"He's dead, Jim."

Zachary Quinto as Spock in the 2009 Star Trek film (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Twenty times on the aboriginal Star Trek, McCoy declares anyone or something asleep with the line, "He's dead", "He's dead, Jim", or something similar. The byword so became a adage of the appearance that Kelley joked that the band would arise on his tombstone, but awful repeating such curve and banned to say it in The Wrath of Khan if Spock is abreast death. Kelley and James Doohan (Scotty) agreed to bandy their lines, so McCoy warns Kirk adjoin aperture the engineering doors while Scotty says "He's asleep already".



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