Object
Enterprise Sickbay Medical Table
A bank of low-profile clinical treatment tables arrayed in the Enterprise sickbay: metal-framed, padded surfaces sized for adult patients, pale clinical vinyl covering, shallow instrument channels along the edges, and attachment points for monitoring leads. In the present moment the tables function as staging platforms—three late‑20th‑century cryonics subjects lie sedated across them, summered under lightweight medical sheets; hands lift and smooth the linens, clinicians lean over the rims to attach sensors, and officers circle the perimeter as orders echo and tensions rise.
13 appearances
Purpose
Provide stable, sanitary platforms for patient assessment, revival, and short-term treatment—supporting monitors, IVs, and hands-on medical intervention during immediate post-thaw stabilization.
Significance
Serve as the physical locus of the episode's moral and procedural crisis: the thawed patients on these tables convert a salvage mission into an urgent ethical and command dilemma, forcing Picard to assert authority, prompting security presence, and humanizing abstract choices when the first awakened patient collapses.
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