me?
- James T. Kirk: Whoa... how do you know my name?
- Spock Prime: I have been and always shall be your friend.
- James T. Kirk: Wha...
- [shakes head]
- James T. Kirk: Uh... look... I-I don't know you.
- Spock Prime: I am Spock.
- James T. Kirk: Bullshit.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I may throw up on ya.
- James T. Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait'll you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
- James T. Kirk: Well, I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Yeah. Well, I got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.
- James T. Kirk: [on Spock] Who was that pointy-eared bastard?
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I don't know, but I like him.
- Spock Prime: What if I told you that your transwarp theory was correct, that is is indeed possible to beam onto a ship that is traveling at warp speed?
- Scotty: I think if that equation had been discovered, I'd have heard about it.
- Spock Prime: The reason you haven't heard of it, Mr. Scott, is because you haven't discovered it yet.
- Scotty: I'm s... Wha... It... Are you from the future?
- James T. Kirk: Yeah, he is. I'm not.
- Scotty: Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?
- Spock Prime: To stop Nero, you alone must take command of your ship.
- James T. Kirk: How? Over your dead body?
- Spock Prime: Preferably not.
- Christopher Pike: [whistles to break up fight between cadets and Kirk] Outside! All of you! Now!
- Christopher Pike: [to Kirk] You all right, son?
- Kirk: [Looks at him upside down and stunned] You can whistle really loud, you know that?
- James T. Kirk: Your ship is compromised, too close to the singularity to survive without assistance, which we are willing to provide.
- Spock: [speaking privately] Captain, what are you doing?
- James T. Kirk: Showing them compassion may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock. I thought you'd like that.
- Spock: No, not really. Not this time.
- Nero: [replying to the offer of assistance] I would rather suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times. I would rather die in agony than accept assistance from you.
- James T. Kirk: You got it! Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got!
- James T. Kirk: [hurling to his death with Sulu] Kirk to Enterprise. We're falling without a chute. Beam us up!
- Transport Chief: I'm trying. I can't lock onto your signal.
- James T. Kirk: Beam us up!
- Transport Chief: You're moving too fast!
- James T. Kirk: Beam us up!
- Pavel Chekov: I can do zat! I can do zat!
- James T. Kirk: Now, what is it with you, Spock? Hm? Your planet was just destroyed, your mother murdered, and you're not even upset!
- Spock: If you are presuming that these experiences in any way impede my ability to command this ship, you are mistaken.
- James T. Kirk: And yet you were the one who said fear was necessary for command. I mean, did you see his ship? Did you see what he did?
- [pause]
- Spock: Yes, of course I did.
- James T. Kirk: So are you afraid or aren't you?
- Spock: I will not allow you to lecture me about the merits of emotion.
- James T. Kirk: Then why don't you stop me?
- Spock: Step away from me, Mister Kirk.
- James T. Kirk: What is it like not to feel anger... or heartbreak... or the need to stop at nothing to avenge the death of the woman who gave birth to you?
- Spock: Back away from me.
- James T. Kirk: You feel NOTHING! It must not even COMPUTE for you! You NEVER loved her!
- [Spock snaps and attacks Kirk, nearly killing him]
- Sarek: SPOCK!
- [Spock regains control]
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Well, congratulations, Jim. We've got no captain and no god-damned first officer to replace him.
- Kirk: Yeah, we do.
- [Kirk sits himself into the captain's chair]
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: What?
- Hikaru Sulu: Pike made him first officer.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: You gotta be kidding me!
- Kirk: Thanks for the support.
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: I sure hope you know what you're doing...
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: [sarcastically] ... CAPTAIN.
- Kirk: So do I.
- Spock: [standing across Lt. Uhura before he and Kirk are about to be beamed onto the Romulan warship] I will be back.
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: [leaning in] You better be! I'll be monitoring your frequency.
- Spock: [actually quite emotional] Thank you, Nyota.
- James T. Kirk: [after Uhura leaves] So her first name's Nyota?
- Spock: I have no comment on the matter.
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: [During the Kobayashi Maru test] We are receiving a distress signal from the U.S.S. Kobayashi Maru. The ship has lost power and is stranded. Starfleet Command has ordered us to rescue them.
- James T. Kirk: [clearly enjoying himself] "Starfleet Command has ordered us to rescue them... CAPTAIN."
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [rolls his eyes] Two Klingon vessels have entered the Neutral Zone and are locking weapons on us.
- James T. Kirk: [Smugly] That's okay.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: "That's okay?"
- James T. Kirk: Yeah, don't worry about it.
- Test Administrator: Did he say "Don't worry about it?"
- Test Administrator: Is he not taking the simulation seriously?
- Christopher Pike: You know, I couldn't believe it when the bartender told me who you are.
- James T. Kirk: Who am I, Captain Pike?
- Christopher Pike: Your father's son.
- James T. Kirk: [Turns toward the bar] Can I get another one?
- Christopher Pike: For my dissertation, I was assigned the U.S.S. Kelvin. Something I admired about your Dad: he didn't believe in no-win scenarios
- James T. Kirk: Sure learned his lesson!
- Christopher Pike: Well, it depends on how you define winning. You're here, aren't you?
- James T. Kirk: [as beer is brought to him] Thanks.
- Christopher Pike: You know that instinct to leap without looking, that was his nature too. And in my opinion it's something Starfleet's lost.
- James T. Kirk: [laughing] Why are you talkin' to me, man?
- Christopher Pike: 'Cause I looked up your file while you were drooling on the floor. Your aptitude tests are off the charts, so what is it? You like being the only genius level repeat offender in the Midwest?
- James T. Kirk: Maybe I love it.
- Christopher Pike: Look, so your Dad dies. You can settle for a less than ordinary life, or do you feel like you were meant for something better? Something special? Enlist in Starfleet.
- James T. Kirk: [scoffs] Enlist!
- James T. Kirk: [laughs] You guys must be way down on your recruiting quota for the month!
- Christopher Pike: If you're half the man your father was, Jim, Starfleet could use you. You could be an officer in four years. You could have your own ship in eight. You understand what the Federation is, don't you? It's important. It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...
- James T. Kirk: Are we done?
- Christopher Pike: I'm done.
- Christopher Pike: [Gets up] Riverside Shipyard. Shuttle for new recruits leaves tomorrow morning, 0800.
- Christopher Pike: [pause] Now, your father was captain of a Starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's and yours. I dare you to do better.
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: I'm impressed. For a moment there, I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals.
- James T. Kirk: Well, not "only".
- [emphasis on "only. Uhura chuckles]
- Burly Cadet #1: This townie isn't bothering you, right?
- Lt. Nyota Uhura: Oh, beyond belief, but it's nothing I can't handle.
- James T. Kirk: You could handle me, if that's an invitation.
- Burly Cadet #1: Hey, you better mind your manners.
- James T. Kirk: Oh relax, cupcake, it was a joke.
- Burly Cadet #1: Hey, farm-boy, maybe you can't count, but there are four of us and one of you.
- James T. Kirk: So go get some more guys and then it'll be an even fight.
- Spock Prime: You are, in fact, the Mr. Scott who postulated the theory of transwarp beaming?
- Scotty: That's what I'm talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a... like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.
- James T. Kirk: Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
- Scotty: I'll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I don't know, I do feel guilty about that.
- Spock: [Kirk has been appointed captain, and the Enterprise is preparing to depart. Spock enters the bridge] Permission to come aboard, Captain.
- James T. Kirk: Permission granted.
- Spock: As you have yet to select a first officer, respectfully, I would like to submit my candidacy. Should you desire, I can provide character references.
- James T. Kirk: It would be my honor, Commander.
- Spock: [volunteering for what could be a suicide mission] Romulans and Vulcans share a common ancestor. Our cultural similarities will make it easier for me to access the ship's computer to locate the device. Also, my mother was human, which makes Earth the only home I have left.
- James T. Kirk: I'm coming with you.
- Spock: I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
- James T. Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.
- James T. Kirk: [still suffering from the vaccine] My mouth is itchy. Is that normal?
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Well, those symptoms won't last long. I'm going to give you a mild sedative.
- James T. Kirk: Oh, I wish I didn't know you.
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't be such an infant.
- [He jabs Kirk with a hypodermic needle]
- James T. Kirk: OWW! How long's it supposed to...
- [he suddenly collapses on the bed]
- Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [Shaking his head] Unbelievable.
- James T. Kirk: [to Spock] The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean, you programmed it to be unwinnable.
- Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.
- James T. Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios.
- Spock: Then not only did you violate the rules, you also failed to understand the principal lesson.
- James T. Kirk: Please enlighten me.
- Spock: You of all people should know, Cadet Kirk, a captain cannot cheat death.
- James T. Kirk: [reminiscing] I of all people...
- Spock: Your father, Lieutenant George Kirk, assumed command of his vessel before being killed in action, did he not?
- James T. Kirk: I don't think you like the fact that I beat your test.
- Spock: Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.
- James T. Kirk: Enlighten me again.
- Spock: The purpose is to experience fear, fear in the face of certain death, to accept that fear, and maintain control of oneself and one's crew. This is the quality expected in every Starfleet captain.