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"Heaven help me! I've just murdered my patient! — Dr. Boyce... Killer!" — "Immortal Wounds" is a TOS comic published by Marvel-Paramount Comics in 1997, the eighth issue in the Star Trek: Early Voyages series, set during Christopher Pike's captaincy of the USS Enterprise.

Description[]

Dr. Boyce is sent to the planet of Neyda Prime to help contain a deadly plague, but instead sends one of his patients to his grave... on purpose! And it's on videotape! What's the terrifying secret that made the good doctor turn his back on the Hippocratic oath?

Summary[]

Captain's log, stardate 360.3.
The Enterprise is continuing in its mission to provide medical support to the Federation world of Neyda Prime, where an outbreak of the virulent Crain's disease has struck the population. However, our work here has been overshadowed by an alarming turn of events.

Magistrate Holan confronts Dr. Boyce and arrests him for the first-degree murder of a Neydan. Boyce thinks it's a joke until he hears the victim's name, Narten Drexler, and then he quietly acquiesces. He confesses to Pike that he did it, and Holan shows Pike a damning video of Boyce injecting the victim with a lethal dose of metrazene. The magistrate introduces Pike to Ambassador Toluk, a Vulcan who agrees to act as Boyce's defense attorney.

Captain's log, supplemental.
Doctor Boyce's pre-trial hearing commences tomorrow. Ambassador Toluk has built the best defense he can but I think we both know it's a lost cause. Then again, aren't they the only ones worth fighting for?

Privately, Gabrielle Carlotti and Mia Colt realize they've both seen Boyce arguing with himself, wondering if that means he's become psychologically unfit. Toluk tells Pike that proving mental instability as a defense is difficult in court. Meanwhile, in his holding cell, Boyce begins talking to mysterious voices only he can hear. Guards open the door to check on him, and he springs on them, grabbing a weapon and subduing them all. He flees and finds his way to Toluk.

Holan alerts Pike that Boyce has escaped, critically wounding two guards, and will be shot on sight. Pike offers to use sensors aboard the Enterprise to locate him, but Holan refuses to allow it. Holan and his guards converge on Toluk's embassy quarters, but Pike, Spock and Carlotti beam directly there and intercede, having gotten a message from Toluk to come.

Following a struggle, Toluk explains he has performed a mind meld on Boyce, and learned that the doctor is being controlled by the minds of three Julthans. Decades earlier, Boyce came to the rescue of a crashed shuttle on a remote outpost, but was unable to save three dying passengers who'd fled a raid on their colony world. Before they died, the Julthans telepathically transferred their living spirits, similar to Vulcan katras, to Boyce. They sought the leader of the raiders, and discovered it to have been Drexler, and they murdered him as revenge.

During the meld, Toluk extracted the Julthans into living neurocrystals, pledging to bring them back to their homeworld. The charges against Boyce were subsequently dropped.

Captain's log, stardate 360.5.
Neyda Prime is behind us. The Crain's disease outbreak has been halted, and Doctor Boyce exonerated. Everyone aboard is breathing one huge collective sigh of relief... some more than others.

References[]

Characters[]

Phillip BoyceGabrielle CarlottiMia ColtNarten DrexlerHolanChristopher PikeSpockTolukJosé Tyler
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Sarek

Starships and vehicles[]

aircarUSS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • shuttle

Locations[]

Neyda Prime (Central Judiciary Bureau)
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New Milan

Races and cultures[]

HumanJulthanNeydanVulcan
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OrionTholian

States and organizations[]

FederationJulthan Free WorldsNeyda Prime Judicial BureauOrion SyndicateStarfleetVulcan Science Academy

Science and classification[]

autopsybiobedcommunicatorhypospraymedicinemedkitneural suppressorpsychologyscannerstafftransporterweapon

Ranks and titles[]

ambassadorbusinessmancaptaincustodiandoctormagistratemedicnurseofficerphysicianyeoman

Other references[]

alcoholanimalassignment patchbloodcaptain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2254colonycourt of lawCrain's diseasecrewdayFederation Starfleet ranks (2240s-2260s)ghostheadacheHippocratic oathhospitalJulthan prayer gemkatrakolinahrlog entrymedicalmess hallmetrazenemind meldmoonneurocrystaloutpostpeacepennyplaguequartersship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)sirasleepStarfleet uniform (2240s-2265)trialyear

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Background[]

  • The last log entry is in fact said to be on Stardate 860.5, however that is a great deal of time past the events of the rest of the comic and indeed the rest of the entire Early Voyages series. So one might assume it is a typo and the correct date is more likely Stardate 360.5.

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Connections[]

Media featuring Christopher Pike
Episodes and movies The Original Series The CageThe Menagerie
Movies Star TrekkStar Trek Into Darknessk
Discovery Will You Take My Hand?BrotherNew EdenPoint of LightAn Obol for CharonSaints of ImperfectionThe Sound of ThunderLight and ShadowsIf Memory ServesProject DaedalusThe Red AngelPerpetual InfinityThrough the Valley of ShadowsSuch Sweet Sorrow
Short Treks Q&AThe Trouble with EdwardAsk Not
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Novels Killing TimeaEnterprise: The First AdventureVulcan's GloryLegacyThe RiftWhere Sea Meets SkyBurning DreamsA Less Perfect UnionaThe Children of KingsChild of Two WorldsDesperate HoursThe Enterprise WarThe High Country
Short stories "Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"m
Comics Early Voyages "Flesh of My Flesh" • "The Fires of Pharos" • "Our Dearest Blood" • "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" • Cloak and Dagger (12) • "The Flat, Gold Forever" • "Immortal Wounds" • "One of a Kind" • The Fallen (12) • "Futures, Part One" • "Future Tense" • "Futures" • "Now and Then" • "Thanatos" • "Nemesis"
Starfleet Academy "Return to the Forbidden Planet" • "A Prelude to War"
Crew "Shadows of the Past" • "The Ends of Eternity"
other "All Those Years Ago..." • "To Walk the Night" • "Door in the Cage" • Alien Spotlight Alien Spotlight, Volume I (VulcansOrions) • Mirror Imagesm (1245) • Spock: Reflections, Issue 2Star Trek Movie Adaptationk (23456) • Captain's Log: PikeAftermath (123)
k : Kelvin timelinem : Mirror Universea : alternate reality

Timeline[]

Published Order
Previous story:
The Flat, Gold Forever
EV comics Next story:
One of a Kind
Previous story:
The Flat, Gold Forever
Stories by:
Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton
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Star Trek Unlimited
As Flies to Wanton Boys
Chronological Order
Previous adventure:
The Flat, Gold Forever
Memory Beta Chronology Next adventure:
One of a Kind
Previous story:
The Flat, Gold Forever
The Early Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Next story:
One of a Kind

Production history[]

September 1997
First published by Marvel Comics.
September 2008
Re-released on The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD. (Graphic Imaging Technologies)
May 2009
Reprinted in Star Trek Omnibus, Volume 2. (IDW Publishing)
15 April 2014
Reprinted in The Stardate Collection's Volume 2 omnibus. (IDW Publishing)
31 August 2017
Collected in the Graphic Novel Collection's Volume 18 omnibus. (Eaglemoss Collections)
Translations[]
27 December 2017
Italian: Collected in the Italian release of Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 18: Primi Viaggi - Seconda Parte. (RCS MediaGroup, ISSN 977228074425770018)

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