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 Into Darkness so new dialogue was constructed and dubbed during post production. On September 10, 2012, Paramount confirmed the film's title as "Star Trek Into Darkness". Abrams had indicated that unlike some of the earlier films in the franchise, his second "Star Trek" would not include a number in its title. This decision was made to avoid repeating the sequel numbering which began with "", or making a confusing jump from "Star Trek " to "Star Trek 12". Lindelof addressed the team's struggle to agree on a title: "There have been more conversations about what we're going to call it than went