MEDICAL LOGS

BASICS, Part 2
Season 3 : Episode 43

 

MEDICAL REPORT:

Seska visits Sickbay with her baby, invokes the Doctor's program and has him give her baby a medical check-up. The Doctor surprises Seska when he reveals that her newborn baby is not Chakotay's child after all - he is Culluh's; the fact seems to annoy Seska.

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the Doctor gives Seska's baby a medical check-up and shows her the DNA evidence of who the father is

DOCTOR'S LOG:

While in Sickbay (see MEDICAL REPORT), the Doctor tells Seska, when asked if he can lie, that he does not have much experience lying, but that his program is adaptive and he can learn. In fact, he has already adapted, as he lies to her when he says this and lies to her later too. As Seska leaves Sickbay with her baby, she deactivates the Doctor. Immediately he reactivates himself and psychs himself up to the daunting task of trying to retake the ship on his own. But when he questions the ship's computer, he discovers that he is not the only member of the original crew left on the ship, as the demoted Lon Suder, the sociopath whom Tuvok has been attempting to rehabilitate (see entry for  [#32 Meld]) is still aboard. The two join forces against the Kazon. They later learn that Paris has also escaped the Kazon, by fleeing in a shuttlecraft to seek aid from Voyager's Talaxian allies. As Paris heads back to Voyager with a number of Talaxian ships, he sends a secret message to the Doctor asking him to disable the secondary phaser couplings.

When Suder has to hide from the Kazon he is forced to kill a Kazon warrior to avoid detection and returns to Sickbay with the body, which the Doctor hides in a stasis drawer. Suder is distressed at the killing, for his meditation classes with Tuvok had progressed to the stage where Suder felt he would one day be free of his violent tendencies. The Doctor suggests 5 cc's of improvoline to calm him, but Suder rejects the treatment, preferring to use one of Tuvok's meditative techniques instead.

the Doctor tries to help the distressed Suder

The ever-suspicious Seska works out that there is a saboteur aboard, possibly one of the original crewmembers and a Maquis as she identifies a Maquis tricorder trick, but the Doctor prevents her from discovering Suder by claiming he is the saboteur and the only one aboard. Seska believes him and disables his program, but does so before he can cripple the backup couplings, leaving Suder as the crew's last hope.

Seska challenges the Doctor who confesses and shows them the dead Kazon soldier but claims he acted alone

After a prerecorded message from the Doctor gives him words of encouragement, Suder heroically disables the phasers before being killed by a Kazon. Paris and the Talaxians board Voyager, forcing the Kazon to abandon their prize in escape pods. During the assault, Seska is killed. Paris regains control of Voyager and retrieves the crew from Hanon IV. The bodies of Suder and Seska lie in Sickbay for a time. How they are disposed of is not indicated in the episode.

EMH SPECIFICATION:

The Doctor uses Emergency Medical Priority 114 to delete the signature of Suder's combadge from the system, thus hiding his presence from the Kazon occupying Voyager.

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION:

The computer reports: "Incoming subspace message on the Emergency Medical Holographic channel." and the Doctor is surprised, replying: "On the emergency channel?" This is channel 47, established in  [#3 Parallax]. The Doctor requests various individuals turn to the Emergency Medical Holographic channel in a number of episodes:  [#3 Parallax],  [#6 The Cloud],  [#23 Parturition],  [#25 Tattoo],  [#33 Dreadnought],  [#39 The Thaw],  [#40 Tuvix] and  [#43 Basics, Part 2]. This is the first time that it is noted as being "the emergency channel".

Paris secretly contacts the Doctor on the emergency channel

MORGUE RECORD:

Lieutenant Hogan and an unnamed crewman are, in separate incidents, killed and consumed by a Hanonian land eel on Hanon IV. Their bodies are not recovered. (Months later two Voth scientists find and analyse the remains of Hogan, in  [#65 Distant Origin].) Lon Suder is killed by a Kazon soldier. Seska, formerly an ensign on Voyager, is killed while on board.

Hogan - shortly before dying horribly	unnamed crewman - shortly before dying horribly; alternative picture showing him and Tuvok entering the cave
Suder - dead	Seska - dead

DOCTOR'S QUOTE:

To Lon Suder: "We must do this together, Mr Suder. If you don't trust yourself yet, then trust me. I will help you any way I can. One hologram and one sociopath may not be much of a match for the Kazon, but we'll have to do."