Leonard McCoy It learns fast, doesn't it?
2nd most-quoted character in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): in 12 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: James T. Kirk (7), Spock (4), Willard Decker (2)
Well, Jim, I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm going to need a top nurse... not a doctor who will argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sick bay too! I know engineers. They love to change things.
More lines from Leonard McCoy
3 quotes Leonard McCoy Leonard McCoy Your child is having a tantrum, Mr. Spock!
Leonard McCoy Spock, this child is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
Scenes with Leonard McCoy
8 scenes
Yeoman?
Yeoman
Yes, sir?
What was the problem down there?
Yeoman
He insisted we go first, sir. Said something about first seeing how it scrambled our molecules.
[to Rand]
Has a familiar ring, doesn't it? Starfleet, this is Captain Kirk. Beam that officer up now.
[Preceding dialogue in 2001 Director's Edition only. Following dialogue included in all versions of the film, and a continuation of the same scene in the 2001 Director's Edition.]
Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to Starfleet--
Leonard McCoy Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldon-used reserve activation clause. In simpler language, Captain, they drafted me!
They didn't.
Leonard McCoy This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?
Bones, there's a thing out there.
Leonard McCoy Why is any object we don't understand always called a thing?
Headed this way. I need you. Damn it, Bones, I need you. Badly!
Well, Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?
Leonard McCoy They do not. It's like working in a damn computer center.
Leonard McCoy Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.
Nor have you, doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.
Gentlemen. At last report, you were on Vulcan... apparently to stay.
Leonard McCoy Yes, you were undergoing the "Kolanear" discipline.
Sit down.
If you are referring to the Kolinahr, Doctor, you are correct.
It could hold a crew of tens of thousands.
Leonard McCoy Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
Pavel Chekov
I'll take over now.
Ensign
Aye, sir.
Evaluation, Mr. Spock.
Facinating. That vessel is generating a force field greater than the radiation of Earth's sun.
[1983 television version only.]
V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe, and it must evolve. What it requires of its god, Doctor, is the answer to its question -- Is there nothing more?
Leonard McCoy What more is there than the universe, Spock?
Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.
The existence of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V'Ger is incapable of believing in them.
What V'Ger needs in order to evolve... is a human quality-- our capacity to leap beyond logic.
And joining with its creator might accomplish that.
Leonard McCoy You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
Let's find out.
Decker.
I'm gonna key the final sequence through the ground test computer.
Leonard McCoy Decker! You don't know what that'll do to you!
Yes, I do, Doctor.
Decker, don't.
Jim, I want this. As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this.
Spock, did we just see the beginning of a new life-form?
Yes, Captain. We witnessed a birth. Possibly a next step in our evolution.
I wonder.
Leonard McCoy Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby. And I hope we got this one off to a good start.
I hope so too. I think we gave it the ability to create its own sense of purpose... out of our own human weaknesses... and the drive that compels us to overcome them.
Leonard McCoy And a lot of foolish human emotions. Right, Mr. Spock?
Quite true, Doctor. Unfortunately, It will have to deal with them as well.
It could hold a crew of tens of thousands.
Leonard McCoy Or a crew of a thousand ten miles tall.
1983 television version
