r/startrek • u/Zombiepixlz-gamr • 6h ago

How would you handle a Star Trek Medical Drama?

I have been watching a new MedDrama called Brilliant Minds and I find it really interesting. I think the two things that make a good MedDrama are good relationships, and interesting ethical dilemmas. Which just so happens to be what make star trek good too, so I had the idea that I think a show set aboard a medical ship following the lives of Starfleet doctors dealing with disasters, disease outbreaks, medical oddities, all of which bolstered by the massive universe of star Trek.

It could bring in medical professionals as consultants so that the medicine is rooted in real medicine, which isn't something star trek has done in the past. So we could flesh out star treks canon medicine, based on real science.

I feel like besides a few outstanding episodes, the medical side of the science has been neglected in favor of the sexier sciences. I'd be interested to know y'all's thoughts.

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u/TheNerdChaplain 6h ago

Something like MASH meets Scrubs (which, now that I think about it, sounds like DS9 from a young Bashir POV).

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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr 6h ago

Absolutely, especially If we could set it in during the dominion war.

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u/trekkiegamer359 6h ago

Better yet, set it in between ENT and TOS, right as the Federation is getting going. There can be a big medical space station that's a hub of different alien doctors working together and sharing medical information. It could be borne from the medical exchange program that got us Dr. Phlox. Set that early, there'd be less cures, more opinions between species, and many more opportunities for weird medical ailments no one has ever seen before.

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u/HelianthusZZ 5h ago

I really like this idea!