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Dr. Phlox

Name: Phlox
Species: Denobulan
Rank: Doctor, civilian; member of the Interspecies Medical Exchange
Position: Ship's Physician

Service, Training, Education

6 degrees in interspecies veterinary medicine (A Night in Sickbay)

degree in botanical pharmacology (A Night in Sickbay)

degree in hematology (A Night in Sickbay)

degree in dentistry (A Night in Sickbay)

degree in psychiatry (A Night in Sickbay)

medic in the Denobulan Infantry (Cease Fire)

doctor for nearly 40 years (Damage)

stationed at Cold Station 12 for a few months (Cold Station 12)

offered job as Director of Xenobiology at Interspecies Medical Exchange (Affliction)

Family

3 wives, each wife has two other husbands (Dear Doctor)

Second wife: Feezal; expert in quantum optics; hadn't seen her in 4 years (Stigma)

5 children: 2 daughters, 3 sons; daughters are a biochemist and a surgeon, oldest son is a potter, Phlox is estranged from his two younger sons (A Night in Sickbay)

Youngest son: Mettus; estranged, haven't spoken in 10 years (The Breach)

There are a total of 31 children in his extended family (A Night in Sickbay)

Grandmother: name unknown; lived through last war with the Antarans and told Phlox stories, she wouldn't let Phlox visit a planet that Antarans had once lived on (The Breach)

Fifth Grandmother: name unknown; (Doctor's Orders)

First wife's third husband: Grolik; has child Andora (Zero Hour)

Health

Infected with nanoprobes; cured by high dosage of omicron particles (Regeneration)

Hallucinates when alone running the ship while crossing an anomaly (Doctor's Orders)

Traits

Gets more mail than anyone else on Enterprise (Dear Doctor)

Occasionally talks to his Pyrithian bat (Dear Doctor)

He enjoys observing humans (Dear Doctor)

Tucker says that Phlox always tries to find something good in everyone (Shockwave)

His singing drove his children to tears (Storm Front I)

Miscellaneous

Spent two weeks at a Tibetan monastery (Cold Front)

Attended mass in St. Peter's Square (Cold Front)

Denobulan doctors cannot treat someone if they don't want to be treated (The Breach)

Mars is the 248th planet that he's set foot on (Terra Prime)

Medical creatures

Adosian slugs; eat boiled rootleaf lettuce (Regeneration)

Aldeberon mud leaches; secrete a natural sedative (Anomaly)

Altarian marsupial (Broken Bow)

Immunocytic gel worms (Broken Bow)

Lyssarian Desert Larva; secrete a viral supressant used as salva; injected with DNA will create mimetic symbiont [clone](Similitude)

Orsic fern (Similitude)

Osmotic eel (Broken Bow)

Regulan blood worms (Dead Stop); cleans the lymphatic system (Stratagem)

Pyrithian bat (Broken Bow); eats Vulcan Sandworms (Regeneration); eats moth larvae (Extinction); eats snow beetles (Chosen Realm)

Snow beetles (The Expanse)

Medical Equipment

auto-suturer (Marauders)

cardiostimulator (Marauders)

neural shock kit (Marauders)

General information about Denobulans

Needs very little rest outside the annual hibernation cycle which usually lasts six days (Dear Doctor); can get by on two days (Two Days and Two Nights)

Denobulan reproduction is complicated and involves combatants (Dear Doctor)

Denobulan pheromones are more potent that human pheromones (Dear Doctor)

Denobulans don't like to be touched (Dear Doctor)

There are no longer movies on Denobula (Dear Doctor)

The kidneys of Denobulan lemurs are considered a delicacy (A Night in Sickbay)

Need to trim toenails once a week (A Night in Sickbay)

They have very long tongues (A Night in Sickbay)

Denobulans live long lives (A Night in Sickbay)

There are 12 billion Denobulans on one continent (The Catwalk)

Denobulans known for their patience (Stigma)

Denobulan Science Academy (The Breach)

Denobulans have fought several wars with the Antarans. The last war was 300 years ago. Denobulan battle tactics killed 20 million Antarans. The species have been taught to hate and fear each other (The Breach)

Denobulans can climb rock faces without any equipment (The Breach)

Stress induced hullucinations considered healthy (Exile)

Dermal art was once very common on Denobula; Phlox's parents insisted that he study it (Stratagem)

Denobulan cities are crowded (Doctor's Orders)

They can puff up face as instincive defensive response (Home)

Perfected genetic engineering a long time ago (Cold Station 12)

Kidnapped by Rigelians for the Klingons (Affliction)

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