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McCoy, Dr. Leonard H. (DeForrest Kelly)

Chief Medical officer aboard the Starship Enterprise under the command of James T. Kirk ("The Corbomite Maneuver" TOS). As of 2267, McCoy had earned the Legion of Honor, and had been decorated by Starfleet surgeons ("Court Martial" TOS). 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 own father, allowing him to die. To McCoy's considerable anguish, a cure for his fathers disease was found shortly thereafter, and McCoy carried the guilt for his fathers possibly needless death for many 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).

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 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 Natria, 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.

_{McCoy's first appearance was in "The Corbomite Maneuver" (TOS).}

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