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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x01 - "Brother"
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That's arguably worse! But on the plus side, pretend this show is in Kelvinville and it almost works.
It actually works very well, regardless.
In what way? We know next to nothing about Pike.
Not even close.
Well he has gotten over his 'women on the bridge' demon
Maybe one of his bridge crew that was female died on Rigel.
Last time I depend on my daughter's boyfriend for a Trek fortune cookie...fortune.
I am going to admit something, watching Mount doing an excellent version of Captain Pike I wish Discovery was a reboot of the pre TOS Starfleet. This way Pike can either die a hero or just live a satisfactory life in a wheelchair not paralysed from the neck down. To keep the events of a canon character in a tank based on 1960's medical knowledge seems ridiculous, it is as if in the TOS Federation universe infertility was not overcome just because IVF (or other processes) did not exist as a successful medical procedure for infertile couples. when the show was produced.
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Why should we think Pike's futuro-wheelchair was a primitive device capable of no more than our non-futuro-wheelchairs? That would be like saying that Kirk's Enterprise was a primitive ship capable of no more than the space shuttle Enterprise, based on nothing much.
For all we know, there is no Pike from the chest down. Modern medicine would be rather helpless with that. Trek medicine isn't, as Cmdr Reno just demonstrated. But it need not be any prettier than what Reno did.
In any case, Pike's predicament isn't exactly based on 1960s medicine, but on 1990s. Or that's when the audiences started being familiar with the various sorts of aphasia, an extreme variant of which Pike seems to suffer from here. His mind is there, supposedly. It just can't handle language output, as we all know from Episodes 47 and 227 of General Place With White Coats and the entire Season 3 of Emergency Wardroom.
Timo Saloniemi
For all we know, there is no Pike from the chest down. Modern medicine would be rather helpless with that. Trek medicine isn't, as Cmdr Reno just demonstrated. But it need not be any prettier than what Reno did.
In any case, Pike's predicament isn't exactly based on 1960s medicine, but on 1990s. Or that's when the audiences started being familiar with the various sorts of aphasia, an extreme variant of which Pike seems to suffer from here. His mind is there, supposedly. It just can't handle language output, as we all know from Episodes 47 and 227 of General Place With White Coats and the entire Season 3 of Emergency Wardroom.
Timo Saloniemi
I take it that you meant "can't maneuver while at warp," but that you can is indeed precisely what that episode says...
JANEWAY: Tom, what's the first thing they teach you about maneuvering at warp?
PARIS: "Faster than light, no left or right." When possible, maintain a linear trajectory. Course corrections could fracture the hull.
PARIS: "Faster than light, no left or right." When possible, maintain a linear trajectory. Course corrections could fracture the hull.
The fact that it's the "first thing" taught implies that there is much more to the subject than that pat mnemonic. The fact that it is advised to maintain a straight path "when possible" implies that sometimes it isn't. The fact that changing course "could" cause damage to the ship implies both that it can be done, if one is willing to accept that risk, and further that such damage may not necessarily result. Voyager was a long way from the nearest starbase or other support facility, always low on power and supplies; being in such a vulnerable position, it makes perfect sense that they would be hesitant about it.
-MMoM
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