Quotable Star Trek

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DOCTOR

The phrase "I'm a doctor not a......" Began with Dr McCoy and has been a running joke in each series since.
The one below reminds me of something my mum use to say about not "running home to her if I break a leg."

"Run along. I'll re-attach any severed limbs, just don't misplace them."

The Doctor to Neelix
>VOY / The Killing Game, Part II

"I'm a doctor, not an engineer."

McCoy to Scott
TOS / Mirror, Mirror

"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer."

McCoy to Kirk
TOS / The Devil in the Dark

"I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist."

McCoy to Edith
TOS / The City on the Edge of Forever

"I'm a doctor, not a coal miner."

McCoy to Spock
TOS / The Empath

"I'm a doctor, not a commando."

EMH-2 to the Doctor
VOY / Message in a Bottle

"I'm a doctor, not a voyeur."

The Doctor to Janeway
VOY / Parturition

"I'm a doctor, not a performer."

The Doctor to Neelix
VOY / Investigations

"I'm a doctor...not a doorstop."

The Enterprise-E, EMH to Beverly
First Contact

"I'm a doctor, not a botanist."

Bashir to Dax on her sick plant
DS9 / The Wire

"I'm a doctor, not an historian."

Bashir to O'Brien
DS9 / Trials and Tribble-ations

"I'm a doctor, not a bartender."

The Doctor to Sandrine
VOY / Twisted

"I'm a doctor, Mister Neelix, not a decorator."

The Doctor to Neelix
VOY / Phage

"I'm a doctor, not a counterinsurgent."

The Doctor, on saving the ship from the Kazon
VOY / Basics, Part II

"I'm a doctor, not a database."

The Doctor to Starling
VOY / Futures end, Part II

"I'm a doctor. You're my patient. That's all I need to know."

Bashir to Garak
DS9 / The Wire

"What am I, a doctor or a moon-shuttle conductor?"

McCoy to Kirk
TOS / The Carbonite Manoeuvre

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