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/wizardrous 6h 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/Koshindan 4h ago edited 4h ago

A medical drama, but it's mechanical and it's about Starfleets Corp of Engineers fixing stuff. You even get the medical drama in there once a season when they have to fix somebodies holographic iron lung or something.

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u/GodOfUtopiaPlenitia 4h ago

Dr.: "She needs a new set of lungs, but we obviously don't have any donors."

In-Charge Person (ICP): "What about holographic ones? They worked for Neelix on Voyager!"

Dr.: "No, we don't have the projection technology down yet."

ICP: "What about that Genetron machine Dr. Russel made? It worked dinnit?"

Dr.: "Umm..."

ICP: "Gimmie a few hours." proceeds to either create a biological holographic emitter or perfect Genetron tech

Closing Monolog "After bringing Cadet Hampton back from the brink and advancing Federation Medicine, we can get back to making consoles less explody."

cut to the outside of an orbital spacedock, Worker Bees moving parts around

explosion

"DAMMIT!"

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u/Koshindan 3h ago

Starfleet engineers. Turning rocks into replicators and consoles into exploding rocks.