Star Trek (TV Series)
Spectre of the Gun (1968)
DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy
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Quotes
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[Morgan Earp has shot a man]
Spock : Is this a dead man, Doctor?
McCoy : Very dead, Mr. Spock.
Capt. Kirk : That's one thing we can be sure of here. Death is real.
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[last lines]
Spock : This afternoon, you wanted... to kill. Didn't you?
McCoy : But he didn't kill, Mr. Spock.
Spock : But he wanted to, Doctor.
Capt. Kirk : Is that the way it seemed to you, Mr. Spock?
Spock : Yes, Captain.
Capt. Kirk : Mr. Spock - you're absolutely right. That's exactly the way it was.
Spock : Mankind - ready to kill.
Capt. Kirk : That's the way it was in 1881.
Spock : I wonder how Humanity managed to survive.
Capt. Kirk : We overcame our instinct for violence.
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McCoy : Mr. Spock, why don't you join us common humanoids in trying to find a way out of here and quit explaining why we can't get out of here.
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Spock : [mind-melding with McCoy] The bullets are unreal. Without body. They are illusions only. Shadows without substance. They will not pass through your body, for they do not exist.
McCoy : [in a trance] They do not exist.
Spock : [mind-melding with Kirk] Unreal. Appearances only. They are shadows. Illusions. Nothing but ghosts of reality. They are lies. Falsehoods. Specters without body. They are to be ignored.
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[Chekov has been shot dead]
Spock : Gentlemen, there is one thing which requires the immediate attention of all of us. Specifically, our future.
Capt. Kirk : But not this minute, Spock. It takes us... a little longer.
Spock : I understand the feeling, Captain.
McCoy : You talk about another man's feelings. What do you feel, Spock?
Spock : My feelings are not subject for discussion, Doctor.
McCoy : Because there are no feelings to discuss!
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[Kirk and his landing party find themselves in a strange environment]
Spock : Obviously, this represents the Melkotian's concept of an American frontier town, circa... 1880.
McCoy : It's just bits and pieces. It's incomplete.
Spock : Perhaps the Melkotians have insufficient data about this era.
Capt. Kirk : Or perhaps this is all they require to complete the pattern of our death.
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Spock : Doctor, in your opinion, what killed Mr. Chekov?
McCoy : A piece of lead in his body.
Spock : Wrong. His mind killed him.
McCoy : Well, come on, Spock. If you've got the answer, tell us.
Spock : Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality. All of this is unreal.
McCoy : What do you mean, unreal? I examined Chekov. He's dead.
Spock : But you made your examination under conditions which we cannot trust. We judge reality by the response of our senses. Once we are convinced of the reality of a given situation, we abide by its rules. We judge the bullets to be solid, the guns to be real. Therefore they can kill.
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Capt. Kirk : [as McCoy wipes Kirk's split lip with bourbon] Ouch!
McCoy : What's the matter?
Capt. Kirk : What do you call that stuff? Fire?
McCoy : [reading the label] Taos Lightning, straight bourbon. Try some. In small amounts, it was considered medicinal.
Capt. Kirk : Well, label it "For external use only".
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McCoy : [appraising his gun] In the midst of what seems so unreal, the harsh reality. This is not a dream.
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McCoy : Spock will have no truck with grief, Scotty. It's human!
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McCoy : Let it go, Jim. He's dead.