I like those beds. As for the center, some sort of storage behind and to the sides of the nurse station, under the window, might work well. Or as they said above carts or things like that.
Or they could just beam them?Automated rolling beds that take you back and forth from surgery.
Or they could just beam them?
There are multiple instances of "beam them directly to sickbay/the bridge/etc" as well as people being beamed onto various locations on ships without the need for a transporter pad either on the sending or receiving end (such as in "Face of the Enemy" when the Romulan dissidents are beamed from a cargo bay of a Warbird directly onto the bridge of the E-D, or "The Homecoming" when Li Nalas, Bashir and a nurse is beamed from just outside the runabout pad to the infirmary).The vagaries of intraship beaming would require that all beds, cots, gurneys, operating tables, etc. be transporter pads. And after performing surgery on someone, it's usually a bad idea to curl them up into a ball for transport (of any kind). You know, so they'll fit the pad.
That's hilarious!I'm starting to think you people can't tell when I'm joking.
When the E-B was rescuing the Lakul survivors they were beamed direct to sickbay.IIRC, intraship beaming wasn't a thing until TNG
That would make sense as an intermediate step between how beaming was portrayed on TOS vs. the TNG era. And in TMP they had that mini-transporter on the bridge where they could beam tools and stuff (though that was still from one pad to another; a far cry from being able to beam someone from A to B without them ever setting foot on the transporter pad).Since Sickbay would be a common designation for emergency beaming, maybe Sickbay is outfitted with some sort of transporter pattern enhancers to help inter-ship direct beaming.
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