[ID: 1. Black text in the Star Trek font on a white square, reading, “The Hippocratic Oath Is My Prime Directive, Bitch”. 2. Three gifs from Star Trek IV, the first two showing McCoy in green hospital scrubs, standing in the hallway of a twenty-first century hospital next to an old woman on a gurney as he opens a black doctor’s bag, says, “Dialysis? My God, what is this, the Dark Ages? Now, you swallow that, and if you have any problems, just call me,” and then pats her on the cheek. In the third gif the undercover Enterprise crew are wheeling Chekov out the door on a gurney while in the foreground the old woman is being pushed in a wheelchair, surrounded by doctors and nurses as she happily says, “The doctor gave me a pill, and I grew a new kidney!”]

I’m still not over McCoy casually telling a random woman in a hospital he does not work in, in a century he does not belong in, to “just call [him]” as if there is any remotely possible way she could go about doing that.

To Bones, there’s no such thing as “out of network,” or out of time and space. He WILL find you.

Option 3: Bones knows that she will have no problems, because he is just that awesome.

Option 4: Having learned nothing from his mistake on Sigma Iotia II, Bones is slipping a Starfleet communicator under the woman’s arm as he casually pats her on the cheek. Its discovery completely alters the future of technology, allowing Starfleet to come into existence, and is why it uses that symbol. Bones is responsible for the creation of every piece of technology that he hates.