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"The Rebound Effect" is a Waypoint comic set in the The Original Series. It is the first story in Waypoint, Issue 6, published in July 2017 by IDW Publishing in honor of Star Trek's 50th anniversary. This story focuses on Nurse Christine Chapel.

Description[]

Nurse Chapel questions whether or not to continue her medical training until a shuttle incident prompts her to make decisions that will forever change her future.

Summary[]

Christine Chapel participates in a three-day medical conference at a K-class spacedock, where she attends Doctor Traff's lecture on nanoparticle research. Afterward, Traff personally thanks USS Enterprise Crewman Skov for his role in upcoming peace talks between their two warring reptilian species. Skov and two others then lrave with Chapel aboard the Galileo. Shortly after launch, Skov collapses onto the controls, nosediving the shuttle toward a planet. Chapel manages to crash land, send an SOS, and start treating injuries before indigenous creatures attack, then struggles to keep them at bay until they can all be rescued by the Enterprise.

Stardate 2942.1. Nurse's Medical Log:
The Enterprise has reached the rendezvous site in the Varanu system in time to host armistice treaty negotiations between two warring factions.
I would have hated to be the reason we didn't get here in time...

While the shuttle's crew are being treated in sickbay, the Enterprise prepares a conference room for Skov's and Traff's races. Skov seems healthy and departs to attend the meeting. Suspicious of his quick recovery, Chapel asks Leonard McCoy to scan her for foreign agents, locating nanoparticles in her bloodstream. Chapel recalls the technology from the medical conference and realizes Skov has been infected with a viral agent to sabotage the conference.

By the time they get to the room, most of the participants are unconscious, and Skov is dead.

Stardate 2943.6. Medical log:
Fortunately, I took excellent notes during Dr. Traff's talk.
This allowed us to reverse-engineer an antidote via the same pathway that had introduced the infectious agent.
The initial sickness had been an immune response. The real danger came later, as Traff had planned, when the virus replicated enough to interrupt a three-chambered heart. He will pay dearly for what he did.
Speaking of hearts, I can't help thinking mine belongs right here, light years from civilization
Where I can treat a scraped knee, protect a wounded comrade, and thwart an attack on a peace treaty...
All in one day.

References[]

Characters[]

Christine ChapelEpJames T. KirkLeonard McCoySkovSpockTraffT'Wek

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • Galileo (class F shuttlecraft)

Locations[]

K-class spacedockunnamed planetVaranu system (Varanu planet)

Races and cultures[]

HumanSkov's speciesTraff's speciesVulcan

States and organizations[]

FederationStarfleet

Science and classification[]

antidotebiofilterdiagnostic bedflarelaboratorymedscannernanoparticlephaserscannertransportertricorderweapon

Ranks and titles[]

crewmandoctornurseprofessor

Other references[]

armisticeassignment patchatmospherebloodcivilizationconferenceconference roomdaydiplomacydistress callFederation Starfleet ranks (2260s)heartlight yearlog entrymedicalmedical log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)minutepeaceraces and culturesrankreptilerocksickbaySOSspacespeciesStarfleet ranksStarfleet uniformStarfleet uniform (2265-2270)treatyviruswar

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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:
Come Away, Child
Waypoint Next comic:
The Fear
Previous comic:
Come Away, Child
TOS comics (Waypoint) Next comic:
The Fear
Previous comic:
Boldly Go, Issue 10
Boldly Go
TOS comics Next comic:
The Fear
Previous story:
first story
Stories by:
Corinna Bechko
Next story:
Unfathom
chronological order
Previous adventure:
What Fools These Mortals Be
Memory Beta Chronology Next adventure:
Court Martial

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