Star Trek (TV Series)

A Private Little War (1968)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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Quotes 

• Dr. McCoy : [speaking through communicator]  Spock, are you alive?

  Mr. Spock : [on the bridge of the Enterprise]  An illogical question, Doctor, since obviously you are hearing my voice.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, I don't know why I was worried. You can't kill a computer.

• Dr. McCoy : I don't have a solution, but furnishing them firearms is certainly not the answer!

  Capt. Kirk : Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt that they could pull out?

  Dr. McCoy : Yes, I remember. It went on bloody year after bloody year!

  Capt. Kirk : But what would you have suggested? That one side arm its friends with an overpowering weapon? Mankind would never have lived to travel space if they had. No, the only solution is what happened back then: balance of power.

  Dr. McCoy : And if the Klingons give their side even more?

  Capt. Kirk : Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power - the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all, but the only one that preserves both sides!

• Nona : Our blood has passed through the mahko root together. Our souls have been together. He is mine, now.

  Tyree : She must sleep, also.

  Dr. McCoy : "He is hers?"

  Tyree : When a man and woman are joined in this manner, he can refuse her no wish.

• Capt. Kirk : Tomorrow... in the palm of her hands.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, you got what you wanted.

  Capt. Kirk : Not what I wanted, Bones. What had to be.

• Dr. McCoy : What's that?

  Nona : A mahko root.

  Dr. McCoy : A plant? It moves.

  Nona : For those who know where to find it, how to use it, how to pick it.

• Dr. McCoy : She's dead.

• Scott : [Kirk and McCoy are holding Spock when they transport up]  What happened, Captain?

  Capt. Kirk : Lead projectile. Primitive firearm.

  Dr. M'Benga : [They put Spock on the bed]  Vitalizer 'B.'

  [Gives Spock an injection] 

  Dr. McCoy : Pressure backing.

  [Nurse hands pressure backing to McCoy] 

  Dr. McCoy : Lucky his heart is where his liver should be or he'd be dead now.

  Dr. M'Benga : Not good, sir.

  Dr. McCoy : Coranalin!

  Capt. Kirk : [Whistle from ship; Alarm goes off]  Bones, can you save him?

  Uhura : [Uhura talks through the speaker/intercom]  All decks, Red Alert! Battle Stations! Battle Stations! Go to Red Alert!

  Capt. Kirk : [Kirk walks to intercom]  Kirk here.

  Uhura : Uhura, sir. We have a Klingon vessel on our screen.

  Capt. Kirk : On my way. Scotty?

  [Kirk and Scott walk to door / door opens] 

  Capt. Kirk : Bones?

  Dr. McCoy : I don't know yet, Jim.

  [Kirk and Scott leave transporter room]