It's a union thing....
Joking aside, in some cases it may be too dangerous to transport someone who is injured critically, who knows what kind of mess comes out of the transporter.
Just Go To Sickbay!
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It's a union thing....
Joking aside, in some cases it may be too dangerous to transport someone who is injured critically, who knows what kind of mess comes out of the transporter.
Actually, I'm still disappointed they never found a way to use the transporter as a critical stasis unit. I mean Scotty stored himself in there for like 80 years lol
It was only 50% successful I think Lieutenant Franklin deserves better.
Think positively. It was 100% successful, every other time.
Actually wasn't the quote that it was only 50% genius? I'd agree with that lol
But it did work, & with people studying it, might be workable
Think positively. It was 100% successful, every other time.
Actually wasn't the quote that it was only 50% genius? I'd agree with that lol
But it did work, & with people studying it, might be workable
I was paraphrasing.
Not sure I would trust sickbay. Crusher once let a virus ridden Geordie just waltz out of sickbay which almost lead to the ships destruction
Well, it wasn't really a virus.
But she did once, somehow, inject Barclay with something the spread to the whole crew that caused them to "de-evolve" into animals.... Because those kinds of chemicals are just laying around Sickbay.
But she did once, somehow, inject Barclay with something the spread to the whole crew that caused them to "de-evolve" into animals.... Because those kinds of chemicals are just laying around Sickbay.
There are two other doctors on the ship, not to mention the probably dozens of nurses needed to staff sickbay around the clock.
What's your point? Bev, the CMO, always seems to be the one treating minor scrapes & aches the main cast have, which is logically unlikely, unless that's what she/they want for those top crew members. There's really no reason why Dr. Selar wouldn't also, just as a matter of dumb luck, been the one to draw the short straw, now & then, to be on hand to treat the nothing stuff our heroes come in with.
& once K'ehleyr wasn't going to be back on the show, I really would've liked to see Suzie Plakson reprise Selar here & there. She'd have made an excellent Reg Barclay, Ro Laren size character to add. It would've added more to Suspicions, for sure
I can imagine there were more than 3 doctors on board the Enterprise. Maybe Beverley mentioned Dr. Selar and [other doctor] in Genesis because they were well versed in weird, viral or mutagenic infections?
But yeah, for obvious reasons it's always Dr. Crusher, no matter if the ailment requires an operation or warm milk.
And yeah, I would have liked to see more of Dr. Selar as well. It took us till ENT to get a female Vulcan character with some prominence and well...that was ENT...
But yeah, for obvious reasons it's always Dr. Crusher, no matter if the ailment requires an operation or warm milk.
And yeah, I would have liked to see more of Dr. Selar as well. It took us till ENT to get a female Vulcan character with some prominence and well...that was ENT...
Selar doesn't seem to be a particular specialist, but either a generalist ala Crusher or a geriatrics/geronotologist (given that she was chosen to treat the aged Graves in The Schizoid Man) but it's possible that Doctor Hacopian is, in fact s/he might not even be a general practice MD, but rather a specialist virologist. As far as general rostering goes, I made the following on an earlier thread on a similar topic:
What do you consider limited time off for doctors? because I have to figure since all medical staff can't work the entire 24 hour day, you either divide up those numbers per shifts, or more likely factor in similar numbers for at least 2 other shifts. So I'd be apt to think there's likely an entire medical staff of like 60 - 80, maybe even 100, which would make a 1% ratio to lives aboard.
So maybe a potential of like a dozen or so docs, the ones who we've heard by name Hill, Harcopian, & Selar being the ones Crusher herself most routinely works with, but if there were a major crisis they could call in the others from all shifts, & then also employ EMHs, even though Crusher seemingly never uses them lol,
but if you had a major medical event, that brought in hundreds or thousands, you'd need something along those lines, a dozen or so docs, with 3 to 5 staff for each, emergency protocols that might employ regular crew to serve in medical capacity (Like Worf in Disaster) & lastly, using EMHs to make up for the influx
There are a little bit over thousand people on the Enterprise, right? Only few doctors might not be enough in an emergency, there must be more, just not mentioned on screen.
There just have to be more than three doctors for a Starship of ~1000 people with 24 hour operation time. Especially considering that Beverley likes to put in Bridge Time when she can. Only because the other doctors aren't mentioned, doesn't mean they don't exist. We have to account for TNG being a TV show that, logically, focuses on the main characters. There's little reason, most of the time, to show doctors that aren't Dr. Crusher.
Just like there would have to be more therapists/psychiatrists than just Troi.
Just like there would have to be more therapists/psychiatrists than just Troi.
The transporter feedback loop thing is one of those things they used conveniently then forgot existed, like the youth drugs. Yeah, with more research they could have made it work.
Not to mention Our Man Bashir proved you COULD have cold storage of transporter patterns. Just 5 people took up the entire memory of the station and holosuite.
Not to mention Our Man Bashir proved you COULD have cold storage of transporter patterns. Just 5 people took up the entire memory of the station and holosuite.
Then Rascals showed you could make someone younger just by removing a certain amount of some genetic code.
A lot of these type of things are presented as being an utter fluke they worked (like Scotty and the transport buffer) but then in many cases it easily undone so it seems like something that could be more common.
A lot of these type of things are presented as being an utter fluke they worked (like Scotty and the transport buffer) but then in many cases it easily undone so it seems like something that could be more common.
Yeop that and Thomas Riker proves that they could have potentially resurrected deceased people from their most recent transporter patterns. For all of Trek's claims that their transporters don't make copies they do seem to be able to.
Could have given the little boy in the Bonding his mother back, could have resurrected Tasha.
Even if we go by the "no copies" the patterns could have potentially been used to repair damage to the body and maybe restore brain function.
Of ocurse that would have created huge problems for storytelling.
There has to be Ferengi scientists somewhere studying all these incidents and trying to learn to sell immortality for profit.
Not to mention from Picard
Not to mention from Picard
how much people would pay to be made into androids.
Riker wasn't duplicated from a recent pattern but a second transport beam that reflected off a planetary atmospheric shield. We don't know where his mass came from... The shield? But it was a little more complex than just using his last pattern and having a ton of energy to waste. Even the incident with Picard needed his "essence/energy" to come into the transporter buffer and use his pattern to reconstruct him
True the mass has to come from somewhere...but they do have replicators. The bigger problem would be that the person would be a clone, not the original. If we do bring the idea of an individual "essence" into it, it gets very messy.
But still it might be possible to restore the bodies of freshly deceased people to life using transporter patterns.
But still it might be possible to restore the bodies of freshly deceased people to life using transporter patterns.
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