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The funny thing about this is that "two minutes after death" was based on the medical knowledge of the time, which held that brain death happened pretty much as soon as the oxygen ran out. But now we know that people can be "dead" for longer, and still be revived. Usually they aren't too worse off for it, but often there's some level of brain damage.
What I don't understand is why there aren't more people successfully brought back to life in Trek that aren't left as gibbering retards. Given that they are able to recreate the reptilian parts of the brain with ease, and people can be brought back to life after being dead for several minutes, it would stand to reason that only the higher learning functions of the brain would be the ones they can't "fix". It would make an interesting plot point, but media basically never does this; either someone comes back perfectly the same, or they're completely dead. Reality isn't like that; in reality people come back all the time, but fucked up, either mentally or physically. How come we never got a Captain that took a piece of shrapnel to the head and was brought back to life, but was unable to command properly anymore because he was brain damaged?