Trek Medicine
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Honestly though, she was more than just a bartender. Bloody Quark is a bartender
But yeah, that's who I meant
So do Bass...and Bream...and Gar...
And humpback whales. After all, Gracie was pregnant.
How the heck does the Robbiani dermal-optic test work? https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Robbiani_dermal-optic_test Like, I know what it says it does, but how does it do that?
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Regarding Spock's Vulcan/Human anatomy, what does he get from his Human side?
From his Vulcan father, he gets the pointy ears, upturned eyebrows, green blood, blood type, and heart where Human livers are. We never learn which physical attributes his half-humanity affords him.
From his Vulcan father, he gets the pointy ears, upturned eyebrows, green blood, blood type, and heart where Human livers are. We never learn which physical attributes his half-humanity affords him.
I wonder if there are some Vulcan/Human hybrids, who are in the minority of this group, that, through recessive genes, etc, favor their Human external features (normal eyebrows, round ears), despite being half-Vulcan, so are often mistaken for full Humans. They might also face discrimination even more than those like Spock do.
Seems like human is recessive to all other species.
Half human Klingons look klingon. Quarter romulan Tarses still had slight points on his ears. Deanna had partial telepathic related abilities
Maybe Ktarians are an exception. Naomi Wildman looked mostly Human, save for her forehead horns.
I always assumed he had less physical strength than a full Vulcan, tho I don't think this is ever stated in canon.
I bet that a Klingon wouldn't necessarily agree with you. B'Elanna Torres looks more human than K'Ehleyr does, because K'Ehleyr's forehead ridges are more prominent than B'Elanna's. Maybe that's because B'Elanna's father was human and mother Klingon, while K'Ehleyr's mother was human and father Klingon, and Klingon men tend to have more prominent features than Klingon women. K'Ehleyr and Worf's son Alexander Rozhenko looks completely Klingon, except that he seems to have human teeth.
Here’s a question as it pertains to doctors in Star Trek … Are Starfleet doctors multi-discipline?
One would assume being a doctor in Starfleet means having to be competent in many, many different species (more akin to veterinary medicine) and the various ailments that affect those species.
But for long-range voyages or postings on the frontier, is it reasonable to think McCoy or Bashir are trained in something like dentistry too and technically be both MDs and DDSs? If Starfleet personnel needed a root canal, McCoy could do it since getting back to a Starbase to see a dentist might not be possible and Starfleet doctors would have to be more jacks-of-all-trades. Or is it more likely there’s a dentist on-board the Enterprise or Deep Space Nine in the background that we never see?
It’s not exactly the same, but I’m curious how the US Navy does this. Are medical personnel trained with rudimentary care in various disciplines that would be able to take care of someone till they get back to port? Or do they just put multiple doctors with different specialties on a ship’s staff?
One would assume being a doctor in Starfleet means having to be competent in many, many different species (more akin to veterinary medicine) and the various ailments that affect those species.
But for long-range voyages or postings on the frontier, is it reasonable to think McCoy or Bashir are trained in something like dentistry too and technically be both MDs and DDSs? If Starfleet personnel needed a root canal, McCoy could do it since getting back to a Starbase to see a dentist might not be possible and Starfleet doctors would have to be more jacks-of-all-trades. Or is it more likely there’s a dentist on-board the Enterprise or Deep Space Nine in the background that we never see?
It’s not exactly the same, but I’m curious how the US Navy does this. Are medical personnel trained with rudimentary care in various disciplines that would be able to take care of someone till they get back to port? Or do they just put multiple doctors with different specialties on a ship’s staff?
Has anyone ever written an in-depth critique of Leonard McCoy's medical expertise? Does it all boil down to waving hyposprays and flashing gizmos with a minimum of medical terminiology? Is he simply a country doctor in space? He does seem outclassed by all the Trek doctors since, given their prodigiously detailed medical jargon and procedures spanning multiple species. It seems a striking contrast given the brilliance we've recently witnessed from SNW's M'Benga and Chapel.
Yes, I know Trek isn't a hospital drama. Just wondering how much effort the original writers put into his skills.
And am I going to regret bringing this up?
Yes, I know Trek isn't a hospital drama. Just wondering how much effort the original writers put into his skills.
And am I going to regret bringing this up?
Here I go again, talking about my fanfics like I'm one of the published authors...
In one of my Kelvinverse fics, McCoy admits he prefers that specialists handle such things. (Dentistry, like other disciplines, has become more complicated with unique alien complications.)
Has anyone ever written an in-depth critique of Leonard McCoy's medical expertise? Does it all boil down to waving hyposprays and flashing gizmos with a minimum of medical terminiology? Is he simply a country doctor in space? He does seem outclassed by all the Trek doctors since, given their prodigiously detailed medical jargon and procedures spanning multiple species. It seems a striking contrast given the brilliance we've recently witnessed from SNW's M'Benga and Chapel.
Yes, I know Trek isn't a hospital drama. Just wondering how much effort the original writers put into his skills.
And am I going to regret bringing this up?
He mostly patches up/examines the humans, but he does manage to only call on his Vulcan specialist once out of all the times Spock gets hurt.
I wonder how those things work.
I also wonder how the Mercy Hospital staff wrote off the incidents. Given Chekov's injury was incurred during a military police chase, they'd likely chalk it up to classified (Russian?) military secrets.
Kidney lady, on the other hand, probably believes McCoy to be an angel.
I also wonder how the Mercy Hospital staff wrote off the incidents. Given Chekov's injury was incurred during a military police chase, they'd likely chalk it up to classified (Russian?) military secrets.
Kidney lady, on the other hand, probably believes McCoy to be an angel.
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