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Can anyone tell me which titles in the Star Trek (Original Series) books are focused mainly on McCoy? I’d love to read them!

youandthemountains

Great McCoy-centric Novels:

Doctor's Orders

The Better Man

Shadows on the Sun

Dreams of the Raven

The Covenant of the Crown

Definitely suggest reading the novelizations of the show & films

Sawdust to Stardust is the biography of the actor, but it does go into McCoy a lot as well

Not Strictly About McCoy but Good McCoy Plots:

The Autobiography of Mr. Spock isn't strictly about McCoy but he comes up a LOT.

The Wounded Sky

The Trellisane Confrontation

The IDIC Epidemic

The Lost Years

Sanctuary

Deep Domain

Haven't Read But Heard They Have Good McCoy Plots:

Killing Time

Mutiny on the Enterprise

The Vulcan Academy Murders

The Rules of Engagement

Crisis on Centaurus isn't about McCoy but it is about his daughter Joanna

Crucible: McCoy

Provenance of Shadows

Planet of Judgment

Ex Machina

A Contest of Principles

Shell Game

Demons

The Romulan Way

Bloodthirst

Time for Yesterday

Ice Trap

Firestorm

Spock's World

@very-bad-poetry-captain & @electronickingdomfox have good trek novel reviews that specifically mention how much McCoy is in them, which I appreciate

electronickingdomfox

For the "not strictly about him, but good McCoy plots" section, I'd like to add:

-The Entropy Effect

-Yesterday's Son

-Corona

-Timetrap

-Mindshadow

"First Frontier" is mostly about George Kirk and Captain April, but the frame story has good Kirk/McCoy scenes.

hes-the-real-mccoy

Thank you, @electronickingdomfox !!

red-cicada

found a vintage makeup add thought it would be fun to redraw it

ofc spock only took me like 30mins to render while bones and kirk had me rethink my life choices..

trek-tracks

I just thought this image might resonate with a lot of folks on this website for some reason

fruitful-gummies

colorpicked the trans flag from this scene

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this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

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We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

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Keep. Reblogging.

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If we reblog enough we could save it

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how did this lose over 5k notes

cybermax

I’m glad we cost Yahoo 2 billion dollars.

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it’s like a perfectly preserved body at Pompei

jjsbizarreadveyj

Finding this on my normal dash is like taking a stroll through the Park and suddently stumbeling upon the Codex Hammurabi just lying there.

regalun-street

Real.

witchofanguish

mahead-ithurt

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

the-eternal-moonshine

ismellvinegarandfries

Embarrassing how I gasped way too fast as a joke (not really) over a photo of DeForest Kelley at a convention, but it ended up kickstarting genuine hyperventilation.

So shameful, what is wrong with me.

ismellvinegarandfries

The photos in question:

(creds to: (pinterest) mccoy's daughter and (tumblr) everything deforest kelley)

cheer-deforest-kelley

Oh gees, these two photos of De at a Star Trek convention get my heart a’thumping. I love his little horse pendent, but his chest fluffery is what gets me riled.

ismellvinegarandfries

Don't even ask me what I'm thinking about.

dazvoran

Will we ever talk about how Spock’s palm initially just holds McCoy by the neck and cheekbones—with his fingers in a standard position—but the gesture gradually shifts into the one we all recognize? Vulcan hand gestures don’t always signify a kiss; it depends on the context, but... We all know Spock kissed that Romulan female commander that way. In other words, an emotionally unstable Spock initially grabbed McCoy intending to lash out, but ended up kissing him instead. And it’s all because his emotions are chaotic: he starts doing one thing but finishes by doing another.

Spock is kissing

However, one shouldn't confuse them; although this gesture closely resembles the "LLAP" greeting and farewell, they convey different messages, serve different purposes, involve different techniques, and—of course—occur in completely different contexts.

Spock Bids Farewell to His Brothers

Actually, Spock and McCoy are constantly kissing in the original series. Well, or trying to.

An attempt at a final kiss before McCoy dies. Look at the positioning of the fingers—it bears a striking resemblance to the way Sarek and Amanda kissed. It is as if McCoy wants to reach out and return Spock’s kiss properly, but lacks the strength to do so.

And there’s no need to even mention that kiss—everyone knows that moment. We all squealed like bitches when we first saw it.

tannisroute

isn't it crazy that a woman being gender nonconforming literally just requires her to exist in her own body without making any changes whatsoever. why does the fact that i don't wear makeup and i don't shave and i don't wear a bra have to be some political act. why can't i just fucking exist

lesbianondebian

Somehow doing nothing and not thinking that much about the body is "masculine".

Explains how hygiene and routine seems gay to some heterosexual cis men

Is this society trying to tell me that femininity is only that when performative?

That masculinity isn't that when not performative?

We are what we are when we decide to be, when we tell ourselves and prove it to ourselves, the flavour of our human presence. And our place in this world among others.

(The quotes on the first word masculinity was used to refer to the way that concept is perceived and treated in our society. The second word without quotes (including the word femininity) refers to the general concept that doesn't tie to the habits and roles that has been polarised due to the way men and women have been raised and made to believe about eachother and themselves)

dogpuppy

nineteenyearoldmeblog

im fucking crying

shirecorn

Fascinating categorization is happening here

trek-tracks

So can we talk about the scene in The Search For Spock when Kirk and co. have gotten onto the Enterprise and are about to steal it

And Kirk tells them they can back out and everyone says, of course, hell no

And we get this most adorable album cover of smiles

And then Kirk with this look of utter adoration tells them to get to their stations

And everyone else goes off to a console to actually do something

But Bones just immediately walks over to stand next to the Captain’s chair and offer commentary, because he clearly considers his “station” to literally be that of Kirk’s right-hand man

and it’s where he belongs <3

heroofthreefaces

Okay, but …

… you know, I just gotta say …

Usually McCoy stands on his left and Spock on his right

animate-mush

Kirk has two hands and Bones is responsible for both of them right now

trek-tracks

So here’s the interesting thing about where McCoy stands (and I admit, I seized on the “right-hand man” pun without fully thinking about McCoy’s usual stance).

McCoy stands on Kirk’s left side, and the left side of the captain’s chair, most of the time.

But there are some exceptions.

Most of them have something to do with a disruption to the natural order of things (Kirk in the middle, McCoy to his left, Spock to his right). The first kind of disruption is when Kirk isn’t captain at the moment.

When Bones is fighting with the idea of Spock as leader (the middle of The Tholian Web, The Galileo Seven) he tends to stand on his left. It seems to be a visual representation of McCoy refusing to relinquish his traditional spot on Jim’s left side, and thus refusing to accept a change in leadership.

When McCoy is supporting Spock as temporary captain while Jim is in peril (The Doomsday Machine, the end of The Tholian Web, Arena), he stands on Spock’s right side.

The clearest example of this is in Arena, where he starts in his normal spot and moves over when he fully registers what’s happened; he literally invites Spock into the chair, and then moves to Spock’s normal spot.

At the end of The Tholian Web, he’s still to Kirk’s left, but to Spock’s right.

The second type of disruption occurs when Spock is in danger. When Spock is out of the picture, or when McCoy is extremely worried for Spock, he tends to stand on Jim’s right, where Spock should be. This happens both on the Bridge (Operation: Annihilate!)

and elsewhere (A Private Little War).

This also happens when Spock is taken over by an alien entity, such as Kollos (Is There in Truth No Beauty?) You can see McCoy saving Spock’s rightful spot here.

When Spock has been taken over by Henoch (Return to Tomorrow) and is in the captain’s chair, McCoy is desperately trying to save his life: again, standing at his right side.

The best representation of the “Spock in Peril Switch,” though, is in The Immunity Syndrome. After Spock leaves the ship, McCoy stands at Jim’s right - both by the Captain’s chair and everywhere else.

It’s like he’s keeping Spock’s spot warm; he always has hope that Spock will return, and speaks to this perhaps more directly in this episode than any other (until, of course, his speech to Spock’s comatose body in The Search For Spock). “Spock. Is it me, Jim? Am I so sentimental that I just have to keep believing that he’s still alive in that mass of protoplasm?” Even Spock makes a joke that McCoy is out of order, calling him “Captain McCoy.”

But as soon as they find out Spock’s alive and they’re pulling him to safety? Watch McCoy move.

So, yes, upon more thought, that seems to be what Bones is doing here. He’s keeping hope (and Spock) alive, standing in his place, and keeping it safe for him.

And I still have Feelings about it.

lovethistoomuch

This is so interesting! Thanks for the time and effort!

spevvy

Please may I jump in and add that McCoy being on Kirk’s left is also significant because the heart is to the left and McCoy represents the pure emotion of Kirk’s character is this anything??