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• There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life.
  This device [the universal translator] instantaneously compares the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar....
• It is the nature of our species to be free. -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8.
• Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice. -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3.
• Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
  -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8....
• We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life.
  We haven't begun to map them. -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8....
• Kirk: "Uh, the uh, Universal Translator was confiscated." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8
• Kirk: "We will not be the instigators of interstellar war on the eve of universal peace.
  -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• 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....
• I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
  -- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," stardate 1514.0....