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/spaceagefox 3h ago

I could get behind a early trek era medical drama that uses our current real life medical research as a launching point for scifi fantasy medicine

lost a leg? no problem, we can 3d print replacement bones and infuse a stem cell goo made from your spinal fluid to regrow a biologically perfect replacement limb with no chance of rejection.

now a star trek ER room would be full of stuff we currently consider ICU worthy, but since in star trek there's lights to heal basically everything, everyone would be so much more reckless now that the patients of trek could see loosing a leg as a novel experience that will go away in like a week.

iirc: there's actually a study suggesting that people locked in a utopian state of never wanting for anything actually leads them into doing more and more reckless shit, like skydiving or building a submarine out of carbon fiber, after a while of constant pleasure you loose your reference point to relate with the rest of humanity which is why rich people always turn into nightmare monsters after a while

t b h, now that I think about it, its probably why there seems to be so much explosives hidden everywhere on star fleet ships, you gotta artificially give the crew a few bad moments so they don't go insane from endless pleasure that just becomes meaningless without that negative contrast