I wrote an AOS star trek fanfic recently where I used the transporters as kind of a big plot device and I also referenced Hamlet a few times. Because of that I wanted to draw something loosely inspired by the illustrations of John Austen (who did some of my favourite Hamlet illustrations), using the swirly transporter lights to get an art nouveau-ish vibe.
Also if you're interested, here's a link to the fanfic in question
I'm thinking that TOS Bones was either a surgeon (based on how he's shown doing surgery in a few episodes like Journey to Babel) or was a country doctor (which he says often) but was the type from such a rural town that he just knows everything. Need a vet? Dr McCoy. Need a paediatrician? Dr McCoy. Need literally anything but a GP/family medic? Well it's Dr McCoy or death buddy because it's a rural town and the nearest hospital is too far away even in the future. Just got the vibes that this is a rural mountain town, also this explains his accent because people from Georgia, or at least Atlanta, don't tend to have southern accents like Bones does. So either Bones had to adapt to Starfleet life or, because he's shown to not know Academy culture, he went through a sort of training program like OCS in the Navy (yes I'm using my Top Gun knowledge) which caught him up on other types of medicine necessary for the job.
For AOS Bones I don't think he was either of these, because I don't remember him talking about being a country doctor or seeing him in any particular surgical scenarios. What I can see him as is an A&E/ER doctor. He mentions doing emergency c-sections on pregnant gorn, and from what ER has taught me, being an ER resident while having a daughter and working wife can kill your marriage (Bones and Mark Greene's stories are kinda similar like that with their meeting wife early on, both having intense jobs and becoming bitter with her eventually cheating). Also, this would mean he was more accustomed to Starfleet life and instead of retraining in the Academy perhaps did a fellowship in Xenomedicine considering how much more diverse the AOS crew is than the TOS crew
Background: Sent to Beta III to establish and observe of the first Deep Space Colonies. The Colony was powered by a prototype AI invented by the head of Starfleet's Advanced Research Division, Doctor Cornelius Landru. His true goal was an experiment in population control where he would rule the populace as a god. When Landru's true plans were revealed the crew of the Archon tried to stop him, but Landru's technology was so powerful it pulled the Archon from the sky. The only survivors were those on the ground who had not yet succumbed to Landru's control. They built a temple to Landru out of Archon's remnants. The entire mission was scrubbed from Starfleet records and only existed in rumour.
Appeard in Star Trek Ongoing "The Return of the Archons Pt 1 & 2", IDW Comics
“There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are... When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath. Words I didn't appreciate at the time. But now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words: Space, The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
A disappointing "Star Trek: Legacy" update, maman. But also, we have news of a Picard movie, a Kelvinverse prequel, and a proper Kelvinverse 4th (but FINAL!?) installment? Wild happenings, maman. But wait, also, "Prodigy" is doing well on Netflix! Like. Everywhere. And what hope doth we have of Dr. Phlox making an appearance on "Strange New Worlds"? We'll see, maman.