Best Line -- Doctors Only!

[Red Ranger]

In honor of Deckerd's thread, Best Line (Captains Only), I decided to start this thread. Post your favorite quotes from all the doctors of Trek, regular cast, that is (with the exception of Boyce and Piper, as they only had one appearance each, but were in both pilots, so they matter a lot). That also includes Pulaski, who did have some good lines, as I recall.

So here goes:

BOYCE: Sometimes people will tell things to their bartender that they'd never tell their doctor. (The Cage)

MCCOY: I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer! (The Devil in the Dark)

CRUSHER: Well, you've been a pain in our backsides often enough! (To Q in Deja Q.)

PULASKI: Looks like it's just us, handsome. (To Worf in The Emissary, while they're playing poker.)

BASHIR: They are the ambassadors of UNHAPPY! (An early 1st season ep, don't recall the title.)

EMH DOCTOR: No rest for the never weary. (Don't recall the ep of VOY.)

I would add a Phlox line, but I honestly can't completely remember a real good one. And while I mentioned Piper, I frankly can't think of one thing interesting that he said.

Have fun!

Red Ranger

 

[RichMerk]

"He's dead, Jim!"

 

[Cuhl]

For McCoy, it's got to be this line from Star Trek III:

"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!"

 

[apenpaap]

Phlox: "I'm a physician, not an engineer!"

Garak: "I'm no more spy then you are-"
Bashir: "A Doctor."

Doctor: "I'm a Doctor, not a dragonslayer!"

Alternate McCoy: "I don't need a doctor, dammit, I AM a Doctor!"
(As well as any of his other lines in that scene)

(Talking about a species with 3 genders)
Trip: "Ah'm pretty fammiliar with how it works with two sexes, but THREE?"
Phlox: "Well: First the female-"
Trip: "Hang on, ah don't wanna know."
Phlox: "Hmm. Oh, well." (Disturbingly happy tone) "I've got pictures!"

 

[Possum]

McCoy- Return to Tomorrow- something along the lines of "I will not peddle human flesh!"

My husband and I turn to each other, saying: "I'm a doctor, not a pimp!"

 

[JiNX-01]

EMH: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!"

 

[Anwar]

EMH: (on seeing the Kyrian recreation of past events) These aren't the people I remember! No one acted like this...well, except for Mr Paris..

 

[Yeoman Randi]

"I'm a doctor, not an escalator!"

 

[kes7]

"Space is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence!" -nuMcCoy
"I may throw up on you." -nuMcCoy

"Persistence is futile." -EMH

 

[Mysterion]

Bashir (to Sloan): Well, next time I'll do it with hand-puppets just for you.

 

[apenpaap]

Do books count? If so, this one from Infinity's Prism is great:
The assimilation tubules penetrated the entity identified as "the Doctor" and injected a standard complement of nanoprobes. (...) He looked down at the assimilation tubules, rolled his eyes, and sighed. "Oh, no, I'm being assimilated. Help. Help."

 

[Vulcan Princess]

EMH: "I'm a doctor, not a battery." (from VOY- Gravity)

 

[Thor Damar]

"Bashir has spoken, I"

 

[barnaclelapse]

For McCoy, it's got to be this line from Star Trek III:

"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!"

I'll be quoting that line to non-fans until the day I die.

I've actually sold people on watching Star Trek movies on the strength of that one line.

 

[Red Ranger]

For McCoy, it's got to be this line from Star Trek III:

"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!"

I'll be quoting that line to non-fans until the day I die.

I've actually sold people on watching Star Trek movies on the strength of that one line.

That is one of the best McCoy lines from the movies. My other favorite, also from that flick, is what McCoy says to the alien pilot he's trying to pay to get to the Genesis planet. The fellow yells out, '"GENESIS!?!" And McCoy replies, "Yes, Genesis! How can you be deaf with ears like that?" Reminiscent of stuff he used to say about Spock's pointed ears. -- RR

 

[FormerLurker]

McCoy, Leonard H., son of David.(to Kirk) Helluva time to ask.

 

[RichMerk]

One of my favorite McCoy lines isn't humorous, and it's very old-school Trekkish philosophy.

"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all the universe, three million-million galaxies like this. And in all of that and perhaps more, only one of each of us."

 

[Red Ranger]

McCoy, Leonard H., son of David.(to Kirk) Helluva time to ask.

Nice one! I think how it went was after he ID's himself, T'Lar explained how dangerous the Fal Tor Pan would be, then McCoy said, "I choose the danger!" Then he murmured, "Helluva time to ask!" But still a good one.

All the Spock-McCoy arguments are priceless. One of the best McCoy comebacks was in Space Seed. Spock says something negative about the intent of the Earth folks who used eugenics to create Khan and his ilk, in "your attempt to improve the race through selective breeding."

McCoy shoots back, "No, not our attempt, Mr. Spock. A group of ambitious scientists. I'm sure you know the type? Devoted to logic, COMPLETELY unemotional, . . . ," and at that point, Kirk cuts them both off.

Red Ranger

 

[KobayashiMaru13]

For McCoy, it's got to be this line from Star Trek III:

"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!"

Seconded!

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

One of my favorite McCoy lines isn't humorous, and it's very old-school Trekkish philosophy.

"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all the universe, three million-million galaxies like this. And in all of that and perhaps more, only one of each of us."

"...don't destroy the one named Jim Kirk."

Great line.