Leonard Horatio McCoy's Series Quotes

I'm a Doctor, not a...

  1. "What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" -- McCoy, The Corbomite Maneuver, Episode 3
  2. "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." -- McCoy, The Devil In The Dark, Episode 26
  3. "I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist." -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  4. "I'm a doctor, not an escalator." -- McCoy, Friday's Child, stardate 3497.2, Episode 32
  5. "I'm a Doctor, not an engineer." -- McCoy, "Now you're an engineer." -- Scotty, Mirror, Mirror, stardate unknown, Episode 39

He's dead, Jim.

  1. "He's dead, Jim." -- McCoy, The Enemy Within, stardate 1672.1, Episode 5
  2. "He's dead, Jim." -- McCoy, The Devil in the Dark, stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  3. "You're dead, Jim." -- McCoy, Amok Time, stardate 3372.7, Episode 34
  4. "He was worse than dead." -- McCoy, Spock's Brain, stardate 5431.4, Episode 61
  5. "You're dead, Jim." -- McCoy, The Tholian Web, stardate unknown, Episode 64

Other quotes

  1. "What's the matter, Jim. Don't you trust yourself." -- McCoy, The Corbomite Maneuver, stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  2. "I'm sorry." -- Kirk, "Oh, for having other things on your mind? I don't know how in the devil you kept from punching me in the face." -- McCoy, The Corbomite Maneuver, stardate 1512.2, Episode 3
  3. "Are you wearing some unusual kind of perfume or something radioactive, my dear?" -- McCoy, Mudd's Women, stardate 1329.1, Episode 4
  4. "What you want is unimportant right now. What you will get is what is required by the book!" -- McCoy, The Mantrap, stardate 1531.1, Episode 6
  5. "War is never imperative." -- McCoy, Balance of Terror, stardate 1709.2, Episode 9
  6. "Life and death are seldom logical." -- McCoy, The Galileo Seven, stardate 2821.7, Episode 14
  7. "Respect is a rational process." -- McCoy, The Galileo Seven, stardate 2822.3, Episode 14
  8. "Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about." -- McCoy, The Menagerie, stardate 3012.4, Episode 16
  9. "A princess should not be afraid, not with a brave knight to protect her." -- McCoy, Shore Leave, stardate 3025.3, Episode 17
  10. "Well now I think I can fix that for yuh." -- McCoy, This Side of Paradise, stardate 3417.3, Episode 25
  11. "By golly Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!" -- McCoy, The Devil in the Dark, stardate 3196.1, Episode 26
  12. "MURDERERS!!! ASSASSINS!!! -- McCoy, The City On The Edge Of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  13. "You! What PLANET is this!" -- McCoy, The City On The Edge Of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  14. "It's quite alright, it's quite alright dear, because I don't believe in you either." -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  15. "I am unconcious...or demented." -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  16. "Do you REALIZE what you've done??? I could have saved her." -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0, Episode 28
  17. "Are you out of your head?" -- McCoy, Operation: Annihilate!, stardate 3287.2, Episode 29
  18. "There's nothing disgusting about it [the Companion]. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things." -- McCoy, Metamorphosis, stardate 3219.8, Episode 31
  19. "I've got some stuff that would tranquilize an active volcano." -- McCoy, Wolf in the Fold, stardate 3614.9, Episode 36
  20. "You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, I, Mudd, stardate 4513.3, Episode 41
  21. "It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if they're attractive in some way." -- McCoy, The Trouble With Tribbles, stardate 4525.6, Episode 42
  22. "I know, Spock. I'm worried about him too." -- McCoy, Bread And Circuses, stardate 4040.7, Episode 43
  23. "Well, what do you know. I finally got the last word." -- McCoy, Journey to Babel, stardate 3842.3, Episode 44
  24. "Well, I don't know why I was worried--you can't kill a computer." -- McCoy, A Private Little War, stardate 4211.4, Episode 45
  25. "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." -- Spock, "You admit that?" -- McCoy, "To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor" -- Spock, A Piece of the Action, stardate unknown, Episode 49
  26. "Vulcans worship peace above all." -- McCoy, Return to Tomorrow, stardate 4768.3, Episode 51
  27. "Compassion, that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them." -- McCoy, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4731.3, Episode 53
  28. "We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. But when it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different." -- McCoy, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4, Episode 53
  29. "If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend to protect that child." -- McCoy, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4731.3, Episode 53
  30. "...bacteriological warfare...hard to believe we were once foolish enough to play around with that." -- McCoy, The Omega Glory, stardate unknown, Episode 54
  31. "Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." -- Spock, "Or by misleading the innocent." -- McCoy, And The Children Shall Lead, stardate 5029.5, Episode 60
  32. "Spock when you take command of this ship..." -- McCoy, "Doctor I AM in command of this ship." -- Spock, The Tholian Web, stardate 5693.4, Episode 64
  33. "How can we be powerful enough to blow up a planet, yet still be so helpless." -- McCoy, stardate 5718.3, Episode 71
  34. "The things love can drive a man to...the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures and the glorious victories." -- McCoy, Requiem for Methuselah, stardate 5843.7, Episode 76

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