David McCoy


David McCoy was a male Human in the 23rd century. () He was the father of Doctor Leonard McCoy, chief medical officer of the , and grandfather of Joanna McCoy. (; )

David, like previous generations of McCoys, passed down the family recipe for Southern baked beans to his son, Leonard. Years later, Leonard revealed that the "secret ingredient" was Tennessee whiskey.

Late in his life, David was stricken with an incurable painful disease and begged his son to help him end his life. A cure was discovered soon after, subsequently causing Leonard many years of regret from causing his father's apparently needless death.

Leonard was forced to relive the event as a means to relieve his "pain", in 2287, following an encounter with the Vulcan outcast Sybok. ()

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Background information 
In , David McCoy was played by Bill Quinn.

This character, whose first name is established in , was named after the father of Leonard McCoy actor DeForest Kelley. He recalled that, originally, the character was to have been given the first name "Leonard" and that it was only at his urging that this was changed to "David". Some people assumed Kelley was attempting to reference the Biblical character of King , when, in reality, Kelley actually intended the name as a reference to his own father. (From Sawdust to Stardust, pp. 257-258)

Apocrypha 
In the ization of , his full name is given as "David Andrew McCoy".

According to TG Theodore's short story "Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer" and  of IDW Publishing's Star Trek: Ongoing, David was a doctor.

The same issue of Star Trek: Ongoing relates David's alternate reality counterpart healing a broken arm that a young Leonard sustained after falling out of a tree. Later, after his divorce, Leonard discusses with his father how his  took everything he had.

In the mirror universe  The Sorrows of Empire,  refers to the fact that David McCoy's counterpart was tortured to death by his son  on the orders of the Terran Empire.

The novel More Beautiful Than Death establishes that the Kelvin Timeline counterpart of David McCoy died while Leonard was in medical school.

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