# The Fabulous Disappearing Dr. Crusher **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820 "2005-05-14T14:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/41 "2005-05-15T21:22:29Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I don’t think Crusher was ever _head_ of Starfleet Medical, that would be an admiral’s job. She was just there, doing stuff for a year. IIRC, Crusher was to be the head of a research dept. when she left, but when she came back the explaination was that she’d been teaching or studying. (Continuity was never one of Trek’s strong points.) Personally, I find the episodes from the first couple of seasons to be nearly as bad as _Enterprise_ (note I said “nearly”), so I avoid them like the plague. Also, Wheaton my have gotten stuffed into a painfully stupid role, but he’s also defended his character with some pretty absurd statements. In one interview he claimed that his character had only saved the ship **once** , which is total BS. Damn near every episode he was in, revovled around him whipping some kind of technobabble solution out of his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/42 "2005-05-15T22:05:34Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Damn near every episode he was in, revovled around him whipping some kind of technobabble solution out of his ass. Heck, there was one episode where the technobabble wasn’t even necessary, and he out-ass-whipped it, anyway! He and Picard are dying of thirst but the only source of water is a small fountain around which some apparantly too-much-time-on-its-pseudopods aliens put up a forcefield. Wes gets all technobabbly instead of just using his tricorder to find the underground stream that must be feeding the fountain (as well as the channel which must be draining it) and using his phaser to excavate it. Future geniuses are dumb. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/43 "2005-05-15T22:15:55Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > But Data was still second officer; that is, third in command of the whole starship. Wouldn’t that still make him her boss? Yes, doctors aren’t line officers (neither are counselors); Dr Crusher, on her own, took the bridge officers test, but there’s no indication that Pulaski ever did. Medical personel are li ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/44 "2005-05-15T22:17:54Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Medical personel are li Yeah, yeah, that’s her excuse for everything. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/45 "2005-05-16T00:41:13Z")
> [@](#): > > I remember that episode in which she offered La Forge a set of replacement eyeballs that would look normal and have nearly the same function as the VISOR, and wouldn’t give him headaches, but I can’t recall why he turned them down. Easy, because that would mean changing the status quo. God forbid that anything about the show actually change. That’s also the reason why Riker turned down independent command of his own ship (which in any real fleet would have landed him planetside for life, the next time the Enterprise stopped at any friendly port). And I think that most of what Wil Wheaton says about his part in Star Trek isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Certainly, he has a healthy supply of sarcasm on hand, when talking about it. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/46 "2005-05-16T01:20:53Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > I remember that episode in which she offered La Forge a set of replacement eyeballs that would look normal and have nearly the same function as the VISOR, and wouldn’t give him headaches, but I can’t recall why he turned them down. IIRC The mechanical eyeballs would have had only 80% of the range of his visor. Geordi decided that being able to watch gamma rays or whatever was too useful to give up. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/47 "2005-05-16T12:10:29Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Geordi decided that being able to watch gamma rays or whatever was too useful to give up. Mmm, gamma rays … [/Homer] ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/48 "2005-05-16T13:58:06Z")
Eighteen years later, I be informed as to why my favorite doctor (and half of my favorite ST relationship next to Dax & Worf) was booted off for a season. I haven’t seen enough of Season Two to form an opinion of Pulaski, but I can honestly say I didn’t like her as much. Nobody can out-McCoy Deforest Kelley. I always had a crush on post Season 1 Wesley. I was laughing too hard at the orange sweater to like him much in the first season, but MAN that boy could fill out an ensign’s uniform! ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/49 "2005-05-17T15:51:24Z")
More importantly, what happened to Pulaski to allow Dr. Crusher to return? Did she fall down another elevator? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/50 "2005-05-17T16:31:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Easy, because that would mean changing the status quo. God forbid that anything about the show actually change. That’s also the reason why Riker turned down independent command of his own ship (which in any real fleet would have landed him planetside for life, the next time the Enterprise stopped at any friendly port). However, Star Fleet is not a military organization\* :dubious:; the normal happenings within a Navy do not apply to this fleet. Therefore, one is able to turn down a command assignment so that one can get the Enterprise in the future. Nothing like putting a first-time captain at the helm of your flag ship. :smack: \*Or so I was told when I asked why there weren’t any marines on the fleet’s flag ship. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/51 "2005-05-17T16:52:10Z")
I liked Dr. Pulaski. She was a fun character. But… I loved Dr. Crusher… The hottest MILF on TV at the time. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/52 "2005-05-17T17:22:13Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > I loved Dr. Crusher… The hottest MILF on TV at the time. I disagree. I say Troi was hotter. Some of you may claim that she was not a mother. I point to the episode in which an alien spark impregnates Troi in order to be born humanoid, play with puppies, and burn itself on soup. I point also to the episode in which Whorf keeps jumping into alternate dimensions, in one of those other timelines he and Troi are married and have children. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/53 "2005-05-17T17:41:43Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I say Troi was hotter. Some of you may claim that she was not a mother. No, I just claim that Dr. Crusher was hotter. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/54 "2005-05-17T19:23:54Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > Did she fall down another elevator? That would have been a classic TV moment, if she had. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820/55 "2005-05-18T00:33:38Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > That would have been a classic TV moment, if she had. Data: Doctor! The turbolift is malfunctioning! Do not enter that shaft! Pulaski, falling down the turboshaft: Daaammnn iiiiit! Noooot agaaaiiiin! _thud_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-disappearing-dr-crusher/303820.md?page=2)