Voyager's "Medical Staff"

[Bry_Sinclair]

No assumption whatsoever.

(Kes returns the PADDs.)
KES: I've finished these and I'm ready for more.
EMH: You've finished those already?
KES: I enjoyed studying anatomy. It would be interesting to see an autopsy sometime.
EMH: What are the bones of the middle ear?
KES: Malleus, incus and stapes.
EMH: And the connective tissue between the middle and the external auditory canal?
KES: The tympanic membrane.
EMH: Hmm. I suspect you have an eidetic memory. An astonishing gift. I'll do a full neural scan on you at some point.

Can you imagine Kes running into sick bay every morning for months always with the same question... "Has someone died yet who I can pull to pieces for fun?"

She could've gotten bored waiting and bumped off an unwitting redshirt

Also for a species that lives only nine years and develops to adulthood within their first, they would have to be able to absorb and store a considerable amount of information quickly and easily, so in that regard she is the best candidate to train as a medic.

What about the ship's life science specialist (the biochemists and xenobiologists onboard) wouldn't they have made decent medics, already knowing some of the basics. Then there are going to be those who underwent the same emergency medical course Worf did, making them basic field medics. Then there is the Juliet Jurot conundrum.

 

[USS Triumphant]

You'd think Kes would have warned Janeway then about considering training more people.

If she could even get to Captain Sad Sack, locked in her quarters and crying in a dark corner for months like she was.

then maybe they'd have brought in Andy Dick full-time

Impressive. You've come up with a potentially realistic way that they could have made Voyager dramatically worse. :shudder:

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Maybe they all died in "Caretaker". All the medical personnel! And science officers...

 

[RCAM]

What we needed to see is the EMH hovering over one injured crew member while his 7 arms are snaked out all over sickbay attending to multiple other injured crew members (which he can see through his hands). Because he totally could do this.

Undoubtedly. The question is, though, should he? How many humanoid types would feel comfortable with what amounts to an Elder God (or at the very least, a Thermian) waving wandage in their faces?

Again, we keep with what is comfortable & familiar so as to soothe the senses despite the enhanced abilities & efficiencies of modified types. Otherwise, why not just make the EMH take the form of sentient holographic gas? That would certainly be the most efficient diagnostic form.

I didn't say he should be doing 7 pap smears at once. If you're INJURED you will feel comfortable being treated regardless of what form the medical personnel are in.

Laughed out loud at this.

 

[MacLeod]

^That Year of Hell episode (from Kes' point of view) showed how bad it could be without the Doctor. You'd think Kes would have warned Janeway then about considering training more people.

Perhaps she tried, but made the mistake of broaching the topic before Janeway had her coffee.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Good thing we never lost the Doctor's program (meaning...good thing Robert Picardo never quit). Everyone would have died!

 

[MacLeod]

Nah, they would just have done what they did with The Doctor and re-cast the EMH, same character but different face.

 

[bbjeg]

Or replace him with an alien doctor that chose to join Voyager on their trip, for whatever reason. For some reason, I'm thinking El-Aurian. That would have been interesting.

 

[exodus]

Or replace him with an alien doctor that chose to join Voyager on their trip, for whatever reason. For some reason, I'm thinking El-Aurian. That would have been interesting.

Meh.
Why not make it Hirogen.
Think of how much more fun it would be trying to teach him how to sew up a patient instead of gutting and eating them?

 

[bbjeg]

^Are you asking why shouldn't they make a Hirogen a doctor, or giving a reason.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Nah, they would just have done what they did with The Doctor and re-cast the EMH, same character but different face.

There was a show called "Collector" about a thousand year old Monk who collects damned souls for the Devil...

Every week, the Devil is played by a different actor or actress.

What if the doctor was constantly changing his face?

 

[JD5000]

Good thing we never lost the Doctor's program (meaning...good thing Robert Picardo never quit). Everyone would have died!

It's not unreasonable to think that about the possibility of the Doctor 'decompiling himself' after beginning to understand how he was regarded by all his peers as a mere function of the ship, not as a person. Or some of the situations where he was saved from being decompiled by sinister forces, some of which were his own unintentional impulses.

As someone else said, if Picardo had quit and someone else had to take on the Doctor role, I'm sure they would have found an alien or altered his backup program somehow. Paris clearly couldn't have cut it, he would have been one of his first fatalities.

Meh.
Why not make it Hirogen.
Think of how much more fun it would be trying to teach him how to sew up a patient instead of gutting and eating them?

We already see Hirogen scientists and engineers. Although we don't see a doctor, it's a pretty logical extension. I think Hirogen probably think of doctors the same way Klingons do - possessing the necessary skill to put a warrior (or hunter) back into the thick of things. Not necessarily a focus on prolonging a peaceful life, like most Star Trek species we see.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

What if the doctor was constantly changing his face?

aaaaaaaahahaha..

 

[USS Triumphant]

What if the doctor was constantly changing his face?

aaaaaaaahahaha..

Good catch. I somehow missed that, while thinking about the idea that Strax (or a very similar character) would have made a good replacement for Picardo's Doctor had one been necessary.

 

[Shik]

Actually, had Picardo left & they decided to Neelix themselves a medic, I'd've liked to see a Vidiian in the post.

 

[MacLeod]

Perhaps one that could have treated Jane's caffine addiction.

 

[bbjeg]

Actually, had Picardo left & they decided to Neelix themselves a medic, I'd've liked to see a Vidiian in the post.

That would be neat but I'd rather see a healthy/cured one, one who joined after the crew cured their planet perhaps. I'd rather not deal with jigsaw face episode after episode.

 

[JD5000]

That would be neat but I'd rather see a healthy/cured one, one who joined after the crew cured their planet perhaps. I'd rather not deal with jigsaw face episode after episode.

I'm sure the makeup artists would have agreed with you, wholeheartedly!

 

[Lance]

They should have retrained Chakotay as a medic.

I'm sure he'd have been qualified to mop the odd brow or two.

There's a spin-off in that somewhere.

Chuckles: M.D.

 

[Shik]

Actually, had Picardo left & they decided to Neelix themselves a medic, I'd've liked to see a Vidiian in the post.

That would be neat but I'd rather see a healthy/cured one, one who joined after the crew cured their planet perhaps. I'd rather not deal with jigsaw face episode after episode.

But see, that would be the interesting bit if they were still all phaged up. Think about the possibilities: crew members afraid to see the doctor because they don't want their organs harvested like a night in a back room in Pudong (how would B'Elanna react?), how said medic would also be looking for a cure was a side project wherever Voyager went, & the ship's own advanced medtech could work towards that (or fail), said medic trying to constantly sample & adapt Seven's nanoprobes, all manner of conflict possibilities.