Joanna McCoy
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| Name: | Joanna McCoy, Johanna McCoy |
| Occupation: | often portrayed as a nurse |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Joanna McCoy is Leonard McCoy's only child.
TOS Canon
She never appeared on screen in Star Trek: TOS, but became "real" due to an unfilmed script and an altered script by D.C. Fontana, as well as a mention in Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Joanna also appears in some of the Marvel Comics, though sometimes called by her middle name, Barbara. [1]
"The Stars of Saragasso" was a D.C. Fontana script that would have introduced Joanna but was never produced.
"Joanna" was another unproduced D.C. Fontana script that was heavily reworked to become the episode, "The Way to Eden."
"The Survivor" is a Star Trek: TAS episode that mentions Joanna.
AOS Canon
TOS Fandom
Joanna is often mentioned and portrayed in fanworks.
These fanworks included many poems and stories that portrayed Joanna as a little girl who struggles with her parent's divorce. There is a subset of stories told in epistolary form -- letters sent either between Joanna and her father, or McCoy's letters to her which focuses on estrangement and anger which turns into one of acceptance and reconciliation. The subject of divorce (a relatively new topic of discussion in the early to mid-70s) and abandonment plays a key part
Some fanworks focus on Joanna who becomes a nurse, a doctor, or a chief medical examiner, sometimes aboard the Enterprise as a visiting crew member.
Some stories have her becoming romantically involved with Jim Kirk, which has semi-canonical roots from D.C. Fontana's unfilmed script in which Joanna, falls for Captain Kirk.
Sometimes these stories have Joanna involved with Spock. Both of these provide complicated scenarios for McCoy to ruminate upon.
There is also a very controversial story in which McCoy becomes unknowingly involved with her.
Some fanworks kill off Joanna so that McCoy's grief can be explored.
TOS Sample Fanworks
1970s Fanfiction
- Letter from Joanna McCoy by Pat Zotti (ends with "Take care of yourself. Remember me to that good looking Captain Kirk.") from Pastaklan Vesla #3 (1971)
- Prejudice by Sheila Clark (Joanna McCoy, now a nurse, is aboard the Enterprise for a few weeks, but takes a dislike to both Kirk and Spock.), from Enterprise Incidents #1 (1975)
- After the Goldrush, a Landing Party 6 story by Paula M. Block ("Joanna McCoy is about to be married. McCoy wants to attend the wedding, but dreads the reunion with his ex-wife and her family."), from Warped Space #9 (1975)
- Forever Apart by J.P. Sinclair ("McCoy is reunited with his daughter Joanna when she becomes a passenger on the Enterprise, but it is Jim Kirk who captures Joanna's interest.") (1975, reprinted in 1977)
- All My Crewmen ("McCoy's daughter Joanna has seen assigned to the Enterprise on special assignment -- unfortunately McCoy has not told her about Natira.") (1976-77)
- McCoy's Daughter by Fran Smith ("An injured McCoy is held hostage in Sickbay by a crew member poisoned by Zenite gas. Joanna McCoy, just arrived on the Enterprise, enters the effort to save her father."), from I finally got... THE LAST WORD (1977)
- On the Whole, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia by Ingrid Cross ("McCoy has a week's leave on Earth which includes a reunion with his ex-wife and his daughter.") (1977)
- The Hand that Touches by Jacqueline Paciello ("Joanna McCoy comes on board with a friend, an alien woman who is keeping secrets about herself and about Joanna. A joyous reunion between McCoy and his daughter turns into tragedy with the death of Joanna's companion, a strange drain on the ship's dilithium and the impending death of Joanna."), from Pegasus #2 (1977)
- The Same Wilderness by Beverly Clark ("Joanna McCoy is one of those rescued from a damaged ship. Relations between McCoy and his daughter are strained until McCoy is injured and Joanna's true feelings for her father become apparent."), from Sehlat's Roar #3 (1977)
- The Kinship (features Dr. Joanna McCoy who is half-Vulcan) (1978-1984)
- The Other Side of the Coin by Rochelle Hausman, Robyn Kevelsen, Susan Hochman and Margaret Clark ("Jim Kirk meets Joanna McCoy and becomes romantically involved with her. Neither realize that Leonard McCoy has an important place in the other's life, but when the three learn of the situation, there is plenty of fireworks from the outraged doctor."), from Rim of Starlight #2 (1978)
1980s Fanfiction
- To Each His Own by Mary L. Schultz & Cheryl Rice (a highly controversial story, from the highly controversial series, Diamonds and Rust) (1980)
- Power Play by Mattie Jones and Marilyn Ambros (The pirates are back, and this time they're giving the Klingons their share of the action, this is a Tracy Scott and Joanna McCoy story.), from a series in Human Factor #2 (1981)
- Hostage of Fortune by Anne Laurie Logan (Spock befriends Joanna McCoy and her child who are not very likable and whom a hostile and cruel Leonard McCoy has rejected. Joanna explains to Spock why she and her child, Tiriana, have become citizens of a planet called "Hagar": " "When I left Starfleet Academy...I wanted to get away from all the stupid, self-satisfied men who thought that their ~ that having a y-chromosome made them the kings of the universe! I dropped out in the middle of my first year, and ran away to the nearest metropolitan cluster, and found a group of radical separatist women to get involved with. Tiriana suffers from a fatal neurological condition, and Spock marries Joanna and adopts her child so that she can get medical help.), from Alpha Continuum #3 (1981)
- The Message by Joyce Tullock ("Dr. McCoy has beamed down from the Enterprise to meet his daughter for a long awaited reunion. No sooner than he has left, a message arrives to tell the doctor Joanna's leave has been postponed. It is Spock who accepts the burden of delivering the unhappy message to McCoy."), from McCoy (1982)
- Letters by Kathryn Anne Evans (A series of notes from Joanna McCoy to her father, written in the different styles from childhood to old age.) from R & R #18 (1983)
- The Unclaimed by Mary Millard ("Command Trainee Joanna McCoy must trust the half-savage Saavik to save her landing party from certain death while Captain Spock tries to prevent the start of interstellar war.") (1984)
- Reunion by Nancy E. Bagnasco ("When McCoy’s daughter Joanna, now herself a doctor, boards the Enterprise enroute to a new assignment, she reveals that she has married a Vulcan. If that isn't enough to make the old Dad flip his lid, it then develops that Spock is in pon farr and only Joanna is trained to... accommodate him." [2]), from Likely Impossibilities #2 (1986)
- *Joanna's Song, by by Nancy E. Bagnasco, from Lifestar #3 (1987)
- Joanna by Peggy Avant ("McCoy is unexpectedly reunited with his daughter, and they finally reconcile their past. She is attracted to Spock (much to her father's chagrin) and also the unknowing resolver of an ancient Vulcan prophecy.") (1988)
1990s Fanfiction
- The Stranger by Patricia Laurie Stephens (1990)
- Legends by J. Green and D. Heineman ("Joanna McCoy has been in and resigned from Starfleet. She is now a respected Chief of Surgery at a Federation teaching hospital on a planet called Ystis. She is not happy and keeps looking for adventure the adrenaline rush she is so addicted to: her assignments in Starfleet were all on Border Patrol ships."), from Encounters (1997)
1970s Fanart
artist is Gennie Summers, from On the Whole, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia by Ingrid Cross (1977)
1980s Fanart
artist is Gee Moaven, from To Each His Own, a highly controversial story (1980)
artist is Marty Siegrist portrays McCoy, Joanna, and Spock, and Joanna's daughter, from Alpha Continuum #3 (1981)
from Sahndara #1, one of the many poems about Joanna and her daddy (1983)
, the artist is Christine Myers, for the story, "Reunion," from Likely Impossibilities #2 (1986)
Tom Howard, from Lifestar #3 (1987)
1990s Fanart
the artist is Suzan Lovett, from Mind-Meld #6 for the story Journey of a Soul -- a depressed McCoy contemplates leaving the Enterprise as he gazes on his daughter's baby shoe. (1991)
Meta
Rescources
- mllesays; archive link (July 5, 2009) (many links to canon and fanon works, emphasis on the AOS series)
References
- ^ from mllesays; archive link (July 5, 2009)
- ^ from Communications Console (July/Aug 1986)