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STARFLEET HISTORICAL FILE: McCoy, Leonard
Biography
Played By: DeForest Kelley
Final Rank: Admiral, retired
Full Name: Leonard Horatio McCoy, M.D.
Year of birth: 2227
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. David McCoy
Education: University of Mississippi, 2245-49;
medical school,
2249-53
Marital status: Divorced
Children: A daughter, Joanna
Quarters: Original Enterprise: 3F 127
Starfleet Career Summary
2366 -- As lieutenant commander, named chief medical
officer under
Capt. James T. Kirk
2370 -- Retires to private medical practice
2371 -- Returns to duty under Starfleet reactivation
clause, promoted
to commander as chief medical officer on refit
U.S.S. Enterprise for
V'Ger mission
2285 -- As Academy medical faculty and training
instructor, forced
into Genesis mission; detained over leaks regarding
secret Genesis
Project
2286 -- Charged but cleared with shipmates in
theft of U.S.S.
Enterprise
2287 -- Returns to active Enterprise service under Kirk
2293 -- Participated in Khitomer peace mission
after liberation from
Klingon Rura Penthe prison
2364 -- As retired admiral, gave inspection tour
of Galaxy-class
U.S.S. Enterprise upon departure
Nicknamed 'Bones' by his longtime friend and commander,
Captain
James T. Kirk, McCoy replaced Mark Piper as chief
medical officer in
2266 on the original five-year mission but clearly
became the most
renowned. By that first year he had already won
the commendations
of Legion of Honor, awards of valor, and was
decorated by Starfleet
Surgeons.
His temperament was sometimes argumentative, a
cynic's outer
crustiness masking deep caring beneath the surface.
His "old South"
roots led to the old-time physician manner of
doctoring, with a
Southern accent that was most apparent when under
stress. He
distrusts transporter technology and travels
by shuttlecraft whenever
possible.
McCoy was married once and later divorced, a relationship
never
discussed except for his one daughter, Joanna,
who later graduated
from nursing school. In the era before ship's
counselors, McCoy
played his role as psychologist expertly to the
hilt - especially for the
ship's two senior officers. As such an emotional
watchdog he was
not afraid to take on his captain, but it was
his running battle of wits
with Spock which became legendary. Spock showed
his true
feelings, though, as when inviting McCoy down
to Vulcan for his
"wedding" and in storing his katra with him before
a known suicidal
saving of their ship before the Genesis detonation.
McCoy contracted the always-fatal xenopolycythemia
and retired
from Starfleet in 2369 to spend his remaining
days on the asteroid
ship, Yonada, and that world's high priestess,
Natira - whom he soon
married. By exploring Yonada's computers, Spock
found a cure for
xenopolycythemiaand McCoy left Natira to return
to the service.
Earlier, McCoy had been infected with the strange
'aging' virus that
infected the Gamma Hydra IV landing party.
After the U.S.S. Enterprise's triumphant return
from its five-year
mission, McCoy retired from Starfleet, grew a
beard and went into
virtual seclusion with a rural practice, only
to be forced back to duty
by Kirk and Admiral Nogura when V'Ger threatened
Earth in 2371.
After that he continued through the years of
renewed Enterprise
service with Kirk until at least the Khitomer
peace talks of 2293,
having survived imprisonment with him on trumped-up
charges at the
Rura Penthe mining prison when he could not revive
assassinated
Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. Spock's deposit of
his katra in 2385 had
nearly driven him crazy and landed him in Starfleet
detention until the
refusion took place, whereupon he delighted in
the Vulcan's
reeducation process.
As a retired admiral he remained active in his
later years, serving at
the age of 137 and shuttling aboard the U.S.S.
Enterprise-D in 2364
in his role of inspecting medical facilities
on new starships.
McCoy was an active practitioner well before his
Starfleet days, of
course. In 2253, some 12 years before he signed
aboard with Kirk,
he had developed a neural grafting procedure
employing the creation
of axonal pathways between the graft and a subject
basal ganglia
that was still the practice over a century later.
He had also been
stationed on Capella for a few months and knew
the intricate
customs of the Ten Tribes there
