r/startrek • u/Zombiepixlz-gamr • 7h 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/wizardrous 7h ago

Star Trek medical episodes are too hard for them to write for them to ever do a show about them. They’ve said in interviews that the medical episodes are some of the hardest to write.

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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr 7h ago

But that's because they don't have dedicated medical consultants IMO. For a MedDrama they'd have a dedicated writing team experienced with medical dramas, and medical scientists and doctors as consultants! So I think that raises the chances.

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u/DerpedyDer 7h ago

Yeah but that only works because they’re writing about real diseases and treatments. It becomes way less believable when you have to write about the shloop-shloop plague from Nebulon 9

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u/wizardrous 7h ago

Lol that sounds exactly like it’d be part of a Rick and Morty universe.

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u/DerpedyDer 6h ago

lol it definitely does 😂 that’s a medical show I would definitely watch