The first part showing the original series was funny.! I was on a flight, and my husband and I were talking to a fellow seatmate. He was a podiatrist. We were joking about the movie Airplane. Mind you, the Value Jet flight crashed the day before. :( We suddenly heard a loud bang, and the flight attendants asked if anyone on board was a doctor. We looked at our seatmate and said, "You're a doctor!". He said, OMG, I am! LOL. Sadly it was not good for the elderly man who fell.
"I'm a warrior, not a murderer." -Worf to Garak in "Broken Link" "I'm an Engineer, not a philosopher." -Chief O'Brien to Nog in "It's Only a Paper Moon"
A golden opportunity was missed on the TNG episode where Data asks Dr. Crusher for dance lessons: "I'm a doctor, not a dance instructor." This of course is a tongue-in-cheek joke because Gates McFadden is one of the best known dance choreographers in Hollywood.
Here's an opposite scenario: Kitchen chaos in the Voyager ship where everyone wants to cook their own meals because Neelix is gone... someone shouted: Everyone! Get out of my kitchen!! Voyager crew: On whose authority?!!! Tuvix: Chief of Security and/or the Kitchen's Chef... Take your pick!!! (During Tuvix' kitchen duty, the cooking improved)
@@originaluddite It just didn't fit her character. "I'm a doctor" would be more a thing Mrs. Pulansky would have said. Beverly Crusher was a confident woman, who even went on to do command training to be able to command a spaceship if needed.
@@acmenipponair On the contrary, a golden opportunity was missed on the TNG episode where Data asks Dr. Crusher for dance lessons: "I'm a doctor, not a dance instructor." This of course is a tongue-in-cheek joke because Gates McFadden is one of the best known dance choreographers in Hollywood.
@@JohnDiMarco Thanks, what an informative compilation! I had no idea how many of the red shirts that died in Star Trek were actually gold shirts and blue shirts!
My favourite Variation of "I'm a Doctor..." is in the DS9 Episode It's only a Paper Moon where Nog asks Chief O'Brien about the moral implications of Vic Fontaine being sentient and O'Brien just shrugs it of and says: "I'm an engineer not a philosopher."
@@kallistiX1 They're all best in their own ways really. but the EMH MK1 was the only one who was a synthetic life form entirely, with the personal traits and character arc it entails.
There was an explosion in sickbay on the Enterprise. Captain Kirk gets on the intercom and shouts "Bones! Bones! Are you hurt?!" McCoy replies "Damn it Jim! How should I know! I'm a doctor, not a lawyer!"
I love how Neelix asks if the Doctor can sing, and years later the Doctor almost gives up medicine to be a performer. And also how the "I'd say you're a little bit of both" comes back to play. He may have been programmed to only be a temporary medical supplement, but he sure proved that he could exceed and change.
There should be a Jeopardy category for Leslie Nielsen quotes. This could be the clue, and the correct question would be "Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
It's interesting that (a) "I'm a Doctor not a ......" was never said in TNG apart from by the EMH in First Contact and (b) Bones only said it in the TV series and not in any of the films. I could have imagined it being used in the trial scene in ST VI: "I'm a Doctor, not a murderer!"
Bones was happiest when he got the last words on his three patients: Jim, Spock, and Sarek... Bones: Shut up! (to Sarek)... Shut up! (to Spock)... and Shut up! (to Jim) Bones breaks the "Fourth Wall" and smiled at the camera.
One of the times McCoy did not respond this way when asked for help even though it could have fit is ST VI when Spock asked him to help with surgery on a torpedo near the end of the movie.
Thank you for uploading a full version from all the series that kept that in the script. Shame Strange New Worlds, Discovery and Picard didn't have this added.
Benjamin Sisko: I'm a Federation Captain, not a Bajoran Emissary. One of the Wormhole Entities: Hello son!!! Ben: What?!?! MOM??? =========== (just a little reference joke) The Wormhole Entity: I am your mother. Ben: Nnnoooooooooo!!!
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It wasn't fitting for her character. Beverly Crusher wouldn't have said: "I'm a doctor, not a brick layer", but would have ask: "where is the concrete"
Divine Comedy at Brigham Young University did a pretty good Star Trek parody skit, and the character that plays Bones says a couple times "Dang it, Jim I'm a pre-med student not a doctor"
oh yes, I need to watch both DS9 and Voyager in full. I started watching both when they were on, but our local WGN channel that aired Trek in the 90s, was showing Cubs and Sox games on there too. I lost track of when DS9 was on at one point and gave up. Voyager was on when I went back to school, I didn't have time to keep up with nigh classes.
@@JohnDiMarco oh yes, I'm a Trekie and Star Wars fan, I just stopped watching Trek shows at one point due to various reasons. I'm slowly getting back to watching them. I watched Enterprise last year, I wish it lasted longer. I haven't decided when I'll start watching DS9 or Voyager, though.
“This isn’t part of my program. I’m a doctor, not a door stop.” 😂 That line aside, First Contact is STILL like my 2nd favorite Star Trek: TGN movie, following Generations, mainly the focus on Data with his emotion chip in both, the Nexus, and the Borg
DeForest Kelly and Robert Picardo were the best doctors - nothing else :) The simple truth behind that phrase is: I'm a specialist in my field of science, but I'm not educated or skilled enough to do other things. It's right to clearly point that out if a superior asks you to do something you haven't any clue of.
There's also one I feel not many people know about in the MS-DOS game Star Trek: Borg. Q: "Well, what'd you expect? He's a doctor, not a security officer!"
@@JohnDiMarco Man, it really got flanderized in Voyager. I though it was something Bones said a lot, but it’s more the EMH’s catchphrase at this point! Thanks for the compilation.
I'm a Dr not an engineer . I'm a Dr not zoo keeper Ima Dr not a komando I'm a Dr not a battery I'm a Dr but as soon as adjusting is done I'll start my new career as a trycorder.
I do appreciate Discovery for trying to do something different and it even has a story in my Top 10 overall. But god, do I wish it'd lighten up a little.
Fun fact. Robert Picardo ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a lightbulb" in his audition, and that's what got him the job.
The ONLY ad-lib he was ever allowed to do XD.
I'm surprised he could ad-lib. Isn't that outside of his programming? LOL
Juan Lucas Picardo.
Picard-o
I thought he said "...not a night light". Hilarious either way. The Doctor is an amazing character 🖖🤝🏴
Kirk: “Bones, this man is choking!”
Bones: “Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor, not a……oh wait.”
The first part showing the original series was funny.!
I was on a flight, and my husband and I were talking to a fellow seatmate. He was a podiatrist. We were joking about the movie Airplane. Mind you, the Value Jet flight crashed the day before. :( We suddenly heard a loud bang, and the flight attendants asked if anyone on board was a doctor. We looked at our seatmate and said, "You're a doctor!". He said, OMG, I am! LOL. Sadly it was not good for the elderly man who fell.
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"im a doctor, not an escalator" is my favorite
I'm partial to, "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."
I love "What am I a DOCTOR or a MOON SHUTTLE Conductor?!"
my fav is "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer" 😂
Excavator???
What about "I'm a doctor, not a brick layer"?
"I'm a warrior, not a murderer."
-Worf to Garak in "Broken Link"
"I'm an Engineer, not a philosopher."
-Chief O'Brien to Nog in "It's Only a Paper Moon"
Yes, it seems like Bones inspired many variations, even among non-doctors. Thanks for watching.
I saw this episode yesterday again ("I'm a warrior, not a murder.")
A golden opportunity was missed on the TNG episode where Data asks Dr. Crusher for dance lessons: "I'm a doctor, not a dance instructor." This of course is a tongue-in-cheek joke because Gates McFadden is one of the best known dance choreographers in Hollywood.
That would've been great!
I was positive she did. Maybe I just anticipated it and imagined it.
I actually use the doorstop one once. I was asked to keep a door closed... "I'm a Dishwasher... not a door stop..." then burst out laughing.
It feels "I'm a X, not a Y" is said once by every main character in voyager and its atleast once every 3 episodes.
It is indeed very common. Thanks for watching.
At least in this case, it’s because the Doctor was literally intentionally created to be a doctor, and a damn good one
I always enjoyed when Belona would have her “I’m an engineer, not a doctor” moments while working with The Doctor
56 / 5.000
Oh yeah, the Voyager crew and their legendary identity problems...
Here's an opposite scenario: Kitchen chaos in the Voyager ship where everyone wants to cook their own meals because Neelix is gone...
someone shouted: Everyone! Get out of my kitchen!!
Voyager crew: On whose authority?!!!
Tuvix: Chief of Security and/or the Kitchen's Chef... Take your pick!!!
(During Tuvix' kitchen duty, the cooking improved)
I've always loved that the first time Bones said this with the famous wording (at :20), Kirk actually had a perfect response for him.
The look on B’lanna’s face when he says ‘It’s nothing I haven’t seen before’ is great. It basically says ‘not helping!’
He should have just reminded her that he's a hologram. Ergo, no sexual motive is possible.
They never gave Beverly Crusher on TNG a line like this.
And in the 2009 movie the Karl Urban McCoy said, “I’m a doctor, not an astrophysicist.”
then in Into Darkness its "I'm a Doctor not a torpedo technician"
I guess Next Gen was a bit too soon (and co-existing with the original crew movies) to make too many sly references back to its iconic predecessor.
@@cameronchesters5300 meanwhile the original McCoy had no problem with conducting a surgery on a torpedo :D
@@originaluddite It just didn't fit her character. "I'm a doctor" would be more a thing Mrs. Pulansky would have said. Beverly Crusher was a confident woman, who even went on to do command training to be able to command a spaceship if needed.
@@acmenipponair
On the contrary, a golden opportunity was missed on the TNG episode where Data asks Dr. Crusher for dance lessons: "I'm a doctor, not a dance instructor." This of course is a tongue-in-cheek joke because Gates McFadden is one of the best known dance choreographers in Hollywood.
"It appears someone has forgotten to deactivate my programming... I'm a doctor, not a nightlight."
Great! That almost beats Dr. Bones' legendary "he's dead, Jim!" diagnosis.
Now that you mention it... ua-cam.com/video/vt5zD_6n-eA/v-deo.html
@@JohnDiMarco great, thank you 👍👌
@@JohnDiMarco Thanks, what an informative compilation! I had no idea how many of the red shirts that died in Star Trek were actually gold shirts and blue shirts!
@@thomasplinguidy4588 It's true. Not everyone who died in TOS were in fact a red shirt. Just the most remembered.
"By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day." - Dr. McCoy
2:23 “Are you programmed to sing?” Foreshadowing… 😜
My favourite Variation of "I'm a Doctor..." is in the DS9 Episode It's only a Paper Moon where Nog asks Chief O'Brien about the moral implications of Vic Fontaine being sentient and O'Brien just shrugs it of and says: "I'm an engineer not a philosopher."
I love that show! I love all the actors. Unsure if my favourite is garak or Odo or Kira
“I’m a doctor, not a broken record.”
-No Star Trek doctor ever
Man rewatching these old scenes from TOS just reminds me how bloody amazing that series was 🙏
"I'm a doctor, not a time machine guy!"
- Zoidborg (The new Futurama season)
Just love 3:06 “I’m a doctor not a counter-insurgent”
I've got to get myself a button that says, "I'm a bricklayer not a doctor!"
“Say, Bones. Do you have a postage stamp I could borrow?"
“I’m a doctor, not a philatelist, dammit.”
Bones is of course the classic and Julian does a good job, but man, Picardo brought something truly hilarious to each and everyone one of these lines
Star trek online had one with the Vulkan medic you get in the 23rd century campaign.
The EMH is the best star trek doctor. I love him.
I think he was my favorite character on Voyager.
WHOA THERE! Better than Phlox? Better Than Bashir? Better Than BONES?! BLASPHEMY!!
@@kallistiX1 They're all best in their own ways really. but the EMH MK1 was the only one who was a synthetic life form entirely, with the personal traits and character arc it entails.
Worst pre-STD character ever.
@@zaltmanbleroze You are in a vanishingly small minority. In fact, just you thinks this.
I was volunteering at my mom's school a few years ago, she asked me to get something and I told her "I'm a student, not an errand person."
I'm a star trek fan not a doctor🖖
Live long and prosper.
@@rbbecker73 mmhmm
I love that Garak interrupted Bashir trying to do this :')
There was an explosion in sickbay on the Enterprise. Captain Kirk gets on the intercom and shouts "Bones! Bones! Are you hurt?!" McCoy replies "Damn it Jim! How should I know! I'm a doctor, not a lawyer!"
I love how Neelix asks if the Doctor can sing, and years later the Doctor almost gives up medicine to be a performer.
And also how the "I'd say you're a little bit of both" comes back to play.
He may have been programmed to only be a temporary medical supplement, but he sure proved that he could exceed and change.
I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith.
There should be a Jeopardy category for Leslie Nielsen quotes. This could be the clue, and the correct question would be "Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
@@rbbecker73 Should be an honorable mention in any quote video ever created always sitting between 1st and 2nd place.
It's interesting that (a) "I'm a Doctor not a ......" was never said in TNG apart from by the EMH in First Contact and (b) Bones only said it in the TV series and not in any of the films.
I could have imagined it being used in the trial scene in ST VI: "I'm a Doctor, not a murderer!"
Bones: I'm a doctor, not a bartender.
Kirk: Actually, you are. Give me some Romulan Ale that you keep in that cabinet behind you.
Since Romulan Ale is illegal in the Federation, he's also a smuggler... though he prescribed it as medicine to his patients (close friends, they are)
@@erichanastacio9695
That Makes Doctor McCoy a Bootlegger .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How prophetic was it for Neelix to ask if the Doctor was programmed to sing. Lol
It’s about time somebody did this … I’m glad it was you .. liked and subscribed ooo I might turn on the alerts
Thanks!
Bones was happiest when he got the last words on his three patients: Jim, Spock, and Sarek...
Bones: Shut up! (to Sarek)... Shut up! (to Spock)... and Shut up! (to Jim)
Bones breaks the "Fourth Wall" and smiled at the camera.
I love the last one. I'm a pilot, not a doctor.🤣
Tom Paris was my favorite character on Voyager.
One of the times McCoy did not respond this way when asked for help even though it could have fit is ST VI when Spock asked him to help with surgery on a torpedo near the end of the movie.
I love this video, especially the escalator bit
Thanks!
Robert Picardo's Doctor is my favorite
Not a bad ending but it needed Doctor Who’s Tom Baker say, “I’m not a doctor; I’m the Doctor,” somewhere in it as a plot twist.
Good idea!
@@JohnDiMarco thank you
Gates McFadden is the only one who never used the “I’m a doctor, not a…” line
20 Borg about to break through a door is my favourite medical emergency
i'm a doctor, not a performer.
ABOUT that......
Thank you for uploading a full version from all the series that kept that in the script. Shame Strange New Worlds, Discovery and Picard didn't have this added.
Attack on Titan recently had that I am a doctor line too. Weird...
Fascinating. Thanks for watching.
Even though he made some dumb ass decisions later on, the EMH was still my fav doc.
What about the famous Discovery Doctor line?....."I'm a Doctor on a sci-fi show. Not a Doctor on a Star Trek Show."
I knew I was forgetting something.
@@JohnDiMarco LOL :-)
This is my favorite comment on any youtube video
Nice
Some of them lines where played on my Star Trek game mostly McCoy
Benjamin Sisko: I'm a Federation Captain, not a Bajoran Emissary.
One of the Wormhole Entities: Hello son!!!
Ben: What?!?! MOM???
===========
(just a little reference joke)
The Wormhole Entity: I am your mother.
Ben: Nnnoooooooooo!!!
For anyone interested in Star Trek trivia, I invite you to check out our Trek-themed Jeopardy livestreams, most Saturday nights at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central on this channel.
I write the questions, and we take contestants from the chat. It's a lot of fun!
Thank you for keeping the religious note nonjudgmental, small and not pushing it down our throats by yelling or talking. I can respect that.
@@emmawatson9180 Thanks!
@@JohnDiMarco may I ask what flavour of religion you are?
@@emmawatson9180 Thanks for asking! I am a Christian, of the Mennonite persuasion. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
@@JohnDiMarco oh that's nice. I like the Mennonites. Which is your favorite Star Trek?
starfleet medical officers be like "why does everyone think im an engineer??"
It's intersting that all of the MALE doctors have this little bit of snark to them...and Crusher misses out.
It wasn't fitting for her character. Beverly Crusher wouldn't have said: "I'm a doctor, not a brick layer", but would have ask: "where is the concrete"
Dr. Crusher had her own brand of snark
Feel like you could get away with Pulanski saying it, but it would be followed by her insulting Data for no damn reason
@@mrcritical6751I was going to say, that would have fit Pulaski perfectly! 😁
Divine Comedy at Brigham Young University did a pretty good Star Trek parody skit, and the character that plays Bones says a couple times "Dang it, Jim I'm a pre-med student not a doctor"
oh yes, I need to watch both DS9 and Voyager in full. I started watching both when they were on, but our local WGN channel that aired Trek in the 90s, was showing Cubs and Sox games on there too. I lost track of when DS9 was on at one point and gave up. Voyager was on when I went back to school, I didn't have time to keep up with nigh classes.
I highly recommend both shows, especially DS9. Thanks for watching.
@@JohnDiMarco oh yes, I'm a Trekie and Star Wars fan, I just stopped watching Trek shows at one point due to various reasons. I'm slowly getting back to watching them. I watched Enterprise last year, I wish it lasted longer. I haven't decided when I'll start watching DS9 or Voyager, though.
Fantastic! Why have I not seen this before!?
Thanks!
I can't believe there's enough material for a five minute video.
He's a doctor, not a timekeeper.
I can't believe there's not more.
Love the final one with Paris 😄
Good one!
Thanks!
Treasure Planet: "Dangit Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor!"
Some catchphrases never die 😊
I always wanted to hear him say, "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physician."
2:23 🤔 he says He's a doctor, not a performer, but we all know the future Mr. Opera 🤭
Hey the ship sound is added in this. Cool.
What is that funky beat at the beginning?
"I'm a doctor, not a performer"
Then goes on to develop a love of singing
I think Crusher and Pelaski are the only ones that didn't do that LOL
I don't like being In the self-serve checkout line at the store because I'm a customer not Cashier....
The best one is “I’m a doctor not an escalator”.
“This isn’t part of my program. I’m a doctor, not a door stop.” 😂
That line aside, First Contact is STILL like my 2nd favorite Star Trek: TGN movie, following Generations, mainly the focus on Data with his emotion chip in both, the Nexus, and the Borg
DeForest Kelly and Robert Picardo were the best doctors - nothing else :) The simple truth behind that phrase is: I'm a specialist in my field of science, but I'm not educated or skilled enough to do other things. It's right to clearly point that out if a superior asks you to do something you haven't any clue of.
I was brought here by the video of Robert Picardo explaining his Voyager audition. 😂
I wonder if anyone ever became a doctor just so they could say "I'm a doctor, not a whatever" phrases.
"I'm a doctor, not a database, and I'm programmed in doctor-patient confidentiality"
"I'm a doctor not a performer"
*Becomes an opera singer*
There's also one I feel not many people know about in the MS-DOS game Star Trek: Borg.
Q: "Well, what'd you expect? He's a doctor, not a security officer!"
Did Bones really say it so few times?
Those are all the examples I could find from TOS. Thanks for watching.
@@JohnDiMarco
Man, it really got flanderized in Voyager. I though it was something Bones said a lot, but it’s more the EMH’s catchphrase at this point! Thanks for the compilation.
I'm a Dr not an engineer .
I'm a Dr not zoo keeper
Ima Dr not a komando
I'm a Dr not a battery
I'm a Dr but as soon as adjusting is done I'll start my new career as a trycorder.
I'm a Taxi Driver, whenever a customer asks for some tunes I say "I'm a driver not a DJ!"
I'm trying to find a video with everytime Bones said the line, including in the JJ movies yet no one is adding the JJ movie quips to their videos!
Who is that at 3:53? The actor I mean.
That would be W. Morgan Sheppard in the role of Qatai. He also played Ira Graves and the commandant of Rura Penthe.
One of the key functions of any male starfleet doctor is to provide comic relief during grim and perilous space journeys
"I'm a doctor, not a popstar" -Drake from another universe.
Kirk: Bones, can you take a look at this lump on the end of my knob?
Bones: I'm a bricklayer Jim, not a doctor
"You may be A doctor, but I'm THE Doctor. The definite article, one might say."
I appreciate the Scripture reference at the end. Glory to God!
* *AOS Bones quietly crying in the corner* *
The volume is far too low.
Thanks for the feedback.
He's probably better at everything besides a doctor.
Considering McCoy is a really good doctor that probably makes him the most skilled human in the universe.
I love that they continued this into later Trek series. I don't think they did it much in TNG though.
It’s interesting how Beverly Crusher didn’t have any lines like this
Damn, so Dr Crusher broke the link. Also, has Culber said the line yet?
Not that I'm aware of.
"if I'm not careful I'll end up talking to myself"
I do appreciate Discovery for trying to do something different and it even has a story in my Top 10 overall. But god, do I wish it'd lighten up a little.
1:12 A Cardigan?
i'm not doctor, not an escalator... lol
My all time favorite Star Trek doctor is the EMH of Voyager.
"I'm a pilot, not a doctor!" - Ensign Paris, Star Trek Voyager, Message in a Bottle
"I'm a doctor not a peeping tom..... nothing i haven't seen before"
LMAOOO 😭
Which episode is the one vvwith B'ellana and her not classical engineering problem?
That was from the episode Prototype.
@@JohnDiMarco Thank you
Is it me, or did they all go on about not being an engineer? (I guess on a space ship, that's one of the most useful skill sets.)
That was indeed the most common role that the doctors were not. Thanks for watching.