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You welcome your children into the world knowing that if all goes the way you plan, you won't get to see the end of their story. It seems a sad notion until you realize that's what gives you hope for the future.
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Starship command is like comedy, Number One. Timing is everything.
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Drinkin' two-fisted are ya?" "It's all right, love--I'm a writer."
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Don't tell me," Burnham cut in. "It's ." Spock said nothing in response, but he could not help but appear mildly put out."
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But until today, I'd thought I was Sarek's greatest disappointment." "Unlikely," Spock said. "I am quite certain he has reserved that distinction for me."
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I read a report from Starfleet Command last year that said you'd met the Greek deity Apollo. I was just wondering . . . did that really happen?" Kirk glanced at someone off-screen, then his mouth curled upward with playful mischief. "I prefer to think that Apollo met me. . . . Enterprise out."
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Innocent people shouldn't be made to beg for their lives. The weak shouldn't have to kowtow to receive help, from us or anyone else.
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He raised his right hand to her in the classic Vulcan salute. "Live long and prosper, Michael Burnham." She returned the salute and felt for a moment as if she had found the brother she had never known she had always wanted. "Peace and long life, Spock."
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Perhaps I will not kill him in my sleep. At least, not tonight.
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How can I be lonely when I hate people?
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Pick up your feet, Mister Saru," Burnham said as she and Gant headed to the turbolift. "Time, tide, and transporters wait for no one."
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You would elevate tradition and societal approval over the expansion of knowledge. If anything deserves to be called 'illogical,' it is that.
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It took Saru a moment to realize he had been insulted twice in a matter of seconds. He clenched his fists and trembled like some overly anxious breed of small dog.
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Time seemed to slow as Chandra made a gut-twisting turn coupled with acceleration and a barrel roll, and guided the shuttle through a ragged gap in the rig's broken superstructure, like a fragile thread passing through a needle made of death.
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An 'appeal to authority' is a form of logical fallacy,
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Greg, I'm sorry, but you're not on the roster this time." "I'm NEVER on the roster. That's what I'm trying to tell you! Three years I've been on this ship, and now once have I ever been on a landing party." "Of course you haven't," "Dr. Nambue said. "You're a DENTIST."
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The two women carried a stretcher, on which was sprawled a civilian man whose face was a swollen mass of blue and purple over broken teeth stained with blood. "Whoa, what the hell happened to HIM?" "When the colonists surrendered, one of the hostages went off on him." Pike looked shocked. "One of our medics did that?" "A dentist, actually." "Oh. That makes sense."
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Time is short, Doctor," said Dax. "And the perfect is the enemy of the good. Make do with what we've got--and do it fast."
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How do you want to play it, Captain? Slow and steady, or shock and awe?
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Of course, there are numerous variables to consider before we can make effective use of this clue. We need to construct a virtual model of the galaxy as it existed approximately nine million years ago. We'll need to account for stars that have gone supernova in the past nine million years, and rule out those that have formed after that period. We'll also have to correct for the movement of this star system as it orbited the galactic center ..
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Fire at will! And for the love of the Great Bird of the Galaxy, hit something!
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We can fight for hope, or we can give in to despair. The choice is yours, Jean-Luc. Let me know what you decide.
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Never a dull day in Starfleet.
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You seem . . . I don't know. Older? No--calmer than you did before." She tilted her head as she continued to study him and collect her thoughts. "You present yourself in a way that feels more centered. Better balanced." Her smile broadened to a grin. "You have gravitas now."
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Spock! Do you have a plan?
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Bad enough to damage a world out of ignorance. But to do it willfully, in spite of knowing the truth . . . that's a breed of selfishness I just can't understand.
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A stack of children's books stood ready by Rene's bedside, and as Picard had begun the paternal duty of reading his boy to sleep, he had been impressed with his scion's growing vocabulary and seemingly insatiable appetite for narratives. By the time he cracked open the sixth tome of the evening's recitation, he began to question whether it would be unethical to let Crusher use a mild hypospray to hasten the boy's descent into slumber.
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Naturally, the majority of the population observed this historic milestone for their species by inebriating themselves halfway to the point of blindness and filling the streets with vomit. Far from all that madness and debauchery, Aaron Ikerson stood in the center of the ballroom
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Terminat hora diem, terminat auctor opus.
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
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Engineering, this is ops! Status report!
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She tapped her wrist, an ancient Terran gesture meant to signal impatience, one of the few things she remembered from early childhood on Earth.
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Spock split his attention between Burnham and the path ahead. "I doubt either of us would be welcomed among Vulcan crews. As quick as they are to profess the wisdom of IDIC, they remain in many ways quite provincial." It pained Burnham to admit to herself that Spock was likely correct. IDIC--the Vulcan philosophy that extolled the virtue of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations--all too often was honored in its breach rather than its ..
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She reminded him of the small team of Starfleet officers who had rescued him from certain death on his homeworld many years earlier. They, too, had given off the vibe of "evolved beings," a quality of their essential nature that had made them fascinating to him: sentient creatures who possessed the attributes of an apex predator, but also the empathy and compassion of a fellow prey animal."
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I'm surrounded by modernity, yet the ways of business remain unchanged since the age of barter and battery.
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