“Ethics”
Written by Sara Charno & Stuart Charno and Ronald D. Moore
Directed by Chip Chalmers
Season 5, Episode 16
Production episode 40275-216
Original air date: March 2, 1992
Stardate: 45587.3
Captain’s Log: La Forge and Worf are trying to find the source of leakage in the cargo bay, and also discussing the previous night’s poker game. One of the containers collapses and falls right onto Worf’s back, shattering seven vertebrae and crushing his spinal cord. He’s paralyzed.
A neurospecialist named Dr. Toby Russell arrives on the Potemkin to consult on the case. She’s the best bet, since Klingon medicine is fairly primitive—the typical Klingon treatment for Worf’s injury is to let the patient die.
[This is part of that Klingon stuff, isn’t it?]