So now we know without a doubt M'Benga is chief medical officer, and he's not just a doctor working under an unseen CMO (Boyce or Piper). What in the galaxy happened between this show and TOS that results in M'Benga losing CMO job to McCoy?
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M'Benga could simply have decided to go onto another assignment or something to not be on a starship for a while?
He does a residency on Vulcan
Looks like an emergency situation. Cots are a simple design for a reason.
Agreed. A great choice.
Cots must LEVITATE!
And have blue glowy bits!
THAT is a 23rd century cot design.
Slackers! #ShowRuined
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Now, every little bit I find myself refreshing YouTube, just to see if a new character trailer has come up!
It looks like a nice hybrid of the TOS Sickbay and Phlox's from ENT. And M'Benga's office is a near-replica of McCoy's complete with the shelving for alien skulls and knicknacks.
As well as knicknacks found in alien skulls and trumpet mutes!
Sorry, but while maybe you can claim by the 24th century, the Federation no longer use the money; in the 23rd century of Pike and Kirk's time, the Federation definitely still used money and money was specifically referenced in many a TOS episode.The Enterprise (and maybe Starfleet as a whole) obviously went through some severe budget cuts (yes, the Fed don't use money but they still use assets and resources) between Pike and Kirk.
McCoy in TOS implied at least once that some data had to be processed in "the lab," which could have been an unseen room of his Sickbay and analogous to some of what we see M'Benga operating in during the SNW timeframe.
Nothing says it wasn't.
Hell, after TOS I had the impression she was. Works for me.
No, we had no data one way or the other. At least now we can stop arguing about it.
It would make sense that the Constitution-class starship that had served so prominently under Robert April and Christopher Pike would be the flagship by the time James Kirk took command. Also, it's the same name as the United Earth Starfleet flagship of a century before, one of the most important exploratory vessels in human history.
Why not make the Enterprise NCC-1701 the flagship? She has a history both direct and indirect.
Why not make the Enterprise NCC-1701 the flagship? She has a history both direct and indirect.
And she was the one assigned to some of the most dangerous or prestigious missions through the course of the series (M-5 simulation, the assignment Kirk diverted away from in "Amok Time" with the ship being the representative of Starfleet, etc.)
And the way Kirk's career is referenced by future Starfleet officers and historians there's no way the Enterprise wasn't at the forefront of Federation news on many occasions, thus being the face of Starfleet. The flagship.
Okay, can we applaud M'Benga using glass beakers and flasks like McCoy's Sickbay in TOS? That is so retro that outside of Phlox in ENT we just don't see much if anything of Starfleet chief medical officers using standard lab equipment and breakables.
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