DeForest Kelley January 20th 1920-June 11th 1999 May his memory live long and prosper.
As many of you may have heard, DeForest Kelley died on Friday, June 11th 1999. If you want the full detials they are available from Star Trek Central. If anyone would like me to post a message here or add something to the quotes list or if you have pictures you'd like me to put up here (I'll take any picture of DeForest and flower pictures and animations are also welcome) then e-mail it to me at [email protected] and I'll try to post it here A.S.A.P.
Messages
Quotes
(The titles that are simply in quotation marks are original series episodes)
"I'd give real money if he'd shut up!"
McCoy, listening to General Chang quoting Shakespeare in Star Trek VI
Kirk:"What does God need with a starship?"
McCoy:"Jim, you don't go 'round asking the Almighty for his I.D.!"
From Star Trek V
"Where is the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot? If I wanted a ride home, would I be trying to charter a space-flight?"
McCoy to a Federation Security Agent, Star Trek III
"You're suffering from a Vulcan mind-meld, Doctor.
"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!"
Kirk and McCoy, Star Trek III
"I'm trying to thank you, you pointed-ear hobgoblin!"
~McCoy, "Bread and Circuses"
"Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every human organ except one: the brain. And the brain is what life is all about. Now that man can think any thought that we can, and love, hope, dream as much as we can. But he can't reach out and no one can reach in!"
~McCoy to Kirk, about the paralyzed Pike, "The Menagerie"
"Damnit, do you want an acute case on your hands? This woman has immediate postprandial upper abdominal distention! Out of the way... Get out of the way."
"What did you say she's got?"
"Cramps."
~McCoy and Kirk, getting past the policemen, Star Trek IV
"It seems, Admiral, that I've got all his marbles."
~McCoy to Kirk, on having Spock's katra, Star Trek III
"Spock, I've found that evil usually seems to triumph... unless good is very, very careful."
~McCoy, "The Omega Glory"
"The beaurocratic mentality is the only constant in the universe."
~McCoy to Kirk, Star Trek IV
"War is never imperative, Mister Spock."
~McCoy, "Balance of Terror"
"Well... what do you know? I finally got the last word."
~McCoy to Amanda, "Journey to Babel"
"Why is any object we don't understand always called a 'thing'?"
~McCoy to Kirk, "The Motion Picture"
"I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget."
~McCoy,on the transporter, "Space Seed"
"I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure."
~McCoy, Star Trek V
"Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land somewhere and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'"
"I fail to see the humour in that situation, Doctor."
"Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork..."
~McCoy and Spock, "Bread and Circuses"
