Episode "Latent Image"

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Episode "Latent Image" visual effects

An article on the visual effects of the episode "Latent Image"

Blood and Guts: Star Trek Voyager Builds Character from the Bones Up
Feb 1, 1999
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_blood_guts_star/index.html

they depict a 3D, "holographic," and layered representation of internal anatomy

Digital Muse "built" Star Trek character Harry Kim from the bones up.

The finished shot, which involved four layers of nerves and veins, five muscle layers, and 15 layers of internal organs, was resolved back into the plate photography of Harry Kim.

More details at the article.

 

[Jaespol]

The episode made little sense for this reason-

The story flashback was set in the 3rd season yet Kes was nowhere to be seen and its likely she could have performed the procedure therefore completely wiping the whole story and the dilemma.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Picardo really hit one out of the park with this episode. I think he was at his best here.

 

[exodus]

The episode made little sense for this reason-

The story flashback was set in the 3rd season yet Kes was nowhere to be seen and its likely she could have performed the procedure therefore completely wiping the whole story and the dilemma.

Sorry but that doesn't make any sense.

The Doctor is a machine. So he would require an engineer to cure him, not a nurse schooled in biological medicine.

However, if the EMH were true. He'd be happy to know you think of him as real.

 

[Jaespol]

The episode made little sense for this reason-

The story flashback was set in the 3rd season yet Kes was nowhere to be seen and its likely she could have performed the procedure therefore completely wiping the whole story and the dilemma.

Sorry but that doesn't make any sense.

The Doctor is a machine. So he would require an engineer to cure him, not a nurse schooled in biological medicine.

However, if the EMH were true. He'd be happy to know you think of him as real.

Erm, please read my post again carefully.
I'm clearly referring to the procedure that needed to be administered to both Harry and the other ensign.
Paris obviously couldn't perform the procedure on both ensigns at once but with 3 years of intense medical training and a photographic memory, I imagine Kes would have been up to the job of curing one of the ensigns while the Doctor cured the other - thereby eliminating the doctor's dilemma and the entire premise of this episode. They should have just set it a bit later.

 

[exodus]

The episode made little sense for this reason-

The story flashback was set in the 3rd season yet Kes was nowhere to be seen and its likely she could have performed the procedure therefore completely wiping the whole story and the dilemma.

Sorry but that doesn't make any sense.

The Doctor is a machine. So he would require an engineer to cure him, not a nurse schooled in biological medicine.

However, if the EMH were true. He'd be happy to know you think of him as real.

Erm, please read my post again carefully.
I'm clearly referring to the procedure that needed to be administered to both Harry and the other ensign.
Paris obviously couldn't perform the procedure on both ensigns at once but with 3 years of intense medical training and a photographic memory, I imagine Kes would have been up to the job of curing one of the ensigns while the Doctor cured the other - thereby eliminating the doctor's dilemma and the entire premise of this episode. They should have just set it a bit later.

That depends on if Kes had the skills for that type of surgery.
Kes was only a nurse, not a surgeon. So the answer most likely was no.
Besides, most modern medical dramas show there's difference in a medical doctor and one quilified to be a surgeon.

 

[Jaespol]

Judging by the advanced medical knowledge Kes expressed in several episodes including "The Gift" where she could identify a particular nerve in the brain (quite advanced) I imagine she could have at least had a good "stab" at the procedure, it didn't look that complicated either...shine light into back of someone's neck.
She should have been around at the time anyway...they really should have just set it in season 4.

 

[exodus]

Judging by the advanced medical knowledge Kes expressed in several episodes including "The Gift" where she could identify a particular nerve in the brain (quite advanced) I imagine she could have at least had a good "stab" at the procedure, it didn't look that complicated either...shine light into back of someone's neck.
She should have been around at the time anyway...they really should have just set it in season 4.

She probably was but that doesn't mean she wasn't also on an away mission at the time as well.

While she was onboard, she was also co-responsable for the supplies w/ Neelix as well.

 

[Jaespol]

It seems irresponsible for the second most experienced medical person to be away from sick bay in an emergency, it was just clumsy writing. Still a good episode despite that blemish.

 

[JB2005]

Judging by the advanced medical knowledge Kes expressed in several episodes including "The Gift" where she could identify a particular nerve in the brain (quite advanced) I imagine she could have at least had a good "stab" at the procedure, it didn't look that complicated either...shine light into back of someone's neck.
She should have been around at the time anyway...they really should have just set it in season 4.

She probably was but that doesn't mean she wasn't also on an away mission at the time as well.

While she was onboard, she was also co-responsable for the supplies w/ Neelix as well.

I think the point was it was a surgery the doctor had invented and so he would have had to talk somebody through it, something he couldn't do if he was performing it at the same time.

It was one of the better Episodes of Voyager in my opinion, Picardo really did a sterling job.

 

[exodus]

It seems irresponsible for the second most experienced medical person to be away from sick bay in an emergency, it was just clumsy writing. Still a good episode despite that blemish.

Nobody can predict an emergency.

Another good point: JB2005

 

[Jaespol]

It seems irresponsible for the second most experienced medical person to be away from sick bay in an emergency, it was just clumsy writing. Still a good episode despite that blemish.

Nobody can predict an emergency.

Another good point: JB2005

They would have known about who was coming into sick bay in enough time for her to get there.

 

[exodus]

It seems irresponsible for the second most experienced medical person to be away from sick bay in an emergency, it was just clumsy writing. Still a good episode despite that blemish.

Nobody can predict an emergency.

Another good point: JB2005

They would have known about who was coming into sick bay in enough time for her to get there.

If so, she would have been there.
It still doesn't address what JB2005 added to the conversation.
The point is, even with Kes there it wouldn't have made the situation any better. This was a lesson of you can't save everybody, the EMH would eventually have to learn.

 

[Jaespol]

Oh yeah he invented it...but that doesn't mean Kes didn't know it, she still would have been around to do nursing duties, Tom Paris wasn't nurse/co-medic at that time. Tom Paris being the doctor's helper or whatever never made much sense anyway.

 

[exodus]

Oh yeah he invented it...but that doesn't mean Kes didn't know it, she still would have been around to do nursing duties, Tom Paris wasn't nurse/co-medic at that time. Tom Paris being the doctor's helper or whatever never made much sense anyway.

Well niether does Kes becoming just a doctor with all her abilities to be so much more but once again, this is still fiction. So the issue of Kes not being there should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[JB2005]

Oh yeah he invented it...but that doesn't mean Kes didn't know it,

Doesn't mean that she did either...there's a revolutionary proceedure where a heart and lungs can be transplanted simultaneously...only a few surgeons in the world are qualified to do it, and no nurses/trainee doctors can...