Approximately one year ago I googled, “why does Doctor McCoy wear a pinky ring on Star Trek” and happened to discover a very charming passage about the pinky ring from Terry Lee’s biography on Deforst Kelley “From Sawdust to Stardust”.
Since then, I’ve bought the biography and found myself completed enamored with the life of this sweet man, and with every tidbit I continue to learn about him makes me love him (and his iconic Star Trek role) even more.
In my classic, “I’m in constant competition with myself” nature, I redid the doodle of Deforest Kelley I posted last night early this morning because I’m constantly needing to outdo myself than the day prior :p
A delightfully awkward publicity photo for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, featuring Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock and DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy.
Talking to contemporary journalists, Nimoy pointed out that the underlying theme of his character’s journey was a particularly effective element for him: “Spock experienced prejudice growing up half-Vulcan and half-Human. In Star Trek VI, Spock becomes an emissary against prejudice and discovers, during the course of the story, his own prejudices.”
(Quote source: Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman’s Captains’ Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, published in 1995 by Little, Brown, and Company.)
Sunday is clean up day around the house and at HSD. Time to go through the ol’ Tumblr draft folder.
When I find something I like, I shift it aside. Sadly, I sometimes forget that I did so.
Last week, for no particular reason, I got into a DeForest Kelley from Star Trek and every western movie shot in the 50s,60s, and 70skick. He seemed like a swell guy. See got yourself.
There is a 1970s horror movie that is about giant bunny rabbits
now it was 1972 so they didn’t have green screen or anything like that so they just had build Rabbit sized models for them to mess up to seem giant. If you’ve ever seen Rabbits you know that while they’re pretty destructive little guys it’s rarely very showy so there’s a lot of moments where they’re meant to be destroying things and it’s just a bunch of rabbits half-heartedly standing around and giving a little hop.
Oh did I mention that one of the film’s stars is DeForest Kelley?
That’s right Doctor Bones McCoy was once in a movie about giant bunnies
If y’all know me, I occasionally go on a trawl to find Deforest Kelley pictures. I haven’t done this for awhile but apparently there’s an auction ending in 1.5 hours where they’re selling 12 pics of De and Carolyn from the 40′s. The pics are WOW but it’s a bidding war at 9 bids
DeForest Kelley, Steve Canyon, “Operation Jettison” (1958)
I have to imagine the conversation between the producer and casting director here went something like this:
Producer: Ok, we need a really, really good-looking guy to dress up in a hypermasculine costume and look incredibly hot while being barely visible because of terrible lighting. You know anyone like that?
Casting: *Turns off The Law and Jake Wade and cracks knuckles* Boy, do I.
Happy Birthday Jackson DeForest Kelley!!! (January 20 1920 – June 11 1999)
I`m very grateful for the career that I`ve had. And I`m very grateful for the experiences that “Star Trek” has afforded me along with my past background. When I look back and think how fortunate I`ve been to work with some wonderful people and had some marvelous experiences, then I can look at “Star Trek” and think it`s almost like the cream on the coffee. I don`t approach it as anything but a magnificent plus.
Sometimes when I’m down, I remember that scene at a convention when Leonard Nimoy and De Kelley are reading fanfiction to the audience, and they pause at a scene to remember the destroyed Enterprise and place their hands over their hearts
and De does a double-take, skips over to Nimoy, and fixes his hand so it’s on his lower ribcage, where the vulcan heart actually is, and then goes back to his spot and remarks something like “I should know I’m his doctor” and continues on.
Star Trek: the Motion Picture (1979). When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.
I love Star Trek a lot,but this is definitely not the franchise at its best. It’s a fairly generic space opera that never really grounds us in the crew we love, instead frequently sacrificing story for a lot of long, languid shots of space and a main plot that never really finds its footing. Not my favourite installment in the series by any stretch of the imagination, but still, it looks pretty good, and it’s still Star Trek. 6/10.
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