Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

DeForest Kelley: McCoy

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• Kirk : What does God need with a starship?

  McCoy : Jim, what are you doing?

  Kirk : I'm asking a question.

  "God" : Who is this creature?

  Kirk : Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?

  Sybok : He has his doubts.

  "God" : You doubt me?

  Kirk : I seek proof.

  McCoy : Jim! You don't ask the Almighty for his ID!

  "God" : Then here is the proof you seek.

  [Shoots Kirk with lightning] 

  Kirk : Why is God angry?

  Sybok : Why? Why have you done this to my friend?

  "God" : He doubts me.

  Spock : You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?

  "God" : [shoots Spock with lightning; then addresses McCoy]  Do you doubt me?

  McCoy : I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure.

  Sybok : Stop! The God of Sha Ka Ree would not do this!

  "God" : Sha Ka Ree? A vision you created. An eternity I've been imprisoned in this place! The ship! I must have the ship! Now... give me what I want!

  Spock : Sybok, this is not the God of Sha Ka Ree... or any other God!

  Sybok : I don't understand... Reveal yourself to me!

  [an image of Sybok strides out of one of God's eyes, laughing maniacally] 

  "God" : What's wrong? Don't you like this face? I have so many but this one suits you best.

  Sybok : No! No... it's not possible.

  "God" : Bring me the ship or I will destroy you!

  Sybok : The ship?

  "God" : Bring it closer so that I might join with it. Do it or watch these puny beings... die horribly.

  Sybok : What have I done?

• Kirk : Damn it Spock! God damn it!

  Spock : Captain, what have I done?

  Kirk : What you've done is betray every man on this ship!

  Spock : Worse I've betrayed you. I do not expect you to forgive me.

  Kirk : Forgive you? I oughta knock you on your goddamned ass!

  Spock : If you think it would help.

  McCoy : Do you want me to hold him, Jim?

  Kirk : You stay out of this! Why, Spock, why? All you had to do is pull the trigger!

  Spock : If I had done that Sybok would be dead.

  Kirk : I ordered you to defend your ship!

  Spock : You ordered me to kill my brother.

  Kirk : But the man may be a fellow Vulcan but he...

  Spock : No, no you do not understand. Sybok also is a son of Sarek.

  Kirk : You mean he's your "brother" brother?

  [Spock nods] 

  Kirk : You made that up.

  Spock : I did not.

  Kirk : You did too! Sybok couldn't possibly be your brother because I happen to know for a fact that you don't have a brother.

  Spock : Technically you are right I do not have a brother.

  Kirk : There! You see?

  Spock : I have a half-brother.

  Kirk : I gotta sit down.

• [Around a campfire singing "Row Row Row Your Boat"] 

  Kirk : Come on. Spock... Why didn't you jump in?

  Spock : I was trying to comprehend the meaning of the words.

  McCoy : It's a song, you green-blooded... Vulcan. You sing it. The words aren't important. What's important is that you have a good time singing it.

  Spock : Oh, I am sorry, Doctor. Were we having a good time?

  McCoy : God, I liked him better before he died.

• McCoy : What's the matter, Jim?

  Kirk : I miss my old chair.

• Kirk : [responds to a tapping within the wall]  What's that noise?

  Spock : [tapping continues]  I believe it is a primitive form of communication known as morse Code.

  Kirk : You're right. I'm out of practice.

  [tapping] 

  Kirk : That's an "S".

  Spock : "T".

  Kirk : "A"... "N"... "D", end of word.

  McCoy : "Stand".

  Kirk : New word... "B"... "A"...

  Spock : "C"... "K".

  McCoy : "Back". "Stand back".

  Kirk , Spock , McCoy : "Stand back"?

  [the wall explodes] 

  Scotty : [on the other side of the wall]  What are you standing around for? Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?

• Kirk : "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer by."

  McCoy : Melville.

  Spock : John Masefield.

  McCoy : Are you sure about that?

  Spock : I am well-versed in the classics, Doctor.

  McCoy : Then how come you don't know "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?

  [Spock raises his eyebrows] 

• Spock : I've lost a brother.

  Kirk : Yes. I lost a brother once. I was lucky I got him back?

  McCoy : I thought you said men like us don't have families.

  Kirk : I was wrong.

• McCoy : All that time in space, getting on each other's nerves. And what do we do when shore leave comes along? We spend it together. Other people have families.

  Kirk : Other people, Bones. Not us.

• McCoy : I'll tell you one thing, Spock: You never cease to amaze me.

  Spock : Nor I, myself.

• Kirk : What are you doing?

  Spock : I am preparing to toast a marsh melon.

  McCoy : Well, I'll be damned. A marsh melon. Where'd you learn to do that?

  Spock : Before leaving the ship, I consulted the computer library to familiarize myself with the customs associated with "camping out".

  McCoy : Well, tell me, Spock. What do you do after we toast the marsh - er, marsh melons?

  Spock : We consume them.

  McCoy : I know we consume them. I mean after that.

  Spock : Oh. I believe we are required to engage in a ritual known as the sing-a-long.

• Kirk : Go to bed, Spock. Good night, Bones.

  McCoy : Good night, Jim.

  Spock : Good night, doctor.

  McCoy : Good night, Spock.

  Spock : Good night, captain.

  Kirk : [to himself]  ... I don't know... I just don't know...

• [eating a campfire dinner] 

  Spock : Bipodal seeds, Doctor?

  McCoy : Beans, Spock. But no ordinary beans. These are from a special Southern recipe handed down by my father. And if you stick your Vulcan nose up at these, you're not only insulting me, but generations of McCoys.

  Spock : In that case, I have little choice but to sample your beans.

• McCoy : [McCoy is watching Kirk climb a mountain]  "You'll have a great time, Bones. You'll enjoy your shore leave. You'll relax." You call this relaxing? I'm a nervous wreck. I'm not careful, I'll end up talking to myself.

• Sybok : What are you doing?

  Kirk : In order to lower and re-raise the shields as quickly as possible, we're going to forego the tractor beam, and fly her in manually.

  McCoy : *Manually*?

  Sybok : How often have you done this?

  Sulu : [smiles]  Actually, it's my first attempt.

• Spock : [about Sybok]  He reminds me of someone I knew in my youth.

  McCoy : Why, Spock, I didn't know you had one.

  Spock : I do not often think of the past.

• Scotty : [to Kirk about ship status]  Ah. All I can say is they don't make them like they used to.

  Kirk : You told me you could get this ship operational in two weeks, I gave you three, what happened?

  Scotty : I think you gave me too much time, Captain.

  Kirk : Very well, Mr Scott. Carry on.

  Scotty : Aye, sir.

  [Spots a junior engineer nearby] 

  Scotty : How many times do I have to tell you, the right tool for the right job!

  McCoy : [laughs]  I don't think I've ever seen him happier.

  [They enter the turbolift] 

  Computer : Le-le-level?

  Kirk : Bridge... I hope. I could use a shower.

  Spock : [looks at Kirk]  Yes.

• McCoy : [in response to Spock carrying Kirk while wearing jet-boots]  You two go on ahead, I'll wait for the next car.

• McCoy : Jim... if you ask me, and you haven't, I think this is a terrible idea. We're bound to bump into the Klingons, and they don't exactly like you.

  Kirk : The feeling's mutual. Engine room.

  Scotty : [over the intercom]  Scotty here.

  Kirk : We'll need all the power you can muster, mister.

  Scotty : Don't you worry, Captain. We'll beat those Klingon devils, even if I have to get out and push.

  Kirk : I hope it won't come to that, Mr. Scott.

• [last lines] 

  [around a campfire] 

  Kirk : [to Spock]  Are you just gonna sit there and pluck that thing? Or are you gonna play something?

  Spock : [starts playing] 

  Kirk , McCoy , Spock : [singing in canon]  Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream...

• Spock : [sampling McCoy's baked beans]  Mmm... surprisingly good. It does have a flavoring I'm not familiar with.

  McCoy : Ah-ha, that's the secret ingredient.

  Kirk : Got any more of that secret ingredient, Bones?

  McCoy : [hands Kirk a bottle]  Help yourself.

  Spock : Am I to understand, Doctor, that your secret ingredient is alcohol?

  McCoy : Whiskey, Tennessee whiskey, Spock. Care for a little snort?

• Kirk : [trying to get to the bridge, the turbolift only opens partway]  Doesn't anything work on this ship?

  McCoy : Starfleet's got some nerve sending us out in this condition with this handful of people.

• Kirk : [after Spock recognizes Sybok]  Who is it he reminds you of?

  Spock : There was a young student, exceptionally gifted, possessing a great intelligence. It was assumed that one day he would take his place amongst the great scholars of Vulcan. But he was a revolutionary.

  Kirk : What do you mean?

  Spock : The knowledge and experience he sought were forbidden by Vulcan belief.

  Kirk : Forbidden?

  Spock : He rejected his logical upbringing and embraced the animal passions of our ancestors.

  Kirk : Why?

  Spock : He believed the key to self-knowledge was emotion, not logic.

  McCoy : Imagine that. A passionate Vulcan.

  Spock : When he encouraged others to follow him, he was banished from Vulcan, never to return.

• McCoy : We were speculating. Is God really out there?

  Kirk : Maybe he's not out there, Bones. Maybe he's right here.

  [points to his heart] 

  Kirk : Human heart.

• McCoy : Not long after, they found a cure. A goddamn cure!

  Sybok : So if you hadn't killed him, he might have lived.

  McCoy : No! I loved my father. I released him !

  Sybok : Then you did what you thought was right.

  McCoy : Yes. No! Yes!

• Sybok : Why did you do it?

  [euthanizing his father] 

  McCoy : To preserve his dignity.