Leonard McCoy
* (
Talking to Data) "I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan."
* "I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day."
* (
Referring to ships named Enterprise) "You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home."
* (
In the episode Court Martial upon being introduced to a beautiful ex-girlfriend of Kirk's) "Why is it all my old friends look like doctors and all his look like you?"
"He's dead, Jim." (or variations)
# Crewman Green in "
The Man Trap."# The Space Puppy in "
The Enemy Within."# The adult native in "
Miri."# Doctor Adams in "
Dagger of the Mind."# Captain Kirk in "
Amok Time."# Scotty in "
The Changeling."# Crewman Jackson in "
Catspaw."# Scotty in "
I, Mudd."# Lieutenant Galway in "
The Deadly Years."# The Table Dancer in "
Wolf in the Fold."# Lieutenant Tracey in "
Wolf in the Fold."# Commissioner Hengist in "
Wolf in the Fold."# Priestess Nona in "
A Private Little War."# Captain Kirk in "
Return to Tomorrow."# Professor Starnes in "
And the Children Shall Lead."# Marvick in "
Is There in Truth No Beauty?."# Ensign Chekov in "
Spectre of the Gun."# The old man in "
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky."# Murdered scientist in "
The Lights of Zetar."
In
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the script originally had McCoy say "He's dead, Jim" in Spock's death scene. However, Kelley objected to it on the grounds that it would provoke unintended laughter. Instead Scott tells Kirk, "Sir, he's dead already!" McCoy then confirmed it by telling Kirk that it was too late to save Spock.
In the computer game
Starcraft: Brood War when you repeatedly click on a
Terran Medic, she will eventually say "His EKG is flatlining! Give me a defib stat!" followed by "He's dead, Jim."
"I'm a Doctor, not a..."
# A moon shuttle conductor (in "
The Corbomite Maneuver").* ("What
am I? A doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?!")# A bricklayer (in "
The Devil in the Dark").# A psychiatrist (in "
The City on the Edge of Forever").# An officer of the line (in "
A Taste of Armageddon").* ("I'm a
doctor! If I were an officer of the line, I...")# A mechanic (in "
The Doomsday Machine" and "
The Empath").# An engineer (in "
Mirror, Mirror").# A scientist (in "
Metamorphosis").*# A physicist (in "
Metamorphosis").*# An escalator (in "
Friday's Child").# A magician (in "
The Deadly Years").* ("I'm not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor.")# A miracle worker (in "
The Deadly Years").*# A flesh peddler (in "
Return to Tomorrow").* ("I don't peddle flesh! I'm a
doctor!")# A coal miner (in "
The Empath").
(*not phrased in the precise "classic" pattern, but a denial of livelihood, nevertheless)
This phrase is frequently misquoted as being prefaced with "Dammit, Jim...", but McCoy never used the clause on the television series, presumably since the profanity would not have been permitted by then prevailing standards.
The Doctor from
Star Trek: Voyager sometimes uses "I'm a Doctor..." McCoyisms. The similar
Emergency Medical Hologram from
Star Trek: First Contact also states, "I'm a Doctor, not a doorstop." Doctor
Julian Bashir from
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine said, "I'm a doctor, not a historian" in
Trials and Tribble-ations..
Also from
Star Trek: Voyager,
Tom Paris says in the episode "
Message in a Bottle": "I'm a pilot, Harry, not a doctor" when Paris is temporarily assigned to sickbay after The Doctor is sent on an away-mission.
The
Transformers cartoon parodied McCoy in the episode
The Return of Optimus Prime with
Wreck-Gar saying
"I'm a doctor, not a forklift" and
"He's dead, Jim" when asked if he could repair
Optimus Prime. (Wreck-Gar also parodies
Montgomery Scott in the same scene.)
In the
1998 film
The Man in the Iron Mask, the character of
Aramis, played by
Jeremy Irons sawed the beams of a barn to keep
Porthos (
Gérard Depardieu) from committing suicide by hanging. This resulted in the barn collapsing in on itself, to which Aramis remarked that he was a genius and not an engineer, in a parody of McCoy.
HK-47 in the game
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic also says "Dammit, master, I'm an assassination droid, not a dictionary!" at one point, obviously parodying McCoy.
In the movie
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace says, "For God sake Jim, I'm a doctor not a pool man."
In keeping with its profusion of
Star Trek references, Dr.
Carson Beckett in
Stargate Atlantis is often linked to McCoy; on at least one occasion, he says "I'm a medical doctor, not a bloody fighter pilot!" (in "
The Storm"/"
The Eye"). In addition, Dr.
Rodney McKay needles Beckett about how, like McCoy, he didn't like going outside his safety zone (in McCoy's case, the ship, in Beckett's case,
Atlantis) or using a teleportation device (in McCoy's case, a
transporter, in Beckett's case a
Stargate), at which point
Teyla Emmagan inquires about McCoy; Major
John Sheppard replies, "The TV character Beckett plays in real life."
In the Disney movie
Treasure Planet, the character Dr. Doppler reverses McCoy's famous line: "Dang it, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor."
In an episode of "
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" which
William Shatner guest starred in,
Will Smith parodied the line by saying, "Dammit Jim, I'm a black boy from Philly, not a doctor!"
In the film
Zoolander, Derek Zoolander's father, played by
Jon Voight, says, "Damnit Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor. "
In a late '90s episode of "
Saturday Night Live", hosted by
William Shatner, a skit involving the Enterprise as a rotating restaurant has the character of McCoy (played by
Phil Hartman,) responding to a choking patron with "Dammit, I'm a Doctor, not a... OH!"
On the
Nickelodeon TV series
Unfabulous, Principal Brandywine, played by Mildred Dumas, told the students of Rocky Road Middle School by quoting a line that parodies Dr. McCoy's: "This is school (or name of a school-related object or place), not a/an/the (event, time, place or object unrelated to school)!"
In a television commerical for Trivial Pursuit, a player asks another player a medical question from one of the cards. The camera whip-pans to reveal DeForest Kelley, who says, "How should I know? I'm an actor, not a doctor."
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