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The Wonderful World of Pathology

For my latest fanfiction for Star Trek: 2009 I created an OC (original character) who is a pathologist. Her name is Doctor Amata Gerald, she is 16 (human) years old.

"But Allie, how can a 16 year old possibly be a licensed pathologist?"

Well, on the planet this young human was raised on, called Salthasia (I will add, this planet was never incorporated in any work of actual Star Trek fiction. This planet and it's people were completely created by me), the students are expected to have completed their education for their careers by the Salthasian age of 19, which would be equivalent to about 14 in human years.

She became a pathologist because she never knew how her parents died.

The story behind my endeavour into pathology was actually quite fascinating, and I will admit that I am not yet complete with my gruesome journey.

I am only 16 myself, and I am certainly not involved in pathological studies, nor am I particularly interested in pursuing pathology as a career, but I am interested in the procedures and how one conducts a thorough autopsy.

So I trekked (no pun intended) down to my local library and picked up a copy of "Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner" by Frederick Zugibe. I actually have yet to finish the first chapter but the amount of information given in the first chapter was more than enough to condone autopsies on the bodies of several Starfleet officers missing several concealed bits and pieces of themselves in my story.

I will say that I plan on finishing the book which I simply must recommend for anyone suffering any odd fascination with the subject due to CSI, NCIS, and the like on television. I will compare the vocabulary and the voice of the writer to be very much similar to the speech patterns of Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard (on whom I based Doctor Amata Gerald's autopsy style, i.e. talking to dead bodies) of NCIS.

That will be all for today, I know I never publish anything, but I doubt that anyone actually reads this blog anyway! If anyone does: thank you for sitting through my insanity, and I promise to give you another tidbit of said mental state in the future (near, mid, or far I cannot promise).

Do Svidanya!
Allie