Star Trek (TV Series)

Who Mourns for Adonais? (1967)

DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy

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• [last lines] 

  Dr. McCoy : I wish we hadn't had to do this.

  Capt. Kirk : So do I. They gave us so much - the Greek civilization, much of our culture and philosophy came from the worship of those beings. In a way, they began the Golden Age. Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?

• Chekov : Sir, some creatures can generate and control energy with no harm to themselves: The electric eel on Earth, the giant dry worm of Antos 4, the fluffy...

  Dr. McCoy : [interrupting]  Not the whole encyclopedia, Chekov.

  Chekov : The captain requires complete information.

  Dr. McCoy : Spock's contaminating this boy, Jim.

  Capt. Kirk : Are you suggesting that he, Apollo, taps a flow of energy and channels it through his body?

  Chekov : That would seem most likely, sir.

  Capt. Kirk : Mr. Chekov, I think you've earned your pay for the week.

• Dr. McCoy : Got any more good ideas, Jim?

  Capt. Kirk : Yes, I have. One more and it depends on the lieutenant's loyalty. If she fails us, we better get used to herding goats.

• Dr. McCoy : [noting Scotty's interest in Carolyn]  I'm not sure I like that, Jim.

  Capt. Kirk : Why, Bones? Scotty's a good man.

  Dr. McCoy : And he thinks he's the right man for her. But I'm not sure she thinks she thinks he's the right man. On the other hand, she's a woman.

  [a beat] 

  Dr. McCoy : All woman.

• Apollo : I want from you that which is rightfully mine - your loyalty, your tribute, and your worship.

  Dr. McCoy : May I ask what you offer in exchange for this worship?

  Apollo : Life in paradise.

• Capt. Kirk : Apollo's no god, but he could've been taken for one, though, once. Say, 5,000 years ago, a highly sophisticated group of space travelers landed on Earth around the Mediterranean.

  Dr. McCoy : Yes. To the simple shepherds and tribesmen of early Greece, creatures like that WOULD have been gods.

  Capt. Kirk : Especially if they had the power to alter their form at will and command great energy. In fact, they couldn't have been taken for anything else.

• Dr. McCoy : To coin a phrase, fascinating.