“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.” -Gene Roddenberry
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"...because Doctor 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. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her." - James T. Kirk. (ST: TOS)
"What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all, Number one, we’re only mortal. " - Jean-Luc Picard. (ST: TNG)
"Challenge your preconceptions or they will challenge you." - Prof. Velik. (ST: ENT)
"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are." - Jean-Luc Picard. (ST: TNG)
"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." - Jean-Luc Picard. (ST: TNG)
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard. (ST: TNG)
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured... the first thought forbidden... the first freedom denied – chains us all, irrevocably." - Judge Aaron Satie. (ST: TNG)
"But she, or someone like her, will always be with us. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. [...] Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we must continually pay." - Jean-Luc Picard. (ST: TNG)
"One man can summon the future." - T'Pol. (ST: ENT)
“A balance of power — the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all, but the only one that preserves both sides.” - James T. Kirk. (ST: TOS)
"We change. We have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles." - James T. Kirk. (ST: Kelvin)
“I have been — and always shall be — your friend.” - Spock. (ST: TOS)
"I am tired of lies. I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings, those longings all of my life, it is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need is your passion and your compassion. We have not injured you in any way and yet we are scorned and attacked and all because we are different. What we do is no different than what you do. We talk and laugh and complain about work and we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about our future and we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things you do with each other that is what we do. And for that we are called misfits and deviants and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?" -Soren. (ST: TNG)
“The purpose of logic is to problem-solve in an uncertain environment.” - Michael Burnham. (ST: DSC)
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