# Enterprise "Doctor's Orders" (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756 "2004-02-18T06:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/201 "2004-02-29T18:07:54Z")
Oh, and for anyone that cares, Romulan(d) Ale gives you heartburn. Drink at your own caution ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/202 "2004-02-29T19:49:52Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > “Pathways” and “Mosaic”, two Voyager books written by Jeri Taylor (who created Voyager with Rick Berman and Michael Piller), are canon Hah! _Star Trek_ novels are **never** canon. You should know that! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/203 "2004-02-29T19:52:26Z")
Wrong. Those two are as canon (because of their author, who created Janeway) as TAS’ “Yesteryear”. There are \*\*always \*\* exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/204 "2004-02-29T19:54:21Z")
> [@Tars Tarkas](#): > > On that, i was watching “Tomorrow is Yesterday” (the one with the energy beings that take over Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Pulaski–i think i have the title right) and they use miles. All right, wise guy. I just found my video tape of “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” which I taped off-the-air from channel 9 in Eugene, Oregon in 1992. I watched it all the way through from beginning to end, and not **once** was the word “miles” ever mentio– Wait a … Kirk, Spock, and Dr. **Pulaski**?!? Taaaaaarkaaaaaaaaaaaas!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/205 "2004-02-29T19:59:24Z")
[Cite](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/help/faqs/faq/676.html) for my \*Pathways \* and \*Mosaic \* assertation. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/206 "2004-02-29T20:02:29Z")
…and a [cite](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/cast/114114.html) for Dr Pulaski in TOS. (assuming I’m not being whooshed by **tracer** ’s unbelieving bellow) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/207 "2004-02-29T20:25:23Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > …and a [cite](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/cast/114114.html) for Dr Pulaski in TOS. (assuming I’m not being whooshed by **tracer** ’s unbelieving bellow) \ Du-u-ude! That’s the actress who **played** Dr. Pulaski, not the character herself! She played Dr. Ann Mulhall in TOS “Return to Tomorrow” and Dr. Miranda Jones in TOS “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”. \ ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/208 "2004-02-29T20:37:39Z")
Pft. Next you’re going to tell me that Picard doesn’t moonlight as a headmaster for a school of gifted youngsters and that Kamala, the empathic metamorph that he “gave away” to the ruler of Valt Minor, isn’t one of his former students and current professors. Pull the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/209 "2004-02-29T20:50:55Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Pft. Next you’re going to tell me that Picard doesn’t moonlight as a headmaster for a school of gifted youngsters and that Kamala, the empathic metamorph that he “gave away” to the ruler of Valt Minor, isn’t one of his former students and current professors. He also on occasion goes back in time hunting for whales to bring to the future. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/210 "2004-02-29T20:57:05Z")
I thought that was TJ Hooker? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756/211 "2004-02-29T22:14:58Z")
Okay. I think I’ve figured out the whole “Tomorrow is Yesterday”/Dr. Pulaski/miles thing. **Tars Tarkas** was correct in that there was an episode of TOS that involved energy beings that take over Kirk, Spock, and _a character played by the same actress who played_ Dr. Pulaski. He was _also_ correct in that this episode did quote a figure in miles. However, **Tars Tarkas** had the wrong episode title. It wasn’t “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” it was “Return to Tomorrow.” The figure in miles, though, wasn’t related to the ship’s speed. It was related to the depth below the surface of the planet in which there was a hollowed-out chamber that they were going to beam down into. The chamber was, in the words of Mr. Spock, “approximately 112.37 miles” underground. This is similar to the comment in _ST II: The Wrath of Khan_ that Regula One’s transporters had been set to coordinates that were “miles below ground,” rather than kilometers below ground. Perhaps these instances were just a translational quirk. Everyone knows that by the 23rd century, Starfleet personnel usually speak a language called “Federation Standard.” What we see when we watch an episode is the translation of that language into English. It could be that in preparing the translation, the measuring units were also converted into units familiar to modern audiences – in much the same way that translators of the Bible sometimes give lengths in feet when the original text had them in cubits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-doctors-orders-spoilers/229756.md?page=10)