Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Memory and the Past Quotes

This is the deep, dark memory Sybok unearths from McCoy's mind during their psychic therapy sesh. It's pretty intense. No matter which decision he opted for, it's all but guaranteed that he would look back at this time with pain.

Now that's just cruel, dudes who wrote Star Trek. To make McCoy's emotional pain even worse, he's left forever wondering whether his old man would still be alive if he had just stood his ground and refused to end his life. How are you supposed to get over something like that?

It's hard to argue with this statement. We may disagree with his methods, but Sybok is right about the way that the traumas of our past affect us deeply in the present.