Hospital Ships
Mar. 26th, 2020 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI am remembering "All Good Things", the wrap-up of The Next Generation's branch of Star Trek. Specifcally, one of the "guest" starships in that episode, the hospital ship USS Pasteur as captained in an alternative future by Beverly Crusher Picard.
Well, hospital ships are a real thing in some few real-worlds wet navies. The USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are in US service and have been for some decades. Since I was in grade school, I think.
Anyway. It's occurred to at least one naval affairs blogger that maybe more hospital ships would be a good thing for the USN to have at hand in case of future crises, domestic and overseas. Whether new-built or refitted from private hands. I would agree re: Canadian purposes as well, if we get through this current mess reasonably intact enough. If we don't need them at home, there's UN/WHO operations that could be supported, right?
But again, we have to get through this mess without being annexed by "Trumpistan" or being remade into a province of Xi Jinping's or Putin's regimes. Or bankrupted and whatever else our nightmares can dream up.
And on to whatever's next between now and the end of the first season of Picard...
Related note: https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/03/cruise-ships-and-usnr-covid-19-public.html
Well, hospital ships are a real thing in some few real-worlds wet navies. The USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are in US service and have been for some decades. Since I was in grade school, I think.
Anyway. It's occurred to at least one naval affairs blogger that maybe more hospital ships would be a good thing for the USN to have at hand in case of future crises, domestic and overseas. Whether new-built or refitted from private hands. I would agree re: Canadian purposes as well, if we get through this current mess reasonably intact enough. If we don't need them at home, there's UN/WHO operations that could be supported, right?
But again, we have to get through this mess without being annexed by "Trumpistan" or being remade into a province of Xi Jinping's or Putin's regimes. Or bankrupted and whatever else our nightmares can dream up.
And on to whatever's next between now and the end of the first season of Picard...
Related note: https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/03/cruise-ships-and-usnr-covid-19-public.html
