Star Trek: Every Doctor On The Enterprise
With Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) joining Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, he becomes the latest doctor to serve as Chief Medical Officer on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek. In addition, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) will return in Star Trek: Picard season 3. The various Starship Enterprises now boast 8 doctors (including two versions of Dr. Leonard McCoy) who are among the finest physicians in the history of Starfleet.
The Chief Medical Officer is a crucial crew member aboard a starship, especially one as prone to encounter all manner of bizarre phenomena as the USS Enterprise. Most incarnations of the Starship Enterprise were assigned five-year (or ongoing) missions into deep space to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before. As such, the Enterprise's doctor needs to be the very best Starfleet Medical has to offer. The Chief Medical Officers who served aboard the flagship of the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Enterprise are also among the most popular characters in the franchise, and they have inspired many in the real world to pursue the field of medicine and become doctors themselves.
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Of the starships named Enterprise, which includes the NX-01, the Constitution-class NCC-1701/refit/and 1701-A, and the Enterprise-D and E, only the Enterprise-B and Enterprise-C didn't canonically establish who their Chief Medical Officers were. The Excelsior-class Enterprise-B only made one appearance in Star Trek Generations but there was no doctor aboard its maiden flight. The Ambassador-class
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