The Doctor creates a Holographic body for a Vidiian.
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By Richard Williams on Thursday, February 18, 1999 - 2:35 pm:
In the holodeck scene on Mars, the Doctor points to Earth in the Sky. The Nit is, there is only one bright light where he is pointing, so what has happened to the Moon? A simple calculation would show that it should be visible as a bright, 1st magnitude object about 30 minutes away from Earth. Given that the program was originally written by Paris, would you want to fly in a speceship piloted by a man capable of overlooking something the size of the Moon??
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By BrianB on Friday, July 09, 1999 - 8:15 am:
The idea of the Doc developing love emotions is a stretch but far from unexpected.
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By Omer on Saturday, July 10, 1999 - 2:57 am:
why is it a stretch?
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By BrianB on Saturday, July 10, 1999 - 1:08 pm:
I kind of equate the doctor as a virtual android. Of course, we've seen many examples of androids and holograms exceeding their programming. I may have made that statement too out of hand, and it is, of course, sci-fi.
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By Adam Bomb on Friday, August 25, 2000 - 10:21 pm:
Personally. being a car person as well as a "Trek" fan, I got a kick out of the Doctor having a date in a '57 Chevy. I once felt the same way about a woman (not the Ice Queen) that he felt about Denara Pel, but that is for another posting board.
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By Anonymous on Thursday, November 16, 2000 - 9:40 pm:
Could anyone identify the music that is playing in the background during the holodeck scene. I think it is the song "I Only Have Eyes For You". Can anyone help?
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By ScottN on Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:40 am:
This episode seems to indicate that TOS:"Spock's Brain" took place in 2253. When Holodoc is attaching ganglia and such in the Pel's brain, he comments that it was developed by Leonard McCoy in 2253. I think this is a reference to that ep. If this is true, it throws the entire generally accepted TOS timeline into ruins.
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By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Tuesday, July 10, 2001 - 3:22 am:
Richard, the Moon may have been behind the Earth.
B'Elanna claims that she wants nothing to do with this medical procedure, then gives in so easily. Do the Vidiians have some kind of mind control?
Why does the Doctor need to drill a hole in her head? Why not beam the stuff out? For that matter, the chemical makeup is probably known. Just stick the right combination of chemicals on the transporter pad and use B'Elanna's transporter trace to recreate the brain chemical.
The Doctor says he can't dance because it's not in his programming. Doesn't he have access to the records of Beverly "The Dancing Doctor" Crusher?
In Paris' Holodeck program of Mars, Denara comments on the moons. Would this be Phobos and Deimos or has Mars acquired some new moons by then? Phobos is about 17 miles long, currently orbits in about 7 hours, 39 minutes, is approximately 3,604 miles from the surface of Mars, in a decaying orbit. Deimos is about 9 1/2 miles long, currently orbits in about 30 hours 18 minutes, is approximately 12,710 miles from the surface and is moving farther away. It's possible both moons will still be in orbit by the 24th century. It's also possible that Starfleet scientists have stabilized the moons orbits. I just wonder about people's ability to see these potato shaped objects and immediately recognize them as moons.
The Doctor and Denara are in the car and they very naturally kiss. Isn't it amazing how many alien races kiss? On Earth, kissing was not a universal act. The Eskimos, I believe, still rub noses, but kissing in Africa was introduced by missionaries, and some tribespeople would recoil in horror at the kiss because they associated the act with the Python putting its mouth on its victims before it swallowed them.
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By Jwb52z on Thursday, July 12, 2001 - 3:37 pm:
::Why does the Doctor need to drill a hole in her head? Why not beam the stuff out? For that matter, the chemical makeup is probably known. Just stick the right combination of chemicals on the transporter pad and use B'Elanna's transporter trace to recreate the brain chemical.:: Keith Alan Morgan
Transporter technology may be good, but that's not one if its uses. Brain chemistry is not something a transporter should be used for in the first place. It's too delicate. Anyway, the transporter can't create things for living beings as far as I understand.
::The Doctor says he can't dance because it's not in his programming. Doesn't he have access to the records of Beverly "The Dancing Doctor" Crusher?:: Keith Alan Morgan
Access does not mean they are within his program.
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By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, July 13, 2001 - 2:58 am:
KAM: Why does the Doctor need to drill a hole in her head? Why not beam the stuff out? For that matter, the chemical makeup is probably known. Just stick the right combination of chemicals on the transporter pad and use B'Elanna's transporter trace to recreate the brain chemical.
Luigi Novi: I'm thinking precision transports like that are only done in emergencies, like the delivery of Naomi Wildman. Besides, tooling around in someone's noggin is probably really dangerous. My question is, why doesn't Doc just synthesize it? We know 24th century medicine can synthesize some types of alien blood, as in Lower Decks(TNG). If it couldn't be synthesized, like Romulan blood in The Enemy(TNG), a line to that effect would've been appropriate.
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By Jwb52z on Friday, July 13, 2001 - 1:34 pm:
Luigi Novi, you're right, and even in the emergency, the transport caused a problem with Naomi that the doctor had to fix in her cells.
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By John-Boy on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 3:03 pm:
I was watching this episode on DVD today, and in the scene on the holodeck, where the Doctor and Pell are in the '57 Chevy on Mars, they changed the song that is playing on the radio! Instead of "I only have eyes for you", its the Platters "My Prayer".
I understand that they probably couldn't get the rights to the oringinal song, but it was kind of sad to hear a differant song than the one I was use to hearing on my VCR tape that I recorded off UPN when the episode first aired.
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By Adam Bomb on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 9:01 pm:
Guest Star Patrol:
Susan Diol (Denara Pel) also played George's girlfriend in the Seinfeld episode "The Nose Job." Her character has an enormous nose, and she gets the titular rhinoplasty, with results that are less than desirable.
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By prlwctd on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:44 pm:
She also played the ill-fated Carmen in TNG's Silicon Avatar.
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By Mr Crusher on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 6:46 pm:
She was much hotter on that episode than this one.
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By Torque, Son of Keplar on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 8:37 pm:
two comments
1. the actress is older than she would have been when playing in TNG
2. Most people look better when their skin isn't rotting away along with the rest of their body.
Reposting an accidentally deleted message.
By inblackestnight on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 7:50 am:
Jwb52z: Transporter technology may be good, but that's not one if its uses. Brain chemistry is not something a transporter should be used for in the first place.
LN: I'm thinking precision transports like that are only done in emergencies, like the delivery of Naomi Wildman.
Besides, tooling around in someone's noggin is probably really dangerous.
Considering that a transporter can turn matter into energy, and the fact it usually rematerializes entire people exactly as they were before transport, why couldn't it perform brain surgery? Also, in The Passanger(DS9) Dax transported glial(?) cells from Bashir's brain into a container of some kind, which was promptly disintegrated. There are probably other examples but none come to mind.
Adam: Her character has an enormous nose, and she gets the titular rhinoplasty, with results that are less than desirable.
And for those who are still waiting in suspense, the botched nose job is remedied within a day or two and the lady looked pretty good, but of course not before George dumped her and Kramer picked her up.
Interestingly enough, "My Prayer" was used in a very memorable in the movie "Mischief" starring a very hot Kelly Preston revealing her birthday suit (the only time she went completely nude on camera).
Strange that the makers would change the music for the dvd. It's not like it was Hendrix or The Beatles originally.....
ScottN on Monday, April 16, 2001 - 9:40 am:
This episode seems to indicate that TOS:"Spock's Brain" took place in 2253. When Holodoc is attaching ganglia and such in the Pel's brain, he comments that it was developed by Leonard McCoy in 2253. I think this is a reference to that ep. If this is true, it throws the entire generally accepted TOS timeline into ruins.
Actually Scott, it is more likely that McCoy developed the technique around the time he graduated from medical school.
If that was true, then he wouldn't have needed the Teacher to re-implant Spock's brain.