Could Federation medical technology help Vader?
Knowing what we know of Vader’s injuries and knowing what we know of Federation medical technology, it occurs to me that the Feds may be able to restore Vader’s lungs, or at least give him ‘bionic’ lungs that would free him from the limitations of his suit. We know that the Federation can give people bionic hearts (Picard for example), and there was an episode of TNG (I forget what it’s called) where Worf injures his spine and a new spine was ‘grown’ for him using his own DNA as a template (though this was experimental technology). The latter method might even be able to be used to restore Vader’s limbs, though in DS9, Nog was given a prosthetic leg (just after ‘The Siegh of AR-558’), which suggests the only advantage the Federation has in limb replacement technology is in terms of appearance.
