Preliminary Report on Ira Graves' Death

Pulaski's recorded medical log establishes both Ira Graves' intellectual significance and medical urgency, framing the mission's ethical stakes and the patient's deteriorating condition as the Enterprise races to respond.

Pulaski's medical log plays back on the bridge, providing critical exposition about Graves' condition and establishing Pulaski's professional assessment that frames the entire mission urgency. Its clinical language contrasts with Starfleet's research priorities.

Pulaski's medical log plays before her arrival on the bridge, establishing the critical nature of Graves' condition and framing her subsequent urgency in treating him. The log's clinical tone contrasts with the bridge crew's operational concerns.

Pulaski's medical log provides crucial exposition about Ira Graves' deteriorating condition and scientific significance before transitioning to present-tense ethical confrontation on the bridge.

Dr. Pulaski cites this report to clinically justify Data's claim about the swiftness of Graves' death, its factual authority temporarily masking the emerging contradictions in Data's account about Graves having articulated last wishes.

The report becomes a rhetorical weapon—Pulaski cites its clinical confirmation of Graves' instantaneous death to justify Data's inaction, inadvertently provoking tensions when its neutral language about biological demise conflicts with Data's subsequent emphasis on honoring Graves' carefully planned dying wishes.

The preliminary medical report is referenced by Pulaski to clinically support Data's claim that Graves' death was too swift for intervention, establishing a factual basis that makes Data's later 'dying wish' claim suspicious.

Pulaski cites her preliminary report to scientifically validate Data's claim about Graves' rapid death, using its factual neutrality as both medical justification and psychological distancing mechanism from the growing unease about Data's behavior.