Star Trek Special: Flesh And Stone To Bring Together Every Star Trek Medical Officer

IDW Publishing has announced Star Trek Special: Flesh and Bone, a new comic book bringing together all six of the medical officers from Star Trek's various televisions series for the first time. The issue is inspired by the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a worldwide competition in which 30 teams will compete to create a mobile device capable of diagnosing and interpreting medical conditions and health metrics in a fashion similar to Star Trek's Tricorder. "While XPRIZE is currently catalyzing a future where a Tricorder-like device is a common household item, we are thrilled to have inspired this parallel Star Trek story centered around the use of the Tricorder, further blurring the line between science fiction and reality," said Rob Hollander, Vice President of Brand & Content for XPRIZE. Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone will be written by Scott and David Tipton. The issues takes place at a Starfleet medical conference, which is crashed by a deadly metamorphic virus.  The EMH and Doctors Beverly Crusher, Julian Bashir and Katherine Pulaski (with some help from Leonard McCoy and Phlox) join forces in a race against time to find a cure –  only to discover that the answers lie in another place and time! The clock is ticking and only the medical officers of Starfleet can save the day. "There aren't very many 'firsts' left in the world of Star Trek," said Scott Tipton. "So when IDW and XPRIZE came to us with the opportunity to team up all six of Trek's doctors for the first time, how could we say no?" "The tricky part is how to get them together, since some of them are separated by about two hundred years," added David Tipton. "How does it happen? You'll just have to wait and see…" Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone will be released this July.