The Orion hypnosis might be chemical in nature, distinct to male physiology, and therefore not be dependent on a person's sexual orientation.
It is amazing enough that what works on Orion males would work on even a single human, let alone on all humans of one gender.
Good shout - didn't think of that.
I would then add that it should be able to differentiate as presumably a Klingon heart beats differently to a humans, to a Vulcans etc etc
Dr. McCoy commented on the differences in the Vulcan heart, the Vulcan blood pressure, and the Vulcan heart rate. In "The Trouble with Tribbles" he scanned someone with a medical scanner and took less than a minute to declare they were a Klingon.
The lack of any kind of video monitoring for critical areas drives me nuts, one could almost forgive TOS, but in “Court Martial” they show it exists.
It was quite inconsistent:
In "The Menagerie Part 1:" the screen showed a scene on the bridge of the Enterprise from "The Cage" Kirk wondered about their cource:
KIRK: Screen off. Chris, was that really you on the screen? (flash) That's impossible. Mister Spock, no vessel makes record tapes in that detail, that perfect. What were we watching?
MENDEZ: Captain Pike, were any record tapes of this nature made during your voyage? (flash, flash) The court is not obliged to view evidence without knowing its source.
They continue wtaching the scene on the Bridge, and then see a private discussion between Captain PIke and the doctor in PIke's quarters. And i think that would have been a good time for a discussion of where the images they saw were coming from, because it would seem unlikely to record events in private quarters.
Though shown before "Court Martial" , "The Menagerie Part 1:" was filmed later. I note that the records of the events on the bridge in "Court Martial" are all shown from the overhead angle, except when Lt. Shaw asks the computer to show a different angle. Apparently there were several cameras recording from different angles on the bridge.
And the scenes from "The Menagerie Part 1:" were different, they were edited like scenes from a movie or tv show, which they were. So maybe Kirk knew where all the cameras on the Bridge were and knew that some of the shots were from angles where there weren't any cameras.
That is the point I'm trying to get at (and I think we are talking at crossed purposes) - the reason for Bashir lamenting it is because the writers didn't get just how much data can be stored and on how small a device.
Considering a mutli TB harddrive can fit in my pocket I'd expect a ship's computer to easily manage it - except at the time this was unthinkable and so the writers came from that perspective.
Apologies if I'm not explaining myself well
But at the time that was not unimaginable. Humans remember only a tiny amount of what they experience. But over a human lifetime that totals to be a imense amount of data. And yet science fiction writers are constantly imagining alien lifeforms which have just as much intelligence and reasoning capacity as humans and just as much memory storage as humans with brains the same size as humans. And science fiction writers constantly imagine robots which have the same intelligence as humans and humanoid aliens, and just as much memory capacity, with brains the same size.
You know, robots like Data, for example.
Apparently television writers imagine that a computer devoting all its volume to computing would have to have a volume the size of a building, becuase computer parts are so much less efficient than biological brains, but if you build a robot body the size of a man with most of its interior volume occupied by a power supply and the eqivalent of muscles and bones, the tiny computer brain you squeeze into the space left over will magically become many times more efficient and equal to a human brain.
