Bones ?

Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by xortex, Sep 17, 2007.

  1. xortex

    xortex Commodore Commodore

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    I'd like to see how he got the nickname.
     
  2. od0_ital

    od0_ital Admiral Admiral

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

    What more is there to know?
     
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  3. Alidar Jarok

    Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation but moderation Moderator

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

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  4. Trekker4747

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    Hopefully, God, not more than that.

    Trekker, really bad fanfic.
     
  5. od0_ital

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    Maybe next time... :D
     
  6. Therin of Andor

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    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.
     
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  7. xortex

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    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.
     
  8. NathanielM

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    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.
     
  9. TIN_MAN

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

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    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. :o
     
  11. JiNX-01

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

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    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).
     
  13. Michael

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

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    I don't recall a scene with a chef in TOS. :confused:
     
  15. UnknownSample

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    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?
     
  16. WillsBabe

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    I must have been smart, too, because that's exactly what I thought! :D 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.
     
  17. Gary Mitchell

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

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    ^ Nice one! Thanks! You learn something every day. :)
     
  19. Vulcanian

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    This really belongs in the "Original Series" forum.
     
  20. od0_ital

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    ^

    McCoy was seen in both TOS & TNG.

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