Strange New Worlds Pays Off McCoy's Voyage Home Nightmare
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 4 — «Memento Mori»
Dr. Leonard McCoy's (DeForest Kelley) medical nightmare in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was paid off by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 4. Set several years before «Bones» McCoy serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Strange New Worlds charts a new five-year mission of galactic exploration led by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount).Strange New Worlds episode 4, «Memento Mori,» involves a desperate medical crisis as a result of an attack on the Enterprise by the Gorn where Pike's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) has to implement medical procedures that would have made McCoy cringe.
Medicine is one of the true miracles of Star Trek's vision of the future. By the 23rd century of Strange New Worlds, science and medicine have wiped out the diseases that plagued humanity. Biobeds can monitor a person's entire bodily system, organs can be regrown, surgery can be non-invasive, and technology to even alter an individual's genome to transform a human into an alien exists, which is Nurse Christine Chapel's (Jess Bush) specialty aboard the Enterprise. Even though Dr. McCoy's nickname is «Bones,» nodding at how field doctors were known as «Sawbones» in Earth's 19th century, and Leonard had the demeanor of an old country doctor, McCoy was a stern advocate of 23rd-century medicine. In Star Trek: The Original Series, Bones lamented how people in the past used to be «sewn up like garments» with «needles and sutures.» When McCoy time-traveled to 1986 in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bones' visit to a 20th-century hospital to personally see how medicine was
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