Pill


A pill was a small dosage of medicine.

Miri unfavorably associated pills with doctors when questioned by Kirk where the doctors used to work. ()

Medicinal 
While attempting to find Pavel Chekov at Mercy Hospital in 1986, McCoy gave a powerful pill to an elderly woman that regenerated her kidney. () 

When Leonard McCoy was having trouble sleeping after returning from M-113 in 2266, Kirk suggested he take one of the red pills McCoy had given him last week. ()

To prevent Spock from following him in his pursuit of Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner, Kirk instructed Dr. Mark Piper not to give him a pill to bring him out of his unconsciouness until after he'd left. ()

Negative use 
After going for a period of time without the Venus drug, Magda and Ruth demanded the pills from Harcourt Mudd. He found them in his mattress. Later, Eve took what she believed to be the pills, only to find out that they had been replaced with colored gelatin. ()

The Orion captain attempted suicide via a poison pill, but Kirk stopped him before he could take it. ()

Metaphorical usage 
Spock referred to the as-yet-unknown to him cure-all agent that Leila Kalomi was taking him to see as a "happiness pill", something which he believed a scientist like her would know to be impossible. ()

When McCoy described his odd meeting with  and the White Rabbit on the Shore Leave Planet to Kirk, he mistook it for a ruse to get him to come down, calling it a "McCoy pill, with a little mystery sugar-coating". ()

Eleen's unusually cooperative attitude towards McCoy's ministrations prompted Kirk to ask him whether he'd given her a "happy pill". ()

See also
 Food pill
 Numanol capsule
 Radiation pill

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Medical procedures