XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Merrick Baldelli wrote:   
   > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:58:36 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> 	Actually I believe it had been covered ad nausea prior by even   
   >>> Roddenberry himself during cons.  McCoy never attended Starfleet   
   >>> Academy, getting his commission from his doctorate in medicine after   
   >>> the fact.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	While I wasn't able to find the necessary archives I had Okuda   
   >>> and Asherman both made references of this from the various cons that   
   >>> Roddenberry played Q&A at after the fact in their books.   
   >> Okay, so off-screen, but nothing on-screen right?   
   >   
   > 	I strongly believe there's a reference in TOS where McCoy or   
   > Kirk or someone said that McCoy never attended Starfleet.  But I'll be   
   > go to hell if I can actually remember which episode or even when it   
   > was said...  It was just one of those tidbits that seems to have   
   > gotten locked up in my brain given that Kelley was the epitome of   
   > Southerner in my book.   
   >   
   I suspect that since IRL doctors automatically get commissions even   
   without going thru a military academy, OTC or ROTC that there is an   
   unconscious assumption that the same applies to Starfleet.   
      
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