Starfleet Career:
2266 - Named CMO under Captain Kirk. Holds rank of Lieutenant Commander
2270 - Retires to a private medical practice
2285 - Returns to duty. Promoted to full Commander on U.S.S Enterprise
2286 - Forced into Genesis mission. Detained over leaks regarding secret Genesis Project.
2287 - Cleared with shipmates in the theft of the Enterprise
2364 - Gave inspection of Galaxy-class U.S.S. Enterprise upon departure.

Medical Developments:
Developed a neural grafting procedure.

Personal History:
Leonard H. McCoy was born in 2227. He entered the University of Mississippi on Earth in 2245 to pursue a career in medicine. While at university, McCoy developed an impressive procedure for the creation of axonal pathways between grafted neural tissue and basal ganglia. This procedure was later incorporated into Starfleet database for the Emergency Medical Holographic program in the late 24th century.
In 2253, McCoy graduated medical school. Earlier on in his career, McCoy’s father was struck down with a terrible illness. McCoy compassionately ended his father's life while being faced with the prospect of his father suffering a painful death. The cure for disease his father suffered with, was discovered shortly afterwards. McCoy carried the guilt for his father's death for many years.
In 2266, McCoy was assigned to duty aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as ship's chief medical officer. He replaced Dr. Piper.
As of 2267, McCoy had earned the Legion of Honour, as well as been decorated by Starfleet surgeons. McCoy suffered a severe overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard incident in 2267. In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy fled the ship. He then jumped through a time portal being studied by Enterprise personnel.
In 2268, McCoy was diagnosed with terminal Xenopolycythemia. He chose to resign from Starfleet so that he could marry a woman named Natira, the high priestess of the Yonadan people. McCoy rejoined Starfleet after the cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks.
McCoy retired from Starfleet after the Enterprise returned from its five-year mission in 2270. He then entered into a private medical practice. In 2271, McCoy returned to Starfleet at Kirk's request when the ship intercepted the V'Ger entity near Earth. In 2277, McCoy was promoted to Commander.
Before the death of Captain Spock in 2285 as he sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise. Spock also implanted McCoy with his katra, or his living soul. In the same year, the Vulcan High Priestess T'Lar presided over the ancient fal-tor-pan ceremony. She refused Spock's katra, which was residing in McCoy's mind, with Spock's body, recovered from the Genesis Planet.
In 2293, along with Kirk, McCoy was wrongly convicted of the murder of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, 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.

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