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• Our missions are peaceful -- not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice.
  -- Kirk, "The Squire of Gothos," stardate 2124.5....
• We fight only when there is no other choice.
• Mankind -- ready to kill. That's the way it was in 1881.
  I wonder how humanity managed to survive? We overcame our instinct for violence....
• 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....
• We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human -- and maybe that's the word that best explains us.
  -- Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3....
• Remmick: "We seek peaceful coexistence!" -- "Conspiracy", Stardate unknow
• Kirk: "We volunteered?!" -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6
• Kirk: "We come in peace." -- "The Apple", Stardate 3715.6.
• Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
  -- Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3....