McCoy's back story
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IIRC McCoy's Original series backstory was that he was not in Starfleet but ended up joining Starfleet Medical Academy after his divorce, he used Starfleet to escape the pain of the divorce. I'm curious to see if we'll get any hints of the cast back stories...
I forgot which book it was. I'm pretty sure it wasn't canon and yes, divorce was involved, but the accident happened as they left.
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It was a backstory Dorothy Fontana had developed for an episode that would have aired in the third season. That episode was retooled and we got The Way to Eden instead.
Several of the novels ran with it, though. The story is at its most explicit in Dreams of the Raven, perhaps...
Of course, in "reality" it could go either way: McCoy could have gotten his medical training in Starfleet rather than in civilian life. The divorce could still be thrown in the mix without much trouble.
Timo Saloniemi
Of course, in "reality" it could go either way: McCoy could have gotten his medical training in Starfleet rather than in civilian life. The divorce could still be thrown in the mix without much trouble.
Timo Saloniemi
We should keep in mind, however, that parts of Leonard McCoy's biography might have been influenced by Nero's 'Destroy the U.S.S. Kelvin' temporal incursion... perhaps not as heavily as Jim Kirk's, but nevertheless. He is older than Jim Kirk, so his early childhood would have been the same, but after that all bets are off. He might never have met the woman Prime McCoy had married before TOS, he might have had a completely different medical/Starfleet career et al.
Wasn't McCoys Daughter mentioned or seen in an Animated Episode? I could've sworn she was, but I don't remember the episode.
Joanna McCoy (born c. 2249) is mentioned only in the TAS episode The Survivor.
See:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Survivor_%28episode%29
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Joanna_McCoy
I have to agree:
-- too good.But, I do hope that McCoy's back story and personality don't quite change. He's too good a man for total revision.
The bio they have for him on the movie site mentions him attending the University of Mississippi (reference to "Trials and Tribble-ations") before going to Starfleet. Not sure if that's going to make it into the movie, but it at least it's consistent to what we know in the old canon.
The TOS writer's guide described McCoy as having one child from an ended marriage which he doesn't talk about.
For completeness, here's that section of the April 17, 1967 version of The Star Trek Guide:
That's interesting that he went to the University of Mississippi...I know that it isn't official, but didn't one of the books say that McCoy did med school at Emory University in Atlanta? Maybe the first Crucible book or the story from The Lives of Dax?
But then again, what do we really know about his backstory?
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