To Boldly Go Grammar. I hate to critique captain kirk, but when he utters “to boldly go where no man has gone before,” he's technically breaking a grammar rule. “to go boldly” is the reverse, an iamb followed by a trochee, leading to a stress clash in the middle where the two stresses butt up against each other and then ending on a weaker unstressed.

The split infinitive to boldly go has also been the subject of jokes regarding its grammatical correctness. To seek out new life and new civilizations. Remember that a split infinitive occurs when an adverb or adverbial phrase is placed between to and the verb.