From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: karljohanson@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

"Wickeddoll"  wrote in message 
news:hggdq3.518.1@news.evilcabal.org...
> 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.

And she created a pathogen that regressed most of the crew into half 
whatever they were / half one of their ancestors (which doesn't explain why 
Barclay became half spider, since they aren't ancestors of humans)... then 
laughed about it even though some crew died because of it... then blamed it 
on Barclay.

> Sounds like a some of those are script or acting errors, rather than 
> character flaws.  As for the Trill thing, the symbiote can look like any 
> species. HTF was she supposed to know he had a symbiote?!

The medical crew should be scanning whomever comes on board.

Karl Johanson 


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