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204 MCDOWELL, ENSIGN THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE ~ him, allowing him to die. McCoy's first appearance was in “The Corbomite Maneuver" py br To McCoy's considerable (TOS). 4 anguish, a cure for his J father's disease was dis- McDowell, Ensign. (Kenneth Meseroll). Enterprise-D crew memcovered shortly thereafter, ber. McDowell served at Tactical during the ship's rescue of a / _ and McCoy carried the guilt Romulan science ship in 2368. (“The Next Phase” [TNG]). fl] for his father's possibly { . Ny needless death for many McFarland. A renowned Federation archaeologist. McFarland on years. (Star Trek V: The attended the annual symposium of the Federation Archaeology 3 Final Frontier). Prior to his Council in 2367. (“QPid" [TNG]) assignment to the Enterprise, McCoy had been McGivers, Lieutenant Marla. (Madlyn romantically involved with Rhue). Historian aboard the original — the future Nancy Crater. Starship Enterprise in 2267 when former x J p— (“The Man Trap” [TOS]). In dictator Khan Noonien Singh attempted to J rr J 2253, McCoy developed commandeer the ship. McGivers's fascinaf a neurosurgical technique tion for bold men of the past clouded her that was used in 2372 by judgment when it came to Khan. She = the Voyager's Emergency betrayed the Enterprise crew and helped 4 ; Medical Hologram to Khan's takeover attempt. Marla was later —~—— = 5 repair the damaged cere- given the choice of a court-martial or bral cortex of Danara Pel. (“Lifesigns” [VGR]) accompanying Khan and his group into 2 McCoy first joined the Enterprise crew in 2266, and remained exile on planet Ceti Alpha V. She chose to associated with that illustrious ship and its successor for some 27 stay with Khan and live on that desolate years. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). In 2267, McCoy world. (“Space Seed” [TOS]). McGivers married Khan, but she suffered a serious overdose of cordrazine in a shipboard acci- was later killed by the parasitic eel creatures indigenous to Ceti dent. In the paranoid delusions that followed, McCoy fled the ship, ~~ Alpha V. (Star Trek /I: The Wrath of Khan) then jumped through a time portal being studied by Enterprise personnel. In the past, McCoy effected serious damage to the McHuron, Eve. (Karen Steele). Beautiful woman recruited by flow of time until Kirk and Spock followed him to restore the shape Harry Mudd as a bride for a settler on planet Ophiucus lll. Eve had of history. (“The City on the Edge of Forever" [TOS]). SEE been raised on a farm planet, caring for her two brothers. Although Guardian of Forever; Keeler, Edith. In 2268, McCoy was diag- Eve was attracted to Kirk, she eventually realized that Kirk was nosed with terminal xenopolycythemia and chose to resign from married to his ship, so she ended up with miner Ben Childress at Starfleet so that he could marry a woman named Natira, high the Rigel Xl mining station. (“Mudd's Women" [TOS)) priestess of the Yonadan people. McCoy rejoined Starfleet after a cure was found in the Yonadan memory banks. (“For the World is McKenzie, Ard'rian. (Eileen Seeley). Member of the Tau Cygna Hollow and | Have Touched the Sky” [TOS]) V colony. Ard'rian was very interested in Commander Data's abilMcCoy retired from Starfleet after the ities as an android, and grew very fond of him personally, She return of the Enterprise from the five-year supported Data's efforts to evacuate the Tau Cygna colony in mission, but he returned to Starfleet at 2366. (“The Ensigns of Command” [TNG)). Kirk's request when the ship intercepted the V'Ger entity near Earth. (Star Trek: The McKinley Park. Located on planet Earth, a favorite place of Motion Picture). McCoy, along with Kirk, Keiko and Miles O'Brien. Miles presented Keiko with a gold was wrongly convicted of the murder of bracelet there. (“Power Play” [TNG]) Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in 2293, a conviction that was later overturned. McCoy McKinley Rocket Base. American military space launch facility was scheduled to retire shortly after the on Earth. In 1968, a large orbital nuclear weapons platform was Khitomer peace conference, but he either launched from McKinley Rocket Base by the United States to \ changed his mind, or later returned to counter a similar launch by a rival power. In an effort to demonStarfleet. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered strate the foolhardy nature of such weapons, extraterrestrial Country). As a retired Starfleet admiral, agent Gary Seven secretly armed the platform's warheads shortMcCoy made an inspection tour of the Enterprise-D in 2364 at ly after launch, then caused the launch vehicle to malfunction, the age of 137. (“Encounter at Farpoint, Part I" [TNG]). before disarming it just before impact. (“Assignment Earth” An unofficial part of McCoy's [TOS)). The scenes of McKinley Rocket Base were a combination backstory was developed by Original of stock film of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and footage shot Series story editor Dorothy Fontana, at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. The vehicle launched from who had written a story entitled McKinley Rocket Base was stock footage of an early Saturn V “Joanna,” which would have estab- - booster. lished that McCoy had been married pe and later endured a bitter divorce, McKinley Station. SEE: Earth Station McKinley. and it was the aftermath of this expe- : rience that drove him to join Star- 3 McKinney. Starfleet officer who was apparently killed by the fleet. The episode would have intro- “ unknown alien intelligence that attempted to infiltrate Starfleet duced Joanna, McCoy's now-grown BEE C Headquarters in 2364. (“Conspiracy” [TNG]) daughter from that failed marriage. § ~ “Joanna” was written for the Original McKnight, Ensign. (Pamela Winslow). Enterprise-D crew memSeries’s third season, but was so ber. McKnight served at conn in 2367. (“Clues,” “Face of the heavily rewritten (becoming “The Way to Eden” [TOS]) that Enemy" [TNG]). Fontana removed her name from the final version. Since this McCoy backstory was never incorporated into an McLowery, Frank. (Leonard Nimoy). Outlaw from Earth's episode, it isn't “official,” at least for the purposes of this encyclo- ancient American West, and a member of the Clanton gang who pedia. On the other hand, it is mentioned here because it offers was killed at the famous gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881. Spock insight into the McCoy character, and because of Fontana's piv- represented Frank McLowery in a bizarre charade created by the otal role in the development of many Star Trek characters. Melkotians in 2268. (“Spectre of the Gun" [TOS]. — ee