# Star Trek Books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213 "2002-12-21T11:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/1 "2002-12-21T11:20:45Z")
I’ve been looking at [Amazon.com](http://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! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/2 "2002-12-21T13:13:52Z")
Well, the fact that he’s been dead since the whole ‘bio’ thing really kicked in probably has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/3 "2002-12-21T20:45:39Z")
“Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not an author.” Sorry, someone had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/4 "2002-12-21T22:54:08Z")
That was pretty funny, **Pi**. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/5 "2002-12-21T23:23:58Z")
I always wanted to see someone publish a biography for the crusty old doctor. Call it _ **DeForest Kelley: The Real McCoy** _. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/6 "2002-12-22T04:24:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Well, the fact that he’s been dead since the whole ‘bio’ thing really kicked in probably has something to do with it. \*\* 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](http://Amazon.com)] Death of DeForest Kelley - 1999 [From [IMDB.com](http://IMDB.com)] ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/7 "2002-12-22T14:47:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/8 "2002-12-23T01:13:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/9 "2002-12-23T01:15:02Z")
Ugh. I rephrased my post after writing it so now “by the way” makes absolutely NO sense in its current context. Booooooo. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-books/144213/10 "2002-12-23T06:07:55Z")
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?