Star Trek (TV Series)
The Man Trap (1966)
DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy
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Quotes
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Captain James T. Kirk : What's the matter, can't you sleep?
Dr. McCoy : Nope.
Captain James T. Kirk : Try taking one of those red pills you gave me last week. You'll sleep.
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Mr. Spock : Borgia plant listed in library record tapes as carbon group three vegetation, similar to Earth nightshade family. Alkaloid poison. Chemical structure common to most Class-M planets. About the strange mottling on his facial skin surface, there is no reference to this symptom.
Dr. McCoy : Hmm. Well, then this man wasn't poisoned.
Captain James T. Kirk : Stand by, Mr. Spock.
[turning the monitor off]
Captain James T. Kirk : She said she saw him eat the plant.
Dr. McCoy : Well, she's mistaken. I know alkaloid poison and what to look for. There's not a trace of it in his body.
Captain James T. Kirk : There were bits of the plant in his mouth.
Dr. McCoy : Jim, don't tell me my business. He could not have swallowed any. My instruments would've picked up any trace of it whatsoever.
Captain James T. Kirk : Then what kills a healthy man...
Dr. McCoy : Ah, I'll tell you something else. This man shouldn't be dead. I can't find anything wrong with him. According to all the tests, he should get up and just walk away from here. I don't know. I'll have the tests double-checked. My eyes may be tricking me.
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Uhura : I've checked every face on this vessel. It was not a crewman I saw.
Captain James T. Kirk : Yeoman Rand, how long was this "Green" with you?
Yeoman Janice Rand : As long as he... it thought it could get to the salt in my tray, sir.
Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock?
Mr. Spock : Supplies of salt have been set out as bait at all decks and engineering levels, Captain. However, no one or nothing has approached them as yet.
Captain James T. Kirk : Dr. McCoy?
Dr. McCoy : Yes?
Captain James T. Kirk : Medical department report, Doctor.
Dr. McCoy : Oh. Well, we could offer it salt without tricks. There's no reason for it to attack us.
Mr. Spock : Your attitude is laudable, Doctor, but your reasoning is reckless.
Professor Robert Crater : The creature is not dangerous when fed.
Dr. McCoy : No, it's simply trying to survive by using its natural ability to take other forms.
Professor Robert Crater : The way the chameleon uses its protective coloring, an ability retained no doubt from its primitive state, the way we have retained our incisor teeth. They were once fangs. Certain of our muscles were designed for chase. It uses its ability the way we would use our muscles and teeth if necessary to stay alive.
Dr. McCoy : And like us, it's an intelligent animal. It's, uh... there's no need to hunt it down.
Mr. Spock : A very interesting hypothesis, Doctor.
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Dr. McCoy : [examining Darnell] Dead, Jim.
[first aired occurrence of his famous line]
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Dr. McCoy : Lord, forgive me.
[before shooting "Nancy", the creature]
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Captain James T. Kirk : Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend, she usually expects something like that.
Dr. McCoy : Is that how you get girls to like you - by bribing them?
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Captain James T. Kirk : Professor Crater, I'm Captain Kirk. This is...
Professor Robert Crater : The heroic captain and the intrepid doctor cross interstellar space to preserve our health. Oh, your sense of duty is overwhelming. Now, will you please go back where you came from and tell whoever issues your orders to leave me and my wife alone? We need additional salt against the heat. Aside from that, we're doing very well, thank you.
Dr. McCoy : I'm pleased to hear you're doing well, but I'm required to confirm that fact.
Professor Robert Crater : Doubtless, the good surgeon will enjoy prodding and poking us with his arcane machinery. Go away. We don't want you.
Dr. McCoy : What you want is unimportant right now. What you will get is what is required by the book.
Captain James T. Kirk : Quote, all research personnel on alien planets are required to have their health certified by a starship surgeon at one-year intervals. Like it or not, Professor, as commander of the starship, I'm required...
Professor Robert Crater : To show your gold braid to everyone. You love it, don't you?
Captain James T. Kirk : He's all yours, Plum; Dr. McCoy.
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Captain James T. Kirk : Something we don't understand killed one of my men. It could prove to be a danger to you and Mrs. Crater, too.
Professor Robert Crater : We've been here for almost five years. If there were anything hostile here, we would know about it, wouldn't we?
Captain James T. Kirk : Bones, tell the professor what the autopsy revealed.
Dr. McCoy : Our crewman died of salt depletion. Sudden total loss of it. Medically impossible by any standards.
Captain James T. Kirk : And by coincidence, you and Mrs. Crater requested salt tablets.
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Mr. Spock : It's killing the captain. Shoot it, Doctor. Quickly.
Dr. McCoy : No!
[Spock tries to wrest his phaser from him]
Dr. McCoy : No!
Mr. Spock : [pulling the creature off Kirk] It's killing the captain. Shoot, quick.
Dr. McCoy : I won't shoot Nancy.
Mr. Spock : This is not Nancy.
[throwing punches at her]
Mr. Spock : If she were Nancy, could she take this?
Dr. McCoy : Stop it! Stop it, Spock! Stop it!
Mr. Spock : [getting knocked backward] Is that Nancy, Doctor?
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Dr. McCoy : I swear, Jim, when I first saw her, she looked just as I'd known her ten years ago. Granted, the moment I may have been looking at her through a romantic haze.
Captain James T. Kirk : How your lost love affects your vision, Doctor, doesn't interest me. I've lost a man. I want to know what killed him.
Dr. McCoy : [taken aback] Yes, sir.
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Dr. McCoy : What's going on here, Jim?
Captain James T. Kirk : She's not Nancy, Bones.
Dr. McCoy : Are you insane?
Captain James T. Kirk : It killed four crewmen. Now Crater.
Dr. McCoy : It?
Captain James T. Kirk : The creature. It kills. It needs salt to live. Bones, move aside.
Dr. McCoy : No!
Captain James T. Kirk : My guess is she needs more.
[offering some]
Captain James T. Kirk : You want it, Nancy? Come and get it.
Dr. McCoy : You're frightening her, Jim.
Captain James T. Kirk : Not fright, hunger. Look at her.
Nancy Crater : Leonard, if you love me, make him go away.
Captain James T. Kirk : Come on. You want this, Nancy? Come on, Nancy. Come and get it.
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[Kirk has just dismissed a crewman from the Craters' home]
Captain James T. Kirk : Maybe I'll step outside, too.
Nancy Crater : [referring to McCoy] What? And let Plum examine me all alone?
Captain James T. Kirk : "Plum"?
Dr. McCoy : Plum.
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Mr. Spock : Fascinating.
Dr. McCoy : So improbable, we almost didn't check it.
Captain James T. Kirk : What?
Mr. Spock : Sodium chloride. Not a trace of it.
Dr. McCoy : This man has no salt in his body at all.
Captain James T. Kirk : Can you explain that, Doctor?
Dr. McCoy : I can't, except what we normally carry in our bodies is gone from his.
Mr. Spock : He would die almost instantly.
Captain James T. Kirk : How? There's no mark on his body.
Dr. McCoy : Except the red rings on his face.
Captain James T. Kirk : You called that skin mottling.
Dr. McCoy : I thought it was, sir. Another error on my part.
Captain James T. Kirk : I'm not counting them, Bones. Are you, uh, in the mood for an apology?
Dr. McCoy : Ah, forget it. I probably was mooning over her. I should've been thinking about my job.
Captain James T. Kirk : Perhaps you were. Both Nancy and Crater went out of their way to mention one item they needed.
Dr. McCoy : Salt tablets.
Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock, outfit a landing party. We're beaming down with some questions.
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Nancy Crater : Leonard.
Dr. McCoy : Nancy.
Nancy Crater : Hello.
Dr. McCoy : It's good to see you.
Nancy Crater : Let me look at you.
Dr. McCoy : You haven't aged a day.
[she glances at Kirk]
Dr. McCoy : Oh, this is Captain Jim Kirk of the Enterprise.
Captain James T. Kirk : Mrs. Crater. I've heard a great deal about you.
Nancy Crater : All good, I hope.
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Captain James T. Kirk : ...for the fact that Nancy Crater is that one woman in Dr. McCoy's past.
Captain James T. Kirk : Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.
Dr. McCoy : Is that how you get girls to like you - by bribing them?