McCoy's phobia (spoiler?)

[kitsune]

When McCoy boards the shuttlecraft, he has a chat with a flight attendant or somesuch. He says:

I suffer from _____ophobia. That means fear of dying!

It sounds like he says atheophobia, but that's fear of atheists, not fear of dying.

Thanatophobia or necrophobia would be appropriate, but it doesn't sound like he says that.

Did anyone catch what he said?

ETA:

He actually said,

I suffer from aviaphobia. That means fear of dying in something that flies!

 

[Tentacle]

i think he said aviophobia, the fear of flying

 

[O'Dib]

I think it was fear of dying in space. Don't know what that would be called... astrophobia?

 

[Crewman47]

Makes you wonder why McCoy singed up for Starfleet in the first place when he doesn't like to fly, doesn't like having his molecules scrambled and is constantly reminding everyone that he's a Doctor. He probably should've stayed on Earth working in a County General Hospital or something.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

It was required of him after he took his Hypocritical Oath.

RIMSHOT!

 

[StarHarper]

I don't care what he said. I love him! He makes me smile....

 

[flightmech73]

Makes you wonder why McCoy singed up for Starfleet in the first place when he doesn't like to fly, doesn't like having his molecules scrambled and is constantly reminding everyone that he's a Doctor. He probably should've stayed on Earth working in a County General Hospital or something.

Kirk asked him that and his answer was his wife took the whole planet in the divorce.

 

[Crewman47]

I remeber Bones saying that but at the time I just he was exagerating a bit. So just to clarify what he meant, his wife took everything he had and owned so much so that he no longer had a place to live so his only alternative was to sign up in Starfleet. That the gist of it?

 

[Dac]

I thought Bones was afraid of the transporter and preferred shuttlecraft as opposed to being beamed?

Or Am I thinking of Pulaski?

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I remeber Bones saying that but at the time I just he was exagerating a bit. So just to clarify what he meant, his wife took everything he had and owned so much so that he no longer had a place to live so his only alternative was to sign up in Starfleet. That the gist of it?

That's what I got out of it. Gotta say, I was wondering what he was doing there, too. But that one line of dialogue cleared it up for me.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I figured it was his way of saying "painful divorce and don't expect a straight answer out of me/none of your business, kid."

 

[notwendium]

"my wife took the whole planet in the divorce" about sums it up.

 

[FordSVT]

I remeber Bones saying that but at the time I just he was exagerating a bit. So just to clarify what he meant, his wife took everything he had and owned so much so that he no longer had a place to live so his only alternative was to sign up in Starfleet. That the gist of it?

Neither of you are married I take it?

I take it to mean "painful divorce, want to be as far away as humanly possible at the moment".

It's not meant to be taken as a literal interpretation of his wealth. Bones didn't join Starfleet because he was homeless.

 

[Trekker4747]

It's interesting that even 300 years from now, in a time that supposedly has shed some of it's material needs, that women still will rape men in divorce settlements.

 

[blockaderunner]

I remeber Bones saying that but at the time I just he was exagerating a bit. So just to clarify what he meant, his wife took everything he had and owned so much so that he no longer had a place to live so his only alternative was to sign up in Starfleet. That the gist of it?

Neither of you are married I take it?

I take it to mean "painful divorce, want to be as far away as humanly possible at the moment".

It's not meant to be taken as a literal interpretation of his wealth. Bones didn't join Starfleet because he was homeless.

I got that too. I'm sure he could have set up a decent practice, but that meant that the Former Mrs. McCoy would have still tried to squeeze every penny out of him. I would have imagine that he joined Starfleet to gain some xenobiology experience, serve his time, and then move to some far away colony to avoid pesky divorce lawyers and be a happy bachelor.

 

[Psion]

It's interesting that even 300 years from now, in a time that supposedly has shed some of it's material needs, that women still will rape men in divorce settlements.

Uh oh.

INCOMING!

 

[Crusher Disciple]

It's interesting that even 300 years from now, in a time that supposedly has shed some of it's material needs, that women still will rape men in divorce settlements.

Don't worry- I already checked. You've got nothing for me to take.

 

[cubbie]

It's interesting that even 300 years from now, in a time that supposedly has shed some of it's material needs, that women still will rape men in divorce settlements.

It also means that money exists in the future.

 

[Cheebo]

It's interesting that even 300 years from now, in a time that supposedly has shed some of it's material needs, that women still will rape men in divorce settlements.

It also means that money exists in the future.

And to be fair Star Trek has always been contradictory about money in the future.

 

[T'Paul]

I thought it was pretty lame how he imitated DeForest Kelley's McCoy voice.