Treknicalities

One of the phrases that will forever be associated with Star Trek, along with the infamous (though misquoted) line, “Beam me up, Scotty,” is Dr. McCoy’s exclamation, “I’m a doctor, not a (fill in the blank)!”

Over the course of the original 79 episodes McCoy declares that he is not:

1. a moon shuttle conductor (The Corbomite ManeuverO
2. a bricklayer (Devil In The Dark)
3. a psychiatrist (City On The Edge Of Forever)
4. an engineer (Mirror, Mirror)
5. a mechanic (The Doomsday Machine)
6. a scientist or a physicist (Metamorphosis)
7. an escalator (Friday’s child)
8. a magician (The Deadly Years)
9. a flesh peddler (Return To Tomorrow)
10. a coal miner (The Empath)

As an interesting side note, at the end of The Ultimate Computer, Spock tells McCoy that it would be most entertaining to imprint McCoy’s engrams upon a computer. It seems that in years after Dr. McCoy’s retirement, when the Emergency Medical Hologram was created, that may actually have been done. In the series Star Trek: Voyager, the EMH declares:

1. “I’m a doctor, not a counterinsurgent!”      (Basics, Part 1)
2. “I’m a doctor, not a dragonslayer!”     (Bliss)
3. “I’m a doctor, not a peeping Tom!”     (Drone)
4. “I’m a doctor, not an engineer!”     (Flesh and Blood, Part 1)
5. “I’m a doctor, not a database!”    (Future’s End, Part 2)
6. “I’m a doctor, not a battery!”    ( Gravity)
7. “I’m a doctor, not a performer!”     (Investigations)
8. “I’m a doctor, not a zoo keeper!”     (Life Line)
9. “I’m a doctor, not a voyeur!”     (Parturition)
10. “I’m a doctor, not a bartender!”     (Twisted)
11. “I”m a doctor, not a doorstop!”     (Star Trek : First Contact)
12. “I’m a doctor, not a commando!”     (Message in a Bottle)

If it’s possible, it seems that the Emergency Medical Hologram is more like McCoy than even Dr. McCoy was.

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