ST:TOS question
May. 31st, 2009 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarrenI just read someone's meta about how using the prefix K/Mc for Kirk/McCoy is offensive:
The problem for me, though, is that "Mc" has been used historically in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere as an ethnic slur against Irish people, which McCoy is.*
Obviously as my name does not begin with Mc or Mac, I can't have an opinion on this but the part I'm fixated on is, I'm pretty certain that McCoy's not Irish. He has a Southern US drawl and I remember he talks about mint juleps in at least one TOS episode, but that's all I remember. And now I really want to know.
Does anyone remember any specific episode where McCoy refers to where he's from, or am I going to have to watch the whole damn show again?
Edit: I'm going with Georgia, like DeForest Kelley, the actor who played him (first).
*For the record, I copied and pasted that line, I wasn't paraphrasing to make a point - the author of the post has since edited it to read differently.
The problem for me, though, is that "Mc" has been used historically in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere as an ethnic slur against Irish people, which McCoy is.*
Obviously as my name does not begin with Mc or Mac, I can't have an opinion on this but the part I'm fixated on is, I'm pretty certain that McCoy's not Irish. He has a Southern US drawl and I remember he talks about mint juleps in at least one TOS episode, but that's all I remember. And now I really want to know.
Does anyone remember any specific episode where McCoy refers to where he's from, or am I going to have to watch the whole damn show again?
Edit: I'm going with Georgia, like DeForest Kelley, the actor who played him (first).
*For the record, I copied and pasted that line, I wasn't paraphrasing to make a point - the author of the post has since edited it to read differently.
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Date: 2009-05-31 12:00 pm (UTC)I know that quite a few people I met in the US refered to themselves as hyphened-American (i.e. 'Irish American', 'Italian American' etc) so that this might be an issue might make sense from an ethnic background viewpoint?
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Date: 2009-05-31 03:59 pm (UTC)I really just feel a burning need to establish where McCoy is actually from. Wiki says he went to the University of Mississippi, but this is the future, he could probably commute from Perth if he wanted to. The actor's from Georgia. I am horribly afraid I am going to have to watch 'Man Trap' and 'For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky' again - they're the two most McCoy-centric eps I can think of off hand and I'm not overly keen on either of them. *sigh* My life, so hard.
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Date: 2009-06-05 01:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-08 02:54 pm (UTC)Seriously, you have to see it on the big screen.