Clearly because the newer shows aren't True Star Trek.
The Sickbay Questions
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Sorry, I know a full time nurse takes YEARS of school, even a EMT. Or Fireman requires YEARS of training to get good enough to treat people. No disrespect intended.I'm so sick of disrespectful posts like this. I'm a nurse, I trained for years to become one, then even more to become a specialized nurse, I keep taking courses every year to keep my knowledge up to date but apparently none of that is important because everyone can be a nurse.
A botanist has no qualifications to work as a nurse, none! And the only reason you suggested it is because you have no idea what a nurse actually does but assume it can't be particularly hard, do you have any idea how offensive that is?
Which is the problem with trek in that reguard, in that a number of the shows had a dismal showing in that there was only 1 or a few to treat a whole crew.
What i meant is something along the lines of corpsman where a person is trained in a number of specialties where there main thing is botany or some other specialty, but there secondary is medical training. Be it emergency/red alert station or in medical helping out when needed.
They wouldn't be in the Sick bay treating the hard cases. Theyd be the ones running the gurnies, running the medical tricorders and depending light medical like analgesics, pain medicine, staunch blood etc. Which is only a modicum of training compared to full nurse. And they'd take shifts in Sick bay to continue training.
I apologize if you thought I was trivializing nurses snd there training.
@Takeru
I guess my feeling was, what I was thinking is like a submarine, How say you have a Sonar Operator, yes he/she is trained in that respect, but, there also ON a Submarine, and they have to get weeks of training on how to Fight Fires, leaks, escape drills, Etc. That was my Feeling on Starships.
Yes the person is a Botanist, but they are also on a starship, so they would have training, and remedial training on Fires, Air leaks, Etc. and be trained on a secondary Occupation for emergency's. Say Emergency Repair Teams for Engineering, or As Emergency Trauma Teams, Or any of probably a dozen areas that would be needed during a Red Alert/Battle situation. There's only so many crew, and they have to wear many hats to make the ship go. So a person during an alert won't just got to his/her room and lock the door, they'd lock down what they were doing, then go to there alert stations, Botanists, Psychiatrist, Contact specialist, etc. would have alert stations.
Some of those alert stations would be in Sickbay, as said, maybe just as an EMT Team to go to places that may have casualties, they would be trained in first aid, and to stabilize to transport to Sickbay. They wouldn't be full doctors or nurses, but would have a good amount of training. They would also have the remedial training, maybe shadowing nurses and doctors in sickbay, other training on a continuing basses.
Used to work security, for various places, and I was the First line of defense in medical emergency's I was CPR trained, other classes on safety, and how to treat other problems. Basicaly try to stabilize the patient before the EMT gets there. Usually just handing out band-aids, but any heart attack, broken bone, etc. I was sent to help. This was usually just to get information to relay to the Emt's, but sometimes preform CPR, or other life saving measures. I had maybe a couple weeks training, with a week every year for remedial. Not saying I'm an EMT or anybody else, just saying that as an example of how a ship crew could be cross trained for emergency use.
And thanks for taking up the hard task of Nursing!!
I guess my feeling was, what I was thinking is like a submarine, How say you have a Sonar Operator, yes he/she is trained in that respect, but, there also ON a Submarine, and they have to get weeks of training on how to Fight Fires, leaks, escape drills, Etc. That was my Feeling on Starships.
Yes the person is a Botanist, but they are also on a starship, so they would have training, and remedial training on Fires, Air leaks, Etc. and be trained on a secondary Occupation for emergency's. Say Emergency Repair Teams for Engineering, or As Emergency Trauma Teams, Or any of probably a dozen areas that would be needed during a Red Alert/Battle situation. There's only so many crew, and they have to wear many hats to make the ship go. So a person during an alert won't just got to his/her room and lock the door, they'd lock down what they were doing, then go to there alert stations, Botanists, Psychiatrist, Contact specialist, etc. would have alert stations.
Some of those alert stations would be in Sickbay, as said, maybe just as an EMT Team to go to places that may have casualties, they would be trained in first aid, and to stabilize to transport to Sickbay. They wouldn't be full doctors or nurses, but would have a good amount of training. They would also have the remedial training, maybe shadowing nurses and doctors in sickbay, other training on a continuing basses.
Used to work security, for various places, and I was the First line of defense in medical emergency's I was CPR trained, other classes on safety, and how to treat other problems. Basicaly try to stabilize the patient before the EMT gets there. Usually just handing out band-aids, but any heart attack, broken bone, etc. I was sent to help. This was usually just to get information to relay to the Emt's, but sometimes preform CPR, or other life saving measures. I had maybe a couple weeks training, with a week every year for remedial. Not saying I'm an EMT or anybody else, just saying that as an example of how a ship crew could be cross trained for emergency use.
And thanks for taking up the hard task of Nursing!!
Absolutely. It wasn't until I watched one of these virtual tours where I realised the scale of the D and the facilities that it would have onboard. The main shuttlebay is like an airport.
I thought you were just alluding to how Tom Paris was a pilot but also Voyager's backup nurse in the early seasons and so they might have trained up other people to be backups when he couldn't be there or after Kes left the ship.
