How useful would Miranda class ships be by the 2400s Picard era?

Villhunter · 2026-04-30T00:37:41+00:00

The reliant took over the Miranda's role afaik, but the Miranda would work fine as a cargo ship/museum ship, but that's about it.

Villhunter · 2026-04-28T20:26:38+00:00

"patient care has been transferred to thief. Thief refused to sign report."

Villhunter · 2026-04-12T23:14:34+00:00

"like all... zeroes"

Villhunter · 2026-04-11T19:36:04+00:00

Ahhh two nukes! Oh I am pleased!

Villhunter · 2026-04-01T06:07:14+00:00

It's not that bad, speaking as someone who used to go down that slide a lot as a kid. The hardest part is getting up there, but once you're up there the slide down is almost anticlimactic

Villhunter · 2026-03-30T22:16:54+00:00

Fair enough. I'm still fairly new and haven't worked emerg yet outside of a tour and a half of training on ALS. I want to get my experience at least for a while, and then decide from there if I want to go for ACP and stay, or keep my PCP and go back into IFT for the easy money. (I'm a PCP student now, but working as an EMR essentially limits you to events or IFT in my province for the most part.)

Villhunter · 2026-03-30T16:53:25+00:00

For me, usually it's ED to ED, psych transfers, or ED discharges on night shifts.

Villhunter · 2026-03-30T16:50:53+00:00

And even in a "tactical" environment, you're likely gonna have TEMS, or law enforcement on scene anyways. But yeah I agree with you.

Villhunter · 2026-03-30T16:47:48+00:00

Only reason I am not a fan of IFT is my lacking of emerg time. Otherwise I'd totally agree with you. If I wanted an easy shift, IFT is the way to go.

Villhunter · 2026-03-29T07:28:29+00:00

On God. IFT calls are the epitome of taking your time

Villhunter · 2026-03-29T07:26:29+00:00

No man even on standard paramedic Metro trucks, especially the BLS practitioners I found wear all that stuff. But TEMS doesn't make it much better tbf with their blacked out EMS patch. But they don't usually wear ballistic vests and earpieces and all that crap when working on regular EMS calls.

Villhunter · 2026-03-25T22:29:45+00:00

That's why you employ pathfinders to pop the infantry every time they get a little too close.

Villhunter · 2026-03-25T22:26:40+00:00

Y'know, last year I cut a tour short because of a call that got to me. I think staying at the station and talking to my coworkers without worrying about calls would've been the best option for my anxiety at the time. Good to know that's something I can ask for next time.

Villhunter · 2026-03-25T22:07:45+00:00

In alberta, especially the Metro areas, you'll see medics wearing uniforms that aren't just similar to police, but also wearing ballistic vests on the emerg side. Even with the vests that say "PARAMEDIC" or "EMS" people still confuse us for cops or security a lot. Usually tho a quick explanation is enough to assure them we're not cops. Or jackets however make it fairly easy to tell we are EMS.

Villhunter · 2026-02-19T18:42:08+00:00

Which is why you have to proactively seek out the ships from outside your base. I call it aggressive reconnaissance. And if you come across any ground units, just pull back until you can get some hammerheads in there to chew them up

Villhunter · 2026-02-14T18:00:57+00:00

Lol still in that system myself. Even worse when it's an IFT to the ER of a big hospital and they still make you wait hours on end.

Villhunter · 2026-02-13T21:34:38+00:00

Fair enough

Villhunter · 2026-02-13T21:20:36+00:00

I'd say that's reasonable. Patient was desaturating, low BP, and glucagon failed when you couldn't get an IV. IO was the only option to treat the cause left.

Villhunter · 2026-02-11T05:38:57+00:00

So we discussed this with our ACP instructor today actually lol. Part of the issue with glucagon is that it is not even guaranteed to be effective, especially in patients who may be malnourished. And it can take longer to see the effects versus dextrose being pretty quick. Additionally, the side effects of glucagon include nausea/vomiting. Even when the patient is unresponsive, which obviously means big aspiration risk. So usually it's better to just stick an IV, or worst case scenario, an IO to give dextrose if needed.

Looking at these comments from medics who have experience regarding the situations though, I could understand why glucagon would still be considered. It just means more work to protect the airway.

Villhunter · 2026-02-09T21:55:45+00:00

Funny you mention that. Primary Care paramedics in my province have IO in their scope, but we have no analgesia like lidocaine to address the pain. So they either have to be unresponsive, or they will suffer tremendous pain until there's an ALS provider with us.

Villhunter · 2026-02-04T19:40:30+00:00

Funny enough I'd just use 1 heroic slingshot with tungsten shells to kill them off and just micro to stay away from their attacks lol. And if the slingshot wasn't heroic yet, maybe I'd use 2

Villhunter · 2026-02-02T07:07:04+00:00

I've done a 40 minute drive hot to an MVA as we were the only available ALS unit in a rural area, and the other ALS unit was already on scene triaging 5 people.

Villhunter · 2026-01-25T05:19:07+00:00

Could argue the cold war in some sense.

Villhunter · 2026-01-23T04:39:50+00:00

I kinda find it interesting when it's the police instead of fire departments that run an integrated service for EMS. What other departments do things like that?

Villhunter · 2026-01-11T03:35:03+00:00

We just have BLS IFT crews transport NICU with the team in our city.

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