No privacy curtains in sickbay?

[locutus101]

Yes, we always think that things were always the way they are today. I remember when my sweet 90+ grandma told us how she drowned kittens in 1920 and how normal that was.
....

Well, if we didn't do any kind of birth control we'd soon be knee deep in kittens. Necessity is the mother of... things that happen.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And imagine if they saved a civilian ship with children on board. While a six year old child is being treated for a broken arm, she/he has to watch the quartermaster be treated for an abdominal wound?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well, if we didn't do any kind of birth control we'd soon be knee deep in kittens.

I can definitely think of worse things than KITTENS to be kneedeep in.

 

[locutus101]

I can definitely think of worse things than KITTENS to be kneedeep in.

You've never been in a room strewn with cat crap.

 

[locutus101]

And imagine if they saved a civilian ship with children on board. While a six year old child is being treated for a broken arm, she/he has to watch the quartermaster be treated for an abdominal wound?

That's definitely better than the reverse!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yes, but the poor kid having to see that is still traumatic.

 

[locutus101]

Yes, but the poor kid having to see that is still traumatic.

Well maybe they use holographic projectors, besides, bashir healed a broken bone in about ten seconds, that's hardly enough to justify taking up a bed.

 

[Elder Knight]

I'm picturing Picard unhitching and letting flow mid negotiations. It has to be Picard, with Kirk it seems just a little too feasible.....

I've read that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson liked to continue discussion with subordinates (i.e., everybody) with him (the Leader of the Free World) sitting on the toilet, just to intimidate them.

 

[Nebusj]

Yeah I mean who wants to be gawked at (or the feeling of being gawked at) during their annual prostate or vag exam? No one. And how convenient that on Voyager for an example, the EMH was rarely if never too busy to have one patient in the room at a time to allow optimal privacy (excluding emergency of course)

Well, given a ship with about 400 people, and an annual exam being done about once every 365 days, it seems privacy during a routine exam could be arranged just by booking a morning and an afternoon screening.

Voyager I think had a crew around 150, which makes it even easier to avoid crowding sickbay for routine scheduled checks.

 

[locutus101]

Well, given a ship with about 400 people, and an annual exam being done about once every 365 days, it seems privacy during a routine exam could be arranged just by booking a morning and an afternoon screening.

Voyager I think had a crew around 150, which makes it even easier to avoid crowding sickbay for routine scheduled checks.

Plus you can get the doctor's operatic performance to boot!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Plus you can get the doctor's operatic performance to boot!

Imagine The Doctor's rendition of "Tro lo lo".

I suppose you could even examine a crew member in their personal quarters if it was a big deal. What if every bed were a limited-function biobed in a pinch?

 

[TommyR01D]

It was rare that we actually saw much in the way of intimate inspection during any Star Trek series. The closest examples were crew members giving birth, but they tended to happen outside of normal situations anyway.

 

[locutus101]

It was rare that we actually saw much in the way of intimate inspection during any Star Trek series. The closest examples were crew members giving birth, but they tended to happen outside of normal situations anyway.

There was Keiko O'Brien in Ten Forward if memory serves and then Kira in her quarters and then Samantha Wildman and B'elanna Torres in sickbay Was there anyone else?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Winona Kirk. (though not in a series), Kes giving birth to Linnis

 

[Mytran]

I remember being quite surprised when Neelix started saying how ugly the infirmary's ceiling looked. It's true though that the ceiling is normally the great unseen.

Except in Voyager (and TNG) sets, the ceiling mostly consisted of giant light panels (actually stretched muslin to hide the studio lights). Why does that make them so ugly?

 

[locutus101]

Winona Kirk. (though not in a series), Kes giving birth to Linnis

Oh yes the beginning of ST09, how could I forget?

As for Kes I had forgotten about her and of course there was also Linnis off screen but I my defense it sort of never happened...

 

[Nyotarules]

There's no way of knowing that. Not so long ago some people thought that women would always be treated as men's social inferiors for example. There will always be people incapable of foreseeing change no matter how ineluctable that change is.

Not all change is good, I have no desire for defecating to be shared publically or for nosy people to have a right to my personal privacy

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It was rare that we actually saw much in the way of intimate inspection during any Star Trek series.

It doesn't have to be intimate. It's just you feel awkward about being seen by other people, or frightened, or any number of things. When you're hurt or sick, you don't always think rationally. ("He/she/it's not watching me.") If you were delirious, thrashing about, and talking out of your mind, and someone else (not a medical staff member treating you) overheard/saw you, and later when you were better and able to think, it would embarrass the heck out of you, whether you were enlightened or a free spirit or not.