At the end of the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," actress Gates McFadden, who played Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beverly Crusher on the U.S.S. Enterprise, was infamously fired from the show . The story goes that one of the show's producers, a guy named Maurice Hurley, didn't like McFadden, and the two butted heads on set often. When Hurley became the showrunner, he fired McFadden, hoping to replace her with a new character that long-term Trekkies might be more familiar with.

In came Dr. Pulaski, played by "Star Trek" veteran Diana Muldaur. Dr. Pulaski was a more brusque, less matronly character than Dr. Crusher, and spoke to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a pointedly unprofessional manner. She was, as Trekkies spotted right away, meant to resemble Dr. McCoy (DeFo

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