Deforrest was the heart of that cast. He had the sternness of Shatner and the sarcasm and wit of Nichelle, with the stocism of Leonard. He was a great character actor to boot. Kelly is one of the main reasons why The Original Series cast is my absolute favourite.

The man cured Kidney failure with a pill.

@claytonberg721

3 ай бұрын

In real life someone is allegedly close to doing that for kitty cats.

@rinoz47

3 ай бұрын

Oh, well, I don't think it is too unusual for Starfleet doctors to carry around universal panaceas at all times.

@keithtorgersen9664

3 ай бұрын

Loved when he got into an argument with the 20th century doctor.

@matthewjay660

3 ай бұрын

I need 1 of these pills right now. I'm in Stage 4. 😐

@barrybend7189

3 ай бұрын

@@matthewjay660 i genuinely hope you get good dialysis care. I've seen what happens when people don't.

Honestly, Bones is my favorite of the TOS crew. He's always a joy to watch being so sour and has a more down to earth quality to him that is different from Kirk and Spock's legendary personalities.

McCoy is the role model for Combat Medics.

NGL Kinda surprised there wasnt a mention or a poke fun at his "Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a...." line he used alot.

Spock, the logical mind. McCoy, the emotional heart. Fantastic characters. " _SHUT UP SPOCK, WE'RE SAVING YOU!_ " " _Why thank you... CAPTAIN McCoy._ " And " _Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!_ "

I just drove past Emory and crossed the Chattahoochee river driving home in my commute! I had no idea he was from Georgia. It explains why he is a good Southern gentleman!

@jabbarthomas5855

3 ай бұрын

ANNNND DeForest Kelly was born in Atlanta in 1920 and his Dad was pastor at a church in Conyers! As a fellow Atlantan and a Star Trek fan since 2 years old, I always counted Bone’s (and DeForest’s) backstory as a point of pride!!

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy is one of my Favorite Star Trek Characters, fun fact his actor Deforest Kelley was offered his pick of any main character he wanted Kelley chose Bones because the character's sense of humor and down to earth nature. Kelley also gave the character some of his background as he and Bones come from Georgia and both their fathers were named David; McCoy was the archetypal Frontier Doctor from the tv and movie westerns of that time period, reimagined in a sci fi setting with a wonderful sense of depth and humanity add by Kelley himself and Star Trek's creative team.

I really love Dr. McCoy.

I always love characters like Bones simply because of I have trouble communicating to the people I care about myself.

Kirk was the warrior. Spock was the intellect. McCoy was the heart. Scotty was the fixer.

By the accounts I've read / heard, "Dee" DeForest Kelley was a nice guy too. That always makes me happy to hear.

@Watcher1134

3 ай бұрын

isnt his middle name Horatio?

@skywise001

3 ай бұрын

According to rumor one of the movies was launched in part as an idea to raise money for him in his retirement.

@danielhall5364

3 ай бұрын

@@skywise001 If I remember correctly they paid him 1million for ST6 so he and his wife wouldn't have to worry about $... That was from George @ fall 92.

I wasnt born during the TOS run, but seen the films. But my favorite is the TNG ep. Encounter at Farpoint. I was touched by his quote about the Enterprise D "Treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home". I think Geordi mentioned that line (the last line) on pickard.

I haven't caught many of these personnel files but wanted to watch this one. McCoy was my favourite of the original Characters and there was much more in his timeline than I thought there would be so thank you. Although Kirk and Spock had a lot to do too, Fridays Child was one of my favourite episodes because it was McCoy heavy. DeForest was a very private man, but when it was himself he seemed a really warm and genuine man. Great video.

Since he was an expert on Space Psychology, I always assumed he was a psychiatrist.

@jokerz7936

3 ай бұрын

There is a line in Generations where Kirk tells Scotty "Good thing you became an Engineer because with a tact like that you'd make a lousy psychiatrist." Since the scene was originally intended to be Spock and Bones with Kirk, I always felt that had to be a line for Kirk to say at McCoy originally "Good thing you became a MD because with a tact like that you'd make a lousy psychiatrist.".

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated

3 ай бұрын

Psychiatrist, bartender, tomayto, tomahto

@joseaguilar3323

3 ай бұрын

@@jokerz7936 But psychiatrists are MDs. You're thinking of psychologists who are PhDs

@brianstiles1701

3 ай бұрын

In Beta canon one of his many MD's was in Psychiatry. I always assumed Bones got the degree sometime after TOS, but really I think the author was just having fun.

@thisiszaphod

3 ай бұрын

Psychology and Psychiatry are separate things. Just saying.

Kirk: _"You're suffering from a Vulcan mind meld, Doctor."_ McCoy: _"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost."_

I'd loved to have met DeForest Kelley. He seemed like a genuinely wonderful man, and it comes through in his acting. As for McCoy himself, I've been quite dismayed to see him sidelined in a lot of things. Original Trek is often reduced to "Kirk & Spock", as if McCoy wasn't an integral cog in that machine. Blasphemy.

I found the events of the episode" The Empath" cemented my respect for his courage.

Among the most quotable of any service member across the fleet. "I'm a doctor, not a ..." I used to quote him all the time. I was a pre med for a good part of my bachelor's before I opted for research

He's a Doctor, not an engineer!

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat

3 ай бұрын

“I’m a doctor not a damn masonist!” “You’re a healer, there’s your patient. That’s an order.”

He also gets a few mentions in the Shatnerverse books. Old geezer was quite the party animal.

Honestly, Star Trek 5 from the not-Ten-Forward scene until the end is pretty classic Trek .

Jesus, divorce takes forever in the future

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated

3 ай бұрын

And there’s not even alimony in a future without money

Best McCoy - The Horta (Demon in the Dark). I honestly feel that episode shows the main three at their best but McCoy is a super favorite.

I don't know why I never realised this till SNW, but Bones isn't the ship's doctor technically; he's the ship's chief surgeon. You go to Mbenga for a general medical issues and go to Bones for operations and life-saving treatment. Edit: this isn't a retcon either, it's backed up by a few TOS episodes by McCoy, Mbenga, and Kirk

For McCoy driven novels read Dreams of the Raven and Shadows on the Sun

@theonlymatthew.l

3 ай бұрын

I've read them both, those are excellent choices.

@rodneynicholauson4566

3 ай бұрын

@@theonlymatthew.lAlso add Drs Orders

The core cast of TOS are still so much fun to watch. While I love and enjoy several of the other shows, the core trio of TOS never gets old. Thank you for this excellent video on McCoy! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

McCoy had a great performance during the Friday's Child episode. Oochy woochy coochy coo

It would've been cool to see him meet Scotty again.

@keithtorgersen9664

3 ай бұрын

Or Spock.

Bones will always be my favourite, he’s an underratedly complex character whom was always played to perfection - not to mention what a widely agreed gem of a man DeForest Kelley was. I think the biggest issue the kelvin timeline has is the underuse of McCoy. They forget that TOS isn’t about just Spock and Kirk - it’s the iconic trio of McCoy, Kirk and Spock that makes up the perfect human.

Best actor in Star Trek history.

I always liked, "Bones". Great video.

I am glad you did not go with the Kelvinverse silly explanation of his nickname being the result of a bitter comment about his divorce. Ship's doctors have been given the nickname "bones" since the days of sailing ships when they were known as "sawbones" because one of their most frequent surgeries was amputating limbs mangled by cannonballs or (more likely) shards of oak hull timbers. It would be like saying the "Skipper" from Gilligans Island was nicknamed "Skipper" because he liked to skip rocks from the beach.

I wish that we get to see young McCoy in Strange New Worlds.

Long live Bones.

I can attest that I’m not a Bricklayer

I 💖Bones 🩻❤ Ric, I'm sure you understand 💚🖖🏻

It's strange how so many of the people that made the original series memorable were veterans of World War Two.

@RoyalFusilier

3 ай бұрын

I've been watching old school anime lately, particularly Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, and Space Battleship Yamato. And yeah, people who lived through that time have a perspective that just can't be replicated.

Dr. Leonard MCCoy: "The patient, 'Star Wars' is dead. You can't 'fix' a corpse."

One of the reasons I liked Paulaski so much, felt she was modelled after McCoy.

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated

3 ай бұрын

Pulaski and Voyager’s EMH meeting would either end in a yelling match or a make out session, no inbetween (although possibly both).

@mc-zy7ju

3 ай бұрын

@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated always thought she had a thing for Worf.

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated

3 ай бұрын

@@mc-zy7ju oh she _definitely_ had a thing for Worf, agreed.

@rayvenkman2087

3 ай бұрын

Should have been moved to DS9 and pair her up with Julian Bashir to act as his McCoy to her Spock. I can picture Pulaski smiling at Kira dressing down Bashir on their first meeting after making an unintentionally insensitive comment that ticked her off and then saying to him afterwards “Should have taken more lessons in good bedside manners to your new patient” before assuring him that everyone makes a blunder once in their professional careers.

Always top quality content coming from Certifiably Ingame Thank you Rick

He's my all time favourite character in the entire franchise

“I’m a doctor, not a personnel file! But…that all seems well enough researched, so…well done, I suppose. You been talking to Spock, haven’t you!” -Leonard McCoy.

Nicely done...Thanks...Miss DeForest Kelley as McCoy...

Kids, this is why you moisturise. You do _not_ wanna look like TOS McCoy at the age of 40.

@handlandj

3 ай бұрын

Given... many factors I'd sooner blame leaded gas. And lead paint. And lead pipes. And MANY other things.

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated

3 ай бұрын

@@handlandj oh from an _actor_ point of view he was in his very late 40s when playing a 40 year old. And yes, also, everything in the 1960s was made of lead. From a character point of view… maybe Kirk’s Enterprise ran on leaded antimatter?

@handlandj

3 ай бұрын

@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated And I guess... not, in the kelvin timeline, if we're trying to explain his appearances in-universe as well as out.

@Dinidan

3 ай бұрын

At this rate I'll look like one of those stop motion raisins by the time I hit 40.

@aaronhollar6548

3 ай бұрын

Dammit man he’s a doctor not a runway model 😂

My headcanon is that his famous quote is quite literal: he only has expertise in the medical field. Had he become a doctor through starfleet, he would have training in multiple skills outside of medicine. It seems like most people in this era are encouraged to learn multiple skills and interests, and Bones is strictly “just a Doctor”

Excellent as usual.

If you want a great McCoy story even though it’s not cannon Shadows of the Sun is a great read. It tells the story of his marriage imploding and the story of his first mission in Starfleet and how those two things come back to haunt him and the crew of the Enterprise in their last days together.

Great video Dude!

Nice to know that Georgia and Mississippi survived WW3 with little damage. We know that Florida was okay too, as Trip's sister lived there in "Enterprise". I wonder if the southern states were independent at that point, and avoided WW3 completely?

Weird as it may sound and not just because he was the only good thing in it but Encounter at Far Point if only for his advise to Data about how he should treat the Enterprise. Its not only the sort of thing both Kirk and Scotty would have said and believed, and honestly I feel it was a missed oppertunity that Scotty didn't say the same thing to Geordi, you can tell that even with all the modern equipment an automation the ship has there's a small part of him that truely believe's it as well

Removing McCoy from three main characters in Trek in the Abrams movie was a huge mistake. They tried to replace him using Uhura and it just didn't work. Spock and McCoy represented aspects of Kirks personality. But removing him and putting in another character that was romantically involved with another created a friction and destroyed the characterization of Trek.

Right off the bat, that was a slow saying of "favorite".

1:07 Interestingly, DeForest Kelly, who played Dr. McCoy in TOS was also from Atlanta, Georgia, just like his character of Dr. McCoy

Damn it it Jim I am a doctor not (whatever is happening at the time and situation involving other careers that have nothing to do with him).

@Reddotzebra

3 ай бұрын

They even programmed that into the EMHs. "I'm a Doctor, not a dragonslayer!"

@francescozenocchini4428

3 ай бұрын

Dammit Boimler i'm a Doctor not a superhero assasin!!!

@BennyLlama39

3 ай бұрын

I'm a doctor... not a doorstop. 😀

A couple of good stories for McCoy in beta Cannon would include the second novel in the Star Trek legacies trilogy “Best Defense” auntie IDW “Year Four” and “Year Five” comic series. The legacies novel deals heavily with his relationship with his daughter, and acts to really flash out that aspect of the character That’s only mentioned in Canon. The IDW TOS continuation comics are really good the whole cast but McCoy gets some real good moments, coincidentally some of them relate to his daughter again.

Totally add "Empath" to that episode list. The interaction between the trio is at it's best in that one. I also agree, the Bones and trio moments are the only saving graces of movie 5. I do feel, that one novel about when he went to save Spock on Picard's enterprise shouldn't be included. That book really didn't capture his character right and I can't consider it cannon. Pretty much, if you want more good McCoy stories, read anything by Diane Duane. She gets the trio as a whole.

If Doctor McCoy met Doctor Franklin, they'll be sharing interesting stories...

Weird, I also almost died on the Chattahoochee river. Back in the 90's I was on a summer vacation with my family and almost drowned after falling into the river, and getting pulled along by the current. I ended up grabbing a sunken log in the river and pulling my self up enough for my father to grab me and pull me out. I had slivers of that log lodged under my fingernails for a month.

Nitpick here, but the asteroid where McCoy was cured was Yonada, not Yondala. (ducks and awaits incoming "Ackchyually" comments.

Why did it take 13 YEARS to process McCoy's divorce? Surely, that must be a mistake? I could understand if it took until 2256, since that would have been THREE years (still a long time, but more reasonable), but having it take from 2253 until 2266 is just ridiculous!

@krisgonynor689

3 ай бұрын

He ran off and joined StarFleet. At that time, interstellar travel wasn't that easy. The lawyers probably had trouble tracking him down - nor could they just go visit a front line exploration/warship while out in deep space.

Journey to Babel. He finally got the last word.

Jadzia Dax deserves a personnel file video. Im just saying. 😊

LIeutenant Commander Leonard H. McCoy sipping on a Mint Julep told Sandoval who mention an occupation change to Doctor McCoy: "you want to see how fast you will need a hospital."

Kinda reminds me of Dr. Chakwas from the Mass Effect games when I think of onboard space ship docters.

When you are not being "Rick," who are you the rest of the time?

bones is one i very much would love to see in strange new world season 3 but i am not sure if the timeline would fit

If you don't love Bones, I can and will gatekeep you

I don't hate Abrams but he had McCoy being from Kentucky, it was in an interview from 2009. There are different continuities but I think that was a mistake.

Seems odd to mention McCoy getting a concussion but not healing the Horta, surely the most non-human patient of his career.

Of the 3 core TOS actors I always think DeForrest Kelley doesn’t get the credit for his performances he deserves. He was nowhere near as theatrical as Shatner nor given a really narrow and defined character remit as Nimoy had, yet somehow, especially in the movie era, he became the heart and soul of TOS. It annoys me that Bones gets reduced to “dammit Jim…” cliches because it is a really unfair representation of the multifaceted character Kelley managed to build from a lot less material than the other 2 leads. Even when he doesn’t have a huge role in a TOS episode there is some really subtle stuff he does with his dialogue, exposition and expressions that show what a refined screen actor he was.

🖖

Brb getting a movement started to get a statue put up at my alma mater.

Bones represented reality with sarcasm, while Spock represented reality without said sarcasm... 😏

Jesus, how old did he live?! I am not a fan of blue shirts becoming full commanders unless they take the Bridge Officer's Test. Since he didn't attend the academy, I find it hard to believe he would have been given command of a ship. Of course, sometimes the ranks don't always make sense, since Pulaski and M'Benga were both full Commanders. The thing about McCoy is I feel Roddenberry boxed in Beverly as he did not want her to be a redo of Bones (they gave that burden to Pulaski and we know how it went).

Friday's Child was kind of a forgettable episode, but McCoy does a good job in it, and it has perhaps his best line in the whole franchise in it ... "I'm a doctor, not an escalator!"

mccoy: booze and pills, outlives everyone.

For general pronunciation, Feynman is usually fine-man.

11:41 you do realise out of the three Shatner is the only one still alive.

I wish Lieutenant Commander Leonard H. McCoy was my doctor because he would take care of my Asthma which possibly has a cure in the Star Trek Universe.

the Point that he is still around after the TNG Era (is Picard Still TNG? I Would sort the fist Movies as TMP Era), that makes you wonder: HOW Old can Humans get? Even with all the Medical Aid there must be a upper limit

I wonder what MaCoy's thoughts on the borg are lol

Doubtful McCoy could have been held accountable for his actions in Star Trek III as he was clearly not of sound mind.

Green-blooded hobgoblin! 🖖🏻

There is only *ONE* McCoy... Kelley>ALL Else! I just noticed... He was at least *154 YEARS old!???* ...... WHAT THE F*CK!?

Wait his brother is Henry McCoy? Hank... Hank McCoy? His brother is the Beast from X-Men? LOL

I’d say Bones could be a bit speciest but honestly Spock could be insufferable about being a Vulcan given he was only half one to begin with.

@christinebutler7630

3 ай бұрын

Poor Spock was pretty traumatized from the bullying he grew up with about not being Vulcan enough. I mean, geez, his own dad didn't have his back. So no wonder his insecurity made him protest too much . Given Bones' psychology training, I would've thought he should understand that.

@rubaiyat300

3 ай бұрын

I'm sympathetic to the character, but the strays caught by the mostly (if not entirely) human crew of the TOS Enterprise is tough to reconcile. @@christinebutler7630

So he didn't start as Lieutenant despite his experience as was the norm in the 24th century. I wonder when they started that.

@CertifiablyIngame

3 ай бұрын

A thought I had might be because Julian Bashir was a graduate of specifically Starfleet Medical, while McCoy was a graduate of a Civilian institution?

@sexyshadowcat7

3 ай бұрын

@@CertifiablyIngame I thought it was because Bashir was just that exceptional.

@AC20sAkimbo

3 ай бұрын

Maybe that way was for the best. Troi had no right being in command given her lack of experience, taking a single test to send Geordi to his death isn't the same as attending the academy..@@CertifiablyIngame

@AzraelThanatos

3 ай бұрын

@@CertifiablyIngame In some of the Beta cannon stuff, they also explain that, while they don't have to go to the academy, they do have some classes that they're required to take along with a short, first tour before an almost automatic promotion rather than a direct officer position when they'd have to deal with everything else to learn about being in starfleet at the same time. It also worked as an escape valve there to let those who aren't able to adjust to leave without issues there. One of the books or comics during the Dominion war mentions a smaller ship where the only officer that survived a problem was their ships doctor who had just joined Starfleet before the war broke out and his training mission as an ensign was cut short for combat deployments following the disasters of the early war there. Something like a multiple month trip back to Federation space while limping at less than a skeleton crew due to a jury rigged warp system some of the enlisted managed to cobble together from the wreckage in the shuttlebay and through hostile territory. No explanation beyond a mention of the situation and the doc was someone that, I believe, Bashir went to school before the academy and was relieved that he'd survived after thinking he was dead.

Pretty short-lived position as Commander at first.

Went started with this.. and now we have STD...

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat

3 ай бұрын

Nah that shit got cancelled due to paramounts app failing to make the money they intended, so we’re good now

Eight years and it took you THIS LONG to talk about Dr Bones!?

In the German Dub , his nickname is Pill 😂💊

Bones is divorced? Who would’ve guessed? Lol

Does he moonlight as bricklayer?

I wonder how he'd feel about the EMH.

@rodneynicholauson4566

3 ай бұрын

He'd inwardly hate it.

@AzraelThanatos

3 ай бұрын

@@rodneynicholauson4566 I could see that at first, but I could also see him seeing them growing and developing if left to run and see that particular element as essential there.

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God damnit I want a thumbs up! Not a comment!

Distrust of all technology is a weird character trait for a man living in a spaceship. Lol. I get not trusting specific tech like the transporter, but everything? That's weird.

Doubtful he'd have entered Starfleet as an ensign if it's anything like the real military. I was offered the rank of lieutenant if I agreed to join the Army. Also, he would have had to attend OTC after Boot Camp regardless of his prior career.

I'm a Doctor! Not a...