#Doctor Pulaski

[bumblingbabooshka]

Overhated Female Character x Underused Female Character [Patreon | Commissions]

[geekysteven]

[Image description Scene from Star Trek The Next Generation PULASKI: Dah-ta, look at this. DATA: My name is pronounced "Day-ta." PULASKI: Oh my God, I am so sorry! This is all just so new to me. I just need you to know I truly feel you are "Day-ta" in my heart. Third panel is on the bridge with Data focused forward at the conn. Text reads "3 WEEKS LATER" PULASKI:...I'm really not androphobic, I just grew up in a different time, I think over time you'll see I'm a good person and...]

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

Deanna Troi: "Just FYI, my mom is way more sexual now that she's getting older."

Doctor Pulaski: "Oh, I just saw your mom going to the captain's quarters."

Deanna: "She's going to eat captain Picard alive- should we do something?"

Pulaski: "As chief medical officer, I think your mom absolutely crushing that would be healthy for our captain."

[quarks-pussy]

[Image description: pictures of, in order, Dr Julian Bashir, Dr Beverly Crusher, Dr Leonard McCoy, The Doctor from Voyager, Dr Katherine Pulaski and Dr Phlox. All of the images have been altered so the characters depicted are wearing white t-shirts that say "I (heart) abortion, sex change & crime". All of them look very pleased with their wardrobe. End image description.]

Sorry for the shitty ai t-shirts, I needed to clarify asap <3

If anyone with actual skill wants to remake these, feel free! Tag me when you're done so I can reblog it

[dailydccomics]

The Authority by Jim Lee

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

It’s me and Adric and Frankie Santana and Dr Pulaski we’re having a party and ur not invited and u know what we invited Jo Grant and Mike Yates and Amy Amanda Allen and Tawnia Baker and Monica Reyes and Victoria Waterfield and the 6th Doctor and no you still can’t come

[simptasia]

i would trust any starfleet doctor with my life

[tea-earl-grey]

i think to follow in the footsteps of Bones, all the other Starfleet doctors should have nicknames referencing body parts. Beverly "Kidney" Crusher. Katherine "Lungs" Pulaski. and of course Julian "Postganglionic Nerve" Bashir.

[thresholdbb]

Pretend for a moment the Star Trek doctors all existed today, with present-day knowledge and technology

[geekysteven]

"Is this possible? Can a dream have bruised feelings?"

[Image description Tidus from Final Fantasy X replacing Data in a scene in Star Trek The Next Generation with Dr Pulaski. Pulaski: Tie-dus, look at this. Tidus: Tee-dus. My name is pronounced "TEE-dus." Pulaski: What's the difference? Tidus: One is my name. The other is not.]

[reginaldqueribundus]

Could I beat that Star Trek doctor in a fight?

Joseph M'Benga: no. god no. the man was so good at murder they tried to get him to quit his doctor job and go back to it. trust me you don't want that smoke

T'Ana: no way. she's angry all the time and she's part cat. she would kick my ass dude. and probably make out with Shaxs on top of my unconscious body, eww

Hugh Culber: absolutely fucking not. that guy was dead for half a season and spent the entire time working out like he was in prison. then he came back to life to punch his murderer. I'm not messing with him

Phlox: Phlox seems like a pushover. Do we ever see him do anything physical? I guess he could sic his pet bat on me or something.

The Doctor: he's just a hologram so it wouldn't be very satisfying. you can't even punch him. yet I still kinda wanna slap his bald head for acting like an incel

Julian Bashir: easy W. genetically engineered reflexes or not that twink is softer than a marshmallow in a microwave. the danger comes from the deadly assassin and powerful Irishman protecting him

Beverly Crusher: Blazin Bev has hidden depths, she would probably kick your ass and tap dance on it. I personally would be too busy simping to fight her anyway

Kathryn Pulaski: yeah you could beat Pulaski, if only in the name of standing up for Data, but why would you want to

Leonard McCoy: listen. McCoy had a scalpel held to his throat and his response was pointing out his jugular so he'd die faster. I don't think it's possible to defeat him in a way that matters

as for the other shows, Picard didn't really have a doctor character besides Jurati, but she wasn't a medical doctor. She also killed a dude and turned into a Borg Queen so, y'know. Probably a bad idea to start shit with her. I don't think the Prodigy gang really had a doctor either unless you count Zero? I feel like I could just knock them over pretty easily but if they takes off that containment suit it's game over. I really wanna beat up the Dauntless's shitty Tellarite doctor though.

[stellarred]

I liked Dr. Kathryn Pulaski. She was a good doctor, and I was sad she didn't stick around after Season 2 in TNG.

Come to think of it, we never got to see the Enterprise crew say goodbye to her, or throw her a goodbye/farewell party. There was no "Thanks for all you've done. Thanks for saving so n' so's life, etc."

Nothing.

There was no explanation provided as to why she left.

Pulaski just... disappeared.

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Okay, so like. I've recently gotten into Star Trek TNG and am on season 3. Return of Beverly Crusher and all that. Then I realize a few episodes in that we haven't seen Katherine Pulaski, the doctor in season 2, at all.

And so I looked it up and the show like. Doesn't even really address it? Crusher leaves (due to contract dispute irl apparently) and now comes back and Pulaski is just completely forgotten because Crusher is back.

The most baffling thing to me tho is how divisive she apparently was to the 80's fandom? And like, for what?? Simply because she wasn't Crusher?? Like, a lot of those historical criticisms seem to be that she didn't "fit in" with the crew but what?? How did she not???

She was fucking awesome. She had a completely different dynamic than Crusher that worked to make a quickly more complicated character.

Crusher has a sort of sex appeal. Humanistic compassion. Intelligence and empathy.

Pulaski felt pragmatic but highly moral. Daring and authoritative. She matched Picard's ego and intelligence, often creating conflicts due to their different approaches to moral problems. She was flawed and headstrong but genuinely trying to do the right thing, which is how most compelling characters in TNG feel.

It's just so crazy to me that she wasn't popular and the show didn't even write her character an "out."

[eco-lite]

Some mostly out of context funny/sweet/heartbreaking moments from Una McCormack’s Enigma Tales:

[Text ID: “Renel took the other chair and the two guls, both big men, perched awkwardly together on the sofa. Garak had asked for the sofa’s dimensions to be just slightly too small to comfortably seat two adult males. His cruel streak always found expression somehow.” End ID]

Garak forcing stuffy military men to squeeze onto a tiny sofa together. Utterly diabolical.

[Text ID: “My real pride is, of course, my garden. I have worked hard here. Parmak helps, although he has a tendency to kill plants on touch—worrying in a doctor (previous sentences underlined in red by me). He can’t do too much damage. The plants are hardy, the flowers have their own agenda, and not even Parmak can kill dry stone monuments.” End ID]

I love that in The Crimson Shadow, it’s implied that Kelas takes care of Garak’s garden while he’s away, yet here we learn that he’s actually terrible at it. First of all hilarious. Second of all, very sweet that Garak trusts him to keep trying.

[Text ID: “’There might be another route to Garak,’ Alden said slowly, at last. ‘Ambassador, what do you know about Kelas Parmak?’

‘He is the castellan’s close friend,’ said T’Rena. ‘Probably one of his closest advisors—not officially, but certainly they are often together.’

‘Are they lovers?’ said Pulaski.

‘I don’t know,’ said T’Rena. ‘I do know that Parmak was interrogated by the Obsidian Order in his youth, and that Garak may have been involved.’

‘Damn,’ muttered Alden, ‘this place is twisted.’” End ID]

Pulaski just assuming that Garak and Kelas are lovers. A perfectly valid assumption--it’s the same assumption I make myself. Also, Peter Alden pointing out how it is frankly fucked up that they should be lovers considering the circumstances of their past encounter. He’s not wrong... Kelas is just a forgiving angel of a man.

[Text ID: “She picked up the parcel she had brought with her. ‘Hey,’ she said. ‘I’ve got to go now. I hope it’s been good to see me. But I brought you a present. Well, it’s not really from me. Several of your friends got together and found this, and when they heard I was coming they asked me to bring it with me. I hope there’s no injunction on importing livestock. I think I got away with it.’

He was hardly going to unwrap the gift, so she pulled at the paper, revealing the small brown bear inside. She reached for Bashir’s hand again, lifting it and pressing it against the toy, in case the touch stirred some memory. She pressed it against his cheek too, so he could catch the scent. Smell and memory were closely intertwined; smells took you back to places more than anything else. Then she put the bear upon the windowsill, half looking out at the city, half looking back at Bashir. She smiled at it; this little guy had been loved, she saw, and someone had done some stitching that would make a surgeon proud. She reached out and rubbed its ears.

‘He’s an old soldier, isn’t he?’ she said. ‘He’s been through some wars. We’ve all been through some wars.’ She stopped and kissed her lost friend gently on the brow. ‘Come back, Julian,’ she said. ‘We miss you.’” End ID]

Pulaski bringing Kukalaka to comfort the comatose Julian are you kIDDING ME? This scene is so bittersweet.

[Text ID: “’My father would say, all the time, how much I was wanted. How much he wanted me.’

(Next paragraph highlighted red by me) Well, he had wanted something, Garak thought. Telek’s father had not wanted the child he got. And that hurt, as Garak had cause to know; yes, that hurt very badly.” End ID]

Hahahahaaa ouchie.

[Text ID: “Garak realized that he was still holding the phaser. He slipped it back into his pocket, for he would no doubt need it again one day, and then he rested his head against the cool of the window. My poor Julian, he thought. He let himself tremble for a while, allowing his body to process the shock. He might have allowed himself some tears then, too, in the dark while nobody could see, for all that had been lost, for all that he had done; for everyone that he had harmed.

Everyone that he had been unable to save.” End ID]

Despite everything, Garak is a very compassionate person. He very kindly talked down Telek, who was about to kill him, and was sensitive and remorseful that Telek’s Bajoran genetics had been eradicated as a child, at the insistance of Telek’s Cardassian father. And then immediately after that assassination attempt--a moment in which you’re surely allowed to think selfishly--he instead thinks of “My poor Julian,” another man whose father did not want him as he was. And that’s not even acknowledging all the other shit Garak is going through here. It’s a lot.

Love to end on a sad note. But seriously, everybody go read this book! These are just a few great moments among many. Lots of angst, lots of tenderness.