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Katherine Pulaski served a brief tour of duty as the chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is widely disliked by fans both for replacing the more popular Beverly Crusher and especially for treating Data as an object instead of a person.
Medical Ethics
Dr. Pulaski developed an experimental procedure for erasing memories from humanoids. When a young girl from the planet Drema 4 was brought on board the Enterprise, Pulaski used her procedure to eliminate the girl's memories of her contact with Data and visit to the starship, even though she had no previous medical experience with Dremans.
- "Assuming her brain structure is similar to ours, the memories will be stored chemically on the neurons of the cerebral cortex. They are also time dependent. I'll have to scan for age of the chemical links and try to find the relevant neurons. To be sure, I may have to go back weeks before the initial contact with Data."
- --TNG "Pen Pals"
