Thanks for clarifying something that anyone paying attention to the movie already knew.

The poster who wrote to Trek magazine did not understand. Some would have and actually misunderstood what Kirk meant.

Even though Dr Chapel was capable to handle and treat the medical needs of the Enterprise crew, it's good to have several doctors onboard in case of a crisis with multiple wounded in need of urgent care

@VobIdem said:

Even though Dr Chapel was capable to handle and treat the medical needs of the Enterprise crew, it's good to have several doctors onboard in case of a crisis with multiple wounded in need of urgent care

They have assistants and sophisticated computers anyway. Drs are probably rare with so much more to learn. Another doctor not very necessary. Just one. Possible some Fed ships do not have a doctor just medical assistants well trained. So giving two doctors to a ship is not a practice really. It was pointed out that McCoy did do a bit of medical work. The poster seemingly liked McCoy a whole lot but she did not understand why it was necessary to bring him back.

PS It is safer to have only one doctor on ship so if it is destroyed the Federation is only out one rare physician. McCoy did not seem much to be regular Federation any longer by the time of the movie. So Kirk got a rather private practice MD to come aboard.

Trek magazine used to answer a lot of plot holes. If Kirk was never was there why was Edith Keeper killed in the traffic accident originally -- one fan wondered.Trek answered this way. Kirk having little if any movie knowledge and Edith was probably on her way to the movies by herself.

How could Edith Keeler being seeing a Clark Gable movie when he was just a bit player in films that very year-- another fan wanted to know. Trek replied Spock said Edith had gifted insight. She guessed Gable would go far in his then modest career.

In "A taste of Armegeddon" how did Scotty beam down that important Fed commissioner(?) when the ship's shields were covering the whole vessel -- another fan wanted to know. Trek replied that as the ship was never once actually under attack-- just threatened to be--I think they said Scotty cut a sort of a hole in some of the shield and shot him down to the planet.

This Trek magazine has an endless amount of plot holes to explain nowadays

You said it Vob. They also gave an explanation for no shuttlecraft in 'Enemy Within" but ironically I forget what it exactly it was (it was not that the writers hadn't invented it yet yet!).

Here is another. Why did Janice Lester record in the ship's log she took over Kirk's body? They said she was mentally ill.