Backwoodsman

A backwoodsman was a term to describe someone who was reared in a remote, uncivilized or backwoods area.

When the created on Excalbia proposed that he could slip into the enemy camp and and free the Excalbian copy of Surak. When James T. Kirk disagreed with Lincoln's idea, Lincoln responded that he himself, or at least the counterpart from which he was based on, was "something of a backwoodsman", and that he doubted that Kirk "could do what I was bred to do".