From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

In article ,
 Wickeddoll  wrote:

> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >> Mac Breck wrote:
> >>>>  Merrick Baldelli
> >>>>
> >>> 
> >>>>> Although Julian Bashir and Beverly Crusher admit to attending
> >>>>> and graduating from Starfleet Medical (School). No idea about Pulaski
> >>>>> though....  Like McCoy, there doesn't seem to be any mention of her
> >>>>> going through Starfleet either.
> >>>> If Crusher got a degree from any medical school, it was either mail
> >>>> order or affirmative action.
> >>> :-P  Quit maligning one of my fave redheads, ya bum.
> >>>
> >> Yeah! Please Anim8, tell me why you think she's such a bad doctor? 
> >> Because Q said so?
> >>
> >> :-P
> >>
> >> Natalie
> > 
> > Her entire history?  She botched the memory wipe operation Pulaski could 
> > do effortlessly.  She was gonna euthanize Worf 'cause she didn't bother 
> > to read the Klingon manual about a back up spinal column.  She had no 
> > idea what a Trill was, despite the little fact she was dating one.  How 
> > about that Traveller episode, where O'Brien came in with a dislocated 
> > shoulder, and she just left him sitting in excrutiating pain while she 
> > made personal calls, asked Wesley what he was doing for lunch, blah blah 
> > blah; luckily there was a magic alien handy to heal him, 'cause Crusher 
> > was never going to get around to it.  She couldn't cure the Naked Time 
> > virus even following McCoy's notes.  She didn't even know how to work a 
> > communicator; ever notice she starts talking BEFORE she touches it, 
> > forcing the sound fx guy to put in the 'queep' when her hand starts to 
> > move?  The only reason she was on the ship was Picard wanted to boink 
> > her.
> > 
> 
> Sounds like a some of those are script or acting errors, rather than 

Well, yeah, Gates McMuffin isn't even an actress; that's why they fired 
her after the first season.

> character flaws.  As for the Trill thing, the symbiote can look like any 
> species. HTF was she supposed to know he had a symbiote?!

She knew he was a Trill; that's what Trills do.

 It's not 
> automatic that they get a symbiote; it's a particular honor bestowed on 
> the best and brightest.  Besides, the Trills in TNG looked entirely 
> different from DS9 on.  No doctor can know everything about all *humans* 
> much less alien species.  SHEESH.  The Worf thing was a total botch, 
> though.  If you're working on a patient, you should research as much as 
> possible, so in the case of an alien, she should have known that before 
> even considering letting him kill himself.  Ditto the Naked Time thing.

yep
> 
> Natalie

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