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Jul 31, 2015 · He was the hand-double of James Doohan in "Wolf in the Fold" and "That Which Survives". Doohan was self-conscious about the fact that he was missing the middle finger of his right hand (due to a D-Day combat injury while serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery), so Paskey's hands were used in close-ups.
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: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger.
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Jun 8, 2018 · The first four bullets slammed into his leg, the fourth whacked him in the chest, while the sixth took off his right middle finger. It was not a German sniper. He had been shot by a nervous,...
Oct 12, 2023 · While the character canonically always had his digits, Doohan himself had by then lived for years without his right middle finger. During production he even utilized body doubles and camerawork to conceal his missing appendage (for the sake of continuity; per StarTrek.com he never hid it in real life).
Jun 5, 2020 · But ironically James Doohan, who played the miracle-working engineer, was forced to rely on a hand double since he was lacking the full ten digits. Eagle-eyed viewers would have spotted, in less carefully composed wide shots, that Doohan was missing the middle finger on his right hand – the legacy of a war wound sustained on D-Day.
- Duncan Barrett
He was wounded on D-Day, suffering severe damage to his right middle finger which was removed ahead of first knuckle, then became a flying observer for the rest of the war. His daring aerial maneuvers flying in an observation plane got him known as the craziest pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Aug 16, 2022 · The three remaining bullets shot off the middle finger on Doohan’s right hand. “It was not a German sniper. He had been shot by a nervous, trigger-happy Canadian sentry,” Snopes reports.