Joanna by D.C. Fontana

[GSchnitzer]

Where in the universe is it OK to hit on your best friends 21 year old daughter?

What wrong there?

Kirk was about 13 years older than the girl and McCoy some 10 years beyond Kirk. So just from an age point of view everything's fine. McCoy has a younger friend.

Kirk and Joanna developing a romance isn't quite the same as Kirk "hitting on her." It's not like he was going to be slipping a roffie into her chocolate milk.

Unless you're going to have McCoy be one of those fathers who can't accept that their offspring in now an adult.

I figure past is prologue. The relationship Kirk develops with Joanna McCoy, however it is characterized and labeled, would probably be no different from the other relationships Kirk develops with women throughout the series. I'm not sure if Kirk was "hitting on" Lenore Karidian or if it "romance." But Joanna would probably be just more of the same--whatever it is.

 

[YJAGG]

Ok so Kirk goes to the Shore leave planet and hooks up with a dabo girl named Micky-Jo, even though she is 15 years his younger,. MJ thinks Kirk looks like a rock star currently on tour. Kirk comes back and is telling everyone and McCoy is all like hells yeah then he sees the holo image. It's his baby ! In his anger and depression he takes a singing stone cuts off Sulu's legs, steals a shuttle, flys through a worm hole, but gets beamed out in the last second only to be protracted, Spock and Scotty fix him, but now McCoy is turning into a plant, so they upload his mind into an alien statue artifact and hook his body up to a joy machine to keep it relaxed until they find a cure. The uploaded mind of McCoy then takes over the Enterprise sets a course for Risa, while helping Spock find a cure that only Cyrano Jones has since it is Tribble related, but he sold it Harry Mudd, who was being chased by a Kilingon on a muddy planet. The Klingon catches Mudd, but it was Kirks' old roomate from a student exchange program, so he gives Kirk Mudd. They save McCoy and Joanna goes on to be a great Doctor who also plays the blues.

This might need to be a 3 parter ala DS9 ....your thoughts ?

 

[PCz911]

Ok so Kirk goes to the Shore leave planet and hooks up with a dabo girl named Micky-Jo, even though she is 15 years his younger,. MJ thinks Kirk looks like a rock star currently on tour. Kirk comes back and is telling everyone and McCoy is all like hells yeah then he sees the holo image. It's his baby ! In his anger and depression he takes a singing stone cuts off Sulu's legs, steals a shuttle, flys through a worm hole, but gets beamed out in the last second only to be protracted, Spock and Scotty fix him, but now McCoy is turning into a plant, so they upload his mind into an alien statue artifact and hook his body up to a joy machine to keep it relaxed until they find a cure. The uploaded mind of McCoy then takes over the Enterprise sets a course for Risa, while helping Spock find a cure that only Cyrano Jones has since it is Tribble related, but he sold it Harry Mudd, who was being chased by a Kilingon on a muddy planet. The Klingon catches Mudd, but it was Kirks' old roomate from a student exchange program, so he gives Kirk Mudd. They save McCoy and Joanna goes on to be a great Doctor who also plays the blues.

This might need to be a 3 parter ala DS9 ....your thoughts ?

Wait just a minute.... Didnt Scotty do something with the warp engines in that episode? The old "captain I'm giving all she's got but she gonna blow" routine

 

[YJAGG]

Wait just a minute.... Didnt Scotty do something with the warp engines in that episode? The old "captain I'm giving all she's got but she gonna blow" routine

that would be a good twist yeah

 

[Sir Rhosis]

And here's the story outline to Joanna, specifically, if you want to read it:
http://www.orionpressfanzines.com/articles/joanna.htm

Actually, it is my synopsis of the outline, not the entire outline, itself.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Trevacious]

Apparently Fontana is working on a new draft of this story to be made as a Star Trek Phase 2 webisode eventually.

Can they sign Karl Urban to star in it?

 

[GSchnitzer]

Apparently Fontana is working on a new draft of this story to be made as a Star Trek Phase 2 webisode eventually.

Can they sign Karl Urban to star in it?

Yes, we can.

Can you handle his salary requirements, please?

Thanks.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

^^^Well, there is Kickstarter...

Sir Rhosis

 

[YJAGG]

Apparently Fontana is working on a new draft of this story to be made as a Star Trek Phase 2 webisode eventually.

Can they sign Karl Urban to star in it?

That would pretty darn cool

Yes, we can.

Can you handle his salary requirements, please?

Thanks.

Offer him a Judge Dredd film I heard he is very hot to do another one

 

[T'Girl]

Can they sign Karl Urban to star in it?

It might be a acting stretch for Karl to play a 21 year old female, but I'm sure he can do it.

 

[erastus25]

And here's the story outline to Joanna, specifically, if you want to read it:
http://www.orionpressfanzines.com/articles/joanna.htm

Actually, it is my synopsis of the outline, not the entire outline, itself.

Sir Rhosis

My mistake, sorry. Thank you for the correction.

 

[YJAGG]

in all seriousness if DC is writing an episode, featuring McCoy's daughter, then I am sure it will be right for today's audience

 

[GSchnitzer]

in all seriousness if DC is writing an episode, featuring McCoy's daughter, then I am sure it will be right for today's audience

When Dorothy wrote our "Chekov" episode ("To Serve All My Days"), the reception or our episode was mixed--probably for a lot of reasons and not just because of the script/story itself. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that our "Joanna" episode, if and when we ever do it, will be received even better.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

in all seriousness if DC is writing an episode, featuring McCoy's daughter, then I am sure it will be right for today's audience

When Dorothy wrote our "Chekov" episode ("To Serve All My Days"), the reception or our episode was mixed--probably for a lot of reasons and not just because of the script/story itself. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that our "Joanna" episode, if and when we ever do it, will be received even better.

Just by the way, I really loved "To Serve All My Days".

 

[scotpens]

This is a reminder that Kirk hitting on a 21-year-old Joanna is not much weirder than Kirk hitting on 19-year-old Lenore Karidian--although Joanna being McCoy's daughter does add a wrinkle.

And significantly less weird than whatever the heck was happening in Miri! Progress?

Miri had something of an adolescent crush on Kirk, but Kirk had no serious romantic interest in Miri. Besides, Miri was, what, 300 years old? As Kirk told Janice Rand, he never gets involved with older women.

For what it's worth, there's this content from the book The Making of Star Trek. Roddenberry writes (on page 241):

"IN A FUTURE STORY, WE WILL BRING MCCOY'S DAUGHTER JOANNA ABOARD. SHE WILL BE A LOVELY GIRL, AND CAPTAIN KIRK, OF COURSE, IS GOING TO BE INVOLVED WITH HER. DR. MCCOY IS SUDDENLY GOING TO DISCOVER HE IS A FATHER VIEWING KIRK FROM A FATHER'S PERSPECTIVE. AN INTERESTING AND SOMETIMES ANGRY NEW MCCOY-KIRK RELATIONSHIP WILL BE SEEN."

(The caps are from the book, not mine.)

In TMOST, direct quotes from G.R. were printed in all caps only to make them easily distinguishable from Whitfield's text. There's no reason to reprint them that way. With modern digital typesetting, they'd probably have used two distinctly different fonts -- say, a serif and a sans-serif.

Despite some interesting things that might have resulted in their relationship (the Jim and Bones one), I'm happy that never happened.

On the hand, Bones being Jim's father-in-law could have been an interesting comedy spin off...

My Father-in-Law, the Doctor?

 

[YJAGG]

Dam it Bones I am your Captain not your son in law

 

[plynch]

I don't particularly like that story, now that I've read the synopsis of outline. Hm. Execution and the actual words of a script matter a lot. McCoy is so bad. Though I know where family is concerned, people act out-of-character.

 

[Timewalker]

I figure past is prologue. The relationship Kirk develops with Joanna McCoy, however it is characterized and labeled, would probably be no different from the other relationships Kirk develops with women throughout the series. I'm not sure if Kirk was "hitting on" Lenore Karidian or if it "romance." But Joanna would probably be just more of the same--whatever it is.

Kirk was charming her, but with an ulterior motive: To prove that her father was really Kodos the Executioner, and to figure out who had been killing the witnesses.

When Dorothy wrote our "Chekov" episode ("To Serve All My Days"), the reception or our episode was mixed--probably for a lot of reasons and not just because of the script/story itself. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that our "Joanna" episode, if and when we ever do it, will be received even better.

I liked it.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Was "Joanna" written by D.C. Fontana in Havana at the Copa Cabana while sharing a banana with Roseanne Rosanna Danna?

(Sing it in Dylan's voice, it sounds brilliant.)

 

[plynch]

Wasn't this the planned crossover ep with Sweeney Todd? Ricardo Montalban playing the vengeance-crazed guy avenging the loss of his wife. Shatner singing (talking) "I feeeeel you, Joanna, I feeel you." It would have been glorious.