Star Trek (TV Series)
Requiem for Methuselah (1969)
DeForest Kelley: Dr. McCoy
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Quotes
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Flint : [I was born] in that region of Earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 B.C., as the millennia are reckoned. I was Akharin, a soldier, a bully and a fool. I fell in battle, pierced to the heart - and did not die.
Dr. McCoy : [amazed] Instant tissue regeneration, coupled with some perfect form of biological renewal - you learned that you were immortal...
Flint : ...and to conceal it, to live some portion of a life, to pretend to age and then move on before my nature was suspected.
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Captain James T. Kirk : You'd wipe out four hundred lives? Why?
Flint : I have seen a hundred billion fall. I know death better than any man. I have tossed enemies into his grasp. And I know mercy. Your crew is not dead but suspended.
Captain James T. Kirk : Worse than dead! Restore them. Restore my ship!
Flint : In time - a thousand, two thousand years. You will know the future, Captain Kirk.
Dr. McCoy : You have been such men, you've known and created such beauty, you've watched your race evolve from cruelty and barbarism throughout your enormous life - and, yet, now you would do this to us?
Flint : The flowers of my past; I hold the nettles of the present. I am "Flint" now, with MY needs.
Captain James T. Kirk : WHAT needs?
Flint : Tonight, I have seen something wondrous, something I've waited for, laboured for - nothing must endanger it: At last, Rayna's emotions have stirred to life. Now they will turn to me in this solitude which I preserve.
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Rayna Kapec : Flint is my teacher. You are the only other men I've ever seen.
Dr. McCoy : The misfortune of men everywhere, and our privilege.
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McCoy : [to Spock] You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him...
McCoy : [referring to Kirk] ... because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to - the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know, simply because the word "love" isn't written into your book. Good night, Spock.
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Dr. McCoy : All emotions are in play, Mr. Flint. You harm us; she hates you.
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McCoy : [whistling] Saurian brandy, one hundred years old. Jim?
Capt. Kirk : Please.
McCoy : Mr. Spock, I know you won't have one. Heaven forbid those mathematically perfect brainwaves be corrupted by this all too human vice.
Spock : Thank you, Doctor, I will have a brandy.
[Kirk and McCoy look at each other in amazement]
McCoy : [to Kirk] Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan? Once alcohol hits that green blood...
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Dr. McCoy : Jim, there's a large deposit, bearing 273, four kilometres away. I got four hours to process that stuff otherwise the epidemic will be irreversible.
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Dr. McCoy : What else interests you besides gravity phenomena, Rayna?
Rayna Kapec : Everything. Less than that is betrayal of the intellect.
