| Leonard H. McCoy | |
 Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, in "Shore Leave" episode |
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| Species | Human |
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| Gender | Male |
| Date of birth | 2227 |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Affiliation | Starfleet |
| Posting | USS Enterprise & USS Enterprise-A chief surgeon/chief medical officer |
| Rank | Lieutenant commander, Commander, Admiral |
| Portrayed by | DeForest Kelley, Karl Urban |
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Karl Urban will play a young Leonard McCoy in the upcoming Star Trek film to be directed by J.J. Abrams. Karl-Heinz Urban (born June 7, 1972) is a New Zealand Actor. He is best known for playing Éomer in the second and third Star Trek is a Science fiction film directed by J J Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Jeffrey Jacob "JJ" Abrams (born in 1966 is an American Emmy Award -winning film and Television producer, writer actor composer director [1]
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Overview
Leonard McCoy was born in 2227 according to Star Trek: The Next Generation episode: "Encounter at Farpoint". Star Trek The Next Generation ( STTNG or TNG) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry " Encounter at Farpoint " is the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation. He attended the University of Mississippi, where he once met Emony Dax, a female Trill athlete with whom it is implied he had a "brief involvement" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations")[2]. The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational Research University located in Oxford Dax is a fictional entity on the television show Star Trek Deep Space Nine. In the Fictional Star Trek universe the Trill are a species of Sybiotic Lifeforms native to the Alpha Quadrant. Generally speaking human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings "Trials and Tribble-ations" is a fifth season episode of the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
By 2265, McCoy had been promoted to lieutenant commander and was assigned as a medical observer to the planet Capella. Starfleet ranks and insignia are fictional titles and badges that form the Hierarchy of Starfleet in the Star Trek television shows and movies The assignment was unfruitful, as the Capellans found little need for medical arts and existed under a tribal society where only the strong survived ("Friday's Child"). " Friday's Child " is a second season episode of Star Trek The Original Series.
He is suspicious of advanced technology, especially the transporter, which he regards with distrust and outright dismay (often expressing a suspicion that the device will irretrievably scatter his atoms), and occasionally is bigoted with regard to Spock's half-Vulcan ancestry. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt A transporter is a fictional Teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own and bigotry is the corresponding state of mind Vulcans are a Humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who hail from the planet Vulcan, and are noted for their attempt A divorcé, he often showed a flirtatious side to female members of the Enterprise crew [3]. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. He is the only American Southerner depicted among the racially and ethnically diverse crew of the USS Enterprise. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 is a Starship in Star Trek, which chronicles the vessel's mission "to explore strange new worlds to
McCoy is a physician of considerable skill, capable of successfully treating creatures whose physiologies he is unfamiliar with, such as the Horta ("The Devil in the Dark"), though he often hesitates at operating on Vulcans due to his relative unfamiliarity with their anatomy[4] and has no practical knowledge of Klingon anatomy [5]. In the Fictional universe of Star Trek, the Horta are a silicon-based species, introduced in the original series episode " " The Devil in the Dark " is a first-season episode Star Trek The Original Series which first aired on March 9, 1967. As a doctor, McCoy prefers old-fashioned, personalized or less-intrusive remedies to cutting-edge treatments and computerized medicine, once complaining that the refit Enterprise's sickbay was more a computer center than a medical office. [6] He also is a great believer in the body's own recuperative powers, though he also realizes that medicine as it exists in the 23rd Century has to help along the process.
In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk, replacing Doctor Mark Piper. Starfleet ranks and insignia are fictional titles and badges that form the Hierarchy of Starfleet in the Star Trek television shows and movies [7] McCoy and Kirk became good friends, but the passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argued with Kirk's other close friend and confidant, Spock. Spock (sometimes referred to as Mr Spock) is a main character in the original Star Trek TV series In 2268, he was diagnosed with Xenopolycythemia, a normally incurable and fatal blood disease. " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky " is a third season episode of Star Trek The Original Series. After an encounter with the Fabrini civilization travelling inside the asteroid colony ship Yonada, McCoy was able to discover a cure for the disease. " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky " is a third season episode of Star Trek The Original Series. [8] He served on board Enterprise until 2270, when the ship's five-year mission was completed. He resigned his commission or was placed on inactive reserve.
During the 2271 V'Ger Crisis, Admiral Kirk requested McCoy specifically as a member of Enterprise's crew for the investigation of the V'ger entity. V'ger ( Vejur in the novelization by Gene Roddenberry) is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe At Kirk's request, Nogura employed what McCoy described as a "little-known, seldom-used reserve activation clause," which McCoy likened to being drafted, to reactivate McCoy's commission as a commander and chief medical officer aboard the refit Enterprise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture). Conscription (also known as the draft, the call-up or national service) is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority Starfleet ranks and insignia are fictional titles and badges that form the Hierarchy of Starfleet in the Star Trek television shows and movies Star Trek The Motion Picture is a 1979 Science fiction film from Paramount Pictures.
By 2285, McCoy served as an instructor at Starfleet Academy. He was on board Enterprise when Admiral Kirk was required to take command during the events surrounding the escape of Khan and his subsequent seizure of the Genesis Device. Khan Noonien Singh, commonly shortened to Khan, is a Villain in the fictional Star Trek universe Genesis Device is the name for a recently-released Game engine created by Luuk van Venrooij based in the Netherlands During this action, Spock was killed while repairing the ship's warp engines. Before attempting this, he nerve-pinched McCoy and performed a mind-meld on the unconscious doctor, placing his katra or mental essence into the doctor's psyche. As used in the fictional Star Trek universe the Vulcan nerve pinch is a technique used mainly by Vulcans to render another lifeform unconscious by pinching For the place in India see Katra In the fictional Star Trek universe katra is the immortal living spirit of a Vulcan This proved key to Spock's eventual return from death, although the process was traumatic for both. During the return from the Mutara Sector, McCoy began to exhibit erratic behaviors, and even began at times speaking and acting as if he were Spock. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan is the second feature film based on the Star Trek Science fiction Television series, following After trying to charter a ship to the by-then-embargoed Genesis Planet, McCoy was arrested by Federation Security and was to undergo psychological testing to determine his sanity. At the same time, Kirk finally realized (with the aid of Sarek) what had transpired. In the fictional Star Trek universe, Sarek is a Vulcan Ambassador, and father of Spock. He rescued McCoy and with the aid of the other main officers of Enterprise, stole Enterprise in a bid to rescue Spock's body from the Genesis Planet and re-unite it with the katra within McCoy.
During the Enterprise crew's three-month stay on Vulcan, McCoy fully recovered. While in action on and over the Genesis Planet, the Enterprise crew had captured a Klingon Bird of Prey, which McCoy's "fine sense of historical irony" led to him to christen the HMS Bounty. Klingon Starships appear in televised and filmed installments of the Star Trek Fictional universe. For the book about the mutiny by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall see Mutiny on the Bounty (novel. After leaving Vulcan in Bounty, the crew returned to the year 1986 to retrieve a pair of humpback whales to placate an alien probe sent to communicate with the long extinct species. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) The humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae) is a Baleen Whale. While there, McCoy found himself in the position of aiding an elderly woman with kidney dialysis problems in regenerating her kidneys. In Medicine, dialysis (from Greek "dialusis" meaning dissolution "dia" meaning through and "lusis" meaning loosening is primarily The kidneys are complicated organs that have numerous biological roles McCoy, along with the rest of Kirk's crew, were prosecuted for their illegal actions regarding the theft of the Enterprise and travel to Genesis. The charges, however, were dropped, with the exception of one charge solely directed at Admiral Kirk, who was demoted to Captain. In gratitude for the crew's actions in saving Earth from the alien probe, Starfleet Command gave him command of a new starship, the USS Enterprise-A (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A (or Enterprise -A) is a fictional starship in the fourth fifth and sixth Star Trek films Star Trek IV The Voyage Home ( Paramount Pictures, 1986) is the fourth feature Film based on the Star Trek Science fiction
McCoy remained with Kirk and the rest of the crew of the old Enterprise,serving in his capacity as chief medical officer (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film based on the Star Trek Science fiction Television series. During the Khitomer Crisis of 2293, McCoy was tried and convicted along with Kirk at a Klingon tribunal on the charges of aiding and abetting the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon. Klingons ( Klingon: tlhIngan; Pronunciation /ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn/ are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. The charges were false, and the evidence that seemingly pointed to Enterprise had been engineered by both General Chang of the Klingons and Admiral Cartwright of Starfleet in an attempt to scrap a proposed peace treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. General Chang is a fictional character from the Star Trek Fictional universe who was portrayed by Christopher Plummer in Star As part of the plot, the Federation was going to mount a large-scale military action to the Klingon penal asteroid Rura Penthe to rescue McCoy and Kirk. Instead, Enterprise (with the aid of Captain Sulu and Excelsior) were able to effect the rescue while still preventing a military breach between the two powers. McCoy was instrumental in exposing Chang and Cartwright's plot, as he and Spock rigged a photon torpedo to find Chang's cloaked ship. The Star Trek Fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons.
Between 2295 and 2363, McCoy's life and activities are not accounted for. In 2363, a now elderly Admiral McCoy was briefly aboard the recently-commissioned USS Enterprise-D, and compared Data's mannerisms and speech to that of Vulcans and was as cranky and cantankerous as ever (Star Trek: The Next Generation episode: "Encounter at Farpoint"). The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D (or Enterprise -D, to distinguish it from prior starships with the same name) is a 24th century Starship Lieutenant Commander Data, played by actor Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek Fictional universe. Star Trek The Next Generation ( STTNG or TNG) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry " Encounter at Farpoint " is the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
McCoy appears in several non-canon novels, several of which revolve around him. In William Shatner's novels, McCoy is over 150 years old, thanks in large part to synthetic body parts (heart, lungs, digestive system, legs, etc. William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian double Emmy - Golden Globe - and Saturn Award -winning ). DeForest Kelley's death in 1999 led to a DC Comics story chronicling McCoy's death, in which Spock and Scott visit McCoy on his death bed. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company
Catchphrases
McCoy is also known for using sayings which came to be considered catch phrases for the character, the most popular of which include the following. A catch phrase (or catchphrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance
"He's dead, Jim. "
McCoy frequently declares someone or something deceased with the line, "He's dead", "He's dead, Jim", or something similar; the phrase is considered a "trademark line" of the character. [9] Examples of episodes where "Bones" has used this phrase include:
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"He's dead, Jim" has entered popular culture as a general metaphor, with uses as diverse as descriptions of an electronic circuit that is not powering-up properly,[10], an example of how to add an audio file to function as an alert sound in a computer system,[11] and an illustrative quote regarding how to know if one's opponent has been destroyed in an action hero game. A redshirt is a Stock character, used frequently in Science fiction but also in other Genres whose primary purpose is to die soon after being introduced " The Man Trap " is a first season episode of Star Trek The Original Series. " The Enemy Within " is an episode of Star Trek The Original Series, and was broadcast on 6 October 1966. This is also the name of an episode of Columbo. " Dagger of the Mind " is a first season episode of Star Trek The Original Series " Amok Time " is an episode of Star Trek The Original Series. For the book on Near-death experience see Return from Tomorrow. " The Changeling " is a season two episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast on September 29, 1967 and repeated " I Mudd " is an episode of Star Trek The Original Series first broadcast November 3, 1967 and repeated April 5, "Catspaw " is the first episode of the second season of Star Trek The Original Series. " The Deadly Years " is a second season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast December 8, 1967 and repeated " A Private Little War " is a second-season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast February 2, 1968 " And the Children Shall Lead " is a third season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, and was broadcast October 11, 1968. " Is There in Truth No Beauty? " is a third season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast October 18, 1968. " Spectre of the Gun " (originally 'The Last Gunfight' is an episode from the third season of Star Trek The Original Series, that was first broadcast " The Lights of Zetar " is a third season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast January 31, 1969 and repeated [12]
Assistant Professor of Literature at MIT Henry Jenkins cited Dr. McCoy's "He's dead, Jim" trademark line as an example that fans actively participate in the creation of an underground culture, in which they derive pleasure by repeating memorable lines as part of constructing new mythologies and alternative social communities. [13]
"I'm a doctor, not a(n). . . "
When McCoy is pressed to perform or give an opinion as something other than a doctor, he often remarks "I'm a doctor, not a(n). . . ", concluding with whatever profession he has been asked to perform. Popular culture often precedes the saying with "Dammit, Jim" although this expletive was never used in the original series in which profanity was uttered only once. The expletives "Dammit, Jim" or "Dammit, Spock" do frequently appear in the films, however they were still not often paired with "I'm a doctor, not a . . . " routine.
The genesis of the catchphrase, albeit not in its familiar form, was in "The Corbomite Maneuver", after Kirk chastised McCoy for not interrupting his physical when the red alert indicator light came on: "What am I? A doctor or a moon shuttle conductor? If I jumped every time a light went on, I'd end up talking to myself. " The Corbomite Maneuver " is a first season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first aired November 10 1966, and repeated " (By the time he said he'd end up talking to himself, Kirk was long gone, and McCoy was talking to himself. ) The familiar form of the catchphrase appears to have been first uttered as "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer" in "The Devil in the Dark", when Kirk ordered him to treat the wounded Horta. " The Devil in the Dark " is a first-season episode Star Trek The Original Series which first aired on March 9, 1967. In the Fictional universe of Star Trek, the Horta are a silicon-based species, introduced in the original series episode " ("You're a healer. . . There's a patient. . . . That's. . . an order!!!)
There was one instance which McCoy willingly assisted in a task that wasn't part of his training. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, when Spock asked McCoy if he was interested in performing surgery on a photon torpedo, McCoy answered in Spock's usual catchphrase: "Fascinating. Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film based on the Star Trek Science fiction Television series. "
This McCoy catchphrase has been used in other versions of the Star Trek franchise media, such as the Star Trek films, spin-off TV series and video games. The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager sometimes uses the "I'm a Doctor. The Emergency Medical Hologram, better known as The Doctor, is a fictional character on the television series Star Trek Voyager. . . " phrase. Another model of the Emergency Medical Hologram, the EMH Mark 2, was also featured in one episode aboard a ship that had been taken over by Romulans. In the Star Trek Fictional universe, the Emergency Medical Hologram or EMH (full name EMH Program AK-1 Diagnostic and Surgical Subroutine Romulans are an alien species in the Star Trek universe that are related to the Vulcans and are at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of When the Doctor requested his help, he replied "I'm a doctor, not a commando!" (During his audition for the role of the Doctor, Robert Picardo was asked to merely say, "Somebody forgot to turn off my program. Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an Emmy Award -nominated American Actor. " However, he then added the line, "I'm a doctor, not a nightlight". He then got the part. [14]) In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", when asked about events of the 23rd Century Doctor Bashir responds with "I'm a Doctor, not a historian. "Trials and Tribble-ations" is a fifth season episode of the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Dr Julian Subatoi Bashir, played by Alexander Siddig, is a main character in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. "
In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, the EMH Mark 1 says: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop. Star Trek First Contact is a 1996 Science fiction film and the eighth feature film based in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe " In the video game Star Trek: Bridge Commander, if engineer Brex is spoken to repeatedly, he will eventually respond with "Damn it, Jim! I'm an engineer, not a conversationalist. Star Trek Bridge Commander is a space combat simulation game for the PC, published by Activision and Totally Games based "
For more on this topic as well as a full list of occurrences, see MemoryAlpha: I'm a doctor, not a....
Both the "He's dead, Jim" and "I'm a doctor, not a. . . " catchphrases have also been used in homages in other TV series and films, including The Simpsons, Family Guy, and innumerable others, most notably in the Futurama episode Where No Fan Has Gone Before, itself a Star Trek parody starring several members of the original cast (though not Kelley, who had died by this time). For medieval usage see Homage (medieval and Commendation ceremony, or Homage (disambiguation Homage (from the French Family Guy is an animated American television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox and regularly on other Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the Animated series Futurama.
References
- ^ "Karl Urban Confirmed as the new Leonard "Bones" McCoy", TrekWeb. com, 2007-10-17. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost
- ^ STARTREK.COM : Biography
- ^ "Shore Leave". The information on his divorce, while not strictly canon, comes from early script treatments for "The Way to Eden" written by Dorothy Fontana.
- ^ "Journey to Babel"
- ^ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- ^ Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- ^ "The Corbomite Maneuver"
- ^ "For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky"
- ^ Porter, Jennifer E. (1999). Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture. SUNY Press, p127. ISBN 0791443345.
- ^ Miller, Michael (2000). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems. Alpha Books, 210. ISBN 0028639391.
- ^ Pogue, David (2002). Mac OS X: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Press, 210. ISBN 0596004508.
- ^ Borgenicht, David (2002). The Action Hero's Handbook. Quirk Books, 42. ISBN 193168605X.
- ^ Jenkins, Henry (1992). Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. Routledge, 76. ISBN 0415905729.
- ^ IMDB segment about the Doctor
External links
- StarTrek.com: Leonard McCoy
- Leonard McCoy article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- I'm a doctor, not a... article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Star Trek Parodies article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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