What, did they job swap again?
Spoilers I think Dr Pulaski died between Season 2 and 3
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No. Not in the show at least. The only time Pulaski is mentioned after Season 2 is in "Who Watches the Watchers" where her memory erasure technique is discussed.
The fact that her departure was never explained is why there's so much fan speculation as to the reason.
So, even the "transferred to another assignment" is just speculation by Memory Alpha? Could she even, I don't know, without necessarily be dead, leave Starfleet and open her own medical practice on some colony?
Going from the show it's never been explicitly mentioned. Barring that one, brief mention in Who Watches the Watchers (where her whereabouts or reason for leaving are never mentioned) it's like if Pulaski Never existed as far as the later seasons are concerned. Even Doctor Selar gets mentioned more.
Her being transferred somewhere else is by far the most likely situation in-canon. But going strictly by what's said and shown on the show we have no clue what happened to her.
Precisely. And we can have fun with it, ranging from the happy (she fell in love, got a big promotion, ???) to the not so happy (she died, got demoted, was court martialed, whatever) to the downright silly (she fell down a turbolift, got eaten by a static warp bubble, etc)
Perhaps her fate was more mundane than those you mention, and she simply ascended into a higher dimension, as several other Trek characters have done.
Now that's, by a wide margin, the most unlikely scenario suggested in this whole thread.
And even if, she'd have divorced them in time for Season 3 :-P
Disagree. She's mature, not dead.
I've heard this joke forever, but I'm only just now watching LA Law. I figured this was something that happened before she played Pulaski, but it actually turns out that the elevator incident would have happened well AFTER any potential turbolift incident haha. I"m about to start the season where she is introduced actually.
I didn't mean her age
. Just that, like I've mentioned several times in these forums, Pulaski strikes me as perhaps the most sober, unromantic character in Trek as far as her personality is concerned, so I doubt she'd let 'love' remove her from a position like CMO of the Federation's Flag Ship.
Or used the wrong antidote. Oooops.Now i know what happened. She drunk too much klingon tea with Worf
Since it's dropped off the splash page and it's topic appropriate, here's a link to my recent parody on the subject: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/someone-ate-pulaski.313715/
I didn't mean her age
I don't know, she was pretty erm, 'romantic' about Riker's dad...
But even that was pretty anaemic and sober.
I am not sure what standard you are using to judge....but, pretty sure she straight up let him kiss her on the lips in front of dozens of colleagues after like a decade of not seeing each other, which seems actually nuts now that I am older.
She's not really dead, as long as we remember her.
I mean to be fair, we have this confusion in current day navies, e.g. why isn't USS Nimitz called USS Chester W. Nimitz when the other carriers named after people have their full names?
It could be a combination of policy tweaks over the decades of ships being put into service, or just whoever sponsored the dedication picking whatever they thought sounded nicest, or even the individual's wishes before they passed away.
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