"Spock's Brain".....I just realized that most of the regular/extra cast members get zonked together on the bridge during the teaser : Bill Blackburn, Frank Vinci, Eddie Paskey, Roger Holloway, etc. And no red shirts got killed in this episode.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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That's probably an oversight.
Keep forgetting - who is the blond engineer officer who is at bridge engineering for most of the 3rd season after Eddie Paskey got hurt, and couldn't continue?
IIRC, they did use a hand-double for Doohan in all of Scotty's insert shots, like manipulating the transporter controls. It was only a couple of times, TTWT comes to mind, that because of what Scotty was doing they couldn't go out of their way to hide or disguise his hand. Usually by having him hold something awkwardly.
Many productions continued to hide his hands, for decades to come. I remember him guesting on Hotel in the '80s, and the staging and camera direction was set up deliberately to have Anne Francis hide Doohan's hand behind hers as he shook hands with someone. It was even more awkward than any setup they did on ST.
I suspect that the "Half-Vulcan" is to add some authority to his opinion.
And here I was all these years thinking he was just constantly doing the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" salute!
Death ... by snu snu.
I thought Klingons were supposed to be tough and mean. Kang, in "Day of the Dove", is wearing blue or purple eye lid makeup. And that toupee he is wearing looks suspiciously like one of Shatner's hair pieces. Maybe the 3rd season budget didn't allow for wigs for bald guest actors.
He was a pretty tall dude. In his scenes with Shatner on the planet, Kirk has to literally look up at him.
McCoy wears a ring on his left hand pinky.
I guess I just don't pay attention. I met James Doohan at a Star Trek convention once and shook hands with him and never even noticed the missing finger.
It's probably an Academy (or other college) class ring.
It wasn't Kelley's wedding ring, it was his mother's. He wore it out of respect for her.
Me too! It wasn't until after the event that I read about his missing finger.
I first heard of it in a trivia game. I never noticed it before, in spite of having watched the entire series countless times.
Here's a thread about it. Evidently, it was not his mother's wedding ring, but rather an heirloom of hers that she had gotten from Kelley's uncle.
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/mccoys-ring-left-hand-pinky-finger.133976/
From that thread:
Most folks probably know that Dr. Leonard McCoy wore a gold ring on his left pinky finger. Although we don’t know why Leonard McCoy wears a ring, we do know a bit about DeForest Kelley’s ring.
>>Reposted from the Star Trek Phase II forum:
http://forums.startreknewvoyages.com/index.php?topic=11619.0
The ring that De Kelley wore was actually a woman’s gold ring with a blue diamond in it. It was actually won in a card game in France shortly after World War I by De’s uncle Herman. Herman gave the ring to his sister, Clora (De’s mom). When De’s mom died decades later, it was the only possession of hers that De wanted. (Similarly, when De’s dad died, the only possession De wanted of his dad’s was his Bible.)
Anyway, De would always wear his mom’s ring throughout his acting career. It kept him centered and focused and reminded him of the things that were important—especially as De seemed to by typecast playing outlaws and cattle rustlers and other unsavory characters. The ring gave him an anchor and helped him to keep from losing himself.
When Gene Roddenberry hired De to play, Dr. McCoy, the ring was almost a show stopper (literally). Gene had wanted De as the ship’s gruff surgeon but was thwarted for one reason or another in the first pilot and again in the second pilot. When Star Trek finally went into production, the stars aligned and De was available for the part of Dr. McCoy. Roddenberry didn’t want any contemporary 20th century jewelry, but De insisted that “you can’t have me if I can’t have my ring,” and Roddenberry relented.
You can see De’s ring in pretty much every episode; often, the blue stone was turned inside on the palm side of the hand to not be too distracting to the shot. But once in a while, you can glimpse the stone. You can even see the ring all the way up to publicity shots taken for Star Trek VI, the Undiscovered Country. The ring is small and De’s hands are often moving, so there just aren’t any really great close-up shots of the ring. (And now, let’s play “name the episode.”)
You can find rings in the proper style on ebay (thanks, Patty!), but you generally have to know to look for a woman’s ring, in a French style, from the Edwardian period. We found one, but we had to swap out the red stone (I think it was a garnet, but it might actually be a ruby--I'm not much of a gemologist) for a blue one. And, in our case, we needed a Size 7 ring to fit our McCoy's (Doc John Kelley’s) left pinky finger.
So here’s what we picked up for Phase II:
You can find an interesting story about this ring from a transcript of a convention appearance by De:
http://klhalliday.com/dekelley/VirtualCon/Boyhood.htm#Ring
Although this gets into the realm of costuming more than props (and I’m more of a prop guy), the line is kind of thin here. But as always, please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.
I have a co worker who is missing a finger, and it wasn't until I knew him for a while that I noticed.
