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Was he a doctor in the civil war?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Queen of Hearts.-TAS, 'Once Upon A Planet', the Queen.
Kor
Whatever point you're making...you didn't.
Of course that shock and horror extend to gays who hate the fact that gay has picked up the addtional meaning of "lame."
Such usage has fallen out of favor. That was more of a '90s thing.
And "lame" itself was originally a neutral word denoting physical disability, which unfortunately took on the colloquial meaning of something that's uncool or disappointing.
Kor
Just happened to find this. :
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Shaka. When the studio walls fell.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Detail-oriented fans have cried foul at a great many things about ST09; the lack of a new explanation for Bones's nickname would've been a long way down the list. (If it was in fact an ad lib, then even the writers didn't think it was necessary...)
As I suggested, if the writers felt it necessary to explain at all, it could've been done with a brief joking exchange — except referencing the actual explanation, not an invented one. Say, some situation arises where McCoy grumbles to Kirk that he's "a modern doctor, not some medieval sawbones," and boom, there you have it.
Neither @Longinus nor anyone else objected on those grounds, so this is a complete straw man.
What's more important to know, I'd reckon, is that both the appliance brand and the ship in ST09 were named after the same guy, because he's also the source of the temperature scale.
I'd say none of the above. The line is excessively contrived and on-the-nose (one of many lines of dialogue in that film that made me wince); it makes zero sense that Kirk would choose a nickname that reminds McCoy of a painful divorce; and it implicitly displaces the original explanation.
Agree to disagree on that one. The original still exists and the new one exists. There is nothing omitted.
Also, it is reading in to the material that Bones objected to the nickname.
Incidentally...
Just out of curiosity, I ran a quick script search. Across all of TOS (and its movies), I got 311 results for the words "Bones"... and only 29 results for "Leonard." So yeah, anyone who's heard of the character at all is more than ten times as likely to know him by the nickname!...
Just out of curiosity, I ran a quick script search. Across all of TOS (and its movies), I got 311 results for the words "Bones"... and only 29 results for "Leonard." So yeah, anyone who's heard of the character at all is more than ten times as likely to know him by the nickname!...
Is someone arguing otherwise?
The "actual" explanation was also an invented one. And, since never explained, not important.
I was comparing Kelvinator to "sawbones" in terms of things that have fallen off the map of usage by the general population over time.
The "importance" of knowing about Kelvin is a separate issue.
I understand, in the sense that "Kelvinator" jokes about the Abrams timeline haven't become a thing. I was just saying that in terms of an analogy pertaining to the historical background for a name in the show (and audience familiarity therewith or lack of same), the scientist was more relevant than the appliances.
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