• finley@lemm.ee
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      4 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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        4 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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          4 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”