How did B'Lana and Harry get cured? (Caretaker)

[Non-Trekkie Trekkie]

OK...I've seen Caretaker about 4 times now but for the life of me, I can't seem to find where Harry and B'Lana got cured from whatever illness it was they got from the Caretaker. If I'm right, they're just...OK...All of the sudden??

 

[Good Will Riker]

The Ocampa had the cure. And, that's that. There is no need for some pseudo-medical explanation here, when the teleplay is written by TV writers and not by actual medical doctors.

 

[Non-Trekkie Trekkie]

Good Will Riker said:
The Ocampa had the cure. And, that's that. There is no need for some pseudo-medical explanation here, when the teleplay is written by TV writers and not by actual medical doctors.

All I remember is the Ocampa saying they didn't have a cure and everyone before had died???

 

[Grandpa]

The Ocampa might not have able to cure them but there was nothing to suggest that the Doctor couldn't.

 

[nx1701g]

The Ocampa weren't a very highly advanced race with as extensive medical histories as the Federation (and by extension the Doctor). I think the ease to which he treated them was supposed to show the viewers just how advanced he was.

 

[Arianwen]

Good Will Riker said:
The Ocampa had the cure. And, that's that. There is no need for some pseudo-medical explanation here, when the teleplay is written by TV writers and not by actual medical doctors.

Wrong. They had no cure. One of them gave B'Elanna a vial of dried moss that she thought might help but it was no cure. The Doctor cured them though it was never mentioned with what.

I just watched it today for the first time so it's fresh in my mind.

 

[Good Will Riker]

^^^ "Owned!" "Pwned!"

 

[Arianwen]

Uh, I don't think it was me who got "pwned." But...whatever.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Whoever came up with "Pwned!" really needs to go back to grade school and restudy his (or her) spelling and grammar.

 

[Arianwen]

I don't know what the entymology of the slang "pwned" has to do with the topic of this thread, eh?

I wondered, too, how Chakotay's leg got unbroke so fast. Did it take like 3 minutes? lol

 

[Good Will Riker]

Chakotay "hoppity, hop, hop...hop scotched" his way out of there, that's for sure!

 

[Orac]

The Doctor would have fixed Chuckles leg up with one of those bone knitting devices every 24th century starfleet sickbay has.

 

[UssHell]

the caretaker... was way more advanced than the federation... somehow being cured that fast doesn't... seem natural

 

[Arianwen]

orac said:
The Doctor would have fixed Chuckles leg up with one of those bone knitting devices every 24th century starfleet sickbay has.

CHUCKLES?

Ok, so his bone got knitted up. Granted, I've never broken a major bone but wouldn't he be a bit stiff or in shock or something?! It seems insane to me he was up and walking around mere minutes after badly breaking a major bone.

I guess it's a better century for klutzes than ours.

 

[gastrof]

Arianwen said:

orac said:
The Doctor would have fixed Chuckles leg up with one of those bone knitting devices every 24th century starfleet sickbay has.

CHUCKLES?

Ok, so his bone got knitted up. Granted, I've never broken a major bone but wouldn't he be a bit stiff or in shock or something?! It seems insane to me he was up and walking around mere minutes after badly breaking a major bone.

I guess it's a better century for klutzes than ours.

Ummm....

As Orac's reply said, Federation medical tech allows the healing of broken bones in no time.

I'm a little confused as to how you'd read that reply, reply to it, and still not understand what Orac said.

 

[Timo]

One of them gave B'Elanna a vial of dried moss that she thought might help but it was no cure.

But it could have been. The vial was provided by a shunned group of free-thinking, soil-tilling luddites whose medical knowledge would not have been utilized by the doctors of Ocampa establishment. So the potency of that herbal cure is a definite plot possibility, even though of course not the only one.

Anyways, we do see 24th century people wear their arms in slings on occasion (say, Picard after "Who Watches the Watchers"), suggesting non-immediate recovery from limb wounds even in optimal conditions. And Picard supposedly didn't break any bones when the arrow hit, whereas Chuckles apparently suffered damage to both bone and soft tissue.

Perhaps our good New World Indian was just really high on painkillers?

Timo Saloniemi