Did anyone ever consider or pitch such a book series? It seems like most Starfleet crews just solve their own mysteries. I can imagine that maybe security chiefs of far-traveling ships might also be the agent aflight. I know there's a reference to the SCIS in a corps of engineers book, according to memory Beta. I just wonder why this concept never became more than an idle thread of plot.
I presume you mean SCIS as a Star Trek equivalent to NCIS? I'd be interested to see one book just to see how they operate, but I don't see the concept gaining enough traction for a while series.
I could see this as, say, a bimontly ebook novella series. That might be quite fun. Seems like the kind of thing Dayton Ward would love to develop.
If we're talking about a mystery/crime investigation series, I think I'd rather have it revolve around Odo.
Might be a nice idea for a one-off. But I don't think it would need a series. I remember being unsure I was even going to read The Case of the Colonist's Corpse. I ended up liking it better than I thought I would, but not enough to want another.
I've often thought it would be fun to get an anthology that showed us stuff like this, just other aspects of life in the Federation or Starfleet that couldn't necessarily sustain a series or even a full length novel, but are still fun and interesting.
That'd be an excellent premise if they do another collection. A whole volume of Articles of the Federations and Colonist's Corpses, either short stories or novellas. Might get around the fact that, IIRC, the smaller-scale, one-off novels like those didn't sell as well.
Hmm. The only "SCIS" I ever had any content with was "Science Curriculum Improvement Study," a series of packaged elementary school science programs (with a strong emphasis on the biological sciences) from the early 1970s.
Then there was that time that a candidate for Federation President, over the objections of her advisors, put forth a platform to combine the Starfleet Criminal Investigative Service with the Starfleet Operational Research Section. This was widely considered to be a terrible idea, and it cost her the election. And that is why you should never run with SCIS-SORS.
If you're interested in medical stories IDW did do a miniseries by John Byrne that focused on McCoy between TOS and TMP. I haven't read it myself, so I'm not really sure how much of it actually revolved around medical issues though.
And there was a special issue or something with the medics from all five series but I'm not sure how much it involved acutal medical issues. Maybe it was just everybody being grumpy. I think the name was "Stone and Flesh" or something like that.