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 (film series) on the Admiral and lays a cunning and sinister trap. Both the first and second films have television versions with additional footage and alternate takes that affect the storyline. (Subsequent "Star Trek" films tended to have shorter television versions). Especially notable in "The Wrath of Khan" is the footage establishing that a young crew member who acts courageously and dies during an attack on the "Enterprise" is Scotty's nephew. When McCoy begins acting irrationally, Kirk learns that Spock, in his final moments, transferred his "katra", his living spirit, to the doctor. To save McCoy from emotional ruin, Kirk and crew