Why don't ships onboard sensors detect medical emergencies

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Why don't ships onboard sensors detect medical emergencies - Lemmy.World

It’s something that has bothered me since I realised Or if they don’t have onboard sensors designed to do that then why not do that Because someone who is unconscious or unable to move isn’t going to be able to call for help

I think the canon reason given for this and other “why didn’t the ships computer just stop them?” situations that it’s a privacy violation to just go around scanning people without their permission.

Although they do seem to do a lot of “scanning for life-signs” so who knows?

Since when was there an expectation of privacy on a Starfleet ship?
Starfleet is not the military as they are so often having to remind everyone