Star Trek's Dr. McCoy is more commonly known as "Bones," but he was first called by a very different nickname that is still ...

From different uniforms to entirely different characters, Star Trek: The Original Series has some odd inconsistencies in the ...

McCoy. DeForest Kelley, best remembered as “Star Trek’s” Leonard “Bones” McCoy, died from stomach cancer on June 11, 1999, at the Motion Pictures and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles.

DeForest was named after the pioneering electronics engineer Lee De Forest, and later named his Star Trek character's father "David" after his own. Kelley had an older brother, Ernest Casey Kelley.

Thirty-five years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation aired one ... Aside from an Easter egg of DeForest Kelley as an elderly Dr. Bones McCoy, seasons one and two barely had any connection to ...