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
Law in Star Trek Law in Star Trek Law in "Star Trek" refers to the legal procedures and processes as seen in the "Star Trek" fictional universe. In several TV episodes and films since its inception in the 1960s, "Star Trek" has used fictional legal constraints and consequences as a plot device both as a parable for contemporary society in the real world, and to explore the society and politics of the future. A discussion of this subject by Paul Joseph and Sharon Carton in the "University of Toledo Law Review" examines how this fictional set of laws deals with controversial issues in American