Re: Biggest gap between on-screen and literature in terms of appearanc
I have read Planet of Judgement. I think the name Honey may show up elsewhere, but that could just be my imagination inserting the name whenever the ex Mrs McCoy is brought up.
That's the only use of it that I recall ever coming across.
I can easily accept Honey as a knickname for Jocelyn and/or Pamela.
PoJ does clearly use it as her given name. It is never actually spoken by McCoy in addressing her, but appears only in the narrative text and is used as a name (e.g. "Honey and Joanna were still in Joanna's room"). Since the scene was from McCoy's POV, one could bend over to interpret it as his nickname for her in his own thoughts, but it seems implausible to me that he'd unwaveringly think of his wife by a term of endearment even while she's walking out on him and taking his daughter away.
I have both Shadow on the Sun and the reboot comics in my very big to read list, so I'll eventually get to form an opinion over whether I think Pamela and Jocelyn are the same woman. Given that it's an alternate universe I can accept that McCoy has a totally different ex wife.
Possibly, although in most Trek alternate timelines, the same people have a way of ending up together and having the same children. But hey, if Chekov somehow managed to be born four years early, I guess it's possible.
From their appearances do they have a similar appearance and/or personality? Is there any mention anywhere of the reboot McCoy having a daughter?
Shadows on the Sun describes Jocelyn with dark brown hair (the color of "fine ground coffee") and dark blue or blue-gray eyes. The one picture I can find online of Pamela shows her with dark-ish brown hair, so maybe it's compatible -- or maybe Bones just has a type.
Memory Beta doesn't mention alt-McCoy having a child.
I have heard that McCoy has a daughter Barbara in the Gold Key comics. I've heard the theory put out there that McCoy could have two daughters, possibly with different mothers.
I don't see the need to assume that, since the Gold Key comics are such a weird, distorted version of the Trek universe that they can't be reconciled in any case. Not to mention that Barbara seems to be a completely different person in her two Gold Key appearances -- in issue 40 she's a wavy-haired brunette who likes her father just fine, but three issues later she's a straighter-haired blonde who deeply resents her father for not being there for her childhood and reminds him of it at every opportunity. Of course, hair can be dyed and restyled, but the change in relationship is harder to reconcile.
I haven't read that comic or any books with Joanna yet outside of her brief appearance in Planet of Judgement, I wonder if we could write off the issue as being Joanna using her middle name for awhile?
Joanna is generally portrayed as following her father into medicine, while Barbara is presented as a xenobiologist. Also, Barbara seems to be a few years older than Joanna.
Doesn't Kirk have a sister in the Gold Key comics too?
Not that I can tell. Memory Beta says nothing about it, and the only Google hit I get is your own question. Of course, he had a sister-in-law, Aurelan.
I wish I could retcon Spock's brother out of continuity. He was an ill fitting addition to that family. I can think of lots of novels that explore Spock's childhood, but I can't think of any appearance of the brother outside STV.
It's unclear how much older Sybok was than Spock. Spock tells Sybok "I am not the outcast boy you left behind those many years ago," suggesting that he was still fairly young when Sybok split from the family. We've only really seen Spock as an infant, at around age 7, and as an older teen and young adult, as far as I can recall. It's possible Sybok was over a decade older and was already moved out by the time of "Yesteryear," and was fully estranged and disowned by the time we saw Spock as an adolescent (in
Vulcan's Forge, for example).
Wheras I think Sybok fixes a huge hole in Spock's backstory. Why would Sarek, who married a human women, insist so forcefully that Spock choose the Vulcan way of life? It makes no sense whatsoever - unless you factor in another son, full-Vulcan, who was exiled for refusing the Vulcan way. Sarek instantly goes from being a massive prick to a guy trying to make sure Spock (and Amanda) don't share Sybok's fate.
That's a good point. It does add something to the family backstory. It also fills another gap, since we know Vulcan marriages are arranged in childhood, so it stands to reason that Sarek would've had another wife before Amanda.
McCoy's wife is named Jocelyn in A Choice of Catastrophes, but he does refer to her as "honey" at one point.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Sorry.
Also,
Christopher's
Ex Machina takes
crewmembers who only appeared onscreen ever so briefly and really fleshes them out (to varying degrees for different characters, but still).
But they've only appeared in 2-3 different stories at most, since none of my fellow authors have done anything with the characters.
