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[Greg Cox]

Greskrendtregk. Copy and paste is your friend.

Where is it said in the shows or movies that prime universe McCoy had a wife?

That's a tricky issue for which there is no clear-cut answer. The ex-wife, painful divorce, and estranged daughter were always meant to be part of McCoy's backstory from Day One, per Gene Roddenberry and D.C. Fontana, but, yes, they never actually made it onscreen in the Prime Universe. So the new movies picked up on a "fact" that had been floating around for decades before making it "official."

Same with Uhura's first name being "Nyota," which had been used for decades in the books and comics and such, but didn't become "canon" until the 2009 movie.

Nowadays, even photos and merchandise based on Nichelle Nichols are labeled "Nyota Uhura," which amuses me.

 

[Timewalker]

Greskrendtregk. Copy and paste is your friend.

There's no need for snark.

Where is it said in the shows or movies that prime universe McCoy had a wife?

If he had a daughter, it's logical to assume he had a wife. You should know that both characters have been featured in several TOS novels, and that Dorothy Fontana wanted Joanna to appear in "The Way to Eden". You can't get much more confirmation that a character existed than the word of someone who was a story editor on the Original Series.

I make no claims about nuTrek, since I loathe that series of movies.

 

[KyleRaynous]

Where is it said in the shows or movies that prime universe McCoy had a wife?

If I'm not mistaken, it was never mentioned. Only in novels and reference books that expand the content of the series.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If he had a daughter, it's logical to assume he had a wife. You should know that both characters have been featured in several TOS novels, and that Dorothy Fontana wanted Joanna to appear in "The Way to Eden". You can't get much more confirmation that a character existed than the word of someone who was a story editor on the Original Series.

I make no claims about nuTrek, since I loathe that series of movies.

To someone who had never read about him having a wife in the books (I have though), they might think McCoy could have had a girlfriend instead.

My comment earlier was not meant to be mean. Sorry if it came off that way. I've been told the same thing before and assumed the best.

 

[Shawnster]

That lab technician that Kirk almost married, after Gary Mitchell introduced them.
There is of course the possibility that it was Carol Marcus, or that it was Ruth. So we may have seen her.

My head canon just made Ruth Kirk's love instructor. Formerly she was Kirk's Mrs. Robinson. Not that she can't be both.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Picard's "initials" love interest, A.F.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My head canon just made Ruth Kirk's love instructor. Formerly she was Kirk's Mrs. Robinson. Not that she can't be both.

I'd just as soon the phrase "love instructor" never appears in canon Trek. Are humans so "evolved" that they actually need people to teach them things like this?

 

[Kilana2]

Judith Sisko.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Picard's "initials" love interest, A.F.

I agree. It's a shame we never met Anthony Frederickson face-to-face.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Riker's Mother.

 

[Timewalker]

I'd just as soon the phrase "love instructor" never appears in canon Trek. Are humans so "evolved" that they actually need people to teach them things like this?

Well, they may have had them in Kirk's time, but judging by the ineptness of most of the Voyager crew, they were gone by the 24th century.

 

[Greg Cox]

I'd just as soon the phrase "love instructor" never appears in canon Trek. Are humans so "evolved" that they actually need people to teach them things like this?

Wait. Are you saying PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW isn't canon?

 

[Timewalker]

Wait. Are you saying PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW isn't canon?

Only in Roddenberry's mind, I suspect.

 

[sbk1234]

Joanna McCoy was the character I was most intrigued with as a kid. I do believe she appeared in some Star Trek comic books shortly after TMP. I'm not sure where else. Although she was never mentioned on screen, it's interesting that she has become such a well-known "non"-character.

 

[Timewalker]

Joanna McCoy was the character I was most intrigued with as a kid. I do believe she appeared in some Star Trek comic books shortly after TMP. I'm not sure where else. Although she was never mentioned on screen, it's interesting that she has become such a well-known "non"-character.

She's a major character in the novel Crisis on Centaurus.

 

[Vger23]

Chef

 

[Farscape One]

Dukat's father.

I think an episode going flashback to that whole situation with him, Dukat, and Garak would have been awesome. Who knows... that may have been the event that made Dukat the way he was for most of the series.

 

[ToddKent]

Demora Sulu's mother - How did Sulu find the time?

 

[Farscape One]

This may sound like an odd one, but how about Jal Sankur, the Kazon who was actually smart enough to unite all the Kazon sects in overthrowing their enslavement by the Trabe?

He might have actually gotten the Kazon to be allies with Janeway than being enemies.

 

[Greg Cox]

She's a major character in the novel Crisis on Centaurus.

More recently, she showed up in Best Defense by Dave Mack.