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ALRIGHT it’s August 6th, MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! So send those favorite pics of along.

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Ok, soooo my birthday is this week and I plan on doing this again this year. So on August 6th send me your favorite photo of De Kelley and I’ll tell you my first thought about it.

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Leonard McCoy skittering around in my mind

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Leonard McCoy Guide: Season 3 - Episodes 11-15

#11 – Wink of an Eye The Enterprise responds to a distress call, and Captain Kirk is spirited away by yet another half-clothed alien woman.  These aliens are too fast to be seen by the human eye, and their plan is to deep-freeze the ship's males for future “use”.  Right.  Spock and McCoy, in unknown collaboration with super-fast-moving Kirk, must figure out what’s going on, synthesize an antidote, and rescue everyone!

Rating: 2

Highlights:

Nothing much here for Dr. McCoy except more of the winning Spock-McCoy tag team in the science lab.  Between the two of them, they create yet another miracle cure for…whatever it is.

Not McCoy related, but my favorite part of the episode is the alien woman’s comment to one of her people that she liked Kirk because he was “pretty.”

Tags: Spock-McCoy Tag Team, Cure-Find

#12 – The Empath This is my favorite episode from any season, though it’s admittedly quite simple and involves gratuitous hurt/comfort.  That being said, if there is a better Kirk-Spock-McCoy episode out there, I haven’t seen it.  Moreover, for once Dr. McCoy gets to be the hero, offering himself to be tortured in the place of his friends.  The near-death scene is devastating, but you’ll appreciate that the doctor holds true to his principles to protect life at all costs even to the very end.  Wholly great.

Rating: Strong 5 (an absolute must-see)

Highlights:

McCoy names the mute woman they come across “Gem” – a name indiscernible from “Jim” except when he slurs.  Spock attempts to mimic this, but doesn’t quite manage it.  :)

While all of the trio contribute their best attributes to Gem’s nature, it’s nice that McCoy’s compassion (rather than courage or intellect) makes the greatest impression.

Spock pulls rank.  Fortunately, being a medical man, McCoy knows just where to shove orders he finds unacceptable…

Stealthy hypo injections!

Sacrificial torture and its aftermath; Kirk’s reaction is especially wrenching, as is his angry, grieving denial of Spock’s explanation that McCoy is dying.  Spock himself responds by demonstrating “good bedside manner” in an exchange which, though mostly wordless, goes straight to the heart. ;_;

Radiant Moment: Though gravely injured, McCoy pushes away Gem’s attempts to heal him, refusing to risk her life.  His dazed words to Jim: “I can’t destroy life, even if it’s to save my own.”

Kirk and Spock plead with the aliens to heal McCoy, Spock going to far as to call the doctor his friend. Of course, they convince them and McCoy recovers.

Tags: Self-sacrifice, Landing-Party, Medic-McCoy, Physically Assaulted, Hurt/Comfort, Triumvirate, Hostile Aliens

#13 – Elaan of Troyius Two warring planets attempt peace-via-marriage, with the Enterprise acting as liaison. However, the bride is a warrior princess (no, not that one), and she is rude, violent, and furious with her situation. She also has poisonous tears that make men fall in love with her forever. Kirk gets infected. No surprise there.

Rating: 2

Highlights:

When describing a new aliens, Spock lists their qualities according to the science report. McCoy mentions their magnetic women.

Elaan tries to murder her groom’s ambassador. The doctor saves the man’s life, but then makes jokes about reluctant brides. Too soon, McCoy.

By now, Spock and McCoy must be used to walking in on Captain Kirk making out with alien women.

McCoy bounces onto the bridge, excited to report he has isolated the infection. Spock tells him that Kirk’s love for the Enterprise had “cured” him already. This makes McCoy mad, because he spend a lot of time on that cure, dammit!

Tags: Bridge-McCoy, Sickbay, Nurse Chapel, Medical Tunic, Pinky-Ring, Medic-McCoy, Cure-Find, Hostile Alien

#14 – Whom Gods Destroy Kirk and Spock deliver medication to a institutionalized planet where “the last criminally mental ill individuals in the galaxy” (there are only fifteen, apparently) are treated. They are immediately overtaken by one of these individuals and it seems like it will be the typical bid to commandeer the Enterprise. Not so, as it happens, for these are crazy people and they act as only crazy people can. Not much McCoy, but I was actually satisfied with this episode.

Rating: 1 (but definitely watch)

Highlights:

McCoy shows up on the bridge, looking handsome and dashing. He asks, “How can we be powerful enough to blow up a planet and yet still be so helpless?”

I was skeptical about this episode until the crazy exploded and “Lord” Garth began having temper tantrums, cavorting, and ranting.

Tags: Bridge-McCoy

#15 – Let That Be Your Last Battlefield The Enterprise picks up a refugee from a planet whose population is segregated according to the color of their skin. They show all the same prejudice as on earth, but the twist is that they are in all ways identical except that some have a face which is white on one side and black on the other, while the others are black-white. At times, a bit highhanded, but with not without value or interest.

Rating: 2 (one scene and two very brief appearances, in and out)

Highlights:

When McCoy admits that he can’t give an accurate prognosis due to his unfamiliarity with their alien visitor, Spock takes the opportunity to put in a jab about the doctor’s noxious potions. McCoy fluffs up like an outraged song bird and rattles off the therapeutic measures he’s administered very knowledgeably. Although I love their bantering, I honestly hate it when Spock scorns McCoy’s competence; you can tell it stings.

Not McCoy related, but you have to admire Kirk’s nerve when he challenges the aliens for control of his ship by gambling all their lives.

Spock is affronted by the aliens’ affront to logic.

Tags: Sickbay, Medic-McCoy, Medical Tunic, Nurse Chapel, Hostile Alien

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I personally love a McSpirk dynamic of Bones gettin loved on by Jim and Spock but I do not fw the fics that make him out to be smaller than them by a significant amount.

Fics that call him scrawny or bony, fics that write him shorter than Jim, fics that seem to forget Jim is the only one of the three who isn't a very hairy man under the uniform etc. Dr McCoy gets a bit thinner in the films due to being older but if you're setting that shi during the five year mission I beg you look closer at his arms, shoulders and side profile. We do not need to twinkify a man for him to be sandwiched between two men who are more muscular. That is all.