Beans – Dr. Leonard H. “Bones” McCoy
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Beans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_McCoy
Captain Pork’s long-suffering medical officer and exasperated best-friend. Beans accompanies your wizard on and off throughout Empyrea. He is also a spokesman for Salty Prepper’s favorite canned commodity.
Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, known as “Bones”, is a character in the American science-fiction franchise Star Trek. McCoy was played by actor DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969, and he also appears in the animated Star Trek series, in six Star Trek films, in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in numerous books, comics, and video games. A decade after Kelley’s death, Karl Urban assumed the role of McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film in 2009.
Kelley had worked with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry on previous television pilots, and he was Roddenberry’s first choice to play the doctor aboard the USS Enterprise. However, for the rejected pilot “The Cage” (1964), Roddenberry went with director Robert Butler’s choice of John Hoyt to play Dr. Philip Boyce. For the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” (1966), Roddenberry accepted director James Goldstone’s decision to have Paul Fix play Dr. Mark Piper. Although Roddenberry wanted Kelley to play the character of ship’s doctor, he did not put Kelley’s name forward to NBC; the network never “rejected” the actor, as Roddenberry sometimes suggested.
Kelley’s first broadcast appearance as Doctor Leonard McCoy was in “The Man Trap” (1966). Despite his character’s prominence, Kelley’s contract granted him only a “featuring” credit; he was not given “starring” credit until the second season, at the urging of producer Robert Justman. Kelley was apprehensive about Star Trek’s future, telling Roddenberry that the show was “going to be the biggest hit or the biggest miss God ever made”. Kelley portrayed McCoy throughout the original Star Trek series, and voiced the character in the animated Star Trek.
Kelley, who in his youth wanted to become a doctor like his uncle, but whose family could not pay for a medical education, in part drew upon his real-life experiences in creating McCoy, a doctor’s “matter-of-fact” delivery of news of Kelley’s mother’s terminal cancer was the “abrasive sand” Kelley used in creating McCoy’s demeanor. Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy; everything done with the character was done with Kelley’s input.
The current list of all the (known) Empyrea references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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