If not for a question I couldn't answer back in 2000, this book probably would never have been written. When DeForest Kelley's biographer Terry Lee Rioux asked me, -How did you go from being a fan-on the outermost reaches of fandom-to being at Mr. Kelley's bedside when he died?- I was struck speechless. Finally, I responded, -I have no idea. That's something only De could answer. I can't speak for him.- Terry persisted: -You know the answer. You just have to connect the dots...- The question pestered me. My 30-plus year association with DeForest Kelley had all just seemed so miraculous to me....