Medical/time-pressure triage — Dr. Beverly Crusher's medical timeline (radiation will kill crew in minutes) imposes the life-or-death constraint that accelerates tactical and engineering choices.
Medical/time-pressure triage — Dr. Beverly Crusher's medical timeline (radiation will kill crew in minutes) imposes the life-or-death constraint that accelerates tactical and engineering choices.
Events in This Arc
On the bridge Dr. Beverly Crusher delivers a cold, clinical verdict: after the shields fail the radiation will be fatal in thirty minutes. Her evacuation and triage directives force Picard …
A clinical, desperate protocol gives way to a single spark of hope when Riker's voice breaks the bridge's mounting despair. After Dr. Crusher issues a chilling thirty-minute fatal-exposure deadline and …
As lethal radiation ticks down, Geordi proposes a radical 'turn everything off' gambit: one microsecond impulse, then manual thruster bursts with only minimal life support. Picard overruns automated control, relieves …