Leonard McCoy (mirror)

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This page details Leonard McCoy in the mirror universe; for Leonard McCoy in the primary universe see Leonard McCoy; for Leonard McCoy in the Kelvin timeline created by Nero's temporal incursion see Leonard McCoy (Kelvin timeline); for the Leonard McCoy in the mirror universe created by Nero's temporal incursion see Leonard McCoy (mirror) (Kelvin timeline); for Leonard McCoy in all other alternate universes see Leonard McCoy (alternates).

Leonard McCoy
Lieutenant Commander Leonard H. McCoy (M.U.2267)
Full name:	Leonard Horatio McCoy
Species:	Terran
Gender:	Male
Height:	6'
Weight:	158 lbs.
Eye color:	blue
Hair color:	brown
Birthplace:	Georgia, Earth
Born:	20 January 2227
Affiliation:	Terran Empire, Imperial Starfleet
Family
Father:	David Andrew McCoy
Career
Occupation:	Chief Medical Officer
Assignment:	CMO, ISS Enterprise
Rank:	commander
Insignia:

In the mirror universe, Doctor Leonard H. McCoy was a male Terran officer in the Imperial Starfleet who served as Chief Medical Officer aboard the ISS Enterprise in the 2260s.

Biography

Career

At one point, McCoy served with James T. Kirk, with whom he would later serve again aboard the ISS Enterprise. (IDW comic: "Mirror Images")

In 2264, McCoy became chief medical officer aboard the ISS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike after the previous CMO, Mark Piper, had an accident. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 2")

Aboard the Enterprise

Mirror Images

In 2264, McCoy and Spock were conscripted by Kirk in a plot to assassinate Captain Pike and allow Kirk to take command of the Enterprise for himself. As part of the plan, McCoy would obstruct Pike's investigations of Kirk. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 5")

After Pike survived the explosion of his shuttle, the Bellarmine, which had been sabotaged by Kirk, McCoy treated his wounds and asked whether the planet he had been on was a rough place. When Pike stated that the explosion was no accident, McCoy remarked that blowing up a shuttlecraft was pretty brazen since, after all, business was business and they all had their duties to attend to. Pike replied that someone clearly did not mind jeopardizing the entire mission to get at him, prompting McCoy to ask whether he perhaps suspected Sulu or Scotty, to which Pike answered that he did not suspect them and that McCoy already knew who he suspected.

Realizing that Pike was referring to Kirk, McCoy remarked that blowing up shuttlecrafts did not seem like his style. Pike stated that, since McCoy had served with Kirk before, he therefore knew what he was capable of. When Pike told McCoy that he was counting on his support, McCoy told Pike to let him know if there was anything he could do and that he would keep his eyes open.

After Pike left, McCoy discovered Kirk standing in his office, having overheard McCoy's conversation with Pike. McCoy chastised Kirk for his lack of discretion and patience. After Kirk explained that he had to move forward soon, before someone could get to him first, McCoy showed understanding and agreed to continue helping him, although he insisted that they were going to do it his way, with no more exploding shuttlecrafts, to which Kirk agreed.

Later on, McCoy went to Pike's office, greeted a female yeoman as she exitted from it, and began telling Pike what Kirk was planning. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 1")

However, Pike stated that the information was not enough, as he already knew that Kirk was after him, and remarked that he was expecting a little more insight than that. McCoy insisted that Kirk was playing things very close to the vest, which prompted Pike to remark that he did not know him very well, as McCoy had only been on board for a few months at that point following Piper's accident. When Pike remarked that McCoy had previously served with Kirk and was close to him, McCoy insisted that his loyalties were to the ship and its captain. However, Pike remained suspicious and asked McCoy whether or not he was making a mistake in trusting him, to which McCoy replied by asking Pike what he wanted from him. Pike answered that he wanted results, useful information and Kirk's head on a platter and threatened McCoy by stating that, if he could not have Kirk's head, he would have his, prompting McCoy to grudgingly reply that he understood.

Later, McCoy was present during a meeting held in the briefing room along with the rest of the senior staff, where Pike briefed them in about their upcoming unscheduled stop to meet with an Orion trader. He continued by stating that the meeting, which would go unrecorded, with no log entries, would occur in the Pentalla Nebula. Intrigued, Spock asked Pike what sort of exchange he had in mind, to which Pike replied that they were going to trade some of the phaser rifles from the ship's storage in exchange for contraband dilithium.

Following the exchange, McCoy confronted Kirk in the hall and informed him that the Orion vessel had just exploded on the other side of the nebula, prompting Kirk to reveal that he had sabotaged one of the rifles to overload, causing it to set off the whole crate and blow up the ship. When McCoy chastised him for not being more subtle with his schemes, Kirk dismissed the Orions' inability to handle their engines as not being his concern. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 1")

The Five-Year Mission

In 2266, McCoy spilled acid on a lab table in sickbay. In contrast to the primary universe, the stain was not cleaned and remained until at least another year.

Sometime before 2267, McCoy tortured his father, David McCoy, to death on the orders of the Empire. (TOS - Mirror Universe novel: The Sorrows of Empire)

In 2267, Dr. McCoy accompanied a landing party consisting of Captain James T. Kirk, Lieutenant Commander Scott, and Lieutenant Uhura to the surface of the planet Halka to demand that the Halkans hand over their dilithium crystals to the Terran Empire. When the party were beamed back to the Enterprise, an electric storm caused the party to transpose with their primary universe counterparts. However, the landing party were later put back into their correct reality.

His sickbay was filled with torture devices that appalled his primary universe counterpart.

So alike were the actions of the two McCoys that they both spilled acid on tables in their respective sickbays, creating a duplicate burn mark on each.

After the landing parties returned to their respective universes, the Spock of the primary universe told his Dr. McCoy and Captain James T. Kirk that he found their counterparts to be "brutal, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous; in every way splendid examples of Homo sapiens, the very flower of Humanity." (TOS episode: "Mirror, Mirror")

Mirror Universe Trilogy

In one permutation of the mirror universe, Dr. McCoy was hanged outside Starfleet headquarters in 2267 along with Montgomery Scott, Janice Rand, Willard Decker, Geoffrey M'Benga, David Garrovick and Marlena Moreau. (TOS novel: Dark Victory)

Star Trek: Mirror Universe

McCoy's predecessor as the Enterprise's chief medical officer was Phillip Boyce. (TOS - Mirror Universe short story: "The Greater Good")

In the months following Spock's assassination of Captain Kirk, McCoy became more and more suspicious of the actions that Spock was taking, such as persuading Troyius and Elas to become allies, which violated orders from the Empire. Lieutenant Commander Scott and Lieutenant Uhura shared his concerns and together they plotted to remove Spock from command of the Enterprise. However, as Uhura began to carry out their plan, she was disintegrated by the Tantalus field, and McCoy's criticisms were silenced.

McCoy eventually died in 2269 of the fatal disease known as xenopolycythemia, indicating that in the mirror universe, either the Enterprise crew never encountered Yonada, or they simply destroyed the vessel. He was succeeded as the Enterprise's chief medical officer by Jabilo M'Benga, who continued to serve in that position until at least 2287. (TOS - Mirror Universe novel: The Sorrows of Empire)

Appendices

Background

One of the mirror McCoy's uniform decorations was a sideways version of the Starfleet outpost assignment patch seen in TOS episodes: "Balance of Terror", "Arena".

Appearances

• TOS comic The Mirror Universe Saga
• TOS comic Fragile Glass

External link

• Leonard McCoy (mirror) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.