>>4317945 Make it so.
Engage.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!
If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous.
No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another.
Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
You may test that assumption at your convenience.
Shut up, Wesley!
