DeForest Kelley: McCoy
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McCoy : [1:24:46] Tearing of the middle meningeal artery...
Doctor #1 : What's your degree in, dentistry?
McCoy : How do YOU explain slowing pulse, low respiratory rate and coma?
Doctor #1 : Fundascopic examination!
McCoy : Fundascopic examination is unrevealing in these cases!
Doctor #1 : A simple evacuation of the epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure!
McCoy : My God man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer! The artery must be repaired! Now, put away your butcher's knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!
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Kirk : Mr. Spock, have you accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry program?
Spock : Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so... I will make a guess.
Kirk : A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary.
Spock : [to Dr. McCoy] I don't think he understands.
McCoy : No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.
Spock : Then you're saying...
[pause]
Spock : It is a compliment?
McCoy : It is.
Spock : Ah. Then, I will try to make the best guess I can.
McCoy : Please do.
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Kirk : Out of the way...
Shore Patrolman : Sorry, Doctor, I have strict orders...
Dr. Gillian Taylor : [Gillian moans in pain]
McCoy : My God, man. Do you want an acute case on your hands? This woman has immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distention. Now, out of the way! Get out of the way!
[They enter the operating room]
Kirk : What did you say she has?
McCoy : Cramps.
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McCoy : [1:23:00] What's the matter with you?
Elderly patient : [weakly] Kidney
[pause]
Elderly patient : dialysis.
McCoy : [geniunely surprised] Dialysis?
[musing to himself]
McCoy : What is this, the Dark Ages?
[He turns back to the patient and hands her a large white pill]
McCoy : Here,
[pause]
McCoy : you swallow that, and if you have any more problems, just call me!
[He pats her cheek and leaves]
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McCoy : [18:57] Perhaps, we could cover a little philosophical ground. Life
[pause]
McCoy : Death
[pause]
McCoy : Life.
[pause]
McCoy : Things of that nature.
Spock : I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
McCoy : C'mon, Spock, it's me, McCoy. You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?
Spock : It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.
McCoy : You're joking!
Spock : A joke
[pause]
Spock : is a story with a humorous climax.
McCoy : You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?
Spock : Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls.
McCoy : I don't doubt it.
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McCoy : You sure this is such a bright idea?
Kirk : What do you mean?
McCoy : [referring to Spock] I mean him! Back at his post like nothing happened. I don't know if you got the whole picture or not, but he's not quite operating on all thrusters!
Kirk : It'll come back to him.
McCoy : Are you sure?
[Kirk doesn't answer]
McCoy : That's what I thought.
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Spock : Ready to engage computer, Admiral.
Kirk : What's our target in time?
Spock : Late twentieth century.
Kirk : Can you be more specific?
Spock : Not with this equipment. I've had to program some of the variables from memory.
Kirk : What are some of the variables?
Spock : The availability of fuel components, mass of the vessel through a time continuum, and probable location of humpback whales - in this case, the Pacific Basin.
Kirk : And you programmed all that from memory?
Spock : I have.
McCoy : Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
Spock : [recognizing the quote] Hamlet, Act One, Scene Four.
Kirk : [smiling] No doubt about your memory, Spock. Engage computers. Prepare for warp speed.
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McCoy : You're going to try time traveling in this rustbucket?
Kirk : Well, we've done it before.
McCoy : Sure, you slingshot around the Sun, pick up enough speed - You're in time warp. If you don't, you're fried.
Kirk : I prefer it to nothing.
McCoy : I prefer a dose of common sense! You're proposing that we go backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them foward in time, drop 'em off, and hope to Hell they tell this probe what to do with itself!
Kirk : That's the general idea.
McCoy : Well, that's crazy!
Kirk : You've got a better idea?
[pause]
Kirk : Now's the time.
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[Kirk is pacing back and forth, considering a below-decks room in the Klingon ship for possible whale transport]
Kirk : Scotty, how long is this bay?
Scotty : About sixty feet, Admiral.
Kirk : Can you enclose it to hold water?
Scotty : [laughs] I suppose I could. You planning to take a swim?
McCoy : [sourly] Off the deep end, Mr. Scott!
Kirk : We got to find some humpbacks.
Scotty : Humpbacked... people?
Kirk : Whales, Mr. Scott, whales! Forty to fifty feet long and about 40 tons each.
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McCoy : My God, man! Drilling holes in his head isn't the answer! Now put away your butcher knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!
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McCoy : The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
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Scotty : Well, this is a fine place you have here, Dr. Nichols.
Dr. Nichols : Thank you. I must say, Professor, your knowledge of engineering is most impressive.
Scotty : Yes.
McCoy : Back home, we call him the miracle worker.
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Scotty : I noticed you're still working with polymers.
Dr. Nichols : Still? What else would I be working with?
Scotty : Aye, what else, indeed? I'll put it another way. How thick would a piece of your Plexiglass need to be, at 60 feet by 10 feet, to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
Dr. Nichols : Oh, that's easy. Six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
Scotty : I, uh, noticed. Now suppose, just suppose, I were to show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job, but be only one inch thick. Would that be worth something to you, eh?
Dr. Nichols : You're joking.
McCoy : Perhaps the professor could use your computer.
Dr. Nichols : Please.
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McCoy : You'd think they could at least send a ship. It's bad enough to be court-martialed and spend the rest of our lives mining borite, but to have to go home in this Klingon flea trap...
Kirk : We could learn a thing or two from this flea trap. It's got a cloaking device that cost us a lot.
McCoy : I just wish we could cloak the stench.
