Star Trek (TV Series)

By Any Other Name (1968)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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• [McCoy has given Tomar some of the ship's food to taste, which the latter seems to enjoy] 

  Mr. Spock : Most curious.

  Captain James T. Kirk : What is?

  Mr. Spock : The isolated glimpses of things I saw when I touched Kelinda's mind are beginning to coalesce in my consciousness. The Kelvans have superior intellectual capacity. To achieve it, they've apparently sacrificed anything which would tend to distract them - perceptive senses such as taste, touch, smell, and, of course, emotions.

  Captain James T. Kirk : But then, Tomar shouldn't be enjoying the taste of his food.

  Mr. Spock : Yes, quite correct, Captain. But they have taken human form, and are therefore having human reaction.

  Dr. McCoy : [looking at Tomar]  Hm... If he keeps reacting like that, he's gonna need a diet.

• Rojan : We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule! There's no other way for us.

  Dr. McCoy : In other words, "The galaxy isn't big enough for both of us!"

• [McCoy has given Hanar another injection] 

  Hanar : How many more of these?

  Dr. McCoy : Well, now, let's see. You've had three shots. I think you better stay on them for a few days, and then we'll see how you respond.

  Hanar : [slightly irritated]  I see no reason for you to refer to yourself in the plural.

• Mr. Spock : [describing his vision of the Kelvans]  Immense beings, a hundred... limbs which resemble tentacles. Minds of such control and capacity, that each limb is capable of performing a different function.

  Dr. McCoy : Do you mean that's what the Kelvans really are?

  Mr. Spock : Undoubtedly.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, if they look that way normally, why did they adapt themselves to our bodies?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Perhaps practicality. They chose the Enterprise as the best vessel for the trip. Immense beings with a hundred tentacles would have difficulty with the turbolift.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [after the crew is turned into dehydrated solid orbs]  Is this all?

  Mr. Spock : I have reviewed ship's personnel, Captain. It appears we four are the only ones the Kelvans consider essential.

  Dr. McCoy : Scotty tells me you could've destroyed the ship in the barrier. Why didn't you?

  Captain James T. Kirk : I couldn't.

  Dr. McCoy : But that was our only chance to stop them...

  Captain James T. Kirk : I didn't think it was.

  Dr. McCoy : Jim...

  Captain James T. Kirk : Bones, that's enough!

  Dr. McCoy : Jim, I saw them reduce four of my doctors and nurses into those little...!

  Captain James T. Kirk : They've reduced the whole CREW!

  [punches the rec room table] 

• Tomar : [watching the humans eat]  I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this... bulk material to, uh, sustain yourselves.

  Tomar : [holding up a small box of pills]  We have ascertained that these contain all the nutritional elements.

  Dr. McCoy : Before you condemn it, why don't you try it?

  Tomar : I believe I will. Assist me.