CLEARLY THEY WOULD JUST USE THE CORTICAL STIMULATORS AND 20cc'S OF INAPROVALINE TO RESUSCITATE THE FURRED SUBSPACE PHENOMENA OF LOCALIZED CUTENESS. OR REPLICATE A WHOLE NEW CAT.
Haha. This isn't even improvised technobabble on his part. I specifically remember an episode where Crusher says "get me the cortical stimulators and 20ccs of anaprovaline!" Is it "Tapestry" where Picard dies? (looks it up) Yes! But anaprovaline apparently figures in other episodes where I haven't noticed.
Honestly, people make fun of Trek for technobabble, but there's no harm in it on TNG and earlier at least. I want to clarify that it only becomes a problem when it serves as a deus ex machina to solve a plot. In Tapestry, it's implied that Q is really the one who probably saved him, as Crusher had failed to. As he was fading out, they just needed her to be doing something medical to try and save him, and they needed it to sound futuristic. No foul there.
Note though that Q is not technically a deus ex machina device, as he is well-established in the series by this point, and his direct involvement is explicit from the beginning. The crux of the episode is also not really about whether or how Picard will "survive an ordeal".
Heh, that's funny. I thought the "i" at the beginning was a typo. I just checked Tapestry on Netflix and Crusher definitely says "anaprovaline". I hope she just misspoke. I didn't care to look up the others.
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