Description

Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone             One-shot Comic 
Writers: Scott & David Tipton
Artist: Sharp Brothers
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Editor: Sarah Gaydos
Cover by: Sharp Brothers

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before.Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as “The Original Series”, debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The Star Trek canon of the franchise includes The Original Series, an animated series, five spin-off television series, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media.

And now, IDW Publishing presents, “Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone”. When a Starfleet medical conference is crashed by a deadly metamorphic virus, Doctors Beverly Crusher, Julian Bashir and Katherine Pulaski have to race against time… to find a cure. The answers lie in the distant past, deep within the files of Dr. Leonard McCoy! All of Star Trek’s medical officers team up for the first time ever!

Story/Spoilers
Station Diamandis, I host a conference of top medical specialists from across the Federation. A deep-space escape pod arrives at the station shortly before the conference, its passengers suffering from an unknown crystalizing contagion that turns the infected to a stone-like substance. The station’s entire complement is rendered paralyzed in less than a day, and The Doctor, the only being immune to the disease, quarantines the station. Several other escape pods are detected heading for populated worlds. Dr. Beverly Crusher, Julian Bashir, and Kate Pulaski arrive soon after but remain aboard their runabout. Suspicious that this disease is like nothing ever recorded by Federation medicine, the doctors realize that certain critical records have been erased from the medical database. The deleted files came from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), so runabout party tracks down Dr. Leonard McCoy, who’s returned to Viirre V. Upon reviewing The Doctor’s readings, McCoy makes a connection to a 2269 mission to solve a medical emergency at a trading post. The colonists were suffering from the same malady and colony physician Dr. Phlox and McCoy realized that one of the traders had recent illicit contact with the Tholians. He picked up the virus that turned humanoids (except for Denobulans, apparently) into a crystalline structure similar to the Tholians. With that knowledge in hand, they soon developed a cure, and that data is still contained in the tricorder McCoy held on to as a memento. The Doctor investigates the database tampering, and he locates and captures the saboteur aboard the station. He learns that the man was a mercenary for a Tholian splinter group favoring a radical expansionist agenda. They planned to release their virus on several nearby worlds, creating a more hospitable environment for themselves while eradicating the existing population. They hoped to ensure their plan’s success by first wiping out the Federation’s medical database and its top medical minds. The runabout delivers the cure, the station is saved, and the Tholian plot is defeated.

Comic is bagged & triple boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publication Date: July 2014
Format: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 827714006742

Collectible Entertainment note: One-shot Comic is in Fine condition. (significant corner crease >> front bottom right / back bottom left) Overall… Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Star Trek and/or Science Fiction collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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