Medicine in Star Trek

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Medicine in Star Trek refers to the medical technologies, procedures and conditions as seen in the Star Trek fictional universe.

Repeated[edit]

I'm a doctor, not a ______________!
Leonard McCoy: I'm a doctor, not a ______________!
  • [various episodes]
  • Examples: a moon shuttle conductor / bricklayer / psychiatrist / mechanic / engineer / scientist / physicist / escalator / magician / miracle worker / flesh peddler / veterinarian.

Leonard McCoy He's dead, Jim! (Var.: "She's..." or "It's...")
  • [various episodes]
  • DeForest Kelley first uttered the line "He's dead, Captain" as a military physician in the 1956 film, "The Man in The Grey Flannel Suit".

Emergency Medical Hologram: Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
  • First uttered in "Caretaker", Star Trek: Voyager, (January 16, 1995); story by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor; teleplay by Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor

Quotes[edit]

Oh, I'd give a lot to see the hospital. Probably needles and sutures. All the pain. They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures. Oh, the terrible pain! ~ Harlan Ellison
Dialysis? My god, what is this, the Dark Ages? Here, you swallow that. If you have a problem, just call me. ~ Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer and Harve Bennett
We're dealing with medievalism here! ...Chemotherapy! ...Fundoscopic examinations! ~ Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer and Harve Bennett!
Capt. Kirk: He is a healer, let him heal.
  • Tasha: Sorry to call you, sir. Not strictly security. It's about the dietary requirements of the Antican delegates.
Rriker: I thought that had been taken care of in advance, Tasha.
Tasha: So did we, sir. Their live animals were beamed aboard. We were going to preserve the meat for them, but they say we must bring it to them alive.
Riker: Then do so. Lieutenant Yar was confused. We no longer enslave animals for food purposes.
Antican: But we have seen humans eat meat.
Riker: You've seen something as fresh and tasty as meat, but inorganically materialised out of patterns used by our transporters.
Antican: This is sickening. It's barbaric.
  • Patient: Doctor.
Dr. McCoy: What's the matter with you?
Woman Patient: Kidney ...dialysis.
Dr. McCoy: Dialysis? My god, what is this, the Dark Ages? Here, you swallow that. If you have a problem, just call me.
  • Intern #1: Did you hear anything?
Intern #2: I was there. I heard the whole thing.
Intern #1: Weintrub said radical chemotherapy or she's gonna croak. Just like that.
Intern #2: Well, what about Gottlieb?
Intern #1: All he talked about was image therapy, or otherwise he'd cut it out.
Dr. McCoy: Unbelievable.
Intern #1: You have a different view, Doctor?
McCoy: It sounds like the goddam Spanish Inquisition!
  • Doctor #1: A simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure.
McCoy: My God, man, drilling holes in his head's not the answer. The artery must be repaired. Now put away your butcher knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!
Doctor #1: I'm going to have you removed.
Kirk: Doctors! Such unprofessional behaviour. ...Into that little room please.
Doctor #1: What is that? A gun?
Medical Staff: What is this? ...I have no idea! (Kirk fuses the lock of the little room with his phaser)
Doctor #1: He melted the lock!
McCoy: We're dealing with medievalism here! ...Chemotherapy! ...Fundoscopic examinations!
  • Vina: They found me in the wreckage, dying. A lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together.
  • Mr. Spock: Doctor, if I were able to show emotion, your new infatuation with that term would begin to annoy me.
Dr. McCoy: What term? 'Logic'? Medical men are trained in logic, Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock: Really, Doctor? I had no idea they were trained. Watching you, I assumed it was trial and error.

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