That wouldn't have been possible even if she stayed until the end of the series, given she wasn't introduced until the second season. So at most you'd get six seasons of Pulaski.
"I have never met a more dedicated physician."
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Should have and Could have are two different things.
She should have been introduced in Farpoint, with Admiral McCoy coming to see off his granddaughter. The cast would have had no reasons to feel a certain way about her, and the Data stuff would have happened at the beginning of the series. Its a Feature, not a Bug applies - she would have been an instant fan favorite.
This thread prompted me to rewatch the episode after many years. It's never been one of my favorites.
I agree that Troi's response was an equivocation. Maybe she was going to provide more comments, but they were interrupted.
And, as others have posted, the mechanics of how Pulaski was saved are problematic.
I'm sure others have noticed this before, but something hit me with this viewing that I don't think I ever noticed before. Pulaski asked Picard for permission to take a shuttlecraft with the boy so only she would be at risk. Then she immediately brought Data along as well. It turns out he was immune, but they were being very careful, and no one knew for sure that he would be safe. I'm surprised Picard didn't object to this later.
I agree that Troi's response was an equivocation. Maybe she was going to provide more comments, but they were interrupted.
And, as others have posted, the mechanics of how Pulaski was saved are problematic.
I'm sure others have noticed this before, but something hit me with this viewing that I don't think I ever noticed before. Pulaski asked Picard for permission to take a shuttlecraft with the boy so only she would be at risk. Then she immediately brought Data along as well. It turns out he was immune, but they were being very careful, and no one knew for sure that he would be safe. I'm surprised Picard didn't object to this later.
But that ignores the context of how the character was even created, specifically in this case when they had to create a new character to be the ship's doctor in the second season, they decided in reaction to fan response to the first season this new character should be more in line with a TOS character. They would not have thought up such a character when planning out the first season because they were trying to distance the show from TOS to be its own thing. And for that very reason, even if Pulaski were there in Farpoint, they most certainly would not have made her McCoy's granddaughter. One of Roddenberry's first rules for TNG was that there wasn't to be those kind of connections to TOS.
well yeah, thats why i said should, instead of would, or even could. I have never agreed with most of Roddenberry's rules. He SHOULD have had a TOS lineage character in there from the beginning. Shrug. (and they referenced TOS in the second episode, so they never listened to their own rules anyways.) The first two seasons had a lot more TOS dna in it then what came later, and it is why they are my favorite seasons.
Dedicated means putting a lot of time and effort in. Essentially it’s like ‘hard-working’.
People often say I’m a dedicated teacher. I’ve never taken it to mean ‘better than others’, just an indicator that I work hard and 99% of the time tend to make sure that the job gets done.
People often say I’m a dedicated teacher. I’ve never taken it to mean ‘better than others’, just an indicator that I work hard and 99% of the time tend to make sure that the job gets done.
More Dedicated than Beverly?
Although Kate did listen to Deanna swear about killing all men for 18 hours, while they delivered little Ian... Unless it was a magic birthing that lasted 4 minutes?
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I don’t know, Guy.
I don’t even really know why I’m having this conversation at all… I think I posted in this thread when I was high.
I don’t even really know why I’m having this conversation at all… I think I posted in this thread when I was high.
What I am really asking is If Kate is the better Doctor, maybe the better character, were we worse for wear, cheated, when Crusher returned in season 3?
Further more if Picard and Pulaski hooked up, bumping Bev, then no Jack Picard/Crusher means no silly Borg plot in season 3 of Picard, and the entire season would have just been about the Riker Family Pizzeria.
yeah,. even in the tightest of fictional universes, some whoopies do come about. Better accidental than deliberate, but either way the end result can still be just as or even more engaging. Which is why I always watch in broadcast order (TOS>TNG/DS9/etc/etc) as the new ideas invariably stemmed from the old and not vice-versa. Unless one's Doctor Who, but nobody has a time machine... and if we all had one, we'd be living in a different world. Mine would have Professor Arturo, Maggie, and ALF in it, but I digress...
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Isn't a Therapist a Physician?
Isn't a Therapist a Physician?
They're certain within the general professional group with physicians but even IRL there are significant variations across different countries and time periods.
In the US until fairly recently, a licenced therapist (sometimes known as a counsellor) was typically a psychiatrist, so would also be a qualified physican.
OTOH, in the UK, a therapist is universally a "second/post-graduate degree" (typically a Masters) building on experience in various mental health fields including psychiatry, clinical psychology, mental health nursing or occupational therapy.
Some states in the US are now following something similar to the UK model, at least as far as independent therapist/counsellors go, though I believe that psychiatrists are still favoured in the hospital setting.
Given that neither Deanna or Ezri are referred to as "Doctor" (and Ezri is only an Ensign, an unlikely rank for a qualified service physician), IMO it's more likely that they qualified as non-physician therapists, likely but not definitively with a degree in psychology.
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