Spoilers What is it?
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Whatever it was, when they came down from it they were so hungry they could eat a horse. And did.
Don't tell Pike.
Don't tell Pike.
I am reminded of the scene from the very first TNG episode where Q accuses Picard of how soldiers used to dope themselves up with literal "liquid courage" during age of the atomic horror. Too bad Q didn't point the M'Benga/Chapel scene as humanity's act of hypocrisy...
It wasn't so much "liquid courage" so much as it was a means for the military to control the soldiers through drug addiction. Similar to the Dominion using ketrecel white to control the Jem'Hadar. The fact the soldiers could get high in battle/while facing death was just icing on the cake.
Cut scene from Encounter at Farpoint --
Q snaps his fingers and an elderly black man and elderly white woman show up at the court.
M'Benga: What's going on? I was waiting for Leonard's return to the retirement home after he visited the new Enterprise.
Chapel: Joseph, you're here too? I was trying to convince my husband not to run off to Romulus...
Q: And now you old fools, you will tell Captain Picard here how you shamefully went on a 'roid rage against a group of Klingons 104 years ago!
Picard:
I mean...soldiers using "liquid courage" is about as old as civilization itself.
I've never seen one before, no one has, but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
A white hole?
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe, a white hole returns it.
I'm not sure what a white hole has to do with the drugs Chapel and Mbenga injected themselves with, but here you go
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
I thought it was pretty obvious, it's a performance enhancing drug with a temporary lifespan that they used previously during the Klingon war during the battle M'benga was talking about in the episode. It probably has some severe side effects which is why it's not something they wanted to take and only used as a last resort. I'm sure it will come up again.
Yes, it turns Chapel from a strong, outgoing, extroverted willful woman into an introverted wallflower pining for Spock. And as for M'Benga, well obviously something happened to result in him not being CMO anymore in TOS.
Pretty much summarizes it.
A more senior officer was assigned. It happens. It is not punitive.well obviously something happened to result in him not being CMO anymore in TOS.
Boy, I can't imagine any traumatizing experience that could possibly cause such a personality shift. I mean, she obviously never experienced deep and painful loss or anything. The mind is a mysterious playground.
Or they ignore that, because it sucked.
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Maybe M'Benga gets/re-ups his certification in his Vulcan medicine specialty when he (and maybe Chapel) are sent to a Vulcan rehab center to re-learn self-control after the long term side effects kick in.
Maybe he can work with T'Pring
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