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 Experience larger auction in August 2010. Anything deemed unsalable, due to size or damage, or that remained unsold at the end of the warehouse sale was destroyed. The plans for the moving of Star Trek: The Experience stalled when Neonopolis lost the license due to noncompliance with the terms of the contract caused by a lack of funding. As of 2018, no announcements regarding a new, permanent "Star Trek" attraction to replace Star Trek: The Experience have been made. Star Trek: The Experience Star Trek: The Experience was a themed attraction which opened in January 1998 at the Las Vegas Hilton