I Was Talking To My Friend And It Hit Me That There Is SO Much Potential For A My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Dr. Joanna Eleonora McCoy, Chief Medical Officer

Daughter of Dr. Leonard Horatio McCoy and Jocelyn McCoy, née Hall, was born on January 7, 2257. In her early life, she lived on the planet Centaurus, an Earth colony orbiting Alpha Centauri. She and her family were there in 2259 when the planet experienced a crop failure and the entire population was threatened by starvation; fortunately, philanthropist Carter Winston's intervention prevented the worst. While she was a toddler at the time, both of her parents repeated that story to her very often, and this selflessness inspired Joanna in her career. When she was four, her parent’s relationship, which was already fraught, broke apart in a messy divorce, partly due to her father’s job taking him off planet often, and her mother’s growing discontent with their relationship and her longing for a former sweetheart of hers. While they tried to shield her from it as best as they could by sending her often to stay over at her aunt and uncle Donna and Fred Withers, she still witnessed many arguments and was disheartened by the repetitive fights and the pressure to have to “pick a side”, even if her parents never asked her such a thing.

Deciding on a compromise, Joanna would stay for a few weeks with her mother on Centaurus, then a few weeks with her father on Earth, as he decided to return to live in Georgia to practice medicine. During these shuttle flights, Joanna fell in love with the vastness of space, seeing it as more of a bridge between her family than a dark, unknown dangerous thing as her father did. Additionally, these constant transitions made it hard for her to ever feel rooted and at home somewhere, except in space, which influenced her choice to pursue a Starfleet career.

Eventually, her father got a starfleet commission, and as such the visitation time was more stretched out, but she never lost contact with him. When he joined the crew of the Enterprise as CMO, Joanna often exchanged messages and video calls with her father. During that time, she continued her schooling on Centaurus and did her pre-med there, until 2278, when she decided to return to Earth for medical school at the University of Mississippi, of which Leonard McCoy was an alumni.

Being a young woman with her first real taste of freedom, she had a few situationships, namely with a woman named Marianne, with whom she believed she had a serious relationship, but it wasn't reciprocated.

In 2282, while already having gone through medical school, she decided to join Starfleet medical to take additional xenomedicine and xenobiology classes, as well as earning her qualification for space service and a Starfleet commission. It was where she first met Saavik, then a first year cadet who got herself injured in a less-than-fair boxing match with a jealous player of a rival baseball team while Joanna was volunteering as a medic on duty at the Academy Gym. During that period, she also dated Malcom Erikson, then an Academy upperclassman who had to retake a few fitness tests and classes to be allowed his full commission as an officer. Joanna’s time at the academy in San Francisco brought her closer with her father, partly because it allowed her to spend time with him regularly for the first time since he began serving when she was 12.

She then served on Luna base and on Mars as a doctor, then on Deep Space 2 from 2284 to 2290, before requesting to start working on ships, namely the U.S.S Carpenter until 2296, when newly appointed Captain Saavik made a request to have her as her CMO on the U.S.S Eridani.

Joanna’s father was nervous about her joining the fleet and very scared of her first long space deployment with the Eridani, and has always been wary of her joining Starfleet, considering his own dangerous experiences in space.

A shrewd doctor and surgeon, she inherited the fierce protectiveness of her father, and is known to have a temper when under pressure. She also is a very trusting person, being far less skeptical than her father, with a very loving and generous personality, and that has caused her to be burned one time too many in her romantic relationships. Despite that, her kindness remained, and her bedside manner was appreciated by many crewmembers, until she began berating them for their carelessness in the field.

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THANK YOU ALL FOR FOLLOWING! Such rapid growth is astounding and we are so grateful!!

Art by @parallelfallout

How funny would it be if T’Pring and Stonn’s kid just ended up joining Starfleet? Like a Spock megafan as well. Meet Sopek: the bitchiest bitch to ever bitch

@startrek-eridani @purple-iris @schn-tgai-saavik

More about Sopek to come on Star Trek: Eridani

This is how I imagine their texts go

No signs of life @hereticaster prompt 2 I’m gonna catch up I swear 😭

Star Trek: Eridani is a fan project, by fan, for fans, featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Eridani, a starship commanded by Captain Saavik, with at her side Science Officer David Marcus and CMO Dr. Joanna McCoy, as well as a full crew of characters integrating themselves into the TOS timeline or directly taken from it.

Developed by purple_iris_bloom ( @purple-iris) and ghostofgoldendays ( @parallelfallout), this story is meant to be build upon, with the biography of the characters being already established, as well as prompts representing the synopses of the episodes of the four seasons of Star Trek: Eridani

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/StarTrek_Eridani

Here it is! The official AO3 collection for Star Trek: Eridani is opened, with the prompts ofor the season 1 episodes available for fulfillment! It can be art, fic, analysis, meta and more!

The FAQ of the collectiok hopefully can answer any questions about the collection.

Xeno-botanist Marithyk Ry’Anauk, read his bio here:

This is so awesome I’m freaking outtt

Concept art for an Eridani poster featuring the superior officers. It looked better in my head but it’s also 4 am and I really should be sleeping. so I can’t be sure how good this actually is because my eyes aren’t reliable narrators after 2am

I got a burst of energy and now I want to make so many posters for this series

@startrek-eridani

Eyebrows on

Final oof