• finley
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    5 months ago

    it’s a line from the opening of ST:V - The Final Frontier.

    [ Spock - in rocket boots- flies up to Kirk, who is ascending the face of El Capitan ]

    KIRK: Spock, I’m trying to make an ascent here. Go bother Doctor McCoy!

    i rammed all of the words together, mimicking the speech of william shatner

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      5 months ago

      Between how long they had known each other at that point and the situation Kirk was in, I find calling him “Doctor McCoy” very jarring.

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        5 months ago

        It was the very beginning of a movie that not everyone had seen the prequel to. If it had been a TV episode, Kirk would’ve just said “bones”