Its a common enough nickname for a doctor, derived from the term "sawbones." What more is there to know?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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).
"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?
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?
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.