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
Medicine in Star Trek coolers break down, spoiling whole batches of vaccines. Instead, Hunter says a vaccine that can be administered in powder form requires no cooling, avoiding the cold-chain problem. For the television series "" an emergency medical hologram, , was introduced. It was designed to be an expert on all fields of medicine, able to do anything any organic doctor could do. Medicine in Star Trek Medicine in "Star Trek" refers to the medical technologies, procedures and conditions as seen in the "Star Trek" fictional universe. Since the "Star Trek" fictional universe takes place roughly two or three centuries in our future,