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John Byrne writing and drawing Star Trek is probably the best thing to come out of IDW's sometimes mediocre Star Trek comics. Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor shows what McCoy was up to as a civilian between the original series and The Motion Picture, after he left Starfleet, and also ties into Byrne's earlier minis Crew and Assignment: Earth.

It's okay. Byrne knows how to draw a great story and tell a good one, but sf medical mysteries have a trap, and Byrne falls straight into it in most of the stories here, which is technononsense overriding the human or sfnal element, which happens a little too often. Still, he captures the voices of the established characters well (in addition to McCoy, Scotty, Kirk, Number One, Gary Seven, and Roberta Lincoln all appear), and I enjoyed the new ones, particularly Theela, the Andorian stowaway who joins McCoy's medical mission, and he draws great Star Trek and sf imagery. Not perfect, I guess, but I enjoyed reading it a lot.