Object

Sickbay Diagnostic Console

A compact, waist‑height bedside diagnostic console anchored beside a biobed: brushed alloy/clinical casing with a narrow luminescent display band, tactile input strip and a row of colored status LEDs. The screen renders layered vital‑sign tracings, color‑coded alarm bars, allergenic/histaminic response overlays and concise diagnostic flags; soft audio chimes punctuate changing values. Medical assistants and Beverly Crusher manipulate menus and freeze waveform detail while clinicians use the readout’s urgent alarm bands and histamine tracers to make immediate medical and diplomatic determinations.

2 appearances

Purpose

To display patient vitals and run diagnostic tests, aggregating medical sensors and triage data to support clinical decision‑making and treatment planning.

Significance

Its readouts provide the clinical basis for ruling Mendoza medically unfit for the negotiations, converting a clinical judgment into an immediate diplomatic vacancy and triggering the narrative turn that presses Riker into Mendoza's role.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S3E8 · The Price

Mendoza Declared Medically Unfit — Riker Drafted into the Negotiations

The Sickbay bedside diagnostic readout provides the clinical evidence Beverly cites: pulse tracings, chemical assays and an elevated histamine marker that allow her to categorize the ailment as system‑wide but nonfatal. Its red bands and data force command to accept a multi‑day incapacity rather than a quick return to duty.

Before: Active at Mendoza's bedside, displaying vitals and biochemical tracers; clinicians were consulting it to interpret an unclear condition.

After: Still in use at the bedside; its readout now functions as the official medical basis for Mendoza's removal from the negotiations.

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S3E8 · The Price

Pressing Riker into Mendoza's Seat

The bedside diagnostic readout provides the clinical evidence Beverly reads to diagnose a system-wide histaminic reaction. Its pulsing vitals and assay markers anchor the medical authority of her pronouncement and trigger the operational decisions that follow.

Before: Active and displaying Mendoza's vitals and biochemical markers at the diagnostic bed, attended by medical staff.

After: Still active but now indicating histaminic activity and used to justify Mendoza's removal from negotiations; remains in Sickbay as a monitoring device.

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