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Chief
medical officer aboard the original Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk, who gave him the nickname Bones. 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 many years. Prior to his assignment to the Enterprise, McCoy had been romantically involved with
the future Nancy Crater. McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew
in 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 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. 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. 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. 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.
As a retired Starfleet admiral, McCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise-D in 2364 at the age of 137.
