The Original Series had a different likable young navigator before Ensign Chekov joined the show's cast in season 2.
From different uniforms to entirely different characters, Star Trek: The Original Series has some odd inconsistencies in the ...
DeForest Kelley, best remembered as “Star Trek’s” Leonard “Bones” McCoy, died from stomach cancer on June 11, 1999, at the Motion Pictures and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles.
DeForest was named after the pioneering electronics engineer Lee De Forest, and later named his Star Trek character's father "David" after his own. Kelley had an older brother, Ernest Casey Kelley.