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• We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of peaceful contact.
  -- Kirk, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3....
• Physical reality is consistent with universal laws.
  Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality -- we judge reality by the responses of our senses....
• Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
  -- Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3....
• It's [war is] instinctive. But the instinct can be fought.
  We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands!...
• Kirk: "We haven't fired." Spock: "Captain...according to our databanks we have.
  ..twice." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• Martia: "I'm Martia. You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume?
  Kirk: "How did you know that?" Martia: "We don't get many presidential assassins....
• There are many who are uncomfortable with what we have created.
  It is almost a biological rebellion. A profound revulsion against the planned communities, the programming, the sterilized, artfully balanced atmospheres....
• Scott: "Thank God." Uhura: "Did you see the way they *ate*?
  Chekov: "Horrible table manners." Spock: "I doubt that our behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy....
• Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome.
  You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die....