Star Trek (TV Series)

Day of the Dove (1968)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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• Dr. McCoy : Gentlemen, if we are pawns, you're looking at one who is extremely sorry.

  Mr. Spock : I understand, Doctor. I, too, felt a brief surge of racial bigotry. Most distasteful.

• [last lines] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : [to the alien entity]  Get off my ship. You're a dead duck here, you're powerless. We know about you, and we don't want to play. Maybe... maybe there're others like you around, maybe you've caused a lot of suffering, a lot of history; but that's all over. We'll be on guard now, we'll be ready for you, so ship out! Come on, haul it!

  Dr. McCoy : Yeah, out already!

  Kang : Out! We need no urging to hate Humans. But for the present, only a fool fights in a burning house. Out!

• Captain James T. Kirk : [after learning there is an unknown alien on board]  A brother that never existed, a phantom colony, imaginary distress calls, the creation of these... weapons. Do you sense a pattern, Mr. Spock?

  Mr. Spock : If the alien is creating these events, Captain, it is apparently capable of manipulating matter and mind.

  Captain James T. Kirk : And now it has control of the Enterprise and taking us out of the galaxy. But why?

  Mr. Spock : Captain, I am constrained to point out that since minds are evidently being influenced, we cannot know at this moment whether our own memories are completely accurate and true.

  Captain James T. Kirk : We must talk to Kang, bury the hatchet.

  Mr. Spock : [as McCoy enters]  An appropriate choice of terms, Captain. However, it is notoriously difficult to arrange a truce with the Klingons once blood has been drawn.

  Dr. McCoy : Truce? Are you serious? I've got men in Sickbay, some of them dying, atrocities committed on their persons, and you talk about making peace with these fiends? If our backs were turned, they'd jump on us in a minute! And you know what Klingons do to prisoners: slave labor, death planets, experiments!

  Captain James T. Kirk : McCoy.

  Dr. McCoy : While you're talking, they're planning attacks. This is a fight to the death! We'd better start trying to win it!

• Dr. McCoy : How many more men must die before you two begin to act like military men, instead of fools?

• Dr. McCoy : Klingons claim to have honored the truce, but there've been incidents, raids on our outposts...

  Captain James T. Kirk : No proof that the Klingons committed it.

  Dr. McCoy : What proof do we need? We know what a Klingon is.

• Dr. McCoy : Those filthy butchers. There are rules, even in war. You don't keep hacking at a man after he's down.