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"Frontier Doctor" is a DS9 comic published in the fifth issue of IDW Publishing's Waypoint anthology. It was released in March 2017 in honor of Star Trek's 50th anniversary.
Description
- Our first story features fan-favorite Dr. Julian Bashir, with his DS9 station-mates Odo and Miles O'Brien encountering a new (to them) alien race.
Summary
- Medical log: Stardate 46418.2
- I knew life on the frontier would be exciting, but never expected this.
Since the Bajoran wormhole was discovered dozens of ships have made the journey from the Gamma Quadrant.
Traders, explorers, even settlers, keen to build a new life 70,000 light years from home. And their first port of call is Deep Space Nine.
Although, not everyone is ready to welcome our visitors with open arms.
While having a conversation at Quark's, Bashir, O'Brien, and Odo notice a hulking humanoid apparently accosting a strange woman while yelling "Indines". In the Promenade, Bashir finds her encased in some gold-colored material. Odo grabs the humanoid, but it smacks the Changeling into a wall, and as he is momentarily disoriented, the humanoid escapes.
O'Brien and Bashir carry the cocooned woman to the Infirmary, but her lifesigns are fading. The humanoid reappears and fights O'Brien, trying to get into the Infirmary. A group of five cosmozoans approach the space station, but an energy burst strikes Kira Nerys in the operations center and stops her from raising the station's shields. A similar energy burst strikes O'Brien. O'Brien's eyes glow and he allows the humanoid into the room. As it forces Bashir away from the patient, the patient's cocoon crumbles and a glowing cosmozoan lifeform emerges. It flies away from the station and into the Bajoran wormhole, along with the cosmozoans that seemed to be guiding the new entity.
- Medical log: Supplemental--
- Jadzia would later offer several theories about the strange woman I tried so hard to save.
That the hulking brute we assumed had cocooned her was not her attacker...
... But her protector.
And that her death was part of a larger life-cycle.
As for the energy creatures that swarmed through the station-
-Those touched by their light remembered little of their experience.
Except for a distant call from the other side of the wormhole.
All they needed was a guide...
...To lead them home.
Of course, I had no way to know I almost stopped her transformation. I'd merely performed my duties to the best of my ability.
No one could blame me for my actions.
Just another day on the frontier.
Where heroes are made.
And all bets are off.
References
Characters
- Julian Bashir • Jadzia Dax • Morn • Kira Nerys • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Quark • Benjamin Sisko
Starships and vehicles
- freighter
- Referenced only
- USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)
Locations
- Bajor • Bajoran wormhole • Deep Space 9 • (Infirmary • Operations center • Promenade • Quark's)
- Referenced only
- Gamma Quadrant • Nibiru III
Races and cultures
- Andorian • Bajoran • Changeling • Ferengi • Human • Indine • Klingon • Lurian • Orion • Trill • Vulcan • non-corporeal lifeforms • unnamed races and cultures
States and organizations
Science and classification
- biobed • laser scalpel • medical tricorder • medscanner • scanner • shield harmonics • shields • tricorder
Ranks and titles
Other references
- alert status (red alert) • Bajoran ranks • Bajoran uniform • Bashir Alpha-One • brain • civilization • Federation Starfleet ranks (2360s-2370s) • foods and beverages • language • life • lifesigns • light year • log entry • medical log • medical log, Deep Space 9 • Odo's bucket • Starfleet uniform (2366-2373) • wormhole
Appendices
Related media
- TNG episode: "Transfigurations" – Zalkonians were transforming into non-corporeal lifeforms in the 2360s.
Background
- The stardate given by Bashir in his log entry places the events of the comic early in the first season of DS9 shortly after "Emissary", between "Past Prologue" and "A Man Alone".
- Writer Cavan Scott wrote: "Working with artist Joshua Hood, it’s a bit of a dream come true. I’ve loved Trek ever since I saw Wrath of Khan as a kid. The movies were my entry point into the Star Trek universe, followed by The Next Generation. By the time Deep Space Nine aired, I was a card-carrying Trekker, complete with communicator pin on my jacket and replica phaser on my desk! IDW editor supreme Sarah Gaydos invited me to pitch for Waypoint at SDCC 2015 and this is the result, a story that focuses on Dr. Bashir and is set during the first season, not long after the pilot episode, "Emissary". All the gang’s there, with appearances from Sisko, Kira, Dax, O’Brien and, of course, Odo." [1] [2]
- The comic is to be reprinted in the 2026 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Omnibus.
Errata
- Waypoint, Issue 5's introduction calls the story "Frontier Medicine".
- Deep Space 9 was shown in orbit of Bajor. However, during the events of "Emissary", the station was relocated within the Denorios Belt of the Bajor system near the Bajoran wormhole, 160 million kilometers away from Bajor.
Images
Connections
| Star Trek: Waypoint Comics |
| #1 ("Puzzles" & "Daylily") • #2 ("The Menace of the Mechanitrons" & "Legacy") • #3 ("The Wildman Maneuver" & "Mother's Walk") • #4 ("The Fragile Beauty of Loyalty" & "Mirror, Mirror, Mirror, Mirror") • #5 ("Frontier Doctor" & "Come Away, Child") • #6 ("The Rebound Effect" & "The Fear") • Special ("Only You Can Save Yourself" & "Consider Eternity" & "My Human is Not" & "Histories") • Special 2019 ("Hearts & Bones" & "Unfathom" & "The Swift Spoke" & "The First Year") |
Timeline
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous comic: Mirror, Mirror, Mirror, Mirror |
Waypoint | Next comic: Come Away, Child |
| Previous comic: Mother's Walk |
DS9 comics | Next comic: Only You Can Save Yourself |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Guises of the Mind |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: A Man Alone |
External link
- Frontier Doctor article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.