Leonard McCoy payment for his appearance. In the "" episode "", McCoy mentions he has a daughter, Joanna. Although Chekov's friend Irina in the original series episode "The Way to Eden" was originally written as McCoy's daughter, it was changed before the episode was shot. In the 2009 "Star Trek" film, which takes place in an "alternate, parallel" reality, McCoy and Kirk become friends at Starfleet Academy, which McCoy joins after a divorce that he says "left [him] nothing but [his] bones." This line, improvised by Urban, explains how McCoy earned the nickname "Bones". McCoy later helps get Kirk posted aboard the
Star Trek: Planet of the Titans Star Trek: Planet of the Titans Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, also known as Star Trek: Planet of Titans, is an unproduced film based on "Star Trek", which reached the script and design phases of pre-production. Following the success of "" in broadcast syndication during the early 1970s and the popularity of the series at science-fiction conventions, Paramount Studios made several attempts to produce a feature film based upon the series. In 1975, "" was proposed by franchise creator Gene Roddenberry but was not picked up by the studio. The following year, pre-production began again on a film with