Poll Spock vs McCoy; who won?

[Phaser Two]

Yeah, he does cross the line at times. I suppose it's to Spock's credit that McCoy doesn't get written up, just one-upped.

I've always maintained that Spock must have personally ensured that neither Boma nor McCoy was court-martialed after "The Galileo Seven." In my head canon, Scotty - the absolute model of a Starfleet officer - made a full, unvarnished report to Kirk, who then went to Spock and asked why Spock's report mentioned none of the xenophobia displayed by Gaetano, Boma, and McCoy. Spock then asked Kirk to take no action, and Kirk (after due consideration) agreed.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I've always maintained that Spock must have personally ensured that neither Boma nor McCoy was court-martialed after "The Galileo Seven." In my head canon, Scotty - the absolute model of a Starfleet officer - made a full, unvarnished report to Kirk, who then went to Spock and asked why Spock's report mentioned none of the xenophobia displayed by Gaetano, Boma, and McCoy. Spock then asked Kirk to take no action, and Kirk (after due consideration) agreed.

It's been a while since I've watched "The Galileo Seven," but what did McCoy do in that episode that was that out of line? The only big things I remember Bones doing are him telling Boma "That's enough" at one point and him telling Spock "So ends your first command" when they thought they were going to burn up in the atmosphere.

BTW, I absolutely LOVE Scotty in that episode. He never participates in any of the infighting either way. He just carries on and gets down to business.

 

[Phaser Two]

It's been a while since I've watched "The Galileo Seven," but what did McCoy do in that episode that was that out of line? The only big things I remember Bones doing are him telling Boma "That's enough" at one point and him telling Spock "So ends your first command" when they thought they were going to burn up in the atmosphere.

BTW, I absolutely LOVE Scotty in that episode. He never participates in any of the infighting either way. He just carries on and gets down to business.

Yes, 100% agreed about Scotty. He's simply awesome as usual. And actually, directly playing into your point, it's *Scotty* who says "That's enough" and cuts off Boma's last racist tirade. Now, McCoy does offer a weak "Mr. Boma - " before Scotty definitively interjects, so you're not at all wrong. However, McCoy spends much of the episode egging Boma on and enabling his horrible behavior, including a scene or two of outright xenophobic hostility. Scotty was busy ensuring their escape off the planet, and McCoy wasn't strictly speaking in the command chain, but he was the CMO and a grade higher than Boma. If he had acted responsibly and anything like a military officer, to say nothing of showing the empathy one might expect of a physician, I doubt Boma would have felt so empowered to act out.

You also have to see Dee Kelley's performance (which was marvelous) to pick up on the hostility from McCoy. It was quite palpable. Boma should have been drummed out of Starfleet immediately after a trial, and McCoy should have been busted down to LT or LTJG, ordered to remedial basic sensitivity training classes for about 500 hours, and probably removed from his post aboard a frontline vessel. But to maintain canon across all 79 eps as I like to do, I assume Spock intervened and Kirk agreed to overlook what happened. (I don’t think there's any question Scotty would have reported what happened, although it's worth noting that he didn't witness all of McCoy's egregious behavior, because he was busy being impossibly cool and saving the day.)

 

[Shawnster]

I totally hear you - the writing for McCoy was all over the place. By S3 they had it figured out.

It's called the Gumbification of McCoy. Named after the claymation TV character Gumby. In some series writers seem to pick one character more than the others and twist that character into whatever role or position or pov necessary to move the story along.

 

[Poltargyst]

It's been a while since I've watched "The Galileo Seven," but what did McCoy do in that episode that was that out of line? The only big things I remember Bones doing are him telling Boma "That's enough" at one point and him telling Spock "So ends your first command" when they thought they were going to burn up in the atmosphere.

Spoiler: SNW spoilers

If you saw the first episode of SNW this season, so much for Galileo 7 being "Spock's first command."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Spoiler: snw justification

The first science mission he commanded that wasn't him replacing the captain?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

McCoy's problem with Spock in a nutshell:

In context:

 

[1001001]

McCoy's problem with Spock in a nutshell:

In context:

Tell me you did not just bump your own thread again.

Seriously how many times do we need to go over this? @T'Bonz made it very clear I was to warn you if you did it again. Which I did the last time. And now?

Closing. She may warn you when she sees this.

 

[T'Bonz]

Yep. Warning for bumping the thread.