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This Side of Paradise and Pike

Should have sent Nog to Omicron Ceti or Baku

As long as we're on the subject of Trek ignoring miracle cures it's established, what about the transporter? Transporters could be amazing for medical treatment -- if you can edit someone's pattern in the beam to filter out disease organisms or deactivate weapons, then it should be possible to edit an injured or failing organ back to a healthy state, replace a lost limb, etc. Trek writers so rarely consider the potential of transporters for more than transportation.
 
Leila Kalomi is about due to turn up and meet Spock...I can totally see that happening in SNW season 3.

I mean, TSoD takes place in 2266, Leila met Spock 6 years before that, and I believe SNW has now reached 2260, so...? ;)
 
Having the parallel of both of them in alternate pairings would be an exploration - Chapel's relationship that took, until Korby was tragically lost, and Spock's, that didn't, until later when spores intervened,
 
I wrote a fanfic where McCoy finds out, much to his chagrin, that he has to have his new tonsils removed, too.

I doubt he was there long enough for his tonsils to grow back. He was only under the spores' influence for maybe a day or so. It's not magic -- even if the spores could restore a body to perfect health, it would take time for the body's metabolic and cell-growth processes to complete the work. By analogy, even the implausible fountain-of-youth energies on the Ba'ku planet in Insurrection only gradually regenerated Geordi's eyes over the course of a few days.
 
I doubt he was there long enough for his tonsils to grow back. He was only under the spores' influence for maybe a day or so. It's not magic -- even if the spores could restore a body to perfect health, it would take time for the body's metabolic and cell-growth processes to complete the work. By analogy, even the implausible fountain-of-youth energies on the Ba'ku planet in Insurrection only gradually regenerated Geordi's eyes over the course of a few days.

Actually they did grow back:

KIRK: I've heard that word a lot lately. Perfect. Everything's perfect.
MCCOY: Yeah. That's right. That's just what it is.
KIRK: I'll bet you've even grown your tonsils back.
MCCOY: Sho'nuf. Hey, Jim boy, y'all ever have a real cold Georgia-style mint julep, huh?
 
For what it's worth, my story in the current issue of STAR TREK EXPLORER magazine has Kirk running into a displaced colonist who is not happy about having been evicted from "Paradise."

"You ruined my life, Kirk!"

Surely someone's written up a list at some point of everyone whose lives Kirk has (allegedly) ruined? :)
 
I just checked -- both of the first two Compendium editions contain the same text stating that the spores were a communal intelligence in the original draft, and that they were revealed at the end as benevolent entities that hadn't intended harm. It also says that in the original version, they were able to resurrect the dead. So they probably could've cured Pike if that had been the case.
I'm sure that when you leave, whatever was healed remains healed; why wouldn't it?
Thank you, CLB and "Cap'n Claus"; just seeing this thread, I knew that quite some time ago, somebody had publicly suggested Omicron Ceti III as a possible source of healing for Pike, but couldn't remember who or where.
 
I've read it. :) I was a little disappointed that in the end they dodge the question, IIRC.
Not really. They explore the consequences of his coming, how there was eventual peace on Eminar VII once they got over being at war again. Kirk saves the Klingon ambassador's life, and remarks how despite his more physically frail appearance compared to others he gets things done. Maybe not the best way, but with results.
 
Again, that only seems like a valid possibility because the lines about them being sentient parasites were cut. Because those lines are in the Blish adaptation, I always used to assume they were in the episode and was surprised when I saw people postulating your idea (or maybe it was you in some earlier thread). I just took it for granted that it was understood the spores were mind-controlling, that it was basically an organic analogy of Borg assimilation.
I had a similar thing happen with the DC Comics adaptation of Star Trek III written by Mike W. Barr. In the scene where David tells Saavik that he used protomatter in the Genesis matrix, he explicitly says that his mother knew nothing about it. For years I remembered that line of dialogue being in the movie because I'd read the comic far more than I'd rewatched the movie.
Leila Kalomi is about due to turn up and meet Spock...I can totally see that happening in SNW season 3.

I mean, TSoD takes place in 2266, Leila met Spock 6 years before that, and I believe SNW has now reached 2260, so...? ;)
They should leave that alone.
I'm certain that they won't. SNW doesn't really pass up any chance for Spock to get emotional.
 
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