This installment is dedicated to selecting just who I would want to be my doctor if I was traveling through the galaxy in a starship.
Leonard McCoy: The redoubtable Bones could creditably compete in a contest for Most Annoying Character on a Video Science Fiction Presentation.* He would not win such a contest only because he’d face such formidable competition as Wesley Crusher and Jar-Jar Binks. Although he did deliver a few enjoyable lines (Kirk: “I want to know what killed these tribbles;” McCoy: “I don’t know what keeps them alive yet.”), in general, DeForest Kelley’s emotional range extended from indignation all the way to exasperation. If I had to ship out with Bones as the physician, I’d head for an escape pod at the earliest opportunity.
Katherine Pulaski: Diana Muldaur played this character much in the McCoy tradition: stubborn, uncooperative, and self-righteous, though at a reduced emotional pitch. That she does not linger upon the palate like the first taste of a bottle of wine gone bad on the shelf is because she lasted only one season of TNG.
Beverly Crusher: This character, played by Gates McFadden, is in a least one way the most doctorly of all: despite her flaming red hair, she is as colorless as a lab coat. Though she rarely got in the way, she rarely added a great deal. If she deserves opprobrium for anything, it is for bearing the abomination known as Wesley Crusher.
Leonard McCoy: The redoubtable Bones could creditably compete in a contest for Most Annoying Character on a Video Science Fiction Presentation.* He would not win such a contest only because he’d face such formidable competition as Wesley Crusher and Jar-Jar Binks. Although he did deliver a few enjoyable lines (Kirk: “I want to know what killed these tribbles;” McCoy: “I don’t know what keeps them alive yet.”), in general, DeForest Kelley’s emotional range extended from indignation all the way to exasperation. If I had to ship out with Bones as the physician, I’d head for an escape pod at the earliest opportunity.
Katherine Pulaski: Diana Muldaur played this character much in the McCoy tradition: stubborn, uncooperative, and self-righteous, though at a reduced emotional pitch. That she does not linger upon the palate like the first taste of a bottle of wine gone bad on the shelf is because she lasted only one season of TNG.
Beverly Crusher: This character, played by Gates McFadden, is in a least one way the most doctorly of all: despite her flaming red hair, she is as colorless as a lab coat. Though she rarely got in the way, she rarely added a great deal. If she deserves opprobrium for anything, it is for bearing the abomination known as Wesley Crusher.
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* In a future post, I hope to explore the issue of who is the most irritating recurring character in the Star Trek universe.
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