Depending upon how many ships were "refit", and to what extent, the Constitution Class vessel in the Star Fleet Museum could be built from several ships. The USS Nonsuch, perhaps?

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That's a wild idea!

"And our next exhibit is the U.S.S. Exenterlexinghood, cobbled together from leftover parts."

There could be a story, there, too--a Frankensteined/leftover parts "ship" could be used in some crazy adventure. The Enterprise (Refit) or the Enterprise-A flying around with NCC-1701-M(useum)...hmmm.

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Well, in the Star Trek: TNG novel "Crossover", Mr. Scott does try a one-man rescue attempt of Ambassador Spock from Romulus by stealing the Constitution-class USS Yorktown out of the Starfleet Museum, and uses the Romulan cloaking device from "The Enterprise Incident" to get him across the border....

Greg, it's been a long time since I read that story, so I can't say for sure.  Maybe something happened after the events of "Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor" and they gave the Yorktown an replacement bridge off of another Connie undergoing refit... ;)

I still remember getting a kick out of Scotty wearing a TOS Engineer's uniform and making the Romulans think he was crazy old man on a quixotic adventure with a obsolete starship.

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The gap between TOS and TMP is pretty well defined, even if not actually shown. We know that Kirk and Scott were involved, to one degree or another, with the Enterprise refit, and we know Spock had gone all hippie-dippie back on Vulcan. Not sure Uhura, Sulu and/or Chekov could carry a whole series on their own, or that there would be all that much of interest to tell about them.

I picked McCoy because, well, I like the character! But also because his time between the last scene of the original series and his first scene in the movie was mostly up for grabs. Also, it didn't require a lot of research into areas -- ie, post-TOS -- with which I am not so familiar.

(Before anyone decides they want to cast that last statement as an admission of laziness on my part, think about it. My TREK work has been receiving some of the most unqualified praise of anything I have done, and this is because I am completely comfortable and "at home" in that environment. The stuff flows as easily as, say, Fantastic Four stories. Stories I find less successful are most often those where I am operating in unfamiliar territory.)

Very much enjoyed this issue and the series -- I "caught" the visual joke almost immediately.  I want more -- you are inded comfortable telling TOS stories and the Byrne-verse stories are the most fun I've had with ST comics in a LONG time.

Thank you.

Great series, JB.  I'm not a big Star Trek fan, but I have enjoyed all of your Star Trek work.  This series, however, ma y have been my favorite so far.  I thought it was very smartly written.

Review:

http://trekmovie.com/2010/08/01/trekink-review-of-star-trek- leonard-mccoy-frontier-doctor-4/

That was great, but I didn't know there were only going to be 4 issues....aaaargh!

Still...10-20 more Next Men...hooray!

Simon BJ

Luke touches on something that's often come to mind when reading these books--

While they are very faithful to the look and feel of TREK, they do, at the same time, exhibit very Byrne-ish traits--sort of a fusion of TREK and JB's style.

There's a distinctive feel to the dialogue, pacing, etc. of a JB book, which might not necessarily work for a live-action episode of TOS. But these aren't live-action episodes of TOS, of course.

Basically, I'm saying that JB has put his "stamp" on the work without losing what makes TREK TREK. This is how it's done! Do it your way, but respect the flavor and feel of the source material.

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Truth to tell, it's probably more that TREK long ago put its "stamp" on ME!

I've commented before, for instance, that when I first started drawing comics professionally I had to fight against my "natural instinct" to design Matt Jeffries style sets and props -- which would, of course, have been much to simple and "flat" for comics, especially superhero comics.

Wally Wood, telling the "secret" of good backgrounds, used to say "keep it busy". In the case of TOS TREK, the mantra is "keep it simple!"

I didn't get to my comic shop until yesterday to finally pick up my copy of issue 4...but now that I've read it...WOW! 

I loved the whole two stories in one issue deal.  And the second tale was so...it was just handled marvelously well.  Such a concept to think about, if one had that kind of machine at their disposal. 

Loved the whole series.

Loved the 2 stories.

And definitively want more. I think there is a lot of room for that, as one year has happened, and we didn't saw a lot of it!

The story doesn't read that way, though. Seems clear that the series ends right before TMP.

Thus, going only be the Official timeline (which JB kinda isn't, without saying so), we can assume that McCoy sat around and got bored for that first year and a half.

Yeah -- even if we don't go back and see what we missed in that one year -- McCoy still has another year and a half until he gets "drafted

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There was nothing in the series that specifically stated that the year and a half didn't occur BEFORE the year that happened in JB's year.

And I agree with Greg. It's pretty clear that TMP is the next step for McCoy.

Anyway, as I indicated in the first issue, McCoy had been sitting on his duff for a while before signing up with the Frontier Medics program.

And, hey! This is STAR TREK! When it comes to measuring time, they couldn't even keep track of which century they were in!!