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[lolmac]

Dis wuz not so impressive.
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Episode:   Every Time She Smiles, Season 1          Screen Capture from:  macsyourman

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[lolmac]

Did you notice that the cast actually makes its first appearance in some of the scenes in The Enemy Within? (And are you disturbed that I actually know that?)

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not disturbed. I'm a visual learner too.

It's why my kids call me the Thing Psychic. I find all their lost stuff by thinking back to the picture of where I saw it last.

I was a little disturbed to find out only a few years ago when he died that James Doohan had been without his full compliment of fingers since D-Day. All those years of watching Star Trek and I'd never picked that up? Perturbingly unlike me!

[lolmac]

As I recall, he (Doohan) quickly made himself an expert at keeping the loss hidden -- so what you would have had to spot was that, in any shot involving his hands, you never got a clear look at all the fingers of the right hand. It was either turned sideways or half-hidden or curled in just enough. That's not the kind of thing that's easy to notice, especially when you're up against someone who's very good at making it inconspicuous.

An aunt of mine was missing the tip of one finger; she taught herself, from childhood, to conceal it (mostly be keeping the finger curled up and hidden by the rest of her hand). I never noticed it, and only knew about it because my father eventually mentioned it.

In RDA's case, they didn't have to conceal it for more than a couple of scenes. They wrote it into the next two episodes, and after that, the cast was gone.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I realize that Doohan deliberately hid the loss from the cameras, but apparently he was really, really good at it, because I had no problem noticing that Gary Burghoff of M*A*S*H had a similar problem, and he was pretty careful to conceal that hand behind the clipboard or another prop in most scenes.

Given RDA's demonstrated ability to bust himself up, it's a testament to how much producers wanted to land him that they've always caved to him and stricken out the industry standard "no hazardous sports" clause from his contracts!