This, plus in TNG the next Starbase never seemed to be more than a commercial break away.
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Well if we're gonna be like that, we might as well question why Bones only seemed to have Doctor M'Benga serving alongside him.
All of which are useless if something happens to the ships computer or power supply. See: "Contagion"
Plus, if the entire crew becomes ill then you're running your meager medical staff ragged trying to treat a thousand people across forty-two decks. See: "Angel One"
TNG's set did indeed have a door on the back wall that could have led to other medical facilities, but the Voyager's sickbay was not so fortunate; it was a complete self-contained suite of rooms. It was a smaller crew, I suppose...
Incidentally, there are several VOY episodes that show Sickbay being completely overwhelmed, and victims laid out on the floor!
Yeah, Crusher also does research in addition to practice, so her days must be about 18 hours long. Aside from her nurse in the later seasons and a few orderlies and the ghostly "Dr. Selar," who could really be anybody, I don't think Crusher has much help!
It also seems like sickbay is much smaller in the earlier seasons (to be fair, the sets were more spartan during seasons 1 and 2). In a couple of them, maybe "Tim Squared," there's like a plain beige room with a bed in the middle. Could just be the camera angle, but sickbay seems much smaller than later on.
Aside from her nurse in the later seasons and a few orderlies and the ghostly "Dr. Selar," who could really be anybody, I don't think Crusher has much help!It also seems like sickbay is much smaller in the earlier seasons (to be fair, the sets were more spartan during seasons 1 and 2). In a couple of them, maybe "Tim Squared," there's like a plain beige room with a bed in the middle. Could just be the camera angle, but sickbay seems much smaller than later on.
Yeah, Crusher also does research in addition to practice, so her days must be about 18 hours long.
AND she finds time to grow flowers, dance and conduct theater classes!
In the early seasons, they redressed the conference room as sickbay...later it got a dedicated set.
Selar isn't "ghostly". She exists. See season two's Schizoid Man.
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Good call, I haven't seen that show in years. I didn't mean to imply that she did not exist, because she is paged in a couple of shows, but only to imply that you never see her, so the good Doctor is stretched pretty thin. It would have been cool to see Suzie Plakson back as that character.
Oh, I forgot that she's a theatre and dance coach too. Yeah. Probably finds time to teach a medical course now and again!
Good call, I haven't seen that show in years. I didn't mean to imply that she did not exist, because she is paged in a couple of shows, but only to imply that you never see her, so the good Doctor is stretched pretty thin. It would have been cool to see Suzie Plakson back as that character.
Yeah, Crusher also does research in addition to practice, so her days must be about 18 hours long.
AND she finds time to grow flowers, dance and conduct theater classes!
Oh, I forgot that she's a theatre and dance coach too. Yeah. Probably finds time to teach a medical course now and again!
Close, but it was actually the other way around.
Sickbay was the standing set, but a corner of it was redressed as the conference room and a table and chairs wheeled in whenever it was required by the script. In Season Two, they built a dedicated conference room set, so they didn't need to keep redressing sickbay any more.
Actually, that corner of the Sickbay set you mentioned was the conference room by default; you can see the masked-out windows above the beds every time there's a scene with our good doctor. Also, the four beds never lined up correctly with the 7 (viewport) alcoves, making the whole Sickbay arrangement seem untidy.
Trekcore's gallery seems to be down at the moment, so here's a link to the set plan instead - notice the dotted line where the gallery of starships goes, as well as the ramp which our intrepid crew use to return to the Bridge after meetings.
In Season 2 both Sickbay and the Observation Lounge got proper, original sets.
Trekcore's gallery seems to be down at the moment, so here's a link to the set plan instead - notice the dotted line where the gallery of starships goes, as well as the ramp which our intrepid crew use to return to the Bridge after meetings.
In Season 2 both Sickbay and the Observation Lounge got proper, original sets.
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