Krall: Your captain... why did you sacrifice yourself for him?
Lieutenant Uhura: He would have done the same. And if he made it off that ship, he will come for us.
Krall: I am counting on it, Lieutenant Uhura.
Captain James T. Kirk: What happened to you out there... Edison?
Balthazar M. Edison: I have to say, Kirk, I've missed being me. We lost ourselves but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong.
Captain James T. Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.
Balthazar M.
Edison: I fought for humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan Wars! And for what? For the Federation to sit me in a Captain's chair and break bread with the enemy!
Captain James T. Kirk: We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.
Balthazar M. Edison: Captain's Log... I don't remember the stardate. All distress calls unanswered. Of the crew... only three remain. I WON'T ALLOW IT! The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce. They have some sort of... technology that prolongs... life. I will do whatever it takes for me and my crew.
The Federation do not care about us... You'll probably never see me again. But if you do... be ready.
Captain James T. Kirk: You lost! There's no way you can make it back there. Give up!
Balthazar M. Edison: What, like you did? I read your ship's log, Captain James T. Kirk! At least I know what I am! I am a soldier!
Captain James T. Kirk: You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace!
Balthazar M. Edison:
Peace... is not what I was born into.
[Uhura walks away and Bones walks up to Spock]
Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: You guys break up? What'd you do?
Commander Spock: A typically reductive inquiry, Doctor.
Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: You know, Spock, if an Earth girl says, uh, "it's me, not you," it's definitely you.
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [to Jaylah] Now, you're part of something bigger now, lassie. Right? Dinnae give up on that. 'Cause we'll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about.
Jaylah: Is that what you believe, James T.?
Captain James T. Kirk: All I know is we stand a better chance with you.
Lieutenant Uhura: I am Lieutenant Nyota Uhura of the U.S.S. Enterprise. And *you* have committed an act of war against the Federation.
Krall: Federation! Federation *is* an act of war.
Lieutenant Uhura: [glares at him] *You* attacked us.
Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: You didn't even try to get our time out here reduced.
Captain James T. Kirk: Why would I get reduced? Bones, we know our way through the nebula now. Can you imagine what we'll find?
Doctor 'Bones' McCoy: Alien despots hell-bent on killing us? Deadly spaceborne viruses and bacteria? Incomprehensible cosmic
anomalies that could wipe us out in an instant!
Captain James T. Kirk: It's gonna be so much fun.
Captain James T. Kirk: There's no such thing as the unknown, only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: This is the U.S.S. Franklin, sir. Can you believe it? First Earth ship capable of Warp 4. Went missing in the Gagarin Radiation Belt in the early 2160s.
Captain James T. Kirk: I remember that from the Academy. Captain Balthazar Edison.
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Aye.
Captain James T.
Kirk: One of the first heroes of Starfleet. How the hell did his ship end up here?
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: There's a lot of theories, sir. Surrendered to the Romulans. Captured by a giant green space hand. This far out, it's got to be a wormhole displacement.
Spock: Captain, the flight patterns of bees are determined by individual decisions. Krall's swarm formations are too complex not to rely on some form of unified cyberpathic coordination. I surmise that if we...
Captain James T. Kirk: [interrupts] Spock! Skip to the end.
Lieutenant Uhura: What he's saying is that if we disorient the
swarm, we can kick its ass!
Spock: Precisely.