Could Data be a starship CMO?

[Mojochi]

I do think Data makes for an excellent neutral arbitrator or judge. A negotiator though is more like a mediator, and requires some of the same interpersonal skills a counselor would need

 

[Vanyel]

I think he could become a doctor, definitely. But I’m not sure downloading the medical database alone would be enough. Remember that Voyager episode where they loaded the database into a new hologram? It didn’t recreate The Doctor. So he’d probably need some training first. But eventually? Sure—why not. IDIC.

Harry told Tom it took the greatest holoenginers years to create the Mark 1 EMH. Harry and Tom couln't do it by themselves.

 

[Mojochi]

The real question is... Would Data be the best or worst Lucasian Chair Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge? (All Good Things...)

By this time, Data's got emotions, so his lectures wouldn't be AS boring, but now he seems incredibly pompous & a bit phony

 

[Verteron]

The Lucasian Chair is not a teaching position, it's a research position. Some of the holders of the chair have given lectures from time to time, but they're not expected to deliver a full teaching programme as part of their responsibilities.

For example, Stephen Hawking did occasionally give lectures, but due to the limitations of his condition they were usually short and his speaking device required him to prepare his remarks well in advance of any public speaking.

 

[Takeru]

Harry told Tom it took the greatest holoenginers years to create the Mark 1 EMH. Harry and Tom couln't do it by themselves.

Geordi could have done it in 3 minutes, look at how fast he managed to create sentient holograms capable of taking over the ship or interactive hot warp drive engineers.

 

[Yistaan]

How Admiral McCoy died during the Dominion War--

Scotty: Spock, with the entire medical crew slaughtered by the Jem Hadar and the EMH inaccessible, I had no other choice!

McCoy: Now I may be old, but it seems like I'll have to step up, wait what do you mean you "had no other choice"?

Data: With Captain Scott's authorization, I have downloaded the entire Federation medical database into my positronic memory, including the life experiences of all former Starfleet chief medical officers, and am now ready to act as a one android Starfleet medical care team.

(Dr. McCoy drops dead in horror and shock at how quickly he's replaced by a machine)

Scotty: He's dead Ji--I mean, Spock.

Ambassador Spock: Fascinating.

 

[korblborp]

Geordi could have done it in 3 minutes, look at how fast he managed to create sentient holograms capable of taking over the ship or interactive hot warp drive engineers.

moriarty is one those reasons why, based on other episodes dealing with artificial intelligence and what makes a life form, the D herself just might qualify.. and i've joked in other threads that leaving out key biographical details about brahms was part of the *ship's* desire to jump geordi's bones

 

[Klingon Empire]

I feel like they had this idea after the fact and went on to make the EMH. They did wonderfully with Data's development, but I do think that a medical career is uniquely human. I think Data could have rode by the seat of his pants and learned enough bedside manner to pass, but at some point he would have had to reckon and grow just like the Doctor did. I don't even think that would have played out too different to how it did for the EMH.

 

[Kor]

Assuming this as a career path and not just emergency coverage in case something happened to the ship's CMO, then I presume that as a formality he would need an MD or equivalent. He could certainly download all the knowledge and pass written tests (if a medical school would permit "testing out" of courses), but he would still need to do residency/internship/however that works for the hands-on portion to be a licensed physician, and then work his way up through medical posts with increasing levels of responsibility.

Kor

 

[Dropship]

Data sometimes begins behaving erratically in some episodes so could we trust him to operate on people with a scalpel in his hand?

 

[Mojochi]

Data sometimes begins behaving erratically in some episodes so could we trust him to operate on people with a scalpel in his hand?

Beverly had sex with a ghost. It's Star Trek. They all get wacky now & then

 

[Dropship]

In one episode Data says he and the late Tasha Yar were "intimate".
Wonder if he wore a condom?

 

[CoveTom]

Beverly had sex with a ghost. It's Star Trek. They all get wacky now & then

Also, Beverly got brainwashed by a game and deactivated Data in order to help take over the ship. So it's not like Data was the only one who has demonstrated that he can be a security risk. In fact, all of the important officers on the ship have been compromised and tried to do something nasty at one point or another. Several more than once.