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Author: Tallens

Apr 27th 2014 at 2:12:47 PM

My idea wasn't so much the doctor will treat the enemy, as much as he holds to this idea of do no harm to the point that it gets in the way and causes problems itself.

This might illustrate it a bit more:

* Doctor Stephen Franklin on ''Series/BabylonFive'' takes his role as healer very seriously. During the Earth-Minbari War, he was approached by Earth Force to use his notes on Mibari physiology to create weapons that would be more effective on them, but he destroyed his notes, even though losing the war would mean the end of humanity. In the series itself, he performed surgery on a child whose culture had a religious taboo on such things, opened a free clinic in downbelow for the homeless using station resources, helped unregistered telepaths escape Psi Corps, and started using stims so he could keep working longer and treat more people. All of these decisions had the potential for friction with his superiors and in some cases a diplomatic incident.

The kind of doctor I'm thinking of is a rather haughty and self-righteous individual, which Franklin and ''Voyager's'' EMH can both be to one degree or another.

I think DAN and I have two similar but separate ideas, which may both be worth their own tropes.