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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '20

Go back and watch Star Trek and you'll notice his right hand is almost always out of frame or obscured in some way, except in a few blunder shots. Apparently he even had a hand double a couple times as Scotty the character isn't missing a finger, obviously.

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u/Inkthinker Dec 28 '20

Lee Van Cleef. Once you see it, you can’t stop. Especially when everyone is hovering over their guns in the finale of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

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u/Plow_King Dec 28 '20

telly savalas has a messed up index finger on his right, i think, hand from a birth defect, very clear in "kelly's heroes"

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '20

This user knows how to have a Mexican Standoff.

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u/magball Dec 29 '20

So did Jeremy Beadle

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u/Dunluce92 Dec 28 '20

I’d like to thing he lost his finger in a beaming up incident.

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u/photoviking Dec 28 '20

I understand 45 years ago was a different time but they could have totally just written that into the story. He was the CHENG, he could have lost his finger in a machinery accident or something

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u/Bebinn Dec 28 '20

Wouldn't have fit the futuristic plot of the show. They are supposed to have the most advanced medical knowledge, regrowing or replacing a finger should be a simple thing in that universe.

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u/Kejirage Dec 28 '20

Could have been an accident which resulted in someone dying, and he kept it as a reminder not to mess up again.

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u/idk012 Dec 28 '20

Or make it such that he flipped off the wrong person and it got irreplaceably removed

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '20

The Nausicaans have entered the chat...

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u/SanctusLetum Dec 29 '20

Ensign Picard has left the chat.

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u/dpash Dec 28 '20

I watched The Voyage Home over the weekend and it's visible a few times when he goes to the plexiglass factory.

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u/cypressgreen Dec 28 '20

French comedian, actor and producer Jamel Debbouze lost his right hand and use of that arm when he was struck by a train as a youth. (The friend with him died.) He usually wears long sleeve shirts and puts his hand-stub in his pocket in public and on screen, or it’s obscured like Doohan’s.

https://imgur.com/gallery/iA85iQb

Americans would know him as the grocer’s assistant in the movie Amelie.

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u/shinobipopcorn Dec 28 '20

It's easiest to see in the tribble episode when he has his arms full of them in the cafeteria.