2.14 Sickbay Operations
Describes Voyager's fully-equipped medical facility, its advanced devices, the Emergency Medical Hologram, and the rationing of medical replicators.
In Brief: The USS Voyager maintains a fully-equipped medical facility, complete with surgical center, recovery units, and specialized treatment rooms. Trained medical personnel can care for sick or injured crew with a variety of advanced diagnostic and healing devices, including the medical tricorder, hypospray, and neural headpads.
The loss of the ship’s doctor requires the use of the Emergency Medical Hologram, whose movement capabilities are subject to some of the same limitations as other holodeck animated figures (see HOLODECK). The exact nature of Doc Zimmerman’s abilities to move about and manipulate objects will be developed during the series.
One possible limitation of the reduced power mode of the ship is the rationing of power to medical replicators, which produce custom pharmaceuticals. It may be possible to augment our stored and replicated medicines with exotic chemical or plant materials found during the journey home.