Jetal & Transporter Suspension.
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In Counterpoint they did say that being in suspension was dangerous.
But only up to a certain point. They broke all the rules of "Realm of Fear" with the prolonged suspension of "Counterpoint" already, and wouldn't have needed to break much more to keep Jetal alive for the duration of the surgery.
The mothership also had those nifty stasis chambers of "One" fame available. But the away team where Jetal supposedly was hurt did not, nor did they have the big transporters of the mothership available. Perhaps it was too late for stasis when the victims reached Voyager, for medical reason X?
More probably, rigging the transporters to safely do what they did in "Counterpoint" would be the time-consuming hurdle that would cost Jetal her life.
Still, the point is valid: triage should be massively affected by the Trek elements of transporter suspension and stasis.
Timo Saloniemi
The mothership also had those nifty stasis chambers of "One" fame available. But the away team where Jetal supposedly was hurt did not, nor did they have the big transporters of the mothership available. Perhaps it was too late for stasis when the victims reached Voyager, for medical reason X?
More probably, rigging the transporters to safely do what they did in "Counterpoint" would be the time-consuming hurdle that would cost Jetal her life.
Still, the point is valid: triage should be massively affected by the Trek elements of transporter suspension and stasis.
Timo Saloniemi
Using transporter suspension to aid in triage seems like an interesting idea but not entirely safe. If you're in a battle the systems could be damaged and you would loose the patterns.
As if TNG's "Relics" hadn't happened. They could just use the shuttle's transporter. Throw the ol' gal into diagnostics mode on repeat, and keep Jetal in there indefinitely...you know, until they need her again.
For that matter, why not just restore her to an undamaged, earlier state, such as how Dr. Polaski was cured of her rapid aging.
If I was a genius Starfleet Medical officer in the 24th century, I would just build a "Healing Pad" using transporter technology. Whenever someone is critically injured, lay them on the pad and restore. It's like factory resetting your phone or restore to an earlier date on your Mac.
But just like restoring your phone, you loose everything you had saved since the last restore point
Better than being dead, no?
That's okay. You get to keep all the important stuff.
I suppose then the next step would be constant background updates and patches hogging your resources.
Here's a dumb question - while the Doc was performing the spinal shunt, a "too-complex procedure" on Harry, why couldn't have Tom also started waving a flashlight thingy around Jetal's head? Oh that's right, he was a pilot, so that was too complex for him. And they needed a pilot to assist in sickbay because no one else on a crew of 140+ had spare time to read a medic field manual. Like, say, Tal Celes, Billy Telfer or Mortimer Harren - who were clearly instrumental in their own highly-technical duties and wouldn't have any affinity for assisting with waving flashlight thingies over cuts and scrapes. Great job, CHAKOTAY. Oh, and nice job, STARFLEET ACADEMY FIELD TRAINING.
Here's a dumb question - while the Doc was performing the spinal shunt, a "too-complex procedure" on Harry, why couldn't have Tom also started waving a flashlight thingy around Jetal's head? Oh that's right, he was a pilot, so that was too complex for him. And they needed a pilot to assist in sickbay because no one else on a crew of 140+ had spare time to read a medic field manual. Like, say, Tal Celes, Billy Telfer or Mortimer Harren - who were clearly instrumental in their own highly-technical duties and wouldn't have any affinity for assisting with waving flashlight thingies over cuts and scrapes. Great job, CHAKOTAY. Oh, and nice job, STARFLEET ACADEMY FIELD TRAINING.
I don't think it would have been a good idea to have your chief pilot have to be your chief medic as well. I don't think it was ever anything in canon that there was someone else there on a regular basis. Plus there's that time Doc was away from the ship in Lifeline. And what the heck were they supposed to do when he wanted to leave them for good in Virtuoso.
Not to mention that at the time of Latent Image, Kes was supposed to still be on board. Didn't they say it was before Seven came on board? Yes, yes, I know Jennifer Lien may not have been available to guest star at time but there was no in-universe explanation for why she wasn't there. She had been required to do some kind of similar surgery when the Doctor's program started degrading in The Swarm.
It's certainly possible but seems to be risky as well. Even in counterpoint it's mentioned they can't keep putting the telepaths in suspension indefinitely so they need to get out of Devore Space ASAP.
I imagine say by the 26th century the transporter tech would allow this sort of thing to be achieved.
I imagine say by the 26th century the transporter tech would allow this sort of thing to be achieved.
And in the 29th century, they can "reintegrate" multiple versions of the same person back into one.
I hear the procedure is painless...
It was part of Tom's reformation.
Janeway: "Hey Tom, I hear you had some medical training at the Academy"
Tom: "Huh? I had one semester of"Good! You'll be our new Nurse!"
Tom: "ma'am?"
Janeway: "Dismissed"
"...and don't call me ma'am"
I hear the procedure is painless...
It was part of Tom's reformation.
Janeway: "Hey Tom, I hear you had some medical training at the Academy"
Tom: "Huh? I had one semester of"Good! You'll be our new Nurse!"
Tom: "ma'am?"
Janeway: "Dismissed"
"...and don't call me ma'am"
Having rewatched Counterpoint its stated that the telepaths were beginning to suffer cellular degradation as a result of being suspended.
Somebody as badly injured as Jetal was put into transporter suspension would likely face worse complications.
Somebody as badly injured as Jetal was put into transporter suspension would likely face worse complications.
It seems to me that if Dr. Crusher on TNG can bring back 3 completely dead people who were cryogenically frozen for centuries that they could come up with something similar as a temporary solution for Jetal until the Dr. could get to her.
It's just a case of fictional Trek technology being able to be improvised for anything needed until it's required by the plot for it not to.
It's just a case of fictional Trek technology being able to be improvised for anything needed until it's required by the plot for it not to.
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