That’s because I still hadn’t come to grips with the reality that De and Carolyn Kelley weren’t just being kind to one of their most ardent fans. My 30-plus year association with DeForest Kelley had all just seemed so miraculous to me. You just have to connect the dots.” The question pestered me. I can’t speak for him.” Terry persisted: “You know the answer. Kelley’s bedside when he died?” I was struck speechless. When DeForest Kelley’s biographer Terry Lee Rioux asked me, “How did you go from being a fan-on the outermost reaches of fandom-to being at Mr. That always amazes me, that memory.If not for a question I couldn’t answer back in 2000, this book probably would never have been written. Here we were, standing there in our far-out costumes, filming a show about the future, watching the astronauts walking around for real. There was a television set around and we watched one of the NASA missions, maybe the one where they landed on the moon. We knew we’d be dropped at the end of the season, but we were still shooting the show. One that stands out, though, was something that happened during our third year of the series. “My absolute favorite memory (of Star Trek)? I don’t know.
So, let’s recall a few comments made by Kelley himself: And, of course, there’s a plethora of information to be found online. Smith, a Kelley fan who became his personal assistant and, eventually, his caretaker as the actor lived out his last days. We also suggest checking out DeForest Kelley: A Harvest of Memories, by Kristine M. McCoy, a comprehensive and Kelley-sanctioned biography penned by Terry Lee Rioux and released in 2005. If you’re interested, though, we highly recommend From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy’s most memorable lines or most infamous sparring matches with Spock. It’d be too easy to sit here and list Kelley’s credits or recount Dr.
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