Leonard McCoy

1966

McCoy was originally played by actor DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969, and he also appears in the animated Star Trek series, six Star Trek movies, the pilot episode of The Next Generation, and in numerous books, comics, and video games.

1968

Spock and McCoy's bickering became so popular that Roddenberry wrote in a 1968 memo "we simply didn't realize ...

1969

McCoy was originally played by actor DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969, and he also appears in the animated Star Trek series, six Star Trek movies, the pilot episode of The Next Generation, and in numerous books, comics, and video games.

1973

The fictional book Comparative Alien Physiology was written by McCoy, and was required reading at the Starfleet Medical Academy through the 2370s. In the 1973 The Animated Series episode "The Survivor", McCoy mentions he has a daughter, Joanna.

1998

Hibbert, both of which were published in the same journal in 1998, both doctors are cast aside for Dr.

2009

After Kelley's death, The Lord of the Rings star Karl Urban assumed the role of McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film in 2009. ==Depiction== McCoy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2227.

In the 2009 Star Trek film reboot, when McCoy first meets Kirk, he states, "The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce.

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. ===Reboot film series=== 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 nothing but [his bones." This line, improvised by Urban, explains how McCoy earned the nickname Bones.

McCoy remains aboard to see the Enterprise defeat Nero and his crew, with Kirk becoming the commanding officer of the ship. The Guardian called Urban's portrayal of McCoy in the 2009 film an "unqualified success", and The New York Times called the character "wild-eyed and funny".

Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as her "sassy gentleman friend"; the friendship between the African-American Nichols and Southern Kelley was a real-life demonstration of the message Roddenberry hoped to convey through Star Trek. For the 2009 Star Trek film, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman saw McCoy as an "arbiter" in Kirk and Spock's relationship.




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