McCoy, Leonard H....

[sbk1234]

In TSFS, McCoy identified himself as "McCoy, Leonard H., son of David.

Has it ever been established anywhere canon exactly what the H. stood for? Just wondering.

 

[Kagan]

I'm a doctor, not an H.

I sorta remember it in a post-TSFS novel somewhere, but that's not really canon by most definition. Can't remember what it was anyway.

McCoy's dad was shown in TFF, but no name was given that I know. So, can't really decide upon whether or not he is a junior.

 

[Ward Fowler]

Horatio is what was used in some of the novels. The most recent being Crucible: McCoy.

 

[Kagan]

^
That's it...Horatio was what I read...thanks!

 

[sbk1234]

Horatio. That sounds intriguing. It would explain why Bones was so ready to euthanize his father in TFF.

 

[Who_Trek]

Horatio... Tiberius ... doesn't anyone have a normal middle name? Something like "Fred" or "George?"

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Yeah, don't you remember Hikaru Fred Sulu?

 

[Timo]

That's Hikaru Walter Sulu. (Or "Sir" to you...)

C'mon, in this day and age of DVDs, shouldn't we be able to read Dad's name off his "And how have we been doing today?" chart? That is, if the set decorators had bothered to give us one.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ronald Held]

No canonical middle name?

 

[Kagan]

Who_Trek said:
Horatio... Tiberius ... doesn't anyone have a normal middle name? Something like "Fred" or "George?"

With a human mother, Spock should have had a non-Vulcan secondary, or middle, name. Hmmm...
James Tiberius Kirk
Leonard Horatio McCoy

How 'bout...1-2-3

1. Spock

2. A possible middle name of "Napoleon"...kinda fits with "Tiberius" and "Horatio".

3. Spock's unpronounable other name (according to This Side of Paradise)

 

[Therin of Andor]

Kagan said:
McCoy's dad was shown in TFF, but no name was given that I know. So, can't really decide upon whether or not he is a junior.

McCoy states in ST III that he is "McCoy, Leonard H., son of David", therefore the dying father we see in ST V is... David McCoy.

Before the "Leonard H." initial turned up canonically in ST III, Diane Duane had been using "Leonard Edward McCoy" in her ST novels, and her McCoy bio from the text-based computer game, "The Kobayashi Alternative". That name also appeared in William Rotsler's "Star Trek II Biographies", the same book that introduced "Nyota" as Uhura's first name (Rotsler actually rang Nichelle Nichols for her input, although she had once also given her blessing to fandom's use of "Penda"). "Nyota" was later picked up by Janet Kagan for "Uhura's Song".

Rotsler had postulated Robert Edward Lee McCoy for McCoy's father's name in "Star Trek II Biographies", but this was overruled by ST III.

McCoy's grandfather was a character mentioned in the early Klingon novel, "The Final Reflection" by John M Ford, but he had Leonard McCoy in diapers when Spock was a young boy.

 

[Kail]

It stands for Hamish, named after Dr. Watson.

 

[Cyrus]

I think it's "Hans"

 

[DrTaylor]

Like the Weasley twins? That Fred and George?

 

[Quist]

Henrietta...

 

[Kagan]

Homeboy?

 

[Trekwatcher]

Herbert.

Poor Bones just could not understand why all the space hippies were ragging on him so badly...

 

[Hambone]

The secret at long last can be revealed. It stands for Hambone.

I think McCoy had a "messianic" complex from all the lives he'd saved. "Son of David" is the biblical Messiah (Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest!" (Matthew 21:9) . Was McCoy making a joke? In "Friday's Child" he joked about identifying himself as the Archangel Gabriel.

 

[Plum]

I'm a doctor, not a messiah.

 

[Shatmandu]

The 'H' stands for "Hopeless-asswipe," in several episodes.

Joe, hopeful