Star Trek (TV Series)

The Immunity Syndrome (1968)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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• Mr. Spock : [Kirk has ordered a tractor beam placed on the shuttlecraft.]  Captain, I recommend you abandon the attempt. Do not risk the ship further on my behalf.

  Dr. McCoy : Shut up, Spock, we're rescuing you!

  Mr. Spock : Why, thank you, *Captain* McCoy.

• Dr. McCoy : Spock, how can you be so sure the Intrepid was destroyed?

  Mr. Spock : I sensed it die.

  Dr. McCoy : But I thought you had to be in physical contact with a subject before...

  Mr. Spock : Doctor, even I, a half-Vulcan, could hear the death scream of four hundred Vulcan minds crying out over the distance between us.

  Dr. McCoy : Not even a Vulcan could feel a starship die.

  Mr. Spock : Call it a deep understanding of the way things happen to Vulcans, but I know that not a person, not even the computers on board the Intrepid, knew what was killing them or would have understood it had they known.

  Dr. McCoy : But, 400 Vulcans?

  Mr. Spock : I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Dr. McCoy : Suffer the death of thy neighbour, eh, Spock? Now, you wouldn't wish that on us, would you?

  Mr. Spock : It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody.

• Mr. Spock : [Kirk has chosen Spock over McCoy for the mission]  We're wasting time. The shuttlecraft is ready.

  Dr. McCoy : You're determined not to let me share in this, aren't you?

  Mr. Spock : This is not a competition, Doctor. Whether you understand it or not, grant me my own kind of dignity.

  Dr. McCoy : Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand?

  Mr. Spock : Then employ one of your own superstitions - Wish me luck.

  [Spock walks into the shuttlecraft bay and climbs aboard the shuttlecraft. The bay door closes] 

  Dr. McCoy : [quietly]  Good luck, Spock.

• Christine Chapel : Doctor, they seem to be stabilizing.

  Dr. McCoy : But at a dangerously low level. Well, we're still alive. I suppose that's something.

• Capt. Kirk : What is that thing out there, Bones? It's not intelligent, not yet.

  Dr. McCoy : It's a disease, like a virus invading the body of our galaxy.

  Capt. Kirk : Yes, it is, isn't it? How many cells does a human body have?

  Dr. McCoy : Millions.

  Capt. Kirk : This thing, this cell, this virus... It's 11,000 kilometers long, and it's one cell. When it grows into millions... we'll be the virus invading its body.

  Dr. McCoy : Now, isn't that a thought? Here we are, antibodies of our own galaxy, attacking an invading germ. Be ironic indeed if that were our sole destiny, wouldn't it?

• Capt. Kirk : Spock! You're alive!

  Mr. Spock : [communicating from shuttlecraft]  Obviously, Captain, and I have some fascinating data on the organism.

  Dr. McCoy : Don't be so smart, Spock, you botched the acetylcholine tests!

• Spock : [in shuttlecraft]  Oh, and Dr. McCoy, you would not have survived it.

  Dr. McCoy : [on bridge of the Enterprise]  You wanna bet?

• Capt. Kirk : You got something to say?

  Dr. McCoy : Technically, no. Medically, yes. Between the stimulants and the pressure, I would suggest that you try to stay off your feet for a few minutes.

  Capt. Kirk : I don't have a few minutes, Bones. Maybe none of us do.

• Capt. Kirk : Spock?

  Dr. McCoy : What is it, Spock? Are you in pain?

  Mr. Spock : Captain, the Intrepid. It just died. And the four hundred Vulcans aboard, all dead.

• Dr. McCoy : Jim, according to the life indicators, the energy levels...

  Capt. Kirk : Yes, say it, Bones.

  Dr. McCoy : According to the life monitors, we're dying. We're all dying.

• Mr. Spock : I assure you, doctor, I'm quite alright. The pain was momentary; it passed quickly.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, all my instruments seem to agree with you - if I can trust these crazy Vulcan readings.