McCoy figured him out in 5 seconds!
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My point exactly. Who the fuck passed Arne Darvin on his physical.
At least there you could maybe see someone being able to sneak though the medical exam. Since they are still fairly close genetically.
Vulcan. Though I will point out that Romulans are Vulcan. They're the same goddamn species.
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^^^It is clear that Federation/Starfleet Medical simply doesn't give a shit. Going all the way back to Arne Darvin.
Though the big one is still Voq/Ash Tyler from Discovery.
IDK - The Klingons went through (and put Voq/Tyler) through great pains to hide the fact he'd been transformed.
All it too for Arne Darvin to be discovered was McCoy doing a standard scan with his Medical Tricorder.
When you've done that much damage to a body to transform it, I don't really see how you could hide it to any great degree. Especially from sensors. Even if they could, it seems like they would've done the deep tissue scan or whatever it was Culber was doing immediately when they got Tyler back from the Klingons. Because it took like five seconds for him to figure it out, at that point.
That was one of those things where I don't think the writers really thought through what they were putting out there.
With transporter and synthisizer/replication tech - I think you could say it's doable.
Is it too soon to point out that the first two series on All Access have pulled the same trick?
It is clear that the All Access team has no plans on reinventing the wheel. They have elements they like to use and are going to beat them to death. I imagine we see a lot of the same tricks on the Section 31 series.
To be fair though, if there's an infiltrator (like Oh) this far up and with sufficient security clearance, making sure that your chess pieces aren't compromised is so much easier.
Perhaps there was never any need to scan Darvin closley, he was after all just an assistant to the Undersecretary of Agriculture.
Not really an auspicious position.
It works if Admiral Clancy really does know who and what Commodore Oh is. And before anyone starts with "why would the head of Starfleet knowingly allow a spy to run Starfleet Security" I'll point out that just a century earlier Starfleet chose a known enemy spy to become the director of their black ops division.
Thing is, the tells that gave Darvin away were his heart rate and body temperature weren't human norms at all, and McCoy figured that out with one scan with a tricorder. Tyler was scanned by a shipboard medical computer three times before Culber found scarring that warranted further investigation. You seriously telling me that a shipboard medical computer aboard one of Starfleet's most advanced ships can't detect a human patient doesn't have proper heart rate or body temperature three times?
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Why would they need surgery?
Because Romulans are not Vulcans. They just have pointed ears, green blood, and slanted eyebrows.
I trust you to see the difference.
I trust you to see the difference.
Kind of hard to explain why a Vulcan has a mourning tattoo.
None of the Romulans we see are sporting them.
Watching Episode 2 again. Oh chastises Rizzo for almost blowing their cover. Which implies she is a deep cover Romulan as well.
Considering the Control business in DIS, the various evil androids and AI in TOS and Lore in TNG, wouldn't the Federation have learned a lesson about it already, too? If the Vulcans way back likely before there were really Romulans yet had a bad experience with AI or androids or robots or whatsoever, why not be open about it? That might have stopped some mistakes the Federation has made with unnatural life forms.
If they go the TOS and ENT route and it seems they do, no need for a surgery. Biological speaking Vulcans and Romulans are the same. Surak has only lived 2000 years ago and that was when the Romulans left Vulcan, because they didn't like his logic approach. None of the Romulans we have seen so far has that big TNG bulge thing in their face, so I think the PIC makers chose to ignore the mistake TNG made there.
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Yes, IF they have knowledge of how to fool medical scans. Look "Trouble With Tribbles was a comedy episode - but in other 'Spy' type episodes, said spies WERE able to trick/fool equipment on all sides because they had been prepared. It seems TNG fans think the tech is sooo perfect, nothing can fool it. <--- Were that the case, there should be spies ANYWHERE - but even in TNG there were - so yeah, the equipment shouldn't be foolproof.
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