Need a little help here. Does anyone know in which
order Bones said "I'm a doctor not a...

1. "... coal miner"
2. "... escalator"
3. "... bricklayer"
4. "... magician"
5. "... engneer"
6. "... mechanic"
7. "... moonshuttle conductor"?
I know "escalator"'s from "Friday's Child". "Bricklayer" is from "The Devil in the Dark". "Magician" from "The Deadly Years". "Engineer" "Mirror, Mirror" and "mechanic"
is "The Doomsday Machine".

Am I missing any? (Other than "psychiatrist".)

Any help anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated.

1. "The Empath"
2. "Friday's Child"
3. "Devil in the Dark"
4. "Deadly Years" (though not an exact quote)
5. "Mirror, Mirror"
6. "The Empath" again (NEQ)
7. "Corbomite Manuever" (NEQ)

Hey Todd, thanks! I'm trying to put together some
Dr. McCoy wavs as a tribute to the good doctor for
a New Year's Eve CD I'm burning. I want to put the
"I'm a Doctor, not a"s in chronological order and couldn't quite remember where each quote came from. I think, though, I am gonna put "I'm not a
magician, Spock, I'm just a plain ol' country doctor" at the end of 'em. Seems a fitting end to it. "I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist" will be the first, though it's a kind of paraphrase of Bones' catchphrase.

God, I miss Bones! May the Great Bird of the Galaxy watch over his soul.

What does the H stand for?

Don't think it was ever said. ST-III's the first
time his middle initial was given.

I heard somewhere that it was Horatio (maybe on Starship Creator).

Search for Spock calls him Leonard Horatio McCoy.

Is that the novel? I don't remember it in the film.

Same here - and I watched it in the last week.

Todd- "mechanic" does come from "The Doomsday Machine". The dialogue was:
Kirk: "Bones, you ever hear of a 'doomsday machine?'"
McCoy: "No. I'm a doctor, not a mechanic."

The mechanic line is in both!

At the end of SFS when Sarek lists his father and grandfather McCoy introduces himself as Leonard Horatio McCoy. (If I remember correctly, which I think I do)

I believe what was said was "McCoy, Leonard H. Son
of David."

Yes, that`s right. I must have been thinking of the fact that it confirms his middle initial, not his actual middle name.

Incidentally, I noticed Turner Classic Movies is
running Search For Spock and Wrath of Khan this Saturday, New Year's Day. Assuming everything works then...

Just to add a thought on Bones' middle name; As
Kirk was supposed to be Hornblower in outer space,
I don't think McCoy's middle name should be/would
be Horatio. There is however, a historical figure
whom the good doctor was in part patterned after:
H. L. Mencken. The "H" in Mencken's name stood
for Henry. So perhaps McCoy's middle initial stands for Henry. Like I said, just a thought.

I don't think Bones EVER said "Dammit, Jim ... I'm a doctor, not a (fill-in-the-blank)" until the movies came along. Even then, I don't think it was exactly as quoted by so many of my fellow nitpickers. Until then, McCoy never said "dammit". It's the same stereotyping that makes Kirk say "Beam me up, Scotty." The closest Kirk ever came to saying that line was in ST4 ... "Scotty, beam me up." (just before Gillian jumps on him in order to go with Kirk)

List of episodes in which McCoy is missing:

"What Are Little Girls Made of?"
"Errand of Mercy"

("Where No Man Has Gone Before" does not count, he wasn't a part of the show then)

Was McCoy an alcoholic?

He has a stash of Saurian Brandy in his cabinet in "The Enemy Within"
He drinks something in "Conscience of the King"
He drinks Trelane's wine in "Squire of Gothos"
He drink's Korob's wine in "Catspaw"
He drinks Cochrane's "tequilla" in "Metamorphosis"
He makes "Finnegle's Folly" in "The Ultimate Computer"
He has a drink in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"
He mixes an anedote mixed with alcohol in "The Tholian Web"
He drinks Flint's drinks in "Requiem for Methuselah"
He gives Kirk Romulan Ale in STII
He uses Tennesee Whiskey in his baked beans in STV
He drinks Romulan Ale in STVI

Off-hand, I say he might have a problem.

I wouldn't go that far, John. A hard drinker, certainly. But then Kirk and Scotty were shown to enjoy a drink or two. Let's remember that the drinking did not interfere with his job performance. Nor was it a dominate part of his life. I mean, out of some 77-78 episodes and six movies, you cite only 11 examples of Bones' alcohol consumption. It's not like he drank in every episode, or on the job. And the drink in "The Squire of Gothos" should be discounted. First of all, it wasn't real wine. And it was the only thing Trelane created for the Enterprise crew to drink at the "banquet".

Live long and prosper.

I doubt he drank nearly as much as Scotty did.

I agree with your viewpoint, Benn.

Just a note: I forgot to mention that he imbibes again in "Journey To Babel"

At least he didn't drink tetralubisol (Conscience of the King).

I think he can be excused for drinking the antidote in "The Tholian Web." Interspace madness would have seriously affected his job performance.

Also, he made a mint julep in "This Side of Paradise."

Yer right...forgot another!

He Drank Tennesee whisky with them marshmellows,in Star Trek5 The Campout ,felt I was back in the Boy Scouts when I saw this movie...John...alltogether now:Row row yr Boat!

My girlfriend went on e-bay, and found me the Hallmark figurine of Dr. Mc Coy (as well as those of Kirk and Spock) for my birthday last November. For a character who hated the transporter, his figure is positioned on - you guessed it - a transporter pad.

As a kid, McCoy was my favourite Star Trek character.

Deforest was the only main TOS cast member to not live to see the 21st century. Cancer is an •••••••

A ship the size of the Enterprise, with that many people on it (430) would no doubt have more than one doctor.

Doctor McCoy from Scotland and Doctor Jones from Wales

Doctor McCoy from Scotland

Wrong one.

Scotty is the one from Scotland.

it was a joke - McCoy is a Scottish name - look at the Seventh Doctor (even though the actor's birth name was Percy Kent-Smith).

Well, maybe McCoy's ancestors were Scottish.

However, McCoy, like the actor that played him, DeForest Kelley, is a native of Georgia.

Da, comrade.

Oops! Wrong Georgia. ;-)

Yep, KAM!

*does Russian squat dance*

I wonder who's idea it was to make McCoy a Georgia native, like DeForest Kelley was?

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