Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy is a character in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek . First played by DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series, McCoy also appeared in the Star Trek series, six Star Trek movies, pilot episodes > Star Trek: The Next Generation , and in many books, comics, and video games. Karl Urban took on character roles in the 2009 Star Trek film and in its sequel: 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness and 2016 Star Trek Beyond.
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Description
McCoy was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 2227. Son of David, he attended Mississippi University and divorced. McCoy later married Natira, the priest of Yonada, who is characterized in the episode, "To the Hollow World, and I Touch the Sky." In 2266, McCoy was placed as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk, who often called him "Bones". McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even "fraternities". A vigorous McCoy, sometimes with a lot of difficulty, was at odds with other Kirk believers, the science clerk, Spock, and occasionally prejudiced against Vulcan Spock's legacy. McCoy often plays the role of Kirk's conscience, offering a counterpoint to Spock's logic. McCoy is suspicious of the technology, especially the transporter. As a doctor, he prefers less intrusive treatment and believes in the body's innate healing powers. The character's nickname, "Bones", is a game on a saw bone, a nickname for a qualified physician as a surgeon.
When Kirk ordered the McCoy commission reactivated in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Annoyed McCoy complained of being "recruited". Spock transferring katra - his knowledge and experience - to McCoy before dying in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). This caused mental anguish for McCoy, who in Star Trek III: Searching for Spock (1984) helped to restore Spock's katra to his reanimated body. McCoy continues to serve in Kirk's crew on board the Klingon ship captured on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, McCoy (through Spock Sybok's step-brother intervention) reveals that he helped his father commit suicide to free him from his pain. Shortly after the suicide, the drug was found for his father's illness, and McCoy brought the error about it with him for the rest of his life. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), McCoy and Kirk escape from the world of Klingon prisons, and the crew of Enterprise stops plans to prevent peace between the Federation of Planetary States and the Empire Klingon. Kelley took over the role for the "Encounter at Farpoint" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), insisting no more than the minimum payment of Screen Actors Guild for her performance.
In the episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series The Survivor, McCoy mentions he has a daughter, Joanna. Although Chekov's friend Irina in the original series episode "The Way to Eden" was originally written as the daughter of McCoy, it was changed before the episode was taken.
Reboot movie series
In the 2009 Star Trek film, which took place in the reality of "alternative, parallel", McCoy and Kirk became friends at Starfleet Academy, which McCoy joined after divorce which he said "leave nothing behind" but bones [ his]. "This line, improvised by Urban, explains how McCoy earned the nickname Bones McCoy then helped Kirk get sent to the USS Enterprise .
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In Scientific illustrator book Jenny Parks' 2017 Star Trek Cats , McCoy is described as a gray and white long-haired cat.
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Development
Kelley has worked with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry on previous television pilots, and he is Roddenberry's first choice to play on board the USS Enterprise . However, for the rejected pilot "The Cage" (1964), Roddenberry went with director Robert Butler's choice of John Hoyt to play Dr. Philip Boyce. For the second pilot, "Where Nobody's Ever Been" (1966), Roddenberry accepted the decision of director James Goldstone to ask Paul Fix to play Dr. Mark Piper. Although Roddenberry wants Kelley to portray the character of a ship's doctor, he does not include Kelley's name on NBC; the network never "rejects" the actors as Roddenberry sometimes suggested.
Kelley's first broadcast appearance as Doctor Leonard McCoy was in "The Man Trap" (1966). Despite the excellence of his character, the Kelley contract gave him just a "showcase" credit; it was not until the second season he was given a "starring" credit, at the urging of producer Robert Justman. Kelley was very worried about the future of Star Trek ', telling Roddenberry that the show "would be the biggest hit or the greatest God ever made". Kelley described McCoy throughout the original Star Trek series and voiced the characters in the Star Trek animation.
Kelley, who in his youth wished to be a doctor like his uncle, but his family could not afford the cost of medical education, partly used the real-life experience of creating McCoy: the "news-facts" newsletter about Kelley's terminal terminal cancer was "coarse sand" Kelley in creating McCoy's attitude. Star Trek author D. C. Fontana says that while Roddenberry made the series, Kelley basically created McCoy; everything done with the characters is done with Kelley input.
The "remarkable chemistry" between Kelley, William Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy manifests in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and Spock science officer, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who plays Uhura, calls Kelley "her sassy gentleman friend"; the friendship between African-American Nichols and South Kelley is a real-life demonstration of the message that Roddenberry hopes to get through Star Trek.
For the 2009 movie Star Trek, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman see McCoy as an "arbitrator" in Kirk and Spock's relationship. While Spock represents "extreme logic, extreme science" and Kirk symbolizing "extreme emotion and intuition", McCoy's role as "a highly colored physician, essentially a very humanistic scientist" represents "the two extremes that often serve as the glue that holds the trio. " together. "They chose to reveal that McCoy was friends with Kirk first, explaining the" bias "in their friendships and why he often became" slightly underestimated "from Spock.Experts said the script was" very faithful "to its original characters, including" compassion great for mankind and a sense of irascibility "with which Kelley instilled the character.New-born urban New Zealand trained with dialect trainers to create McCoy accents and take part in the sequel to Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond .
Reception and cultural impact
McCoy is someone who is controlled by Kirk, but he is a clone to Spock. He is a "friend, personal bartender, trust person, counselor, and priest" Kirk. The Spock and McCoy raids became so popular that Roddenberry wrote in a 1968 memo "we were completely unaware... how the fans liked the quarrel between our Arrowsmith and Alien." Urban says McCoy has "a feeling of irascibility with a real desire to live and do the right thing," and that "Spock's logic and McCoy's moral position gave Kirk the benefit of having three brains instead of one."
Kelley says that her greatest passion in the Star Trek convention is the number of people who tell her they are entering the medical profession because of McCoy's character. He received two or three letters per month from others who reported similar experiences. A friend observes that while not being a doctor as he had hoped, Kelley's portrayal of McCoy has helped create many doctors. According to Kelley, "You can win awards and such things, but to influence the youth of the country... is an award not given by the industry".
Regarding the 2009 film, The Guardian called Urban McCoy's performance "unqualified success," and The New York Times called the "wild and funny" character. Slate.com says Urban comes closer than any other actor to imitate the original character depiction.
Respond to the 1998 tongue-in-cheek article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that compares Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick from The Simpsons and ending up preferring the latter as a role model for doctors, the authors instead proposed "Dr. Bones McCoy" as role models, named it "the only true doctor of TV" and "someone who has been free of the ethics yoke and practicing the arts and medicine beyond weakens the opposition of paternalism and autonomy.A free and independent thinker and, indeed, a person even outside the role model. "
"He's dead, Jim!"
Twenty times in the original Star Trek, McCoy declares a person or something that dies with a line, "He dies", "He dies, Jim", or something similar. The phrase becomes the slogan of the character that Kelley jokes that the line will appear on his tombstone - and it appears in the first sentence at least one obituary - but does not like to repeat such lines and refuses to say them in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when Spock is almost dead. Kelley and James Doohan (Scotty) agree to change their course, so McCoy warns Kirk not to open the engineering door while Scotty says, "He's dead".
This line has entered popular culture as a common metaphor, with diverse uses such as unresponsive electronic circuit descriptions, examples of how to add audio files serve as a warning sound in computer systems, and illustrative quotes on how to tell if an opponent has been destroyed in a hero action game. USC literature expert Henry Jenkins quotes the line "He's Dead, Jim" McCoy as an example of the fans who actively participate in the creation of an underground culture where they gain pleasure by repeating unforgettable lines as part of building new mythologies and alternative social communities. Google Chrome previously used the phrase as an error message when the process ends with the task manager or runs out of memory, a common mistake.
"I'm a doctor, not (n)..."
One of McCoy's other slogans is "I'm a doctor, (Jim) is not a statement (...), delivered by Kelley 11 times, and three times (by Karl Urban) in the next films." McCoy repeats the line when he must do some tasks beyond his medical skills, such as the "classic moment" when he was confronted by an unusual silicon-based Horta alien in "The Devil in the Dark" (1967), said, "I am a doctor, not a mason. "The phrase also appeared in the 2009 movie, in which McCoy (Karl Urban) said," I'm a doctor, not an astrophysicist! "Similarly, in 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness, McCoy (Urban again) tells Spock, "Damn, man, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!" In 2016 Star Trek Beyond, McCoy started saying his sentence, but was emitted out of the scene before he could finish it.
Lines or some variations have been used by Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Doctor (Robert Picardo) from Star Trek: Voyager, two other Emergency Medical Holograms (one on > Star Trek: First Contact (Picardo) and the other on episode Voyager "Bottled Message" (Andy Dick)), and Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) from Star Trek: Enterprise . It has also created many other events like Stargate Atlantis , Robot Chicken , Terra Nova , Family Guy >, < i> Once Upon a Time , and Friends , as well as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective , and "The Hangover". In a parody sketch entitled "The Restaurant Enterprise", on Saturday Night Live episode Kirk (guest host William Shatner) directs McCoy (Phil Hartman) to help a choking man. McCoy snapped, "Damn, Jim! I'm a doctor, not... (suddenly aware of the situation, a little embarrassed) Oh... oh, sure." On the episode In Living Color , one of the sketch parodies harbors the advanced age of the Star Trek main actor . McCoy emerged as a frame in a wheelchair, and quipped, "Damn, Jim! I'm a corpse, not a doctor!" The phrase was referenced in the Disney movie Treasure Planet . Doppler says "Dang it Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I'm a doctor, but not a doctor like that, I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing."
Kelley himself parodies the phrase for the Trivial Pursuit ad, in which the question is asked "How many rooms does the human heart have?" Kelley appeared on the screen and replied "How should I know? I'm an actor, not a doctor!".
References
External links
- Leonard McCoy on StarTrek.com
- Leonard McCoy on Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- DeForest Kelley (1920-1999) New Georgia Encyclopedia
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