Star Trek (TV Series)

Catspaw (1967)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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Quotes 

• Dr. McCoy : Three witches... what appears to be a castle, and a black cat.

  Captain James T. Kirk : If we weren't missing two officers and a third one dead, I'd say someone was playing an elaborate trick-or-treat on us.

  Mr. Spock : 'Trick-or-treat', Captain?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, Mr. Spock... You'd be a natural. I'll explain it to you one day.

• Korob : You are the, uh, different one, Mr. Spock. You do not think like the others. There're no colors to your patterns of logic, there's only black and white. You see all this around you and... yet you do not believe.

  Dr. McCoy : He doesn't know about trick-or-treat.

  Korob : I do not understand that reference. Therefore it also is of no importance.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Bones... Doc?

  [sees a skeleton next to 'Bones', which is, like them, chained to the wall] 

  Dr. McCoy : You were saying something about trick or treat...

• Dr. McCoy : You kept Scott and Sulu as catspaws to lure us down here. How'd you know we'd come?

  Korob : Oh, we didn't have to know. They knew.

• Dr. McCoy : [examining Crewman Jackson]  The man is dead.

  Korob : [voice, through Jackson's open mouth]  Captain Kirk, can you... hear me? There is a curse on your ship. Leave this place, or you will all... die.

• Mr. Spock : There are ancient Earth legends about wizards and their familiars.

  Dr. McCoy : Familiars?

  Mr. Spock : Demons in animal form sent by Satan to serve the wizard.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Superstition.

  Mr. Spock : I do not create the legend, Captain. I merely report it.

• Korob : You are most, um... unpredictable. Hm. Well, perhaps I have made a, a small mistake. Nevertheless, you have passed the tests.

  Dr. McCoy : Tests?

  Korob : Yes. Our analysis of you may have been in some small way in error; but you were warned to stay away, and yet you came to save your comrades. That proves loyalty. Your bravery was tested and you did not frighten. And despite my failure with these bright baubles, I perceive that you cannot be bribed. In many ways you are quite admirable.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. McCoy : All of this, just an illusion.

  Captain James T. Kirk : No illusion. Jackson is dead.