[trek-tracks]

I love that, when Trek book writers want to do a crossover between TOS and TNG/DS9/VOY characters, they have all sorts of sci-fi tricks up their sleeves to excuse their continued existence:

• Kirk? Trapped in the Nexus
• Spock? Half-Vulcan, extended alien life expectancy
• Scotty? Reconstituted from an old transporter beam

But Bones?

Bones Just. Doesn’t. Die.

Bones has cheated Death so many times that Death no longer bothers playing

[thebreakfastgenie]

Hands down one of the funniest things I’ve ever read is in Shatner’s book where Julian Bashir meets Bones McCoy and admits, to his face, that he thought he was dead.