I take it you forgot Whom Gods Destroy?
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You mean the third season episode that takes place 2 years AFTER TOS - The Menagerie and 13 years after the events in ST: D?
That psychiatric institute didn't spring up overnight you realize...You mean the third season episode that takes place 2 years AFTER TOS - The Menagerie and 13 years after the events in ST: D?
Don't think they were doing any rewiring in that episode, What ever treatment was being use didn't seem to work very well. And the one Kirk brought was in the form of medicine. So not that different than today's use of chemicals to "cure" mental illness.
Not sure if the same treatment would work for Pike. He didn't seem to suffer from any mental illness.
I find the idea of rewiring the brain to cure people to be troubling.
The cure may well turn out to be worse than the "disease"...
Nah, those spores are locked in a warehouse next to all the androids.
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Yeah, but who is taking care of it?
Top men.
Section 31, apparently. I mean, they're perfectly trust worthy, right?
And for whatever reason, Pike could turn his wheelchair and move it forwards, but he could move it backwards only slightly. Slightly?!?
The idea that Federation medicine knew how to tie into the brain only as well as that and to make Pike beep once for yes and twice for no was itself never believable. The only way "The Menagerie" could begin to make sense is if you ignore what McCoy said about the general limitations of Federation knowledge about tapping into the brain and then, say, posit instead that Pike's condition is a result of the particular kind of radiation he was exposed to. You just straight-up posit that he's incurable by the black box of Treknobabble and the unspecified lingering effects of the "delta rays." Then, not even the spores can cure him.
Delta radiation is secondary Beta radiation, lower energy secondary emission fermions (normally electrons) ejected by neutron decay. But Muon and Tau emission could be different?
That was known even in the 60's. There's no explanation for Pike's condition being specifically what it is.
That was known even in the 60's. There's no explanation for Pike's condition being specifically what it is.
These delta rays are different.
I doubt they put much thought behind the name,
There was nothing hooked into his brain either, more like they had something implanted in his hands so when a nerve impulse hit the now useless muscles, something lit up. That's how bizarely simple his chair was, kind of weird they'd do that instead of just assign him to a bed in a private ward on the starbase.
They said that the chair was under control of his brainwaves.
MENDEZ: And totally unable to move, Jim. His wheel chair is constructed to respond to his brain waves. Oh, he can turn it, move it forwards, or backwards slightly.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/16.htm
Oh, my god. That's a thing....
The chair is actually a shapeshifter. The Changelings were trying to infiltrate through an alliance with the Talosians.
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