Bones ?

[xortex]

I'd like to see how he got the nickname.

 

[od0_ital]

Its a common enough nickname for a doctor, derived from the term "sawbones."

What more is there to know?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Aw, beat me to it. I could have been useful

 

[Trekker4747]

What more is there to know?

Hopefully, God, not more than that.

Trekker, really bad fanfic.

 

[od0_ital]

Alidar Jarok said:
Aw, beat me to it. I could have been useful

Maybe next time...

 

[Therin of Andor]

od0_ital said:
Its a common enough nickname for a doctor, derived from the term "sawbones."

From the time when doctors cured a gangrenous leg by sawing it off.

The CMO in "The Cage" was going to get called "Bones", too, according to Roddenberry's original treatment, but they settled on "Doc" in that.

 

[xortex]

I thought McCoy could have been looking for a skelaton to teach with and couldn't find one or something like that. I guess he could have replicated one but they didn't have that technology back then.

 

[NathanielM]

there was in the episode for cat's paw that kirk spying the skeleton started calling mccoy "Doc" instead of bones.



Some useless trivia there.

 

[TIN_MAN]

McCoy does seem to have a lot of skulls lying around his office, maybe his hobby is phrenology?

 

[WillsBabe]

xortex said:
I guess he could have replicated one but they didn't have that technology back then.

I always thought that they did. I thought that's how the food appeared in the food slot thingee. I just thought that the tv producers didn't have the tech to do the fx. When TNG came along I just assumed they were showing the same technology only this time they had the fx capabilities to show it. Sorry, got a bit off topic there.

 

[JiNX-01]

WillsBabe said:

xortex said:
I guess he could have replicated one but they didn't have that technology back then.

I always thought that they did. I thought that's how the food appeared in the food slot thingee. I just thought that the tv producers didn't have the tech to do the fx. When TNG came along I just assumed they were showing the same technology only this time they had the fx capabilities to show it. Sorry, got a bit off topic there.

I could have sworn there was an episode where Kirk said the cook was preparing turkey for Thanksgiving?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

There was (drawing a blank on the episode, I'm sure someone else will say which one). But there was still other times when things appeared out of nowhere or from a card (the ice cream in And the Children Shall Lead).

 

[Michael]

JiNX-01 said:
I could have sworn there was an episode where Kirk said the cook was preparing turkey for Thanksgiving?

"Charlie X", IIRC. (Curiously in the german dubbed version Kirk is talking about easter eggs which he wants to be painted. ) And wasn't that the scene where the chef was played by Roddenberry?

 

[WillsBabe]

Belar said:
And wasn't that the scene where the chef was played by Roddenberry?

I don't recall a scene with a chef in TOS.

 

[UnknownSample]

WillsBabe said:

xortex said:
I guess he could have replicated one but they didn't have that technology back then.

I always thought that they did. I thought that's how the food appeared in the food slot thingee. I just thought that the tv producers didn't have the tech to do the fx. When TNG came along I just assumed they were showing the same technology only this time they had the fx capabilities to show it. Sorry, got a bit off topic there.

Exactly. When Next Gen premiered, I thought, oh great... we get to SEE the food materializing now! Being a smart kid, back during original Trek, I figured, they have transporters, that's obviously involved in how the food appears instantly. How else?

 

[WillsBabe]

UnknownSample said:
Being a smart kid, back during original Trek, I figured, they have transporters, that's obviously involved in how the food appears instantly. How else?

I must have been smart, too, because that's exactly what I thought! It just seemed like a logical jump, and again in TNG, it seemed to be petty much linked to the transporter tech. Watching something materialise in a replicator for the first time on TNG was an amazing moment after all those years of imagining it watching TOS.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

WillsBabe said:

Belar said:
And wasn't that the scene where the chef was played by Roddenberry?

I don't recall a scene with a chef in TOS.

The voice of the chef was Gene Roddenberry's but they didn't actually show the chef.

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Nice one! Thanks! You learn something every day.

 

[Vulcanian]

This really belongs in the "Original Series" forum.

 

[od0_ital]

^

McCoy was seen in both TOS & TNG.