McCoy's field kit

[JimmyH]

Did McCoy ever use the spray healer that he suppose to have in his black pouch?
If it was used then in what episode was that.
The black pouch changes between the seasons and becomes slimmer. However I cannot remember the pouch ever been opened to show the content in any episode. All the other content he used mostly the scanner and hypo spray, on more rare occasions the reader tube.

 

[GNDN18]

Did McCoy ever use the spray healer that he suppose to have in his black pouch?
If it was used then in what episode was that.
The black pouch changes between the seasons and becomes slimmer. However I cannot remember the pouch ever been opened to show the content in any episode. All the other content he used mostly the scanner and hypo spray, on more rare occasions the reader tube.

McCoy pulled a spray hypo from his pouch in “Amok Time”, but that’s the only time I can remember.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

McCoy pulled a spray hypo from his pouch in “Amok Time”, but that’s the only time I can remember.

That's the hypo spray. The "spray healer" (as named in The Making of Star Trek) was actually a little metal tube that looked like a closed lipstick. It wasn't seen much if at all, and if Kelley ever did use on an injury in a quick moment, it wouldn't be to spray anything. I can't say if it was used.

The best medical props didn't go in the pouch. I like the tricorder and the the handheld scanner that fit inside, the one with the fast-rotating head. But the pouch did spare Kelley from having to pull his other field instruments out of hammerspace.

It's funny how much TOS and later Treks needed their handheld technology props, compared to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (circa 2004) which had almost none and didn't need them. I've never quite figured that out.

 

[GNDN18]

That's the hypo spray.

So it is. I have a copy of the book, too. I was responding to this:

However I cannot remember the pouch ever been opened to show the content in any episode.

 

[JimmyH]

Thanks for the answers, as I suspected it was never used or only a few times in fast clips. Will rewatch "Amok Time" again.

 

[Phaser Two]

That's the hypo spray. The "spray healer" (as named in The Making of Star Trek) was actually a little metal tube that looked like a closed lipstick. It wasn't seen much if at all, and if Kelley ever did use on an injury in a quick moment, it wouldn't be to spray anything. I can't say if it was used.

The best medical props didn't go in the pouch. I like the tricorder and the the handheld scanner that fit inside, the one with the fast-rotating head. But the pouch did spare Kelley from having to pull his other field instruments out of hammerspace.

It's funny how much TOS and later Treks needed their handheld technology props, compared to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (circa 2004) which had almost none and didn't need them. I've never quite figured that out.

Good post. But as to BSG v. 2.0 . . . I . . . find . . . myself . . . oh, heck, I will throw diplomacy to the four winds. I found the show ponderous and lacking in a lot of what I like about TOS, other Treks, and Star Wars for that matter. And one of those things I like that BSG 2.0 lacked - by no means the only one, however - was intriguing equipment.

 

[Delta Vega]

His kit consisted of a salt cellar(sp) and a small box with a telly at the top of it

 

[FormerLurker]

IIRC, in Friday's Child he uses the spray healer on Eleen's hand after she burns it. I believe the line is "I'm going to work on that hand. They can only kill me once."

 

[Phaser Two]

IIRC, in Friday's Child he uses the spray healer on Eleen's hand after she burns it. I believe the line is "I'm going to work on that hand. They can only kill me once."

It's "arm," I believe, but more pertinently, good call. I think that is the spray healer. Nice catch.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

IIRC, in Friday's Child he uses the spray healer on Eleen's hand after she burns it. I believe the line is "I'm going to work on that hand. They can only kill me once."

Yeah, seems quite possible. But that's not the spot. That spot you are talking about is when McCoy creates a distraction so they can escape the tent.

It's actually where these screencaps are, when he treats the arm.

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/thumbnails.php?album=63&page=25
e.g.: http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x11hd/fridayschildhd0727.jpg

McCoy says [http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/32.htm]: "Now listen, you may be a Capellan woman and the widow of a high teer, but I'm a doctor, and it's my tradition to care for the sick and injured. Now, let me see that arm."

You can see Eleen's reaction after evidently getting sprayed, but the screencaps don't offer a good view of the gadget McCoy uses.

 

[JimmyH]

Yes that scene seems to be where he is using it. Though you can hardly see that he is holding anything. And it looks more like he is splashing her skin with some liquid from a vial than spraying it on.
Could not find any information on when he used it at all on internet.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

It's funny how much TOS and later Treks needed their handheld technology props, compared to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (circa 2004) which had almost none and didn't need them. I've never quite figured that out.

What's to figure out? They're two different science fiction shows made 40 years apart. Why should they do the same thing?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

What's to figure out? They're two different science fiction shows made 40 years apart. Why should they do the same thing?

The TOS characters often couldn't function (move the plot along) without their handheld devices, while the nu-BSG characters never had a need for any. It's like two different universes.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

It's like two different universes.

Uhh, yeah. That's because they were.

 

[Maurice]

nuBSG was largely on the ships so they didn't need the kind of gear Trek routinely employed since they were neither equipped for a deep space mission nor for exploration...plus they were deliberately low-tech.

 

[Delta Vega]

Sneakily concealed extra communicator
Plastering kit

 

[Poltargyst]

nuBSG was largely on the ships so they didn't need the kind of gear Trek routinely employed since they were neither equipped for a deep space mission nor for exploration...plus they were deliberately low-tech.

I noticed they intentionally went retro with the tech. The technology looked like it could have come from 1979.