Also not rocket science is this: considering that it's a matter of life and death, sickbay should have nifty floor circles. Why doesn't sickbay have nifty floor circles? Did Scotty run out of glitter? And if for some reason nifty floor circles in sickbay are impossible, they should have a secondary transporter room set up as a sickbay, so as to be able to treat all the almost dead people as soon as possible.
My guess would be that the nifty circles are sort of like mushrooms. You just see the little cap, but underground is a hella big structure. Also sort of how a light switch is tiny, but power plants are fucking huge. There's probably a lot of equipment involved that we don't see, is what I'm saying. Not to mention, does the transporter mess with medical technology or vice versa, like cellphones on airplanes?
I agree with you about the secondary transporter room as sickbay. Or maybe just a closet-sized room tricked out with med stuff, like a stationary ambulance. I'm convinced that a ship as large as the Enterprise would have multiple sickbays, anyway.
Or, like Muppet said below, obey the rules of the show. If TOS-era Starfleet (which is a good 7 or 9 years after the Reboot, mind) can't beam directly to Sickbay, then it's not a given that the Reboot Starfleet can, either.
In the mid 2260s, beaming from a transporter pad to a location within the same vessel was a very risky proposition. The limitations of the technology at that time made it highly probable that any error would result in the subject rematerializing within a bulkhead, deck, or other structure. (TOS: "Day of the Dove")
Aha! That just further proves my point. TOS-era, intra-ship beaming is risky and not fully controllable, even when using the transporter room. Therefore, I surmise that beaming an injured party from the planet surface directly to sickbay without even a layover in the transporter room is probably close to impossible, and is certainly inadvisable. It wouldn't be happening multiple times during a Reboot or TOS fic without some sort of explanation or bragging from Scotty, is what I'm saying.
Oddly, this procedure was used without incident a century earlier. (ENT: "Chosen Realm")
I now understand why we don't talk about ENT. ^^
By at least 2268, limitations in pattern buffer and targeting scanner technology had been
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In other news, I am writing a Kirk/Chekov for Muppet in which they are trapped under rubble and this somehow leads to them kissing, as you do.
I don't think I say this nearly enough, but ILU. ♥ And writing that fic thus far says you're *awesome*.
I do hate when people take the, ah, loose scientific principles of a pop-SFF canon to mean they can do whatever the hell they want. Just because a world doesn't follow *our* rules doesn't mean it doesn't follow *rules*, dammit!
Though I second order_of_chaos's thought that it'd be a very useful thing to at least have some emergency medical equipment in at least one of the transporter rooms to stabilize someone who's beamed aboard in critical condition. I question the wisdom of sending a critically injured person through the transporter to begin with, but it seem like a basic and handy precaution if you can't install transporter circles within sickbay itself.
When I was writing part of it last night, I imagined what your reaction would be and then I realized that I wouldn't be there to witness it, and then I realized how much I MISS YOUR FAYCE. :((((((
which is not to say i don't miss the rest of you, too.
Apparently later iterations of the franchise did have the capability to beam directly to Sickbay, but I'm fairly sure all of those take place later in the canon timeline than TOS so STILL COMMON SENSE FAIL. Harrumph.
You could come and visit me and then I'd be able to react right to your face and stuff. *looks pleading* I still have a futon you can sleep on!
I did not know that later shows could beam right to sickbay, but the Reboot is a good few years behind even TOS (as everyone's younger) so there's always the excuse that that technology hasn't been invented yet. Although that line of thinking does lead me to think about a Rebooted TNG and DS9, and while I know little about those shows I'm automatically offended on behalf of Patrick Stewart that I would even think about someone else playing Picard.
Then again, maybe a Rebooted TNG movie wouldn't be STUPID and drop a bridge on Kirk. >:(
Well, they beam people directly to sickbay and set up site-to-site transports in TNG and and DS9 and Voyager all the time. Perhaps Scotty took the future forumulas Spock gave him and made that technology ahead of its time.
Ah ha! That explains why the misconception is so prevalent, then. Those three shows take place canonically after TOS, right? I know there's one show, the one with Sam from Quantum Leap Captain Archer? that is set before TOS, which is why the uniforms are similar to Captain Robau's and George Kirk's in the Reboot.
Was Spock still around when those three shows were happening? Because if not, then that technology would be too advanced for even Spock to have given to Scotty.
I should probably spend more time on a Trek wiki or watch some of the later shows, but I just end up wanting to watch "Plato's Stepchildren" again. :/
TNG takes place after TOS, DS9 is a little during TNG and then goes further, VOY is a little during DS9 and goes further. Enterprise takes place before TOS.
(We don't talk about Enterprise.)
Spock... was. I think he was. But I could be wrong. McCoy was, definintely- he was in the pilot of TNG, I believe.
HI THAR VIVI I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A PROMPT LATELY. HAVE YOU? CHAOS HAS GIVEN ME PROMPTS AND MUPPET GAVE ME PROMPTS AND EVEN MY RL FRIEND RENE GAVE ME PROMPTS BUT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FROM YOU AND THAT IS SAD. :(
I think your little comment here is why I've posted, like, three times today. >>
UGH I AM SO EASILY MANIPULATED. AND AT THE MOMENT, CAFFEINATED.
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And if for some reason nifty floor circles in sickbay are impossible, they should have a secondary transporter room set up as a sickbay, so as to be able to treat all the almost dead people as soon as possible.
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I agree with you about the secondary transporter room as sickbay. Or maybe just a closet-sized room tricked out with med stuff, like a stationary ambulance. I'm convinced that a ship as large as the Enterprise would have multiple sickbays, anyway.
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Aha! That just further proves my point. TOS-era, intra-ship beaming is risky and not fully controllable, even when using the transporter room. Therefore, I surmise that beaming an injured party from the planet surface directly to sickbay without even a layover in the transporter room is probably close to impossible, and is certainly inadvisable. It wouldn't be happening multiple times during a Reboot or TOS fic without some sort of explanation or bragging from Scotty, is what I'm saying.
Oddly, this procedure was used without incident a century earlier. (ENT: "Chosen Realm")
I now understand why we don't talk about ENT. ^^
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I don't think I say this nearly enough, but ILU. ♥ And writing that fic thus far says you're *awesome*.
I do hate when people take the, ah, loose scientific principles of a pop-SFF canon to mean they can do whatever the hell they want. Just because a world doesn't follow *our* rules doesn't mean it doesn't follow *rules*, dammit!
Though I second order_of_chaos's thought that it'd be a very useful thing to at least have some emergency medical equipment in at least one of the transporter rooms to stabilize someone who's beamed aboard in critical condition. I question the wisdom of sending a critically injured person through the transporter to begin with, but it seem like a basic and handy precaution if you can't install transporter circles within sickbay itself.
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which is not to say i don't miss the rest of you, too.
Apparently later iterations of the franchise did have the capability to beam directly to Sickbay, but I'm fairly sure all of those take place later in the canon timeline than TOS so STILL COMMON SENSE FAIL. Harrumph.
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I did not know that later shows could beam right to sickbay, but the Reboot is a good few years behind even TOS (as everyone's younger) so there's always the excuse that that technology hasn't been invented yet. Although that line of thinking does lead me to think about a Rebooted TNG and DS9, and while I know little about those shows I'm automatically offended on behalf of Patrick Stewart that I would even think about someone else playing Picard.
Then again, maybe a Rebooted TNG movie wouldn't be STUPID and drop a bridge on Kirk. >:(
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Was Spock still around when those three shows were happening? Because if not, then that technology would be too advanced for even Spock to have given to Scotty.
I should probably spend more time on a Trek wiki or watch some of the later shows, but I just end up wanting to watch "Plato's Stepchildren" again. :/
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(We don't talk about Enterprise.)
Spock... was. I think he was. But I could be wrong. McCoy was, definintely- he was in the pilot of TNG, I believe.
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I think your little comment here is why I've posted, like, three times today. >>
UGH I AM SO EASILY MANIPULATED. AND AT THE MOMENT, CAFFEINATED.
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I will give a prompt when a think of one... :P
OOH I KNOW. SOMETHING BASED ON THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOC0uoKYtU
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