Dr. Leonard McCoy's Biography

(DeForest Kelly)  Chief Medical Officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk ("The Corbommite Maneuver"  [TOS] )  As of 2267,
McCoy had earned the Legion of Honor, and had been decorated by Starfleet surgeons.

Early in his medical career McCoy's father was struck with a terrible, fatal illness.  Faced
with the prospect of suffering a terrible. lingering, death, McCoy mercifully "pulled the plug"
on his father, allowing him to die.  To McCoy's  considerable anguish, a cure for his father's
disease was discovered shortly  thereafter, and McCoy carried the guilt for his father's possibly
needless death for years. ("Star Trek V: The Final Frontier").   Prior to his assignment on the
Enterprise, McCoy had been romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater.  (The Man
Trap" [TOS] ).

McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew 2266, and remained associated with that illustrious ship
 and its successor for some 27 years.  In 2267, McCoy suffered a serious overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard accident.  In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy  fled the ship, then jumped through a time portal being studied by the Enterprise personnel.  In the past
McCoy effected serious damage to the flow of time until Kirk and Spock followed him to restore the shape of history.  ("The City on the Edge of Forever" [TOS] ).  In 2268, McCoy
was diagnosed with terminal xenopolycythemia  and chose to resign from Starfleet so that he
could marry a woman named Natira , high priestess of the Yonadan  people.  McCoy rejoined
Starfleet after a cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks.  ("For the World is Hollow
and I Have Touched the Sky" [TOS] ).

McCoy retired from Starfleet after the return of the Enterprise from the five-year mission, but he returned to Starfleet at Kirk's request when the ship intercepted the V'ger entity near Earth.  ("StarTrek the Motion Picture").  McCoy, along with Kirk, was wrongly convicted for the murder of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in 2293, a conviction that was later overturned.  McCoy was scheduled to retire shortly after the Khitomer Peace Conference, but he either changed his mind or later returned to Starfleet. ("Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country").  As a retired Starfleet Admiral, McCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise-D in 2264 at the age of 137.  ("Encounter at Farpoint, Part 1" [TNG]).

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