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 This film is based on the premise that aliens monitoring the broadcast of an Earth-based TV series called "Galaxy Quest", modeled heavily on "Star Trek", believe that what they are seeing is real. Many "Star Trek" actors have been quoted saying that "Galaxy Quest" was a brilliant parody. "Star Trek" has been blended with Gilbert and Sullivan at least twice. The North Toronto Players presented a "Star Trek" adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan entitled "H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation" in 1991 and an adaptation by Jon Mullich of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" that sets the operetta in the