Leonard McCoy
Species: male human
Full name: Dr. Leonard H. McCoy
Rank: Commander
Place of origin: Mississippi, North America, Earth
Father: David McCoy
Marital status: unknown*
Chief Medical Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 under the command of Captain James Kirk, who gave him the nickname "Bones" (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver"). As of 2267, McCoy had earned the Legion of Honor, and had been decorated by Starfleet surgeons (TOS: "Court Martial").
McCoy attended the University of Mississippi on Earth. While a student there. he met and had a romance with Emony Dax while she was visiting Earth around 2245 to judge a gymnastics competition (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"). Early in McCoy's medical career, his father was struck with a terrible, fatal illness. Faced with the prospect of his father suffering a terrible, lingering death, McCoy mercifully "pulled the plug" on him allowing him to die. To McCoy's considerable anguish, a cure for his father's disease was discovered shortly thereafter and McCoy carried the guilt for his father's needless death for many years ("Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"). Prior to his assignment to the Enterprise, McCoy had been romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater (TOS: "The Man Trap"). In 2253, McCoy developed a neurosurgical technique that was used in 2372 by the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram to repair the damaged cerebral cortex of Danara Pel (VOY: "Lifesigns").
McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew in 2266, and remained associated with that illustrious ship and its successor for some 27 years ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). In 2266, McCoy was infected with the disease that caused the population of Mir's planet to perish, but he developed a cure (TOS: "Miri"). In 2267, McCoy suffered a serious overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard accident. In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy effected serious damage to the flow of time until Kirk and Spock followed him to restore the shape of history (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever"). Later in the same year, he found a cure for the rapid aging syndrome (TOS: "The Deadly Years"). In 2268, McCoy was diagnosed with xenopolycythemia and chose to resign from Starfleet so that he could marry a woman named Natira, high priestess of the Yonadan people. McCoy rejoined Starfleet after a cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky").
McCoy retired from Starfleet after the return of the Enterprise from the five-year mission, but he returned to Starfleet at Kirk's request when the ship intercepted V'Ger entity near Earth ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture"). McCoy, along with Kirk, was wrongly convicted of the murder of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in 2293, a conviction that was later overturned. McCoy was scheduled to retire shortly after Khitomer peace conference, but he either changed his mind, or later returned to Starfleet ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). As a retired Starfleet admiral, McCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise-D in 2364 at the age of 137 (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I").
Full name: Dr. Leonard H. McCoy
Rank: Commander
Place of origin: Mississippi, North America, Earth
Father: David McCoy
Marital status: unknown*
Chief Medical Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 under the command of Captain James Kirk, who gave him the nickname "Bones" (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver"). As of 2267, McCoy had earned the Legion of Honor, and had been decorated by Starfleet surgeons (TOS: "Court Martial").
McCoy attended the University of Mississippi on Earth. While a student there. he met and had a romance with Emony Dax while she was visiting Earth around 2245 to judge a gymnastics competition (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"). Early in McCoy's medical career, his father was struck with a terrible, fatal illness. Faced with the prospect of his father suffering a terrible, lingering death, McCoy mercifully "pulled the plug" on him allowing him to die. To McCoy's considerable anguish, a cure for his father's disease was discovered shortly thereafter and McCoy carried the guilt for his father's needless death for many years ("Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"). Prior to his assignment to the Enterprise, McCoy had been romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater (TOS: "The Man Trap"). In 2253, McCoy developed a neurosurgical technique that was used in 2372 by the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram to repair the damaged cerebral cortex of Danara Pel (VOY: "Lifesigns").
McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew in 2266, and remained associated with that illustrious ship and its successor for some 27 years ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). In 2266, McCoy was infected with the disease that caused the population of Mir's planet to perish, but he developed a cure (TOS: "Miri"). In 2267, McCoy suffered a serious overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard accident. In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy effected serious damage to the flow of time until Kirk and Spock followed him to restore the shape of history (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever"). Later in the same year, he found a cure for the rapid aging syndrome (TOS: "The Deadly Years"). In 2268, McCoy was diagnosed with xenopolycythemia and chose to resign from Starfleet so that he could marry a woman named Natira, high priestess of the Yonadan people. McCoy rejoined Starfleet after a cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky").
McCoy retired from Starfleet after the return of the Enterprise from the five-year mission, but he returned to Starfleet at Kirk's request when the ship intercepted V'Ger entity near Earth ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture"). McCoy, along with Kirk, was wrongly convicted of the murder of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in 2293, a conviction that was later overturned. McCoy was scheduled to retire shortly after Khitomer peace conference, but he either changed his mind, or later returned to Starfleet ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). As a retired Starfleet admiral, McCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise-D in 2364 at the age of 137 (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I").
DeForest Kelley
Born: January 20, 1920 in Toccoa, Georgia, USA
Died: June 11, 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (stomach cancer)
Birth Name: Jackson DeForest Kelley
Nicknames: DeBones
Height: 1,79 m
Jackson DeForest Kelley was born on January 20, 1920 in Toccoa, Georgia, to Clora (Casey) and Ernest David Kelley.
He graduated from high school at age 16 and went on to sing at the Baptist church where his father was a minister. At age 17, he made his first trip outside the state to visit an uncle in Long Beach, California. He intended to stay for two weeks but ended up staying a year. Upon returning home, he told his parents he was moving to California to become an actor. His mother encouraged him but the idea did not go over well with his father.
In California, Kelley was spotted by a Paramount talent scout while working on a United States Navy training film. He became a reliable character actor (often in Westerns in which he often played the villain), but hit the big time when he was offered the role of the somewhat irascible Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy on the television series Star Trek (1966). He later reprised his role for a string of successful Star Trek films: Star Trek (1979), Star Trek II: Khanov hnev (1982), Star Trek III: Pátranie po Spockovi (1984), Star Trek IV: Cesta domov (1986), Star Trek V: Konečná hranica (1989), and Star Trek VI: Neobjavená Krajina (1991).
DeForest Kelley died at age 79 of stomach cancer in his home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles on June 11, 1999.
Died: June 11, 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (stomach cancer)
Birth Name: Jackson DeForest Kelley
Nicknames: DeBones
Height: 1,79 m
Jackson DeForest Kelley was born on January 20, 1920 in Toccoa, Georgia, to Clora (Casey) and Ernest David Kelley.
He graduated from high school at age 16 and went on to sing at the Baptist church where his father was a minister. At age 17, he made his first trip outside the state to visit an uncle in Long Beach, California. He intended to stay for two weeks but ended up staying a year. Upon returning home, he told his parents he was moving to California to become an actor. His mother encouraged him but the idea did not go over well with his father.
In California, Kelley was spotted by a Paramount talent scout while working on a United States Navy training film. He became a reliable character actor (often in Westerns in which he often played the villain), but hit the big time when he was offered the role of the somewhat irascible Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy on the television series Star Trek (1966). He later reprised his role for a string of successful Star Trek films: Star Trek (1979), Star Trek II: Khanov hnev (1982), Star Trek III: Pátranie po Spockovi (1984), Star Trek IV: Cesta domov (1986), Star Trek V: Konečná hranica (1989), and Star Trek VI: Neobjavená Krajina (1991).
DeForest Kelley died at age 79 of stomach cancer in his home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles on June 11, 1999.