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 Lives! with Lichtenberg on the subject of "the discovery effect," inspired by her experiences at a Detroit-area "Star Trek" convention. Gary McGath wrote, in an issue of the MIT student-run editorial "Ergo" (), that "Star Trek" was far from the perfect "romantic drama," but "Star Trek Lives!" "does the best job thus far of showing just what the series accomplishes." Likewise, Winston Howlett wrote in an issue of fanzine "Probe" that readers should not be deterred from "picking up and reading this very well-written[,] and very entertaining book." And that it belongs on every fan's shelf, "for it makes up a