"Trek"" pilot """". In 1963, he appeared in ""The Virginian"" episode ""Man of Violence"" as a ""drinking"" cavalry doctor with Leonard Nimoy as his patient. (Nimoy's character did not survive.) Perhaps not coincidentally, the episode was written by John D. F. Black, who went on to become a writer-producer on ""Star Trek"". Just before ""Star Trek"" began filming, Kelley appeared as a doctor again, in the ""Laredo"" episode ""The Sound of Terror"". After refusing Roddenberry's 1964 offer to play Spock, Kelley played Dr. Leonard ""Bones"" McCoy from 1966 to 1969 in """". He reprised the character in a voice-over role"
"Larry Nemecek Larry Nemecek (born January 18, 1959) is an American ""Star Trek"" author, actor, editor, archivist, consultant, interviewer and producer, first widely known thanks to his classic best-seller ""Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion"" from Pocket Books. He has portrayed Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek Continues web series episodes ""Pilgrim of Eternity"" and ""Lolani"" and remains as the series' Creative Consultant. Nemecek has recently launched the pioneering Portal 47 monthly deep-dive features for Star Trek fans, and weekly hosts the new ""The Trek Files"" on the Roddenberry Podcast Network, launched in January 2018 as a 15-minute look with"
"and Steve Blalock doubled for Nimoy, so that a total of seven actors contributed to the role. DeForest Kelley returns as Leonard McCoy, doctor and the carrier of Spock's living spirit. Kelley has the majority of the film's memorable scenes, but admitted to occasional difficulties in acting with and being directed by his longtime co-star. However, he has declared that he had no doubts about Nimoy's ability to direct the film. Responding to suggestions that ""Star Trek"" copied ""Star Wars"", Kelley asserted that the opposite was true. Playing the other crew members are James Doohan, as Montgomery Scott, the chief"
"in """" (1973–74), and the first six ""Star Trek"" motion pictures (1979 to 1991). In one of the ""Star Trek"" comic books it was stated that Dr. McCoy's father had been a Baptist preacher, an idea that apparently originated from Kelley's background. In 1987, he also had a cameo in ""Encounter at Farpoint"", the first episode of """", as Admiral Leonard McCoy, Starfleet Surgeon General Emeritus. Several aspects of Kelley's background became part of McCoy's characterization, including his pronunciation of ""nuclear"" as ""nucular"". Kelley became a good friend of ""Star Trek"" cast mates William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, from their"
"McCoy later married Natira, the priestess of Yonada, characterized in the episode, ""For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"". In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS ""Enterprise"" under Captain James T. Kirk, who often calls him ""Bones"". McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even ""brotherly"". The passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidante, science officer Spock, and occasionally is prejudiced against Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often plays the role of Kirk's conscience, offering a counterpoint to Spock's logic. McCoy is suspicious of technology, especially the transporter. As a"
"complex confrontation with the twisted psychopath George Limb as Limb abuses time-travel to avoid his fate of becoming a Cyberman. See here. In 1990, readers of ""Doctor Who Magazine"" voted McCoy's Doctor ""Best Doctor"", over perennial favourite Tom Baker. Seventh Doctor The Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He is portrayed by Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Time Lord alien from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end"
"Friendship with a Remarkable Man"". The book was released on February 16, 2016. Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy (; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. He was best known for his role as Spock of the ""Star Trek"" franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from shot in late 1964 to his final film performance in 2013. Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title"
"Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy (; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. He was best known for his role as Spock of the ""Star Trek"" franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from shot in late 1964 to his final film performance in 2013. Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in ""Kid Monk Baroni"". Foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played"
"character's prominence, Kelley's contract granted him only a ""featuring"" credit; it was not until the second season that he was given ""starring"" credit, at the urging of producer Robert Justman. Kelley was apprehensive about ""Star Trek""s future, telling Roddenberry that the show was ""going to be the biggest hit or the biggest miss God ever made"". Kelley portrayed McCoy throughout the original ""Star Trek"" series and voiced the character in the animated ""Star Trek"". Kelley, who in his youth wanted to become a doctor like his uncle, but whose family could not pay for a medical education, in part drew"
"Walter Koenig when they were both on a ""Star Trek"" panel at a science fiction convention held at UCLA. Koenig was about to travel to film the episode ""To Serve All My Days"". Zicree recalled Reaves' Sulu story and contacted ""New Voyages"" to offer it. He received a form response turning him down. Undeterred, he got in touch with John Muenchrath, who is both a producer on the series and portrayed Doctor Leonard McCoy. He was interested and this resulted in further conversations with executive producer James Cawley. After it was confirmed that ""New Voyages"" wanted the story, Zicree contacted"
"upon his real-life experiences in creating McCoy: a doctor's ""matter-of-fact"" delivery of news of Kelley's mother's terminal cancer was the ""abrasive sand"" Kelley used in creating McCoy's demeanor. ""Star Trek"" writer D. C. Fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy; everything done with the character was done with Kelley's input. ""Exquisite chemistry"" among Kelley, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as her ""sassy gentleman friend""; the friendship between the African-American Nichols and"
"""DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy"" in the opening credits, and the first episode broadcast in the series' new time slot of 8:30 pm on Friday night. Spock, the first officer of the Federation starship USS ""Enterprise"", begins to exhibit unusual behavior and requests that he be granted leave on his home planet Vulcan. Captain James T. Kirk and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, having witnessed one of their friend's outbursts, agree and Kirk diverts the ship to Vulcan. En route, Kirk receives orders from Starfleet to travel to Altair VI to represent the Federation at the inauguration ceremony for the"
"has cited as one of his favorites. They lived in their NZ$5.25 million mansion in the affluent Herne Bay section of Auckland, New Zealand. The couple announced their separation in June 2014, selling their home for NZ$6.65 million in December 2014. Urban serves as a celebrity ambassador for KidsCan, a charity which currently supports over 16,000 disadvantaged children in New Zealand by providing them with essentials such as food, clothing, and shoes. Karl Urban Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor. He has portrayed Leonard McCoy in the ""Star Trek"" reboot film series (2009–), Éomer in"
"eleven full episodes between 2013 and 2017. In scientific illustrator Jenny Parks' 2017 book ""Star Trek Cats"", Spock is depicted as an Oriental Shorthair. There has been a practice of altering the portrait of Canada's seventh prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier, on Canadian five-dollar notes to look like Spock. After the death of Leonard Nimoy in 2015, there was an increase in that practice. Spock Spock is a fictional character in the ""Star Trek"" media franchise. Spock was first portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the , and also appears in the , a two-part episode of """", eight of the ""Star"
"to protect the ""Enterprise"" would be taken into consideration. Nored informs the Vendorian that it is very similar to Winston in personality and she offers to return to Earth with the alien. When Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy (voiced by DeForest Kelley) jokes that if the Vendorian had turned himself into a second Spock ""it would have been too much to take"", Spock (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) quickly replies that ""two Dr. McCoys just might bring the level of medical efficiency on this ship to acceptable levels."" ""The Survivor"" is writer James Schmerer's only credit in the ""Star Trek"" franchise,"
"Karl Urban Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor. He has portrayed Leonard McCoy in the ""Star Trek"" reboot film series (2009–), Éomer in the and installments of Peter Jackson's ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, Vaako in the ""Riddick"" film series, Gavin in ""Pete's Dragon"", John Grimm in ""Doom"", and Judge Dredd in ""Dredd"". He earned a Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the New Zealand film ""Out of the Blue"". Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store,"
"chapter. Doctor Leonard McCoy (erroneously nicknamed ""Doc"" instead of ""Bones"" throughout, for which Blish blamed an editor in one of his subsequent adaptation collections) and Engineer Montgomery Scott discuss McCoy's fear of the transporter. McCoy posits that an original person is killed upon dematerialization, and a duplicate is created at the destination. Scotty explains that the technology does not destroy the original object but causes every single particle to undergo a ""Dirac jump"" to its new location - and that converting a human-sized mass to energy would blow up the ship. McCoy is not convinced, and he wonders what happens"
"Seventh Doctor The Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He is portrayed by Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Time Lord alien from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor can regenerate his body; in doing so, his physical appearance and personality change. McCoy portrays the seventh such incarnation, a whimsical, thoughtful character who quickly becomes more layered, secretive, and manipulative. His first companion was"
"Sylvester McCoy Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996. He was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father, killed in action in World War II a couple of months before his son was born. His maternal grandmother was from Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was raised"
"which DeForest Kelley played Dr. Leonard McCoy, Nichelle Nichols played Lt. Uhura and Grace Lee Whitney played Yeoman Rand (although viewers saw them for the first time in ""The Man Trap""). On stardate 1512.2, the Federation starship USS ""Enterprise"", commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, finishes a third day of star mapping when novice navigator Lt. Dave Bailey (Anthony Call) spots a large spinning multi-colored cube floating in space. First Officer Spock orders Helmsman Sulu to sound an alert. Chief Engineer Scott cannot explain how the cube works. Bailey advocates attacking it with phasers. Kirk instead orders the ship to"
"a ""little dismissive"" of Spock. Urban said the script was ""very faithful"" to the original character, including the ""great compassion for humanity and that sense of irascibility"" with which Kelley imbued the character. New Zealand-born Urban trained with a dialect coach to create McCoy's accent and reprised the role in its sequels ""Star Trek Into Darkness"" and ""Star Trek Beyond"". McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself, but is a foil to Spock. He is Kirk's ""friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor, and priest"". Spock and McCoy's bickering became so popular that Roddenberry wrote in a 1968 memo ""we simply"
"hiding place. Reger reveals that Landru ""pulled the Archons down from the skies"". Contacting the ship, Kirk learns that heat beams from the planet are attacking the ""Enterprise"", which must use all its power for its shields. Its orbit is deteriorating and it will crash in 12 hours unless the beams are turned off. A projection of Landru appears in the hiding place, and Kirk and his team are rendered unconscious by ultrasonic waves and captured. The landing party is imprisoned in a dungeon, and Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is ""absorbed into the Body"" and placed under Landru's mental"
"and began aggressively considering a bid from rival network ABC; his use of the law, although he ultimately decided to remain with NBC, allowed him to extract major concessions from the network, including a reduced workload, increase in pay and ownership of the show. Karl Urban – In 2007, Paramount began filming ""Star Trek"", the first in a rebooted series of ""Star Trek"" feature films with an entirely new cast, and released the film in 2009. Among the new actors was Karl Urban, who played the ""Enterprise's"" Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy. However, Urban felt that his role as"
"Rodney McKay Meredith Rodney McKay, Ph.D, is a fictional character in the Canadian-American Sci-Fi Channel television series ""Stargate SG-1"" and ""Stargate Atlantis"", two military science fiction television shows about military teams exploring two galaxies (Milky Way and Pegasus) via a network of alien transportation devices. Played by British-born Canadian actor David Hewlett, McKay was a main character in all five seasons of ""Stargate Atlantis"" (2004–2009). Earlier he held a recurring role in ""Stargate SG-1"" for four seasons (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007). In 2011, McKay was featured in an episode of ""Stargate Universe"". Doctor Rodney McKay is a contractor for the"
"Medicine in Star Trek Medicine in ""Star Trek"" refers to the medical technologies, procedures and conditions as seen in the ""Star Trek"" fictional universe. Since the ""Star Trek"" fictional universe takes place roughly two or three centuries in our future, medical technology is portrayed as having grown to be far more sophisticated and advanced than current technology. When confronted with medical technology from older time periods, the character often react apprehensively or skeptically to the relatively outdated modern procedures. For example, when visiting a hospital in the 1980s in """", Dr. McCoy (played by DeForest Kelley) shows disdain for his"
"the end of the ""Star Trek"" series) at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in St. Charles, Illinois. Nimoy was best known for his portrayal of Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan character he played on ""Star Trek"" from the first TV episode, in 1966, to the film ""Star Trek Into Darkness"" in 2013. Biographer Dennis Fischer states that it was Nimoy's ""most important role,"" and Nimoy was later credited by others for bringing ""dignity and intelligence to one of the most revered characters in science fiction."" The character was to become iconic, considered one of the most popular alien characters ever portrayed on"
"NBC crime drama ""Dante"". That same year he played Dr. Abel in the episode ""The Haven"" on ""The DuPont Show with June Allyson"". Other television credits included ""Adventures of Superman"" (1953–1954, with Anthony Caruso and Elisha Cook, Jr.) and the adventure series, ""Northwest Passage"". Fix played Dr. Mark Piper, Leonard McCoy's predecessor in the second pilot episode of """", ""Where No Man Has Gone Before"". When NBC picked up ""Star Trek"" as a series in 1966, Fix was replaced as the ""Enterprise"" medical officer by DeForest Kelley in the role of Dr. Leonard ""Bones"" McCoy. Fix appeared as the presiding"
""""", he finds himself to be the only member of the landing party to be immune to the physical effects of the disease affecting human adults on the planet. However, he realises that he is probably a carrier and could infect the ""Enterprise"" if he were to return. Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) manages to devise a cure, allowing the team to return to the ship. When Simon van Gelder enters the bridge armed with a phaser in ""Dagger of the Mind"", Spock subdues him with a nerve pinch. He later conducts a mind meld with van Gelder as part"
"Star Trek expanded universe The ""Star Trek"" expanded universe is an unofficial, fan-created term to describe an extrapolation of events which occur in the ""Star Trek"" Universe outside the scope of the television series and feature films. Information from the ""Star Trek"" ""Expanded Universe"" typically fills ""holes"" in the ""Star Trek"" story and timeline, with explanations of events which have never been adequately explained through live action productions. The term was first used in 1966 by writer D.C. Fontana to describe information put forth in the backstory of Doctor Leonard McCoy. Although original ""Star Trek"" fiction (for adult audiences) dates"
"than any of his earlier incarnations, manipulating people like chess pieces and always seeming to be playing a deeper game. A distinguishing feature of McCoy's performances was his manner of speech. He used his natural slight Scottish accent and rolled his ""r""s. At the start of his tenure he used proverbs and sayings adapted to his own ends (e.g. ""There's many a slap twixt cup and lap"" – ""Delta and the Bannermen""), although this characteristic was phased out during the later, darker series of his tenure. In 1990, readers of ""Doctor Who Magazine"" voted McCoy's Doctor ""Best Doctor"", over perennial"
"and in-house physician for the X-Men, despite not technically having an MD. His intelligence and expertise in genetics rival that of Professor X, Moira McTaggert, and Kavita Rao. Despite this, he has never received a Nobel Prize or been elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. A Renaissance man, McCoy is well-versed in many fields including languages (fluent in English, German, French, Latin, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and Russian as well as the fictional language Latverian), literature, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, history, art and art history, anthropology, linguistics, and music, as well as in political science and economics with"
"The City on the Edge of Forever ""The City on the Edge of Forever"" is the twenty-eighth and penultimate episode of the of the American science fiction television series """". The episode had several writers contribute to the finished product including: Harlan Ellison, Steven W. Carabatsos, D. C. Fontana, Gene L. Coon and a final re-write by Gene Roddenberry. The episode was directed by Joseph Pevney and first aired on NBC on April 6, 1967. In the episode, after a heavily medicated Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) travels back in time and changes history, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock"
"years later, McCoy added an ""r"" to the end of ""Sylveste"", in part because of the actors' superstition that a stage name with thirteen letters was unlucky. Notable television appearances before he gained the role of the Doctor included roles in ""Vision On"" (where he played Pepe/Epep, a character who lived in the mirror), an O-Man in ""Jigsaw"" and ""Tiswas"". He also appeared in ""Eureka"", often suffering from the inventions of Wilf Lunn and as Wart, assistant to StarStrider in the CITV series of the same name. McCoy also portrayed, in one-man shows on the stage, two famous movie comedians:"