Character Information
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Name: Dr. Leonard H. 'Bones' McCoy
Age/Birthday: June 7th, 2227 | 36
Fandom: Star Trek (Reboot)
Medium: Movies (Reboot)
Canon point: After Star Trek: Beyond
PB: Karl Urban the one that isn't the country singer
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Personality
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Leonard McCoy tends towards being a man of no or many words. It isn't often that you find him saying 'just' the right amount of something - the way he interjects himself into any situation just tends to be either fully or not at all. Usually tending towards fully, because while Bones has a real respect for those around him he has no qualms with giving his opinion on a situation, whether or not he ends up backing the reality eventually or not. He isn't a man who shies away from his opinions, or casual flirtation for that matter.
While he is an opinionated man, it can be quite common that that opinion doesn't come across as particularly straight forward - often Leonard is better in action to make his metaphors better understood because while he has no shyness from his opinions, he does have a bit of a problem with losing them to smarm, snark, and metaphoric representation rather than blunt or clear diction.
When it comes down to it Bones is a loyal person, whole heartedly. It doesn't matter if he necessarily agrees, and his friendship with Kirk is probably the best example of this - as he minces no words to point out when he doesn't agree with the Captain - but he'll support whatever is decided upon. The idea of solidarity is important to Dr. McCoy and its something he works to uphold at almost any cost - even if it causes him plenty of personal discomfort.
LIKES Semi-illegal liquor, saying 'damn it', basketball.
DISLIKES Space, Ice Cream.
PHOBIAS Flying, Flying in space, Dying, Dying in space, Disease, Disease in space, space in general. Definitely space.
STRENGTHSManual dexterity.
WEAKNESSESCrippling fear of his own death or illness.
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History
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FAMILY
David McCoy [Father] Unknown
Cordelia* McCoy [Mother] Unknown
Pamela Branch [Ex-Wife] Alive
*For IC reference purposes. Non-canonlical.
Pre-Starfleet
Born in Marietta, Georgia Bone's was raised by his Father, David McCoy, who also happened to be a doctor. The McCoy family was a fairly typical one when it comes to being Southern and rooted in tradition. Passing things down didn't begin nor end with their baked beans recipe - but also with job choice. Like his Father, Leonard wanted to be a doctor and after a particularly cosy and comfortable childhood he sauntered off to the University of Mississippi when he was 18 where he did both his Pre-Med bachelor's degree and his MD.
Beginning school in 2245, Leonard had a pretty standard education - he knew what he wanted to do and worked hard towards it, but it didn't stop him from having plenty of fun. Him and his group of closest friends became pretty well known on campus for the pranks they used to pull not only on each other, but on other students as well. Eventually he calmed down a little bit, or, well, once he started Med School he at least kept the pranking to himself and his friends.
Leonard met Pamela Branch during his senior year of his BA, when both attended Ole Miss. Leonard and Pamela were that annoying cuple for quite some time, the story that they met over an incident of brain freeze never being one they lived doewn when it cmae to their friends teasing them about being 'that couple'. They began dating in 2248 and were married in 2250 when Bones was halfway through med school. That first year was bliss, it really was. But as things progressed... well, they got worse. Tacking his exams and internship and studying added too much on to the stress of keeping a marriage alive - especially since Pamela was a busy and passionate woman in her own rights. Two people with as little time as they had by that point of their relationship, well, it just didn't make for a happy marriage.
It wasn't that Pamela and Leonard didn't love each other, they did. Without having loved each other there would have been no way for the divorce to get as nasty as it had. You had to love someone to feel that level of betrayal and hatred. Because it seemed she certainly did. He'd all but chosen his career over her and she made it damn well clear she wasn't going to stand for it. She took everything and he saw no other option than to join up with Starfleet. At least he wouldn't have to worry about a roof over his head or what he'd do next. But there was the tricky aspect of, well, Starfleet operating in space. But the way Leonard saw it, he didn't really have a choice - she'd taken the whole damn planet, at least metaphorically speaking. He always had liked his metaphors.
Starfleet Beginnings
Starfleet really did feel like Dr. McCoy's only option when the cards were all laid out on the table. At least the most simple one, as it was. And in 2255 he joined up - meeting the man, Jim Kirk, who would become one of his closet friends and Captain on his initial flight to Starfleet Headquarters as a new recruit. A trip that would become seminal for who Leonard became as a Starfleet officer. Or, well, at least it prompted the reason for the rather catchy nickname of Bones that McCoy picked up and Kirk made sure became the common parlance for referring to Leonard from then on. it fit him better than constantly being called doctor, anyway.
Like he had in Med School, Bones excelled at the Academy. Finishing, like Kirk, in three years - he was top of his class in both anatomy and forensic pathology. All in all, it was no surprise to anyone that he got tasked with the Enterprise upon what can only be best classified as 'preemptive graduation' (given that several officer candidates, many who would end up on the Enterprise's bridge were just shy of graduation at the time and not actually officially tasked as officers yet).
Despite his adverse opinions of space, Bones was content to go off on that first 'rescue' mission that resulted in Vulcan's destruction. Not that he was expecting to leave just another Medical Officer and return the Chief Medical Officer for the USS Enterprise. But it was the sort of thing he was made for and the unsuspected promotion didn't knock him off guard, instead it gave Leonard another place to show off his talents - something he was never a braggart about (at least, not seriously), but something he was always more than happy to do. You don't get the reputation for having legendary hands from sitting on them all day, after all.
In another time things may have happened differently but,as it was, Kirk and Bones' friendship was a turning point for the future of the Enterprise - without the doctor's pity, after all, Jim wouldn't have found himself on the Enterprise to become First Officer and later rise to Captain, at least not with such expediency. Even with the change of the course of time, it would seem that (even if unknowingly to most of the crew) fate will find its way to put things right. Bones got Kirk on the ship, Kirk got Uhura on the bridge, emotions (ironically) made Spock step back and then up again to First Officer - the right way of the world was set into motion.
The fight with Nero left Pike crippled and Kirk in charge - but the Enterprise was out on missions and that was all that mattered; at least for a year. Just over a year later Kirk and Bones were on Nibiru and everything went to hell, predictably, once again; almost resulting in the death of Spock but most certainly resulting in the breaking of the Prime Directive. The result, a cover-up and subsequent reveal by Spock, paved the way for another mission that the Enterprise and her temporarily split up crew almost didn't return from.
Jim and Spock hadn't even stepped foot on their new assignments yet when Starfleet was attacked by one of their own. Kirk was immediately put back as Captain, fortuitously or not, of the Enterprise - Spock reassigned right back along side him. Bones didn't trust the whole idea of the torpedoes, of going off after Harrison, any of it - it all breathed something uncomfortable; but he didn't quit like Scotty had, though in the same breath he didn't shy away from voicing his discontent at the situation. Scotty was right, they weren't the damn military. So you could say he wasn't shocked when they ended up stranded, when it all started to come to light that something nefarious was at play. Dr. McCoy definitely didn't support trusting Khan and while he often didn't mind to be proven right, when Khan ultimately betrayed them - that wasn't one of the moments where he took pleasure in it.
The stress of what happened next, of Jim's near-death almost got to Leonard. Almost. But he found himself thanking his more inquisitive nature. After all, he wasn't such a good Chief Medical Officer just because he was smart or even just because he was a good doctor. No, a good CMO was more than that. The position was also about figuring things out, about exploring new treatments and ideas. One of which paid off in just enough time to help save Jim and the remaining morale of the crew.
The crew of the Enterprise had gotten through something they, for all accounts, shouldn't have once again. And to Bones' noted displeasure - it got them tasked with the longest away mission into deep space ever conceived by Starfleet. 5 years. 5 years in space, it was Leonard's worst nightmare come true.
The 5-Year Mission and Beyond
It couldn't be said harshly enough that Bones was not excited about the idea of a 5 year mission. That long in space, just the idea of it, made him a bit grumpy. There was no choice in the matter though, not really, there would have been no stepping down and leaving his friends and not going on the mission - plus, Starfleet was his home now, his family. There was nothing left back on Earth for him so... face first into his biggest fears it was. No one could have anticipated what would happen three years into their missions, though Bones couldn't help but think that it justified his fears in a lot of ways that only someone with his ability to push past those very fears could appreciate.
When the Enterprise was tasked with rescuing a ship within the nebula near to the new Yorktown space base near the outer frontier, Bones was skeptical at best of the situation - but like everyone else, went along with it assuming that there was nothing nefarious about the situation. They couldn't have been more wrong. Out of everything the crew had gone through today, the events on Altamid really was a sort of life-or-death style make-or-break turning point. What Krall caused, the death and planned destruction, could have been a cause to stop everything. It could have been cause for them to all pack it up and head on home - Leonard certainly wouldn't have minded to put his feet back on some solid Earth-y ground, but he knew that look in Kirk's eyes and he knew there was no grounding the mission. They'd all signed up for 5 years and they had 2 more out there in the death and disease that was space.
Begrudgingly, as always, Bones found himself 'back' on the Enterprise (or, well, the Enterprise-A as it was to be). A ship needed its Chief Medical Officer before it went warping off into space, after all and the lot of them were so prone to trying to get themselves killed.
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Skills & Abilities
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Not enough can really be said about Bones' intellect. While he may come off as an ordinary guy, maybe even a sarcastic hick at times because of that slight remnant of southern gentleman in his tone - he's an accomplished doctor on many fronts, though surgery and pathology are his really talents. He has also been seen to have a fairly good handle over a phaser, though is a pacifist at heart.
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