Phillip Boyce

"A either man lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on, and licks it. Or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."

- Philip Boyce to Christopher Pike

Dr. Philip Boyce was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the mid-23rd century. He served in the sciences division aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) under Captain Christopher Pike. He served as ship's Chief Medical Officer in 2254.

Boyce was an acerbic realist who did not hesitate to tell Captain Pike when he thought Pike was wrong. He was known to carry a portable martini kit with him, reasoning that, "sometimes a man will tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor." In this capacity, Boyce counseled Pike to remain in the service when Pike confided in him, in 2254, that he was considering retiring. Boyce realized that Pike's sentiment was stemming from a recent incident on Rigel VII in which three Enterprise crewmembers, including Pike's own yeoman, were killed, an incident on which Pike blamed his own complacency.

Shortly thereafter, Boyce was a member of a landing party which investigated the apparent existence of survivors of a crashed survey expedition on planet Talos IV. As such, he reported to Pike on the extraordinary health of the survivors, despite them having supposedly been stranded for eighteen years. Later, when it became clear that the existence of survivors was an illusion created by the Talosians for the purpose of abducting Pike, Boyce participated in a staff briefing, cautioning the crew as to the dangers posed by the Talosians' mental powers. 

Footage of his experience aboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike during the original visit to Talos IV, from thirteen years prior, was transmitted from that planet during Spock's fictional court martial aboard the same ship in 2267.