Couldn't wheelchair Pike have had a Betazoid assistant

[Christopher]

I also wonder why he was kept alive if he needed a battery driven heart. I guess no one has medical directives in the 23rd century?

"Kept alive"? You make it sound like such choices are imposed on the patient from outside. That kind of decision is up to the individual to make. The whole reason Do Not Resuscitate requests exist is because it's the exception to the normal medical rule to do everything possible to keep someone alive. Not to mention that they're intended for cases where a patient is in a permanent vegetative state or in incurable agony, not just for cases where they'd be disabled but otherwise mentally functional and able to go on living. Pike's situation as shown in "The Menagerie" was no worse than Stephen Hawking's, and Hawking managed to continue having a viable and worthwhile life for decades (and even got to appear on Star Trek). Although DSC's retcon that he was in constant agony might change that somewhat, but it would still have been Pike's choice whether or not to have a DNR on file.

 

[BillJ]

We'll get some non-sense about the chair being outdated, but Section 31 forced Starfleet to put Pike in one as payback.

 

[The Wormhole]

Commodore Mendez: We can assign a Betazoid assistant to help him communicate.
Dr. Boyce: Don't bother. The Betazoid will quit after a day of being exposed to his ignorant thoughts about women and lude dreams about Orion Slave Girls.

 

[BillJ]

Commodore Mendez: We can assign a Betazoid assistant to help him communicate.
Dr. Boyce: Don't bother. The Betazoid will quit after a day of being exposed to his ignorant thoughts about women and lude dreams about Orion Slave Girls.

I'm sure that there are sleazy Betazoid assistants out there that can turn Pike's thoughts into erotic fiction.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm sure that there are sleazy Betazoid assistants out there that can turn Pike's thoughts into erotic fiction.

Orion Yeoman: I'm sorry, Captain Pike. I know how you feel about women on the bridge.
Pike: That's right, women have no place on my bridge. But you have a place in my quarters.
-An Excerpt from The Green Yeoman, a work of Betazoid erotica

 

[MarsWeeps]

I'm gonna guess that Ariana's body, nervous system, and bone structure was so badly destroyed in the shuttle crash

Apparently her name was also.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

The Talosians presumably read Pike just fine, or the whole ending of the Menagerie is pointless. Are they that much more powerful than Betazoids?

Yes considering they could create an illusion big enough to conceal a planet. Also they tend to look better in catsuit and can fly a starship without crashing it

 

[Vger23]

considering they could create an illusion big enough to conceal a planet.

Yes sir

Also they tend to look better in catsuit

No sir

and can fly a starship without crashing it.

Yes sir

 

[Cyrus]

A Betazoid nurse, Airiam style augmentation, and other stuff were possible to help Pike. But before starfleet could implement any of them Spock kidnapped him and took him to Talos. That was the best option anyway.

 

[Dukhat]

Discovery confirmed that Betazoids were known to the Federation in the 23rd century--Harry Mudd boasted about robbing a Betazoid bank. Full Betazoids can read exact thoughts, as seen in TNG 'Tin Man'.

Why couldn't a Betazoid assistant be hired to communicate for wheelchair Pike? And Starfleet could ensure the Betazoid isn't making stuff up by asking "Chris, did your assistant accurately convey your message?" and Pike could beep yes or no.

Anything in canon that prevents this? Thoughts?

This is what happens when you make a prequel to TNG rather than a prequel to TOS.

 

[Nerys Myk]

This is what happens when you make a prequel to TNG rather than a prequel to TOS.

It's all the same continuity. Betazoid didn't join five seconds before "Encounter At Farpoint".

 

[Christopher]

But before starfleet could implement any of them Spock kidnapped him and took him to Talos. That was the best option anyway.

Was it? If they really had the technology to give him back communication and mobility and participation in society, how is it better to be returned to his former abductors to live a life of passive illusion?

It may have seemed like a better option in the 1960s, but it seems naive now.

 

[Dukhat]

It's all the same continuity. Betazoid didn't join five seconds before "Encounter At Farpoint".

When did they join?

 

[Nerys Myk]

When did they join?

The day after "Terra Prime" at 3:36pm. It was a rainy San Francisco Thursday.

 

[Yistaan]

https://trekmovie.com/2018/09/18/st...t-been-asked-to-be-part-of-new-picard-series/

Michael Dorn: I think that they have always kind of scratched the surface of the Klingons. And I really think that they should do something where…

Marina Sirtis: No, no. We know a lot about Klingons. We know nothing about Betazoids, but we know a lot about Klingons. Talk about scratching the surface. I know I had a mother, and that was it!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

When did they join?

No idea.

 

[Nerys Myk]

No idea.

Which they have in common with 95% of Federation members seen in the franchise.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A Betazoid nurse, Airiam style augmentation, and other stuff were possible to help Pike.

We know nothing of the kind.

We don't know when first contact took place between the Federation and Betazed - for all we know, it had not yet occurred as of Pike's accident. If this is so, obviously there would have been no Betazoids available to help him communicate. (It does, however, beg the question of why a Vulcan couldn't have mind melded with Pike...)

As for cybernetic augmentation: We don't know if that would have worked, either. Hell, we don't even know the precise circumstances under which Airiam underwent her augmentation (meaning, was it a direct result of the accident which killed her husband, or was it already on the books even before that, and Airiam simply agreed to become a test subject?) so obviously we also can't know if those methods could have been applied to Pike.

 

[DEWLine]

Betazed's got a history, a geography, that we know next to nothing about, despite having a member of one of its more prominent families in a core-cast role on TNG for its entire run. So, yeah, I'd be glad of some additional info about the place.

Anyway, back to our main topic...

 

[Jayson1]

At the very least you would think Pike could speak in morse code. I assume also if you can make it so someone like Stephen Hawking could sort of talk and I think they have done that with monkeys as well though I might be just be half-remembering the movie "Congo" that they could create a system to communicate better than beeps.

Jason