You forgot Mark Piper from "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
Did McCoy enter Starfleet earlier in the Prime reality?
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You forgot Mark Piper from "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
^I think he's saying that live-action canon Trek conflicts the shit out of itself, and thus while all live action Trek is canon, some canon is more canon than other canon
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For example, despite the tombstone in "Where No Man...", Kirk's middle initial is "T", and Romulans had cloaking devices 100 years before "Balance of Terror", despite everyone's amazement at the "theoretical possibility" of invisibility in the TOS episode.
Oh, and I'd imagine Dr. Puri was the nuEnterprise's first CMO - since McCoy became chief medical officer when Puri died. It's the easiest, simplest explanation based on what we saw.
.For example, despite the tombstone in "Where No Man...", Kirk's middle initial is "T", and Romulans had cloaking devices 100 years before "Balance of Terror", despite everyone's amazement at the "theoretical possibility" of invisibility in the TOS episode.
Oh, and I'd imagine Dr. Puri was the nuEnterprise's first CMO - since McCoy became chief medical officer when Puri died. It's the easiest, simplest explanation based on what we saw.
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^I think he's saying that live-action canon Trek conflicts the shit out of itself, and thus while all live action Trek is canon, some canon is more canon than other canon
For example, despite the tombstone in "Where No Man...", Kirk's middle initial is "T", and Romulans had cloaking devices 100 years before "Balance of Terror", despite everyone's amazement at the "theoretical possibility" of invisibility in the TOS episode.
Oh, and I'd imagine Dr. Puri was the nuEnterprise's first CMO - since McCoy became chief medical officer when Puri died. It's the easiest, simplest explanation based on what we saw.
I don't know about this..I think the name Puri seemed like a reference to someone..perhaps a novel-based character or something.. It seems like such an unusual name in a place where they could have easily thrown in Boyce or something to give the diehards some canon porn..
Yeah I'd imagine that Dr. Puri was the first CMO as well. Regarding McCoy being scared of space...he might have a space phobia but that does not mean he hadn't taken the odd trip or two off planet prior to this for whatever reason. I think it would be more reasonable to assume that Bones avoided space travel whenever possible rather than not been in space before. A person doesn't make the kind of comments he did without maybe having first hand experience with it first. I also looked at that scene as a homage to the Original McCoy's transporter phobia.
We don't know how old the ship in the Prime timeline was - but speculation is that she had been operating for a couple of decades already by the time of TOS. Plenty of time for two or three so far unmentioned CMO characters there.
The episode calls her "the first medical officer aboard a ship equipped with warp drive". We may debate on the meaning of that - it's unlikely she was the first person ever to serve as a medical officer aboard a warp-driven ship, because she looks human and not old enough to be from the 21st century, but "first medical officer" might be her expression for CMO, dodging the problem. However, the episode never establishes that Sarah April would have served aboard the Enterprise, with or without her husband; that interpretation is only from the various novels...
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