Why does bones hate spock
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This is a story that concludes with fuzzballs bouncing off our Captain's head, after all. When Dr. Suddenly Bones announces he's made a discovery. The Kelvin Timeline films didn't ignore this corner of Star Trek lore, and actors Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban sank their teeth into the rivalry best in the third film, Beyond.
The Enterprise is destroyed and the crew is rolled out like dice on Altamid, a planet in the Necro Cloud nebula. But Spock is injured. Luckily, Bones is a doctor, as he's reminded us in every timeline. He also figures yanking a piece of shrapnel causing green blood stains! Anyhow, after Spock howls in pain he lays out one of the most-Vulcan sentences ever heard across all of Star Trek. Its central conceit is the fish-out-of-water premise, with our heroes of the future coming to our time.
Nowadays, our past, but you get me. When the post-Fal-Tor-Pan Spock rejoins the crew, Bones tries to engage with his ol' chum, especially since he carried his katra through the whole last movie.
The newly reborn Spock is all business, seemingly less able to pick up on human social cues than he ever was. It's a dumb episode of television, but it's our dumb episode of television. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Do you? OK, then. Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Are you making a logical choice, sending Kirk away? But, the right one? You… Read more Read more of this quotation. Bones: "I lost the whole damn planet to my ex". I am Vulcan, sir, we embrace technicality. Monolith quotation from Monolith.
Actions for Monolith's Quotation. James T. Kirk: " Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a three hundred year-old frozen man for help? Kirk: "At what? Spock: " McCoy, you inadvertently activated a torpedo; could you replicate the process? Actions for aaa's Quotation. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Joined: Aug 26, To be sure, it wouldn't be to the detriment of the two characters if they really did hate, loathe, envy and despise each other.
People do that a lot ITRW, and may still respect each other as professionals - and be good company to a third party both. As for racism or sexism, these things may simply go in and out of fashion without being a major factor in anything beyond immediate interpersonal chemistry. Say, with airtight legislation against favoritism, it doesn't matter much if the boss doesn't like the shape of your antennae. It's not as if hatred towards population groups would be impractical or detrimental as a thing, either: to the contrary, it's very beneficial to hate shoplifters or murderous Klingon scum without always stopping to examine the specifics of individuals within those groups.
Kirk certainly was a poster child for categorical condemnation, as befits his profession. Why should his officers be held to a different standard? Of course, this being episodic television, the personalities thus revealed weren't necessarily all that consistent, but at least these heroes weren't left as characterless enigmas whose only defining aspects would be their ranks or professions. Timo Saloniemi. Timo , Aug 3, Hober Mallow , Aug 4, I am sorry to start this little rant but I saw someone pull the McCoy is racist card and it is one of those pet peeves of mine.
Other examples I can think of McCoy standing up for Spock is in the Omega Glory when Spock is accused of being the devil because he has no heart, McCoy yells it is just in a different place.
Not the two best episodes but those are good scenes to show McCoy cares about Spock. And actually he shows concern for him in All These Yesterdays too. Kinokima , Aug 4, Joined: Jul 24, Some of McCoy's dialog might sound racist in retrospect--the references to "green blooded Vulcans" etc. But it surely wasn't intended, at the time, to convey the notion in-universe that McCoy was supposed to be a racist.
McCoy was the bleeding heart, Spock was logical and heartless--at least from McCoy's point of view. If anyone was a racist, it was more likely to be Spock, since it was very clear in many episodes that he believed his logical Vulcan species was superior to emotionally primitive humans.
He also had a good measure of self-loathing and inner conflict as a "half breed. Spock came to depict not simply someone who was without emotion or had chosen logic as superior--i.
On the other hand, while McCoy frequently presented the "emotional viewpoint," let's remember he was himself a man of science--a physician, a researcher, an empiricist--and thus of necessity was in fundamental ways just as "logical" in the performance of his job and his world view as Spock was.
How many episodes required Bones to analyze something or someone in the lab and come up with an antidote, diagnosis, or cure? That's all hard core science and logic, not emotionalism at work. So as a problem solving team Bones and Spock had to have been on the same wavelength to a great degree. Obviously so or else they couldn't have functioned as teammates and senior officers on the Enterprise. As far as anything specific such as whatever the line was in "All Our Yesterdays"--and I don't recall the reference off hand--it's not at all unusual or infrequent for any of us to say unkind or nasty things to people that we love if we are under great stress.
It happens. Hengist , Aug 4, Joined: Nov 22, Location: Melakon's grave. It sort of makes me think of the relationship between film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They weren't really close friends, and didn't socialize much outside work. They were professional rivals, and enjoyed insulting each other, especially if it stung-- Gene loved making fat jokes at Roger's expense.
But when one died, the other mourned. Melakon , Aug 4, Maybe they're jokes. I don't know. As Jim says, we're not often sure ourselves sometimes".