From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   In article ,   
    Merrick Baldelli  wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:58:36 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   > wrote:   
   >    
   > >> .Actually I believe it had been covered ad nausea prior by even   
   > >> Roddenberry himself during cons.  McCoy never attended Starfleet   
   > >> Academy, getting his commission from his doctorate in medicine after   
   > >> the fact.     
   > >>    
   > >> .While I wasn't able to find the necessary archives I had Okuda   
   > >> and Asherman both made references of this from the various cons that   
   > >> Roddenberry played Q&A at after the fact in their books.   
   > >   
   > >Okay, so off-screen, but nothing on-screen right?   
   >    
   > .I strongly believe there's a reference in TOS where McCoy or   
   > Kirk or someone said that McCoy never attended Starfleet.  But I'll be   
   > go to hell if I can actually remember which episode or even when it   
   > was said...  It was just one of those tidbits that seems to have   
   > gotten locked up in my brain given that Kelley was the epitome of   
   > Southerner in my book.   
      
   Did some research.  All there is in TOS is in The Ultimate Computer,    
   where Spock has to explain an Academy term to him, the assumption being    
   he mustn't have gone to the Academy.   
      
   In TAS it says he went to Starfleet Medical Academy, and DS9 says he    
   went to the University of Mississippi (he met Dax there).   
      
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