McCoy walking around the hospital just being thoroughly pissed off at all the archaic medical techniques and technology was one of my favourite parts of that film.
It’s a funny scene, but it also doesn’t make much sense. He traveled the galaxy and had traveled through time before. He had seen much more primitive medicine and he knew that 20th century Earth was primitive compared to the medicine of his time, so he shouldn’t have even been a little surprised.
No, it’s realistic. People get used to a modern standard and then struggle to cope when they see that standard not being followed.
Imagine going from a country with fair elections to a country with a dictatorship. It would piss you off that they’re not “with the times” politically, regardless of the fact that you knew it in advance.
Often thought I’d lose my mind if I was sent to re-do the 80s.
A college friend told my gf and I (1989), “You guys are so wild! Whenever you want to learn something you just go to the library and get a bunch of books!”
But this is San Francisco on Earth. That’s where Starfleet Headquarters is going to be. It’s like walking around Cambridge before Newton and noticing it’s just a crappy Middle Ages town with a primitive University.
McCoy is a chronic complainer, though. He even complained in TMP when he decided his facilities were too modern and his staff too capable. He for sure is going to complain when facilities aren’t good enough. Even if he’s used to it, he’ll complain every time like it’s the first.
That’s consistent too. You don’t expect medieval societies to jump light years ahead. But if someone is just a couple steps behind you, you notice the discrepancy between you and them more.
And I think it’s much worse when it’s kinda close. People using cocaine as a panacea are much more irritating to us than tribal medicine or ancient Egyptian cataract surgery.
McCoy walking around the hospital just being thoroughly pissed off at all the archaic medical techniques and technology was one of my favourite parts of that film.
It’s a funny scene, but it also doesn’t make much sense. He traveled the galaxy and had traveled through time before. He had seen much more primitive medicine and he knew that 20th century Earth was primitive compared to the medicine of his time, so he shouldn’t have even been a little surprised.
No, it’s realistic. People get used to a modern standard and then struggle to cope when they see that standard not being followed.
Imagine going from a country with fair elections to a country with a dictatorship. It would piss you off that they’re not “with the times” politically, regardless of the fact that you knew it in advance.
Same thing with any modern standard.
Often thought I’d lose my mind if I was sent to re-do the 80s.
A college friend told my gf and I (1989), “You guys are so wild! Whenever you want to learn something you just go to the library and get a bunch of books!”
But think of how many planets he had already been to with primitive medicine.
But this is San Francisco on Earth. That’s where Starfleet Headquarters is going to be. It’s like walking around Cambridge before Newton and noticing it’s just a crappy Middle Ages town with a primitive University.
McCoy is a chronic complainer, though. He even complained in TMP when he decided his facilities were too modern and his staff too capable. He for sure is going to complain when facilities aren’t good enough. Even if he’s used to it, he’ll complain every time like it’s the first.
That’s consistent too. You don’t expect medieval societies to jump light years ahead. But if someone is just a couple steps behind you, you notice the discrepancy between you and them more.
And I think it’s much worse when it’s kinda close. People using cocaine as a panacea are much more irritating to us than tribal medicine or ancient Egyptian cataract surgery.
Why would he think it would be otherwise? That’s poor expectation management on his part.
If you were transported back to 1750, would you expect them to know germ theory? Antibiotics?
Mccoy stopped giving a fuck after that damned vulcan invaded his head.