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
Comparison of Star Trek and Star Wars Wars" a "derivative" of "Star Trek". A few references to "Star Wars" have been inserted into "Star Trek" films. For fleeting moments, one can see ships and droids from "Star Wars" in both "Star Trek" (2009) and "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013). Some "Star Trek" films and television episodes used the "Star Wars" animation shop, Industrial Light & Magic, for their special effects. When Roddenberry was honored at a "Star Trek" convention late in life, a congratulatory letter from Lucas was presented by an actor dressed as Darth Vader. A few years earlier, Roddenberry had contributed an entry in honor