Headache
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A headache is classed as a mild to severe pain in the head. It's causes were often vascular. (ENT: "Observer Effect") Medical advances made headaches uncommon or rare by the 24th century. (TNG: "The Battle")
Captain Kirk complained of a headache during the encounter with the Klingons at Deep Space Station K-7. Upon arriving in sickbay, Dr. McCoy provided a pill, and asked whether the headache was due to Baris or the Klingons. This suggests that stress-induced headaches were still common in the 2260s. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
Captain Picard experienced a headache when he was under the influence of a thought maker. (TNG: "The Battle")
Picard also had a headache after his assimilation by, and later release from, the Borg in 2367. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
Early stages of the loss of her empathic sense due to the presence of the two-dimensional lifeforms were massive headaches, experienced by Deanna Troi. Several other USS Enterprise-D crewmembers were also afflicted. (TNG: "The Loss")
In 2368, Beverly Crusher asked Keiko O'Brien if she'd suffered headaches as a consequence of her memory probe by the Ulians. She hadn't. (TNG: "Violations")
By 2368, Geordi La Forge's VISOR had caused him to experience headaches on several occasions, for which he'd received treatment. (TNG: "Cause and Effect")
Doctor Julian Bashir experienced headache after the consciousness from the Kobliad criminal Rao Vantika was beamed out of his brain. (DS9: "The Passenger")
Elim Garak experienced headaches prior to his collapse in Quark's in 2370. (DS9: "The Wire")
While in close proximity to a type-4 quantum singularity in 2371, a number of crewmembers of the USS Voyager reported to sickbay with headaches, including Ensign Harry Kim. (VOY: "Parallax")
In a delusion experienced by The Doctor in 2371, a holographic version of Kathryn Janeway complained of "one hell of a headache. (VOY: "Projections")
B'Elanna Torres complained of a bad headache in 2373, for which The Doctor begrudgingly gave her an analgesic. (VOY: "The Swarm")
Benjamin Sisko suffered severe headaches in 2373 following exposure to a plasma burst from a holosuite console. The headaches were associated with odd synaptic potentials and post-neural shock syndrome, and also with a series of prophetic visions. Eventually, a neuropolaric induction was required to correct the condition. (DS9: "Rapture")
Dominion virtual display devices caused headaches in Humans. (DS9: "A Time to Stand")
Janeway frequently complained that the paradoxes associated with time travel gave her a headache, as she did in 2373 and 2375. (VOY: "Future's End", "Relativity")
Janeway also experienced continuous headaches in 2374 when the Srivani were performing experiments on her regarding how well she could handle stress and pain. (VOY: "Scientific Method")
