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
Sexuality in Star Trek fiction which began to dominate fan publications in the mid- to late 1970s, references to bisexuality occurred in Gene Roddenberry's 1979 novelization of "". In a foreword written by James Kirk, the Captain cleverly avoids confirmation or denial of a romantic relationship with Spock. In 1972, "Grup", the first sexually themed "Star Trek" zine was published, to controversy in the fandom. In 1974 the first "publicly published" "Star Trek" slash fiction was presented in "Grup #3". Kirk/Spock fan fiction was the first prominent slash pairing. In 2000, a group of "Star Trek" fans created their own low budget "Star Trek"