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
Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation) said it was not "Star Trek" as it had no action or jeopardy. After the meeting was over, Moore asked Piller and Berman what he should do and he was advised to ignore Roddenberry's comments and write the script. He never heard what happened with Roddenberry, but the script went through without any issues. Picard's family would later be mentioned once again in the 1994 film "Star Trek Generations". The original idea was for Robert to die following a heart attack, but instead the writers opted to kill off both Robert and Rene off-screen in a fire. Throughout the years