Star Trek (TV Series)

Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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Quotes 

• Dr. McCoy : [toasting]  How can one so beautiful condemn herself to look upon ugliness the rest of her life? Will we allow it, gentlemen?

  Captain James T. Kirk : Certainly not.

  Mr. Spock : Negative.

  Scott , Larry Marvick : No-no.

  Dr. Miranda Jones : [counter-toast to McCoy]  How can one so full of joy and the love of life as you, Doctor, condemn yourself to look upon disease and suffering for the rest of YOUR life? Can we allow THAT, gentlemen?

• Dr. McCoy : Isn't it suicidal to deal with something ugly enough to drive men mad? Why do you do it?

  Mr. Spock : I see, Doctor McCoy, that you still subscribe to the outmoded notion, promulgated by your ancient Greeks, that what is good must also be beautiful.

  Larry Marvick : And the reverse, of course, that what is beautiful is automatically expected to be good.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, I think most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness - one of the last of our prejudices. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, gentlemen, here's to beauty.

• [Marvick, having seen Kollos, has been driven insane] 

  Larry Marvick : Don't love her! Don't love her! She'll kill you if you love her! I love you, Miranda.

  [he collapses] 

  Dr. McCoy : He's dead, Jim.

• Dr. Miranda Jones : I spent four years on Vulcan studying their mental discipline.

  Dr. McCoy : You poor girl.

• [Spock has performed a mind-meld with Kollos, who now shares Spock's body] 

  Mr. Spock : [as Kollos]  This is delightful. I know you. All of you. James Kirk, Captain and friend for many years. And Leonard McCoy, also of long acquaintance. And Uhura, whose name means freedom. "She walks in beauty, like the night."

  Dr. McCoy : That's not Spock.

  Mr. Spock : Are you surprised to find that I've read Byron, Doctor?

  Dr. McCoy : That's Spock.