20 Facts About Katherine Pulaski

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Dr Katherine Pulaski is a fictional medical doctor in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Katherine Pulaski's served a rotation as the chief medical officer aboard the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D.

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3.

Katherine Pulaski's inadvertently caused Geordi LaForge to create a hologram of Professor Moriarty that became self-aware, after a bet involving the abilities of Lt.

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4.

Katherine Pulaski seemed averse to most new technology and preferred to avoid the transporter, but was forced to rely on it to save her own life from a genetically-modified infection.

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5.

Katherine Pulaski first appeared in the second season opener "The Child", and made her final appearance in "Shades of Gray".

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6.

Katherine Pulaski's found it "very exciting", noting it "got better and better and better" as she watched it.

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7.

The character of Katherine Pulaski was not modeled on Doctor Leonard McCoy from the original Star Trek, despite claims to the contrary.

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8.

Katherine Pulaski debuted in the second season episode "The Child", along with Whoopi Goldberg making her first appearance as Guinan in the same episode.

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9.

Katherine Pulaski's used footage of the episode "Unnatural Selection" to gain the part.

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10.

Katherine Pulaski's background is touched upon in the episode "The Icarus Factor".

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11.

Katherine Pulaski's is thrice divorced and was previously romantically involved with Commander William Riker's father Kyle Riker, after she was part of a rescue team responding to a Tholian attack on a Federation Starbase.

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Katherine Pulaski's realised that a romantic relationship with Riker would not work, but they remained friends.

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13.

Katherine Pulaski accepts her challenge, which results in the creation of a self-aware hologram of Professor Moriarty .

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14.

Katherine Pulaski joins Data and Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, but is captured by Moriarty who takes over control of the Enterprise.

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15.

Katherine Pulaski's uses the transporters to remove the infection and is returned to health.

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16.

In "Time Squared", Katherine Pulaski discovers that the duplicate Captain Picard is out of sync in time and will slowly improve until he returns to the point at which he left.

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17.

Katherine Pulaski appears in several books of the non-canon novel series based on the adventures of the crew in The Next Generation and elsewhere in the same time period.

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18.

In Peter David's novel Vendetta, Katherine Pulaski is reassigned to the Repulse under Captain Taggart following her departure from the Enterprise.

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19.

In Star Trek: Progress, a Starfleet Corps of Engineers book by Terri Osborne, Katherine Pulaski is on board the USS Progress when it visits Drema IV, as she wants to check up on the progress of Sarjenka, a young girl from The Next Generation episode "Pen Pals".

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20.

In 2016, Katherine Pulaski was ranked as the 39th most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine, out of 100 characters.

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