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In Serenity (2005), Malcolm scolds Kaylee for making difficulty in landing the spaceship safely:

Malcolm: If she crashes, you crashed her.

Malcolm then meets doctor:

Malcolm: Doctor. Guess I need to get innocked before we hit planet-side.

What does "innocked" mean?

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    This is just a guess without checking any context, but given that he's asking a doctor about that, could it be that "innocked" = "inoculated"? – O. R. Mapper Nov 26 '22 at 06:26

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It's a corruption of "inoculated" (against various diseases commonly found on the moon Lilac, presumably).

Seen later in the screenplay;

Mal: Honestly, doctor, I think we may really crash this time anyway.

[Simon jabs the inoculation needle into Mal's arm.]

Interestingly, this is an actual word used in informal Scottish English, but it seems unlikely that Whedon would have known that when writing the script.

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