• @rockSlayer
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      105 hours ago

      What’s wrong with a little assimilation, as a treat?

  • @halcyoncmdr
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    208 hours ago

    In universe it’s supposed to like strengthen cell membranes.

    Since a lot of issues stem from cell membranes being pierced, damaged, etc. that should be fairly generally effective. Especially as a first step to try against an unknown.

  • @[email protected]
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    159 hours ago

    Technically it’s just a targ dewormer.

    It turns out that removing targ worms drastically increases your odds of surviving most afflictions and ailments, so it’s a standard practice for the EMH mk I for every issue.

    The EMH mk II discontinued this practice but most crew members find him off putting and avoid him.

    • Australis13
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      77 hours ago

      IIRC, there are quite a few episodes of Voyager showing the hypospray being loaded/reloaded with a cartridge. It’s unclear how many doses are contained in the cartridge, but typically more than one. I would think that for most treatments the Sickbay replicator just produces a ready-to-use batch of cartridges, whereas for more specialised medication the EMH has to actually make it up manually.