Star Trek: Generations (1994)

William Shatner: Kirk

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• Kirk : Captain of the Enterprise, huh?

  Picard : That's right.

  Kirk : Close to retirement?

  Picard : I'm not planning on it.

  Kirk : Well let me tell you something. Don't! Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do *anything* that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.

  Picard : Come back with me. Help me stop Soran. Help make a difference again!

  Kirk : Who am I to argue with the captain of the Enterprise? What's the name of that planet? Veridian III?

  Picard : That's right.

  Kirk : I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim?

  Picard : You could say that.

  Kirk : You know if Spock were here, he'd say I was an irrational, illogical human being for going on a mission like that.

  [pause] 

  Kirk : Sounds like fun!

• Kirk : Did we do it? Did we make a difference?

  Picard : Oh, yes. We made a difference. Thank you.

  Kirk : Least I could do for the captain of the Enterprise.

  [last words] 

  Kirk : It was... fun. Oh, my...

• Kirk : [to Sulu's daughter, Demora]  Congratulations, Ensign. It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm.

• Chekov : I was never that young.

  Kirk : No, you were younger.

• [Kirk is invited to give a command to the new Enterprise-B] 

  Kirk : Take us out.

  Chekov : Very good, sir.

  Scotty : Brought a tear to my eye.

  Kirk : Oh, be quiet.

• Kirk : You left spacedock without a tractor beam?

  Harriman : It won't be installed until Tuesday.

• Kirk : You say history considers me dead. Who am I to argue with history?

  Picard : You're a Starfleet officer. You have a duty!

  Kirk : I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one.

• Kirk : [to Harriman]  Risk is part of the game if you want to sit in that chair.

• Picard : Good luck, Captain.

  Kirk : Call me Jim!

• Scotty : Finding retirement a little lonely, are we?

  Kirk : You know, I'm glad you're an engineer. With tact like that, you'd make a lousy psychiatrist.

• Kirk : [after being saved from Soran]  I thought you were headed for the launcher.

  Picard : I changed my mind; Captain's prerogative!

• Kirk : Load torpedo bays. Prepare to fire at my command.

  Demora : Captain, we don't have any torpedoes.

  Kirk : [to Captain Harriman]  Don't tell me. Tuesday.

• [first lines] 

  [the journalists are all talking at the same time, trying to get their questions in] 

  Journalist #3 : How does it feel to be back on the Enterprise bridge?

  Journalist #1 : Captain Chekov, what are the most significant changes...

  Journalist #3 : Captain Kirk, can I ask you a few questions?

  Journalist #1 : Did you participate in the redesign?

  Journalist #3 : We'd like to know how you feel about being...

  Kirk : I appreciate the...

  Harriman : Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. There will be plenty of time for questions later. I'm Captain John Harriman and I'd like to welcome you all aboard.

  Kirk : It's our pleasure.

  Harriman : I just want you to know how excited we all are to have a group of living legends with us on our maiden voyage. I remember reading about your missions when I was in grade school.

  Kirk : Oh, really? Well, may we have a look around?

  Harriman : Please. Please.

• Picard : This is not your bedroom.

  Kirk : No, it's not. It's better.

• Kirk : I was like you once, so worried about duty and obligation I couldn't see past my own uniform. And what did it get me? An empty house. Not this time. This time, I'm gonna walk up these stairs, march into that bedroom, and tell Antonia I want to marry her. This time, it's gonna be different.

  Picard : [following him, he finds himself in a horse stable]  This is not your bedroom.

  Kirk : No, it's not. It's better.

  Picard : Better?

  Kirk : This is my uncle's barn in Idaho. I took this horse out for a ride 11 years ago on a spring day.

  [opening the barn door] 

  Kirk : Like this one. If I'm right, this is the day I met Antonia. This Nexus of yours, very clever. I can start all over again and do things right from day one.

• Harriman : Captain Kirk - I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.

  Kirk : First - move us within transporter range and beam those people aboard the Enterprise.

  Harriman : What about the gravimetric distortions? They'll tear us apart.

  Kirk : Risk is part of the game if you want to sit in that chair.

  Harriman : Helm, close to within transporter range.

  Kirk : [to reporter shining a camera light into his face, pushing him away]  Second - turn that damn thing off.

• Kirk : Scotty, keep things together till I get back.

  Scotty : I always do.

  Lieutenant : [Minutes Later]  45 seconds to structural collapse!

  Kirk : Bridge to Captain Kirk!

  Kirk : Kirk here.

  Scotty : I don't know how much longer I can hold her together!

• Chekov : I'd like you to meet the helmsman of the Enterprise-B. Demora.

  [Demora steps forward] 

  Chekov : Ensign Demora Sulu.

  Demora : It's a pleasure to meet you, sir. My father's told me some interesting stories about you.

  Kirk : Your father is Hikaru Sulu?

  Demora : Yes, sir.

  Chekov : Oh, you've met her before, but she was...

  [he indicates the size of a small child] 

  Kirk : It wasn't that long ago. It couldn't have been more than...

  Chekov : Twelve years, sir.

  Kirk : Twelve years?

  Chekov : Absolutely.

  Kirk : Incredible.

• Scotty : [caught in the energy ribbon]  There's just no way to disrupt a gravimetric field of this magnitude.

  Lieutenant : Hull integrity at 82%.

  Scotty : But I do have a theory.

  Kirk : I thought you might.

• Lieutenant : [trying to rescue the El-Aurians on the Lakul]  Sir, I'm having trouble locking onto them. They appear to be in some sort of temporal flux.

  Kirk : [going to his station]  Scotty!

  Scotty : [joining them]  What the hell? Their life signs are phasing in and out of our space-time continuum.

  Kirk : Phasing? To where?

  Navigator : Sir, their hull's collapsing!

  Kirk : Beam them out of there, Scotty!

  Scotty : [as the Lakul is destroyed]  Transport complete. I got 47... out of 150.

• Journalist #3 : This is the first Starship Enterprise in 30 years without James T. Kirk in command. How do you feel about that, sir?

  Kirk : Oh, just fine. I'm glad to be here to send her on her way.

  Journalist #3 : And what have you been doing since you retired?

  Kirk : Keeping busy.

• Scotty : [on the Enterprise-B]  Damn fine ship if you ask me.

  Kirk : Scotty, it absolutely amazes me.

  Scotty : And what would that be, sir?

  Kirk : [glancing at Demora at her station]  Sulu. When did he find time for a family?

  Scotty : Well, like you always say, if something's important, you make the time.

• Kirk : Come on in. It's all right; it's my house. At least it used to be. I sold it years ago.

  Picard : I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship... Enterprise.

  Kirk : The clock.

  [going to a clock on a mantelpiece] 

  Kirk : I gave this clock to Bones.

  Picard : I'm from what you would consider the future, the 24th century.

  Kirk : [hearing a bark and seeing a dog in the doorway]  Butler!

  [petting him] 

  Kirk : Butler. How can you be here? He's been dead seven years.

  Antonia : [off-screen]  Come on, Jim. I'm starving. How long are you gonna be rattling around in that kitchen?

  Kirk : Antonia. What are you talking about? The future? This is the past. This is nine years ago.

  [opening a box and taking out a gold horseshoe] 

  Kirk : The day I told her I was going back to Starfleet.

  [going to the kitchen] 

  Kirk : These are Ktarian eggs, her favorite. I was preparing them to soften the blow.

  Picard : I know how real this must seem to you, but it's not. This isn't really your house. We are, both of us, caught up in some kind of temporal nexus.

  Kirk : [cracking the eggs into a skillet]  Dill.

  Picard : I beg your pardon?

  Kirk : Dill weed. In the cabinet, second shelf to the left. Behind the oregano.

• Picard : How long have you been here?

  Kirk : I don't know. I was aboard the Enterprise-B in the deflector control room, and...

  [handing him the skillet of eggs] 

  Kirk : Stir these, will you? The bulkhead in front of me disappeared, and then I found myself out there just now chopping wood right before you walked up.

  [taking the skillet back] 

  Kirk : Thanks.

  Picard : Look, uh, history records that you died the Enterprise-B from an energy ribbon 80 years ago.

  Kirk : You say this is the 24th century?

  Picard : Uh-huh.

  Kirk : And I'm dead?

  Picard : Not exactly. As I said, this is some kind of...

  Picard , Kirk : Temporal nexus.

  Kirk : Yes, I heard you.

  Picard : I, um...

  Kirk : Something is missing.

  [bread in a toaster pops up] 

  Picard : Captain, look, I need your help. I want you to leave the Nexus with me. We have to go back to a planet, Veridian III. We have to stop a man called Soran from destroying a star. Millions of lives are at stake.