I can’t tell if you’re messing with us. Lol
Wow, I’m convinced that I’ll never stop learning new things about this show.
James Doohan hid his hands because he was literally missing a finger due to a war injury.
Its absence is noticeable on a few occasions.
Yep, he did a great job keeping it obscured. As you say, there were only a few quick shots where the absence of a finger was visible, and it takes a keen eye to actually spot them.
The pre-HD era of screen resolutions was helpful too.
missing a finger due to a war injury.
Crossing between command posts at 23:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[2] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[7] His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor, sometimes with a flesh-colored glove with a faux finger.[9]
The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.
The one time smoking saved a life.
It’s called “wounded”, Peanut. “Injured” is when you fall out of a tree or something.
SSgt. John Martin Band of Brothers
Flipped off the wrong officer, but provided the most Vulcan gesture ever. 🖖
I thought it was an interesting detail that in the Kelvinverse movies, Simon Pegg wears an iron ring (which I understand is ceremonial for Canadian engineers) on the finger that Doohan was missing.
Scotty. Start… the reactor. Free Mars.
No! Scotty!
Scotty doesn’t know
His finger was bitten off by a Meaney who would later become his successor.
But what did he do with it? Use the DNA to make Scotty buffer clones? Keep as a trophy for succeeding him as chief engineer?
It’s too bad we have to kill a lieutenant every time we need their wisdom
Thanks Chief.
I genuinely would have thought they’d allow you to smoke on set back then
Is it because the film is flammable, or just an early example of smoking bans?
I genuinely would have thought they’d allow you to smoke on set back then
Of course they wouldn’t let you. It was a film set, not a hospital!
That makes sense. You need that cigarette in the hospital, I can’t remember a time I was in a hospital and wasn’t stressed enough to smoke
It’s probably more of a continuity problem, clouds of smoke wafting randomly around without plot significance. Even if they had a character who did smoke, the smoke should be centered around them.
I get the sentiment, but early trek is NOT a paragon of continuity
It would damage the costumes over time, I’d think.
