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Give thanks to the healers. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by ummthatguy@lemmy.world to c/risa@startrek.website
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TOS and SNW Chapel count as separate characters.

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[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago

Give Tom a break. He got forced into being the nurse because he took biochemistry classes before getting kicked out of the academy.

Plus, he's juggling nursing duties with his full time job as the pilot. And his side gig as a commando team leader. While moonlighting as a spy. And despite all that he's still finds the time to develop an encyclopedic knowledge of twentieth century earth. And let's not forget that he also designed engines with a top speed of infinity. He's the most competent man in Star Fleet. Not bad for a dropout and ex-con.

Pretty sure if you Tuvixed Paris and O'Brian, combining Paris's competence with O'Brian's work ethic, you'd get some sort of god.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

You would welcome this curse?

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 17 points 11 months ago

Stop tempting fate

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

I've ranted about this before, but the lead pilot as a nurse is a bizarre management decision by Janeway. He has two critical jobs when shit hits the fan.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

But can any of those other nurses tune a carburetor?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Or have their own commemorative plate?

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago

I really need to watch lower decks

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Treat yourself! The crossover SNW/LD episode was one of the greatest Trek episodes of all time!

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

While you're at it, buy yourself a commemorative plate.

Now WHERE THE HELL ARE THE DAMN MOOPSY PLUSHES ALREADY?!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I don't know that Kes was all that good either. She just followed around The Doctor and did whatever he said.

[-] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 20 points 11 months ago

You just accidentally described most of the companions in Doctor Who...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but they aren't nurses.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Except that several of them were...

There was Rory Williams as the main standout, but Martha Jones was working as a nurse when she joined the show. She was still at the end of Med School, and it was a (very minor) plot point at one point when she earned her doctorate.

Strax also counts, Well, he did until the Doctor screwed up and got him killed. The resurrected Strax was not much of a nurse.

There were a few more who were outright medical doctors when they joined the show. One was a British Navy surgeon, and the one that might not count, the cardiologist from the Doctor Who movie, which most people sort of ignore.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I forgot about Rory, but Martha was a medical student studying to be a doctor, not a nurse. And both of them were competent independent of the Doctor. I wouldn't count Strax as a companion.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

She learned quickly and listening to the Doctor can't be seen as a negative. Excepting when it comes to bodily autonomy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I don't remember her doing much to show she could do anything on her own.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

She found her way eventually.

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The doctor specifically mentions her remarkable memory for medical knowledge.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, but what did she actually do?

[-] flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Did she really have to? Nurses act independently in regular medical settings, but when there's a doctor with the sum total of a civilization's medical knowledge available 24/7, everyone else is just a pair of helping hands.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Objection! That's a picture of Doctor Ogawa, chief medical officer of the Enterprise in an alternate quantum reality.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

But then there's no Geordi! Is it really worth the promotion?

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Ogawa was initially a nurse on TNG but decided to become a physician and medical officer.

[-] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 12 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry are we including Dr. Toby "Bodycount" Russell in the good column?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Strictly nurses. Also, never.

[-] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Isn't that the one in red?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Nurse Jabara on DS9

[-] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 7 points 11 months ago

Never mind, I like her better already!

[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 months ago

SNW Chapel slaps.

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