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• Why is any object we don't understand always called a thing?
  -- McCoy, "The Motion Picture," stardate 7411.4...
• McCoy: "Dear Lord, do you think we're intelligent enough to.
  .. Suppose, what if this thing were used where life already exists?...
• McCoy: "Damn it, Jim, what the hell's the matter with you?
  Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?...
• McCoy: "Of course...a child could do it!" -- "Spock's Brain", Stardate 5431.6
• Scott: "How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" McCoy: "Yeah." -- "STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390.
• McCoy: "Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word.
  -- "Journey To Babel", Stardate 3842.3....
• Worf, you do know what to do. Take us...uh... "Take us out of here.
  Right. -- Picard and Riker, "The Naked Now", stardate 41209.2...
• Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive.
  But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!...
• I bet they've redesigned the whole sickbay too. I know engineers - they just *love* to change things!
  -- McCoy, "The Motion Picture," stardate 7411.4....