Star Trek (TV Series)

The Apple (1967)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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• Dr. McCoy : Well, I don't agree with you at all, Mr. Spock.

  Mr. Spock : That's not unusual, Doctor.

• Chekov : [appraising the planet]  It makes me homesick. Just like Russia.

  Dr. McCoy : More like the Garden of Eden, Ensign.

  Chekov : Of course, Doctor. The Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow. A very nice place. Must've made Adam and Eve very sad to leave.

• Akuta : "Love."

  [laughs] 

  Akuta : Strange words: "Children." "Love." What is "love?"

  Yeoman Martha Landon : Love is...

  [Chekov puts his arm around Martha and smiles broadly] 

  Yeoman Martha Landon : when two people are...

  Akuta : Ahh... Yes. The holding. The touching. Vaal has forbidden this.

  Dr. McCoy : Well, there goes paradise.

• Dr. McCoy : What's going on, Jim.

  Capt. Kirk : Mess call.

  Mr. Spock : In my view, a splendid example of reciprocity.

  Dr. McCoy : It would take a computerized Vulcan mind such as yours to make that kind of a statement.

  Mr. Spock : Doctor, you insist on applying human standards to nonhuman cultures. I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.

• Scott : [on bridge of the Enterprise]  Captain, we pulled away a little, we gained... maybe an hour... but we blew almost every system in the ship doing it. There's nothing left to try again. I guess you'll have to fire me, sir.

  Capt. Kirk : [on planet surface]  You're fired.

  [closes communicator absentmindedly] 

  Capt. Kirk : 400 people...

  McCoy : Jim...

  Capt. Kirk : They'll die because I couldn't see a warning sign. I had to follow orders, always orders.

• Mr. Spock : In my view, a splendid example of reciprocity

  Dr. McCoy : It would take a computerized Vulcan mind such as yours to make that kind of a statement.

  Mr. Spock : Doctor, you insist on applying human standards to non-human cultures. I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.

  Dr. McCoy : There are certain absolutes, Mister Spock, and one of them is the right of humanoids to a free and unchained environment, the right to have conditions which permit growth.

  Mr. Spock : Another is their right to choose a system which seems to work for them.

  Dr. McCoy : Jim, you're not just going to stand by and be blinded to what's going on here. These are humanoids, intelligent. They need to advance and grow. Don't you understand what my readings indicate? There's been no progress here in at least ten thousand years. This isn't life. It's stagnation.

  Mr. Spock : Doctor, these people are healthy and they are happy. What ever you choose to call it, this system works, despite your emotional reaction to it.

  Dr. McCoy : It might work for you, Mister Spock, but it doesn't work for me. Humanoids living so they can service a hunk of tin.

  Capt. Kirk : Gentlemen, I think this philosophical argument can wait until our ship's out of danger...