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: Discovery previous 700+ episodes of "Star Trek" by taking advantage of the streaming format of All Access and telling a single story arc across the entire first season. He and Kurtzman developed this story from "so many elements of "Star Trek"", taking certain episodes of the original series and using their "DNA" to find "the spirit of what "Star Trek" offers, both in terms of high-concept science fiction storytelling and really wonderful metaphors for the human condition". Berg said that the series' writers "are so in love with" "The Original Series", "The" "Next Generation", and the family aspect of those series,