Medical ethics and custody of the thawed cryonics patients: Dr. Beverly Crusher's unilateral decision to revive the preserved people creates a moral and procedural conflict with command and security—humanitarian duty and medical ethics clash with proto...
Medical ethics and custody of the thawed cryonics patients: Dr. Beverly Crusher's unilateral decision to revive the preserved people creates a moral and procedural conflict with command and security—humanitarian duty and medical ethics clash with protocol, security risk management, and custody.
Events in This Arc
In Sickbay Picard discovers three twenty‑first‑century humans Data secretly beamed aboard and Dr. Beverly Crusher has thawed and stabilized them — despite evidence they were cryonically preserved after death. Data …
In Sickbay Picard is confronted with an ethical, logistical problem that fractures the ship's immediate focus: Beverly has thawed three twenty‑first‑century cryonics subjects Data recovered, only to discover they had …
In Sickbay Beverly revives three 21st‑century humans while Picard, Data and Worf observe. Data reads the recovered files—Clare Raymond, steady and grieving; Ralph Offenhouse, a hard‑edged financier with advanced cardiomyopathy; …
In Sickbay the Enterprise crew revives three twenty-first-century humans. Data reads the recovered files — Clare Raymond, Ralph Offenhouse, and a partially unreadable file for L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds — while …
Captain Picard resolves the immediate ethical and operational dilemma by ordering the three 21st‑century revival subjects transferred to the rendezvousing USS Charleston for transport to Earth. The choice preserves Enterprise …