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Yeah, now that people mention it I do think the VISOR would help quite a bit. Early on in TNG he even says he can detect if humans are lying from the minute physical changes (although the writers clearly drop that later, see his record at poker). Clearly that should be able to pick up all sorts of problems like internal temperature fluctuations and heart rate and in fact it does [The Enemy, TNG]. But what we don’t see is Geordi ever fixing those things on a humanoid on screen. So he might be better than O’Brien, but I still think B’Elanna has the edge overall. Even if my logic is iffy (and it is: she fixes the Doctor so she knows about doctoring? Eh) on screen other characters acknowledge her medical skills. Including the Doctor, who gives her genetic re-sequencing idea serious consideration before she reprograms him. Would she be a better medic than even Tom Paris, who has a lot of practice but clearly doesn’t like the work? I doubt it, but I’d probably take her in a life or death situation over the other engineers based solely on the primary sources.

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I think we can pretty safely put Scotty and Trip at the bottom of the pile. They’ve never shown any specific aptitude for medical work and I think 24th century Starfleet basic medical training and technology helps everyone else. Of the remaining three, Geordi seems like he would be very nice and try to be as helpful as possible about your injuries, but I’m ranking him 3rd overall. I don’t recall O’Brien ever doing anything on screen to indicate his medical competence, but we can guess that maybe he’s seen enough combat to have picked up some of the basics, so second place to Miles. Torres, with her extensive knowledge of programming and reprogramming the Doctor (enough to suggest a DNA re-sequencing of her own baby to the Doctor [Lineage, Voy]) and the fact that her year at the academy may have been a double major in engineering and medical [Extreme Risk, Voy] makes me put her in first place.

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2 points in round 1! 0 for round 2. Still a fun game, thanks for making them.

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My sources say that he is full of turtle meat.

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0 points. Brutal. I actually felt like I was getting further away with each clue. Still a good game though.

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46 points

That is a brilliant mashup.

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Surely this aimless guitar noodling can’t last the whole movie, right?

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Kingdom Death: Monster may be my biggest if we’re counting the volume of both the game box and the miniatures box. If not Twilight Imperium is big but I think the big Galaxy Trucker-and-expansion in one box is taller and might be bigger overall.

Smallest for me is probably Codenames. Unless Set counts.

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