Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy is a character in the American science
fiction franchise Star Trek. McCoy was most famously portrayed by
actor DeForest Kelley in the original Star Trek series from 1966 to
1969, and he also appears in the animated Star Trek series, six Star
Trek movies, the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and
in numerous books, comics, and video games. After Kelley's death,
actor Karl Urban assumed the role of McCoy in the Star Trek reboot
film in 2009.McCoy was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 2227. The son of
David,:257â€"258 he attended the University of Mississippi and is a
divorcé. McCoy later married Natira, the priestess of Yonada,
characterized in the episode, "For the World Is Hollow and I Have
Touched the Sky". In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief medical officer
of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk, who often calls him
"Bones". McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even "brotherly".:146 The
passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's
other confidant, science officer Spock, and occasionally is prejudiced
against Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often plays the role of Kirk's
conscience, offering a counterpoint to Spock's logic. McCoy is
suspicious of technology, especially the transporter. As a physician,
he prefers less intrusive treatment and believes in the body's innate
recuperative powers. The character's nickname, "Bones", is a play on
sawbones, an epithet for physicians qualified as surgeons. In the 2009
Star Trek film, Star Trek reboot version, when McCoy first meets Kirk
he states "The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All
I got left is my bones", which also could be where his nickname came
from.When Kirk orders McCoy's commission reactivated in Star Trek: The
Motion Picture (1979); a resentful McCoy complains of being "drafted".
Spock transfers his katraâ€"his knowledge and experienceâ€"into McCoy
before dying in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). This causes
mental anguish for McCoy, who in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
(1984) helps restore Spock's katra to his reanimated body. McCoy
continues to serve on Kirk's crew aboard the captured Klingon ship in
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). In Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier (1989), McCoy (through the intervention of Spock's
half-brother Sybok) reveals that he helped his father commit suicide
to relieve him of his pain. Shortly after the suicide, a cure was
found for his father's disease, and McCoy had carried the guilt about
it with him until Sybok's intervention. Leonard McCoy Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter