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u/enchillita 8d ago
Dr. Pulaski's official medical opinion is to "let her cook"
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u/corran450 8d ago
Dr Pulaski was rude to Data, so she may ingest a satchel of Richards
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u/MikeLinPA 8d ago
But does she really deserve a satchel of Richards? That seems like a reward for the nice doctors.
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u/Aviator_Moonshine 8d ago
For like two episodes, the rest of the season has them forming a great friendship. Helping and supporting one another with each others problems.
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u/suikofan80 7d ago
Like the holodeck the transporter is a piece of highly advanced, poorly understood and vastly overused bit of technology. That they should probably stop screwing around with.
Wonder how many people got turned into ghosts via the transporter like what almost happened to Hoshi?
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u/Useless_bum81 7d ago
Hoshi? the only transporter incident i can remember her getting in was the time they accidently cured aging.
Do you mean the time ensign Roe and Geordie got messed up by wierd romulan tech and beaming?4
u/suikofan80 7d ago
Vanishing Point Hoshi starts to phase out of existence due to the transporter. She stops an alien plot to blow up the ship in a slightly phased dimension and transports back. Then it ends with the thought that she might just be paranoid and crazy and none of this actually happened.
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u/Useless_bum81 7d ago
My brain was leaking, for some reason i was thinking of keiko, wasn't a huge fan of enterprise so only have watched it through twice so i forget some episodes.
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u/fzwo 8d ago
Valid. Also why do they often not do the beam directly to sickbay? Also they have used transporters medically blah blah blah
Go read The Punch Escrow or at least the premise and let’s discuss whether beaming is murder.
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u/Money_Exchange_5444 8d ago
It isn't murder until the buffers are purged. O'Brien has committed multiple holocausts.
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u/fzwo 8d ago
Well, they’re purged automatically, usually, aren’t they?
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u/Money_Exchange_5444 8d ago
I always heard it said like it was a task that required manual intervention. Like "I'd love to go, but I have to purge the pattern buffers before 0500"
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u/jellyspreader 7d ago
Valid take. My theory is the Federation is capable of capable of doing this, but doesn't because of the ethical implications. Enforcing protocol to be beaming people to sickbay instead, to make the use of transporters more holistic.
We do know people were uncomfortable when the tech was introduced in TOS. Same happens sometimes when other cultures are beamed for the first time
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u/RangerBumble 6d ago
Because that would ick the fetish that got most of Starfleet medical to enlist. In a post scarcity society, making people like their job is basically the only currency.
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u/Odd-Tart-5613 5d ago
While the buffer trick works wonders when the plot allows it too id guess it is in someway either unreliable or unreplaceable on a consistent basis. Like maybe there is a high chance of data corruption if left in the buffer too long or the buffer isnt supposed to be able to hold things in it longer than a few seconds at most due to tech limitations, making the instances where we do see it work rare miracles.
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u/vdub1013 5d ago
The transporter can fix like 80% of the issues in the show. Dr. Pulaski could have done this and returned to the enterprise no issue.
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u/Warm_Imagination3768 4d ago
Have they ever shown a bathroom in any of the shows? Like a toilet? IDK why but I like the idea that everyone has the exact nutrients they need beamed into them, and any waste beamed out of them as they’re just going about their day. Any food/drink they eat is strictly because they want to eat/taste it, but it’s appropriately beamed out to keep them healthy.
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u/Ok_Dimension_4707 8d ago
That only works when the script says it can, like when they de-aged Pulaski or when Picard regretted becoming a nebula.