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Kid McCook (sometimes known as "Machine Gun" Kid McCook) was a 20th century Human man, a boxer on the planet Earth. McCook took part in boxing matches on the world's North American continent, in the United States of America nation-state in the 1930s decade.
- McCook was likely a US citizen or resident, but it is also possible he was brought to the US on a boxing tour and had citizenship elsewhere.
Biography[]
Kid McCook had top billing for a heavyweight boxing match to be held at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the year 1930. This main event was to be 10 rounds against Mike Mason. The poster for this match was posted near the Twenty-First Street Mission where James T. Kirk and Spock materialized after utilizing the Guardian of Forever for time travel. (TOS episode: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
Billed as "Machine Gun Kid McCook", this boxer was again scheduled to fight Mason (billed as "Baby Face Mike Mason") later in that year, at the Bay Land Garden in San Francisco, California. A poster for this fight noted it was their first re-match since the Madison Square Garden match. (DS9 episode: "Past Tense, Part II", ST reference: Where No One Has Gone Before: A History in Pictures, DS9 reference: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
The poster for this match was posted near the corner of Polk Street and California Street when Miles O'Brien and Kira Nerys used a chroniton-saturated subspace bubble to utilize a transporter beam for time travel to 1930 and materialized in that location. (DS9 episode: "Past Tense, Part II")
A poster identical to the poster for the Madison Square garden match billing for the Paramount Sports Arena was posted outside the entrance of Guinan's 10 Forward Ave bar in Los Angeles in the year 2024. Possibly, Guinan had kept the poster for the nearly 100 years on intervening time, but it is not clear if there was a match with the same lineup held at Paramount in 1930, or if the poster was re-printed as a piece of memorabilia. (PIC episode: "Watcher")
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| 1930 Madison Square Garden match (same as Paramount Sports Arena billing) |
main event (10 rounds, heavyweights): Kid McCook vs. Mike Mason • semi-main event (6 rounds, heavyweights): Manuel Prado vs. Will Bailey • preliminaries (4 rounds): Gus Lloyd vs. Killer Kidd; Charley Mulaney vs. Gus Barnes; Buddy Sencio vs. Ricky Mason | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 Bay Land Garden match | rematch event: "Machine Gun Kid" McCook vs. "Baby Face" Mike Mason • New York West Productions first match: Manuel Prado vs. Will Bailey • other first matches: Sailor Vido (favorite) vs. Killer Kanel (challenger); Charly Delaney (favorite) vs. Winky Gaines (challenger); Muggs Magoo (favorite) vs. Mickey Mason (challenger) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mid-20th century Earth | Henry Armstrong • Joe Louis • Rocky Marciano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22nd century Earth | Sven "Buttercup" Hansen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starfleet and Starfleet Academy | Liam Boothby (coach) • "Storm" Cartwright • Chakotay • Anxo Rogeiro • Peterson • Terrellian cadet (Chakotay Training Program 15-Beta) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Background[]
The poster in "The City on the Edge of Forever" was a piece of stage art that shared the same typesetting as posters used in various other TV shows and movies. A version with different header art of a boxer and a "Sports Arena" heading has been noted, and a variation with different boxers listed under the main event was used in The Lucy Show.
When the script for DS9''s "Past Tense" called for a materialization similar to the one shown in "The City on the Edge of Forever", Doug Drexler and Mike Okuda recognized the opportunity to pay homage to this set decoration and typeset a new poster using a magazine photo from TOS as reference. Although sometimes referred to as the same poster, they changed details to reflect the episode's location in San Francisco, providing a tagline referencing the boxers' re-match from the Madison Square Garden version. Director Jonathan Frakes notably used the poster in a pan shot which made the homage particularly noticeable.
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References[]
- TOS episode: "The City on the Edge of Forever"
- DS9 episode: "Past Tense, Part II"
- PIC episode: "Watcher"
External link[]
- Kid McCook article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.