1st episode

I just recently saw the pilot on Netflix and I don't recall what the disease was that Harry and B'lana had, or seeing a scene on how it was cured. It just seemed to not be a plot point once the away team beamed into the underground city. Does anyone know of a canon answer, not speculation?

 

They were beamed to sickbay, but other than the Doctor apparently curing it, nothing happened.

 

Somehow the EMH managed to cure the likely highly-advanced genetic augmentation/alteration/manipulation the Caretaker had done to both of them with no prior knowledge or information on just what the procedure was and treated the both of them in a matter of hours, whilst at the same time dealing with Tuvok's likely concussion and Chakotay's broken leg, all on his own.

 

That's the kind of skill he'll need to de-salamanderize people down the line...

 

I've got to find a way to drop that fantastic new word into casual conversation

 

No surprise Crusher refuses to activate the EMH: she’s scared that if people discovered how good it is she would lose her job.

 

Yeah. They never identified it. The Ocampa had no idea what to do.Beyond that, I don't think they wanted to go into it more.

We can just assume it was something easily treated by Starfleet medicine.

 

I think she still has it beat in the bedside manner department. But maybe later versions are programmed with those techniques as well.

 

I mean, the next version is Andy Dick...

 

I'd take Beverly over the egomaniac any day of the week!

 

Beverly does need to get off her high horse sometimes.

 

I'll take either of them over Bashir. But Pulaski's got 'em both beat.

 

The Doctor curing Kim and Torres that fast was something that did bother me when the pilot first aired.

But after a few weeks of seeing how much more advanced they were in comparison to everyone else in that region, definitely before they hit the Nekrit Expanse, I can easily see this being a case of Starfleet medicine being far more advanced than the rest of the region. Except the Vidiians, at least medically.

It's actually something I noticed as a big difference between Gamma and Delta Quadrant races... the level of technology.

 

Well, the Alpha Quadrant has the Federation, which is a free and democratic society.
The Gamma Quadrant has the Dominion, which is a totalitarian system.
And, the Delta Quadrant seems to be anarchy, aside from the parts controlled by the Borg.

 

Oh, come on. The quadrants are HUGE. There are probably regions within somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant that is much like Kazon/Viidian part of the Galaxy, or even the Dominion.

 

I was oversimplifying. I know about the Romulans and Cardassians, of course. But we don't seem to see anything like the Federation outside the Federation. A free and democratic alliance of star systems is a good idea, right? Why hasn't something similar established itself along Voyager's path?

 

I get that, but the shows were trying to show what set them apart, and that is a good, subtle way. Like the Gamma Quadrant being very technologically advanced.

 

There is lot more to the Alpha Quadrant than Cardies and Rommies (technically on the Beta side). There are huge swaths of the Alpha Quadrant that the Federation know nothing about.

 

People were irritated at her initial treatment of Data, but I think it gave her character somewhere to go, an arc of personal growth to follow. She was already on her way there in "Peak Performance".