Starfleet Medical

Starfleet Medical is the overseeing medical department of Federation Starfleet. The main facility is in San Francisco on Earth, though it is unclear if there are any other facilities elsewhere. It has existed at least as early as 2151, as a part of the Starfleet and is aligned with the Starfleet Medical Academy.

In the 23rd century, an office existed known as the Starfleet Surgeon General which held some command authority over Starfleet Medical to include the power to relieve starship medical officers for incompetence. (TOS: "Turnabout Intruder")

Responsibilities

Starfleet Medical contains many diagnostic and treatment wards, containing the most advanced technologies. Long-term facilities are available to care for seriously ill patients. (VOY: "Endgame")

It is also responsible for all medical research activities in the Federation. Researchers are required to obtain approval from Starfleet Medical before proceeding with new treatments and medications. (TNG: "Ethics")

Starfleet Medical is also responsible for the regulation and training of the various counselors in Starfleet. (DS9: "Afterimage")

Starfleet Medical most likely maintains the largest database of medical information available to Starfleet personnel. (TNG: "Realm of Fear", "Genesis")

Starfleet Medical is also the parent of the Starfleet Dental sub-division. (DS9: "Paradise Lost")

Events

• In 2151, Klaang, a Klingon being chased by the Suliban, crash landed on Earth, where he managed to kill his pursuers. However, a farmer shot him with a plasma rifle, and he was taken to Starfleet Medical. One of the doctors who worked to save his life was Doctor Phlox. Soon after, Captain Jonathan Archer was summoned to the facility, where he persuaded Admiral Forrest to let him and his ship, the Enterprise NX-01, go back to Qo'noS. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

• In 2365, Dr. Beverly Crusher served with the headquarters of Starfleet Medical. (TNG: "The Child", "Evolution")

• Dr. Toby Russell had submitted a request to test the genitronic replicator on humanoids three times by 2368. Each time, Starfleet Medical refused to allow use of the technology. (TNG: "Ethics")

• Odo visited Starfleet Medical in 2372, where they performed medical tests on him to gain information that could be used against the Founders. It was during this examination that Odo was infected with a morphogenic virus by the covert intelligence group, Section 31.

• In 2374, Starfleet Medical hosted a conference on Casperia Prime. (DS9: "Inquisition")

• By 2375, one of the standards established by Starfleet Medical stated that soldiers could not be posted on a single assignment for a period exceeding 90 days (DS9: "The Siege of AR-558")

• Odo contracted the morphogenic virus in late 2375, that had already begun killing the Founders of the Dominion, Starfleet Medical was unwilling to assist Julian Bashir in his research for a cure and refused him access to Odo's medical file, believing Bashir was trying to help the enemy. When Benjamin Sisko requested the file, they sent a copy of Mora Pol's medical file on Odo, taken decades previously, in an attempt to hinder Bashir's efforts.

• Species 8472 recreated Starfleet Medical as part of their Earth simulation in 2375. (VOY: "In the Flesh")

• According to the script for Star Trek Nemesis, Dr. Crusher was reassigned to the HQ of Starfleet Medical again at the end of the film.

In an alternate timeline, where it took the USS Voyager 23 years to return to Earth, Tuvok was sent to live at Starfleet Medical, having succumbed to a mental condition while aboard in 2378. The holographic Doctor of Voyager was working at the medical facility in 2404, and was helping Tuvok, as well as working on the project to develop chronexaline. (VOY: "Endgame")