Pulaski 2.0

Pulaski 2.0
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation
Author(s):	Greg Cox
Publication information
Printed:	20 September 2022, in Star Trek: Explorer, Issue 4
Pages:	6
Omnibus:	The Mission and Other Stories
Chronology
Date:	2365

"Pulaski 2.0" is a TNG short story published in Star Trek: Explorer magazine. It was written by Greg Cox, edited by Jonathan Wilkins, and published in September 2022 in the subscriber digital supplement to Explorer, Issue 4. It first saw print publication in Titan Magazines' "The Mission" and Other Stories omnibus in 2024.

Description

Doctor Katherine Pulaski experiences life as an android.

References

Characters

Data • Jean-Luc Picard • Katherine Pulaski • Rugin • Selar • Deanna Troi • Nae Yemma

Referenced only

Ira Graves • Ann Mulhall • Sargon • Jale Yaslo

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)

Referenced only

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)

Locations

Lloua III

Races and cultures

Android • Human • humanoid • Vulcan

Referenced only

Sargonian

States and organizations

Federation • Starfleet

Science and classification

android • artificial heart • artificial intelligence • biobed • biofilter • bioplast • bomb • cardiostimulator • chronometer • circuitry • combadge • cybernetics • distress signal • environmental suit • hand phaser • hypospray • identity transference • laboratory • mind-transfer station • positronic brain • self-destruct • servomotor • sterile field • surgery • tissue mitigator • transporter • viewscreen

Occupations and titles

captain • chief medical officer • colonist • counselor • doctor • nurse • physician • surgeon

Other references

brain • century • colony • conference room • death • decade • disease • fal-tor-pan • hair • Hippocratic Oath • hour • hour • katra • leper • lifesign • malefic dementia • medical • mind meld • minute • mirror • planetoid • polyalloy • race • sector • sickbay • Starfleet uniform (2350s-2366) • steel • suicide • telepathy • tree • virus

Appendices

Related media

• TNG episode: "The Schizoid Man" – Ira Graves temporarily transferred his consciousness into Data's body.
• TOS episode & Star Trek 9 novelization: Return to Tomorrow – Sargon and two Sargonians were rescued by a landing party from the USS Enterprise on Arret in 2268.
• TOS comic: "The Trial of Captain Kirk" – In 2266, Spock and Leonard McCoy transferred their consciousnesses into cerebot avatar robots in order to retrieve vital information from the highly irradiated surface of Ndora.

Background

• This story takes place a few months after "The Schizoid Man".

Images

Story image.

Connections

Star Trek: The Next Generation collected short stories, novellas and short novels
Strange New Worlds	I: ("What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit" • "The Naked Truth" • "The First" • "See Spot Run" • "Together Again, for the First Time" • "Civil Disobedience" • "Of Cabbages and Kings") • II: ("I Am Klingon" • "Reciprocity" • "Calculated Risk" • "Gods, Fate, and Fractals" • "I Am Become Death") • III: ("Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" • "A Private Victory" • "The Fourth Toast" • "One of Forty-seven" • "A Q to Swear By" • "The Change of Seasons" • "Out of the Box, Thinking") • IV: ("Flight 19" • "The Promise" • "Flash Point" • "Prodigal Son" • "Seeing Forever") • V: ("Bluff" • "The Peacemakers" • "Efflorescence" • "Kristin's Conundrum" • "The Monkey Puzzle Box" • "The Farewell Gift" • "Dementia in D Minor") • VI: ("The Soft Room" • "Protecting Data's Friends" • "The Human Factor" • "Tribble in Paradise") • VII: ("Life's Work" • "Adventures in Jazz and Time" • "Future Shock" • "Full Circle" • "Beginnings" • "Solemn Duty") • 8: ("Morning Bells Are Ringing" • "Passages of Deceit" • "Final Flight") • 9: ("Staying the Course" • "Home Soil" • "Terra Tonight" • "Solace in Bloom") • 10 ("Wired" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "The Very Model") • 2016 ("A Christmas Qarol" • "The Sunwalkers" • "The Seen and Unseen")
The Sky's the Limit	"Meet with Triumph and Disaster" • "Acts of Compassion" • "Redshift" • "Among the Clouds" • "Thinking of You" • "Turncoats" • "Ordinary Days" • "'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven" • "Friends With the Sparrows" • "Suicide Note" • "Four Lights" • "'Til Death" • "On the Spot" • "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You"
Misc. short stories	"The Captain and the King" • "Last Words" • "Bedside Matters" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "What Dreams May Come" • "Twilight's Wrath" • "Eleven Hours Out" • "Darkness" • "The Sacred Chalice" • "For Want of a Nail" • "Q and False" • "Quality of Life" • "Broken Oaths" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "Scramble" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Other Side" • "The Worst of Both Worlds" • "Brave New World"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Growing Pains	Short stories Star Trek Explorer	Next story: The Disavowed
Previous story: Paghabi	The Mission and Other Stories	Next story: The Expert
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