Leonard McCoy

Leonard Horatio McCoy, M.D., nicknamed "Bones", is a fictional character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by the late DeForest Kelley. In ', he was one of the three main characters and the humanistic counterpart to the logical Spock; capable of great compassion, yet also cranky, superstitious, and irrational, shunning advanced technology (especially the transporter beam, which he regarded with distrust) and occasionally even bigoted with regard to Spock's part-Vulcan ancestry. It is also notable that he was the only southerner among the racially and ethnically diverse crew of the NCC-1701.

McCoyisms

In Star Trek: The Original Series Leonard McCoy was best known for pronoucing something dead and for comparing himself to something that he wasn't. The following is a list of the number of "McCoyisms" that can be found in the Original Series

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Declaring Something Dead

"He's dead, Jim."

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• Crewman Green in The Man Trap
• The Space Puppy in The Enemy Within
• The Adult Creature in Miri
• Doctor Adams in Dagger of the Mind
• Captain Kirk in Amok Time
• Scotty in The Changeling
• Crewman Jackson in Catspaw
• Scotty in I, Mudd
• Lieutenant Galway in The Deadly Years
• The Table Dancer in Wolf in the Fold
• Lieutenant Tracey in Wolf in the Fold
• Commissioner Hengist in Wolf in the Fold
• Priestess Nona in A Private Little War
• Captain Kirk in Return to Tomorrow
• Professor Starnes in And the Children Shall Lead
• Marvick in Is There in Truth No Beauty?
• Ensign Chekov in Spectre of the Gun
• The Old Man in For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
• Murdered Scientist in The Lights of Zetar

Compared to Something that McCoy isn't

"I'm a Doctor, not..."

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• A Moon Shuttle Conductor (The Corbomite Maneuver)
• A Bricklayer (The Devil in the Dark)
• A Psychiatrist (The City on the Edge of Forever)
• A Mechanic (The Doomsday Machine and The Empath)
• An Engineer (Mirror, Mirror)
• A Scientist (Metamorphosis)
• A Physicist (Metamorphosis)
• An Escalator (Friday's Child)
• A Magician (The Deadly Years)
• A Miracle Worker (The Deadly Years)
• A Flesh Peddler (Return to Tomorrow)
• A Coal Miner (The Empath)

The Transformers cartoon parodied McCoy in the episode The Return of Optimus Prime with Wreck-Gar saying "I'm a doctor, not a forklift" when lifting Optimus Prime's dead body on an operating table, and saying "He's dead, Jim" when asked if he could repair Optimus Prime. (Wreck-Gar also parodies Montgomery Scott in the same scene.)

Related Topics:
Transformers - Wreck-Gar - Optimus Prime - Montgomery Scott

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The Doctor from sometimes uses some of McCoy's "I'm a Doctor" McCoyisms. The Emergency Medical Hologram from (not to be confused with the hologram from Voyager) also states, "I'm a Doctor, not a doorstop".

Related Topics:
The Doctor - Emergency Medical Hologram

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HK-47 in the game also says "Dammit, master, I'm an assassination droid, not a dictionary!" at one point, obviously parodying McCoy.

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In the sixth game of the Space Quest series, The Spinal Frontier the narrator Gary Owens admonishes the hero Roger Wilco if one clicks the hand icon over a pile of clothes in his quarters: "Picking up your clothes? Dammit Roger you're a janitor, not a responsible adult!"

Related Topics:
Space Quest - Gary Owens - Roger Wilco

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