A Dinaali hospital ship was a type of suborbital hospital ship used by the Dinaali on Dinaal in the Delta Quadrant in the 2370s. One such vessel was Hospital Ship 4-2.
It was capable of levitating over a city in need of its services, staffed by a contracted Jye Administrator, a Chief of Medicine, and numerous other nurses, doctors and medical professionals that worked various shifts.
The ship's main computer, an allocator, administered automated medical decisions around allocation of resources and processed incoming communications. The allocator could also automatically perform transporter operations.
The ship was divided into color-coded levels, based on the level of care patients received:
- Level Blue was where patients with a high treatment coefficient (TC) were treated. This level had the best conditions and treatments, because patients there were deemed to be the most valuable to society. Level Blue was also the location of the ship's Jye Administrator's office, the primary assignment of the Chief of Medicine, and featured a surgical ward.
- Level Red was where patients with a lower TC were treated. Such patients were deemed to be less valuable to society, and thus fewer resources were given to this level. Due to more people being on this level, there were often long waits for what few resources were available. Proton imaging was one such example.
- Level Yellow was where some patients from Level Red were sent after they were stabilized enough to be moved.
- Level Green was for patients with an even lower TC. This level had even less medical equipment than Level Red.
- Level White was the ship's morgue.
The ship had at least seven points of emergency intake. (VOY: "Critical Care")
Background information[]
The Dinaali hospital ship was designed by Rick Sternbach, inspired by Castle in the Sky and the City of Zalem from Battle Angel Alita. [1]