Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Critical Care (2000)

Larry Drake: Chellick

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• [Chellick explains the treatment coefficient - TC for short - of the patients in the hospital] 

  Chellick : An agricultural engineer is obviously more important than a waste processor.

  The Doctor : Important to whom?

  Chellick : Society. When your resources are limited, you have to prioritize.

  The Doctor : So you base treatment on whether patients have particular abilities.

  Chellick : It's much more complicated than that. The Allocator assesses the entire individual.

  The Doctor : And reduces his life to a number.

• The Doctor : Level Blue is your critical care area, I presume.

  Chellick : Level Blue is the area where it's most critical that we provide excellent care.

• The Doctor : Don't you have any ethical standards?

  Chellick : You are hardly in a position to speak to me of ethics. Lying, stealing... Any other crimes you wish to confess?

  The Doctor : I was trying to save lives.

  Chellick : And I am trying to save a society.

• Chellick : You're only making things worse for yourself.

  The Doctor : As a matter of fact, I'm making things worse for you: I'm going to make you a patient in your own hospital.

• [the Doctor has "transfered" Chellick onto Level Red by giving him Tebbis's identity and disease] 

  Chellick : What're you waiting for? Give me the cytoglobin.

  Dr. Dysek : I don't think I can.

  Chellick : What're you saying?

  Dr. Dysek : Cytoglobin isn't authorized for Level Red patients.

  Chellick : Dysek!

  Dr. Dysek : I don't want to break the rules.

  Chellick : I made the rules!

  Dr. Dysek : Then you should be pleased I hold them in such high regard.

• The Doctor : You know, Doctor, one way to increase your allocation of resources on Level Blue would be to increase the number of patients. I know at least a dozen people who should be treated for... arterial aging. Saving their lives would be just a side effect.

  Dr. Dysek : Hmm... Perhaps we should have them transfered to Level Blue.

  The Doctor : If you're looking for a second opinion, I concur.

  Dr. Dysek : Well... Chellick, what do you think?

  Chellick : It's absurd!

  Dr. Dysek : We'd have to transfer you to Level Blue as well. You'd get your cytoglobin.