There is an episode of Star Trek The Animated Series called “The Terratin Incident” in which all the crew members of the Enterprise begin shrinking. They eventually shrink down to less than a half inch tall, well past the point of being able to control the ship.
It brings to mind a question that had never occurred to us in the last 40 years or so. In all the gadgets in doctor McCoy’s sickbay, we never once saw a scale or a stadiometer (that’s the tool usually attached to a doctor’s scale to measure height). How does the good doctor keep track of his patients’ weight and height without these items?
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