Star Trek Books

I’ve been looking at Amazon.com for the past couple of hours looking for stuff to suggest to my family for both Christmas and my birthday coming up next month and since I’m a huge geek and all, most’ve my searches have revolved around Star Trek… most notably its biographies, manuals, coffee table books, and so on since I own almost all of the Pocket Book paperbacks.

(although recently I’ve grown apathetic due to a percieved severe drop-off in quality… especially those damned crossover books. DS9’s relaunch and New Frontier are both bright points in an otherwise bleak genre though. But I digress. .)

Anyway, as I was looking at the books, something leapt out at me… why doesn’t DeForest Kelly have a(n) (auto)biography?! All the other TOS actors do… hell, even Grace Lee Whitney has one and all she had was to wall dressing character of Yeoman Janice Rand. Bones is one of my three favorite TOS characters (no, Spock and Kirk aren’t the other two… Chekov and Sulu are) and I’m pretty certain I’m not alone in that thinking… so where is it? Is there one I don’t know about? Anyone know? I want one! :frowning:

Well, the fact that he’s been dead since the whole ‘bio’ thing really kicked in probably has something to do with it.

“Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not an author.”

Sorry, someone had to say it.

That was pretty funny, Pi.

I always wanted to see someone publish a biography for the crusty old doctor. Call it DeForest Kelley: The Real McCoy.

Ummmm… no.
To the Stars (George Takei) - 1994
Star Trek Memories (William Shatner) - 1994
Star Trek Movie Memories (William Shatner) - 1995
I am Spock (Leonard Nimoy) - 1995
Beyond Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) - 1995
Beam Me Up, Scotty (James Doohan) - 1996
I am Not Spock (Leonard Nimoy) - 1997 (Reprint)
A Neurotic’s Guide to the Universe (Walter Koenig) - 1998
Get a Life! (William Shatner) - 1999 [All Dates from Amazon.com]
Death of DeForest Kelley - 1999 [From IMDB.com]

Perhaps, as Kelley was quite proud of, it is because he led an amazingly low-key, private, married to one woman his entire life, raise roses, putter about the house life, one that simply would not translate into any type of typical tell-all biography.

To put it bluntly, and I think, again, Kelley was proud of this, he led what some might call a “boring” life.

Sir Rhosis

I was aware of his low-key life, by the way… another favorite of mine, Edward Norton, is much the same way.

Despite that, I still want one, damn it.

Ugh. I rephrased my post after writing it so now “by the way” makes absolutely NO sense in its current context. Booooooo.

Learn necromancy. Or call Nomad. Or find the Nexus. Have you checked to see if Kelly is hidden in Nimoy’s brain awaiting a rebuilt body?