Botanist

A botanist was a type of biologist who specialized in this branch of biological science was known as botany. A botanist who specialized in alien botany was called a xenobotanist.
For a while, Kamin's son wanted to be a botanist. ()
During the early 2260s, Leila Kalomi was the primary botanist of the Omicron colony on planet Omicron Ceti III. () 
Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge were botanists who resided on the Rana IV colony. Kevin was a specialist in symbiotic plant life. ()
Miranda Vigo was trained as a botanist who, as Jean-Luc Picard recalled, "used to talk of running a farm." ()
Keiko O'Brien practiced botany aboard the , but temporarily gave it up, became a teacher on Deep Space 9. Initially, Keiko has misgivings about moving to Deep Space 9, stating "Starfleet doesn't need a botanist on this station," to which her husband reassured that "there's a whole new quadrant full of new plant life to explore." () On the contrary, Miles was known around his house as "the Black Thumb," explaining to Joseph, that "the only way I could get anything to grow was to marry a botanist." ()
When Keiko later attended a conference, she asked Jadzia Dax to care for a plant from Ledonia III, which later became sick. Dax took the plant to Doctor Julian Bashir, who, upon studying it, proclaimed, "I'm a doctor, not a botanist." ()
Keiko later took the position of chief botanist on a year long agrobiology expedition to the Janitza Mountains on Bajor. ()
According to D'Vana Tendi, the hydroponics bay was to be "great for biomedical research, or just for flower fans." ()
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Category:Scientific occupations
Category:Botany
Category:Agriculture