Strange New Worlds Subtly Explains Star Trek’s TOS Enterprise Doctor Switch

Dr. Joseph M'Benga is no longer the Enterprise's Doctor in Star Trek: TOS and Strange New Worlds may have already set up that switch.

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Script by: RACHEL HULSHULT
Voice Over by: Shel @comicsUNdone
Edited by: Shel @comicsUNdone

[ScreenRant]

Would you be excited to see Bones take the helm in the medical bay?

[Screamingtut]

so who is going to play Bones? it would be cool if Karl Urban played him?

[dinomonzon]

Dr. Philip Boyce was Capt. Pike’s actual Chief Medical Officer as established by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in The Cage.
Prior to Dr. McCoy, Dr. Mark Piper was the Enterprise’s CMO under Capt. Kirk.

[MrZenmancer]

Well, also, the show takes place like 6 years before the original series. And if anyone's ever been in the real military, you would know that the entire crew would probably be completely different people after 6 years. Contracts end, people get transferred, you'd be lucky if you had one crew member that was the same after 6 years.

[kingdave]

What's probably going to happen is that M'Benga will feel the need to leave Starfleet for a while to deal with his emotional trauma, so he'll leave to do that residency on Vulcan that we heard about in TOS.

[TomD]

There were two other Doctors before McCoy on Enterprise. Dr. Boyce and Dr. Piper.

[alm]

So where does Doctor Boyce figure into this and why isn't that the obvious question?

[OpenMawProductions]

I love the silly simplicity of new thinking.

In TOS M'benga and McCoy were BOTH on the Enterprise at the SAME TIME. They pulled different duty shifts. M'Benga was on the show several times and referenced several times because they both served on the ship at the same time.

This notion that you can only have "one doctor" is such a sign of not actually thinking through how a long range deep space starship would have to work.

It's similarly how silly Star Trek got over its long run in the 90s about Sickbay. In TOS they had Sickbay and all kinds of labs that they referenced to. In TNG they had a deck of the ship dedicated to basically doing medical stuff. In DS9, we suddenly had just the infirmary. In Voyager, they almost never talk about any other medically related facilities at all. Just the sickbay with four beds. By Enterprise it was just the sickbay with the couple beds. No labs, no seconday holding facilities. Nothing.

Same with the medical staff. in TOS McCoy had technicians, nurses. The Enterprise D had at least two other M.D.s on board.

[LaurenceQuint]

Nonsensical speculation. FYI, M'Benga wasn't even the next CMO on the enterprise. That'd be Dr. Boyce, as see in "The Cage."

[kain]

When Kirk and Khan finally get it on does he scream?

[edmonk]

I stopped watch the series when the story of Nurse Chapel got sleazy, but its still interesting. The doctor had also been caught using the scotty trick of keeping his child in a teleporter.

[wadebarnett]

Did the TOS M'Benga have an accent?

[jyesucevitz]

01:30 you said the doctor didn't regret his 'decision' to kill the Klingon. which means it was murder and not self defense. he should be in prison. if you're defending your life you don't make a decision to kill the attacker first. you decide to fight back. that's all. a decision to kill has nothing to do with self defense.

[salsanchez]

WOW!!! M'Benga then McCoy???
Doctor Piper: What am I? Chopped liver??
Maybe learn alittle about the Star Trek universe BEFORE showing u dont know about the Trek universe. No wonder Ryan George started the Pitch Meeting channel for his skits. Much better out on his own

[conniernordan]

If Hollywood doesn't make this guy accountable for murder then we know how Hollywood still thinks. The Discovery series is a joke.

[neuro.weaver]

I had been one of the most fervent Star Trek fun. TOS, TNG, DS9, even Voyager and Enterprise.
However, after the STD first season fiasco, I REFUSE to allow the untalented NeoMarxists in charge at Paramount to soil my fond memories of the series.
I have my DVDs and my BluRay collections, so no one can alter them in the future.
These new series (except the last season of Picard) all ALL CRAP.