From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >> Mac Breck wrote:   
   >>>>  Merrick Baldelli   
   >>>>   
   >>>    
   >>>>> Although Julian Bashir and Beverly Crusher admit to attending   
   >>>>> and graduating from Starfleet Medical (School). No idea about Pulaski   
   >>>>> though....  Like McCoy, there doesn't seem to be any mention of her   
   >>>>> going through Starfleet either.   
   >>>> If Crusher got a degree from any medical school, it was either mail   
   >>>> order or affirmative action.   
   >>> :-P  Quit maligning one of my fave redheads, ya bum.   
   >>>   
   >> Yeah! Please Anim8, tell me why you think she's such a bad doctor?    
   >> Because Q said so?   
   >>   
   >> :-P   
   >>   
   >> Natalie   
   >    
   > Her entire history?  She botched the memory wipe operation Pulaski could    
   > do effortlessly.  She was gonna euthanize Worf 'cause she didn't bother    
   > to read the Klingon manual about a back up spinal column.  She had no    
   > idea what a Trill was, despite the little fact she was dating one.  How    
   > about that Traveller episode, where O'Brien came in with a dislocated    
   > shoulder, and she just left him sitting in excrutiating pain while she    
   > made personal calls, asked Wesley what he was doing for lunch, blah blah    
   > blah; luckily there was a magic alien handy to heal him, 'cause Crusher    
   > was never going to get around to it.  She couldn't cure the Naked Time    
   > virus even following McCoy's notes.  She didn't even know how to work a    
   > communicator; ever notice she starts talking BEFORE she touches it,    
   > forcing the sound fx guy to put in the 'queep' when her hand starts to    
   > move?  The only reason she was on the ship was Picard wanted to boink    
   > her.   
   >    
      
   Sounds like a some of those are script or acting errors, rather than    
   character flaws.  As for the Trill thing, the symbiote can look like any    
   species. HTF was she supposed to know he had a symbiote?! It's not    
   automatic that they get a symbiote; it's a particular honor bestowed on    
   the best and brightest.  Besides, the Trills in TNG looked entirely    
   different from DS9 on.  No doctor can know everything about all *humans*    
   much less alien species.  SHEESH.  The Worf thing was a total botch,    
   though.  If you're working on a patient, you should research as much as    
   possible, so in the case of an alien, she should have known that before    
   even considering letting him kill himself.  Ditto the Naked Time thing.   
      
   Natalie   
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