LATENT IMAGE
Episode 105
Part A

 

In Sickbay, over a period of time, the Doctor is taking holo-images of the crew as part of the annual medical check-up. The screenshot shows the holo-imager.

Doctor, to Neelix: "Turn 90° to the left, please." When Neelix does so he takes another picture. The camera as it flashes when it takes a shot.

Later, to Torres: "Turn 90° to the left, please."

Later, to Paris: "Turn 90° to the right, please."

Later, to Ensign Renlay Sharr: "About face."

Those holophoto sessions went smoothly. But when it comes to Naomi Wildman, first of all the holo-camera does not have her in shot because she is a child and much shorter than the others.

In addition, she is curious about what the Doctor is doing and keeps moving as she peers over and around, apparently ill-at-ease.

The Doctor tells her: "Try to hold still, please."

Naomi: "Is it going to hurt?"
Doctor: "Of course not. A few photons never hurt anybody."
Naomi: "We didn't do this last year."
Doctor: "That's because last year I didn't realise what an exciting tool my holo-imager could be in the pursuit of medical knowledge."
Naomi: "Is something wrong with me?"
The Doctor sighs. "Your health is excellent. This is just another way to make sure that it stays excellent."

Naomi: "Does my mother have to do this?"
The Doctor sighs again. "Your mother and everybody else on board. I made it part of the annual check-up. It's quite handy, really. By attuning the resonance spectrum along the subspace band, I can take an image of my patients all the way down to the subatomic level."

Naomi: "Subatomic level? I thought you said this wasn't going to hurt."
Doctor: "I did, and it won't. There. See? Nothing to it."

Naomi: "Try to hold still, please."

Doctor: "Are you making fun of me?"

Naomi: "No."

Later, after Kim's session, the Doctor tells him: "It'll only take a second to download your images into the medical database, if you'd like to stay for a moment and see what you look like from the inside out." Kim: "Why not?"

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Doctor: "Here we go." Kim: "Handsome fellow."

Doctor: "Hmm. There's some scar tissue along the base of your lower skull."

Doctor: "Computer, isolate the occipital plexus, magnification 500. There. Scarring along the dura mater." Kim: "From what?"

Doctor: "An operation. Computer, isolate the cranial meninges, magnification 100." More puzzled: "More scarring. No doubt about it. Somebody performed neurosurgery, and that somebody was me! These microlinear incisions are a dead giveaway. I developed that procedure myself."

Kim: "I don't understand. I don't remember having an operation."

Doctor: "I'm a little confused as well, because I don't remember performing it."

USS Voyager cruising at impulse speed.

Janeway is working in the Captain's Ready Room when the door signal sounds. Janeway: "Who is it?" Doctor: "The Doctor." Janeway: "Come in." He enters, carrying a medical kit.

Doctor: "I've finished giving the crew their annual physicals, but as usual the Captain was a no-show." Janeway: "Let's get it over with."

Doctor: "Specific complaints?" Janeway: "None. How's the crew?" Doctor: "In good health, for the most part. I found a nascent alien retrovirus bouncing between personnel on decks ten and eleven, but managed to nip it in the bud. And there's been a little more wear and tear on Seven of Nine's cranial infrastructure. I'm going to double her maintenance routine. Cyto-metabolism is normal. Endocrine functions functioning." Janeway: "That's a relief."

Doctor: "I'd like you to drop by Sickbay at your earliest convenience. I've adjusted my holo-imager for deep body scans. You're the only member of the crew who hasn't posed for me yet." Janeway: "Maybe next week."

Doctor: "It's a fine instrument really. I've already discovered something of a mystery with it. Apparently I performed a complex neurosurgery on Harry Kim. According to the isotope decay around the scars, it was 18 months ago."

Janeway: "I don't remember that." Doctor: "Neither do I, and neither does the patient. I checked my medical entries for that period. There's no mention of surgery."

Janeway: "Could your holo-imager have misinterpreted the scans?" Doctor: "Possibly. The computer is double-checking the data now. I'd also like to run a complete diagnostic on my own program and have a look at my memory files."

Janeway: "B'Elanna and Harry are both busy with the plasma relay repairs. Let's make sure you're next up on the list." As he gets out the next medical tool for the check-up she assumes he has finished and moves away. "Thank you, Doctor." He decides not to push it, and packs away the medkit and leaves.

Seven is busy working at a side workstation in the Astrometrics Lab. The Doctor enters. Doctor: "Hello, Seven." Seven: "Doctor."

Doctor: "I'm here to ask you a favour." He follows her to the main computer workstation. She has not really looked at him so far, and still does not. Seven: "Another time." Doctor: "I beg your pardon?" Seven: "I am recalibrating the deflector dish. Come back tomorrow. I should be finished by then." Doctor: "Looks like I'm two for two. Oh, the Captain's acting like she's allergic to me, and now my prized pupil won't even give me the time of day." Seven stops work and looks up, giving him her attention: "State your request." Doctor: "A little mystery has cropped up - evidence that I performed surgery on Ensign Kim a year and a half ago, before you came aboard. The trouble is, I don't remember it. I wanted you to help me run a self-diagnostic." Seven: "I will assist you, in one hour." Doctor: "Fair enough." He leaves, but by the time he has reached the doors she is engrossed in work again.