Star Trek - Discovery - 1.12: Vaulting Ambition

[Amelia Faulkner]

Culber is a Lt. Cmdr, so I'd estimate the CMO is a Cmdr (there is an episode where Culber has to leave to "go help the CMO").

 

[Dave]

I guess they are just very good Doctors and the patients recover quickly (apart from those with Spore Drives or Klingons inside them.) To be fair, in TOS (which was a ship of a comparable size) we rarely saw other patients when McCoy treated anyone. We did see a lot of Nurse Chapel but that was usually because of Spock.

 

[Alexa]

I love their medical gadgets. They just have to inject something and the patient generally walks away. Sometimes they stay in bed for a few days, more for the show than anything else. This is really a miracle medicine, fast and effective. I wonder if we will see something like this in the near future. Of course, we won't need so many doctors by then.

 

[Dave]

I love their medical gadgets. They just have to inject something and the patient generally walks away.

Like in The Voyage Home when McCoy gives someone on dialysis a new Kidney and calls the hospital "medieval."

BTW I think we are digressing.

 

[Alexa]

Like in The Voyage Home when McCoy gives someone on dialysis a new Kidney and calls the hospital "medieval."

BTW I think we are digressing.

Why ? I was just following your comments regarding how quick patients recover.

Plus, it still bothers me the procedure used to tranform a klingon in a human. I hope this will remain just a science fiction one.

 

[Dave]

Yes, okay, medicine is relevant to this episode given that some kind of surgical procedure (or was it just mental synaptic alteration?) was talking place with the magic gloves.

Plus, it still bothers me the procedure used to transform a klingon in a human. I hope this will remain just a science fiction one.

I can't believe that Klingon Medicine would advance so far forward in 100 years from Enterprise - basically from zero, to way ahead of Human Medicine, even during the time of Voyager. Since I don't believe it, it doesn't bother me. However, even if it were possible, plastic surgery to make a Klingon look identical to an actual Human could never be practicable. To have no visible scars would be amazing in itself, but the medical procedure would be akin to un-baking a sponge cake, or making a crashed car new again. It is simply too difficult (magic gloves or not!) The effort involved is not worth it. Both the time and the costs are prohibitive. Unless, there is some genetic engineering or nanobot engineering taking place. Maybe the gloves are controlling that?

 

[farntfar]

Plus, it still bothers me the procedure used to tranform a klingon in a human.

OMG. This was the prototype operation that made all the Klingons in Trouble with Tribbles look like humans with goatee beards.
(And please. Noone tell me why they weren't really goatees.)

Any previous references to Noonyen Singhs or whatever were just hot air.

 

[Alexa]

I watched the episode again and finally understood what Tyler said: *Sister, give me Burnham*. No wonder L'Rell was so desperate. She lost Voq forever.