U.S.S. Prometheus

The ship's main computer incorporates a transceiver which enables it to receive an optronic datalink and, I conjecture, presumably depending on the nature of the Starfleet signature contained within it, initialise it where needed e.g. if the signature is that of a Starfleet medical hologram it would be downloaded directly within Sickbay. It is also likely that the sender of the signal would be able to embed within it a direction-indicator for the carrier wave.

Ironically, the first patient to be treated in Sickbay was a Romulan officer, one of a 27-strong boarding party which killed all the Starfleet crew and stole the ship [#82 Message in a Bottle]. The Romulan commander, Rekar, planned to hand over the prize-ship, not to the Romulan government as originally planned, but to the Tal Shiar, the Romulan secret police. Only the effort of the Voyager EMH and Prometheus' EMH thwarted the Romulan scheme and returned the ship to Starfleet control.

THE EMH MARK 2 The EMH which USS Prometheus carries aboard is the EMH Mark 2, designed by Dr Lewis Zimmerman after the failure of the Mark 1 (which is what Voyager's EMH is) to be accepted by people. The Mark 1's failure was not due to its medical skills but due to its perceived lack of a good bedside manner - it became a joke that "EMH" stood, among other things, for "Extremely Marginal Housecalls" [#144 Life Line].

EMH Mark 2 and EMH Mark 1

By the time of the EMH Mark 1's encounter with the EMH Mark 2 in 2374, the Mark 2 was still a prototype and had not even been field-tested. Although the Mark 2's personality subroutines had been improved compared to the Mark 1's, apparent failings would seem to be its tendency to become flustered and irritable during non-medical crises, and its initial desire to stick to the letter of Starfleet regulations no matter what. However, encouraged by the Mark 1, the Mark 2 showed initiative when the Mark 1 was captured, by simulating a shipwide bio-hazard which triggered the opening of the ventilation vents, thereby allowing the Mark 2 to introduce aneurazine gas into the ship and anaesthetise the Romulan occupying force. The Mark 2 requested download to it of the same subroutines that had enabled the Mark 1 to have sexual relations: "Let's just say," said the EMH Mark 1, "that I made an addition to my program." However, we do not know if that enhancement was ever added to the Mark 1 when the time came for the Mark 2 to depart and return to Voyager. The Mark 2 resembles a human as closely as possible. Even breathing is simulated.

 

PICTURES OF SICKBAY

Sickbay looking over the pharmacy section (front left) towards the biobed.

 

Behind-right of the Doctor can be seen the medical officer's office area - a desk with a large wall-mounted control and information display panel.

 

In the foreground: desk from the other side.

 

Medical instruments. The thrombic modulator is the cone-shaped device.

 

Workstation close by the biobed. It incorporates a display monitor.
Ship's systems can be accessed from this station, depending on the authorisation level of the user.

 

Close-up of the monitor - in [Message in a Bottle] the Voyager EMH used this particular monitor to try and find out about the ship he is on.

 

Foreground: Part of the biobed.
Background: When multi-vector attack mode is in operation, certain wall-panels designed to indicate ship's status flash on blue and off. Presumably when red alert is sounded the walls flash red on and off. >[?

 

Close-up of the pharmacy workstation.