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: The Role Playing Game combat forces in the "Star Trek" universe, and a strategic-level board game, "Operation: Armaggedon", which included a scenario wherein the Federation preemptively attacked the Klingon and Romulan empires. When Paramount learned of these prospective products their view that FASA's notion of what "Star Trek" should be differed too greatly from their own became more established. Many players blamed the studio for its abrupt dissolution of FASA's licence as well as "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for retconning of what had been seen as established "Star Trek" lore. They sent letters of protest to the studio, and to contemporary science-fiction magazines