Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Journal
Early human development
ISSN: 1872-6232
Titre abrégé: Early Hum Dev
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 7708381
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2020
05 2020
Historique:
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29
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2020
medline:
27
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2021
entrez:
29
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2020
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Résumé
Doctors are crucial crewmembers in Star Trek. This paper will discuss the medic who is arguably the most well-known of all of the gesamtkunstwerk's doctors, Leonard Horatio McCoy in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69). The core trio of Captain Kirk, the alien Science Officer Spock and Dr. McCoy comprise a command troika modelled on classical mythology. McCoy's humanity was used to deliberately balance science officer Spock's cold and inhuman logic. It was thus that McCoy, despite his occasional curmudgeonly crankiness became the human conscience of the ship and its de facto (if not de jure) ethics officer, a role that would be reprised by all of the successive doctors in Star Trek.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32107111
pii: S0378-3782(20)30093-1
doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.104989
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104989Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest There are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.