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SEASON 1
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SEASON 1
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[#1 and #2 Caretaker]
In [#35 Lifesigns] the Doctor states that he was first activated on stardate 48308, and first activated by the captain of USS Voyager, Kathryn Janeway, on stardate 48315.6 [#118 Relativity] in order for her to see the emergency medical holographic facility. That occurred after Maquis commander Chakotay has mysteriously vanished in the Badlands along with his ship and crew and she is assigned to search for them. Both ships are taken 70,000 light-years into the Delta Quadrant by a displacement wave generated by an alien known as the Caretaker, and in the process the (human) Doctor was killed, and the EMH was activated. He learns that the Nurse had also been killed. In this story he provides medical attention still in the belief that his role is emergency only. Later he will realise that, as the only one qualified to replace the dead ship's chief medical officer, he is now on permanent duty. |
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[#3 Parallax]
The Doctor's program malfunctions and he keeps shrinking, ultimately to so small a size that he certainly cannot reach his desk. With Voyager trapped in the event horizon of a quantum singularity, the crew are too busy to repair his program but his problem gives Torres a vital clue in how the ship can escape. |
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[#5 Phage]
After Neelix is attacked and his lungs removed, the Doctor saves his life by devising a pair of holographic lungs, generated by the holographic emitters in sickbay. But though alive, it means that Neelix remains on life support and immobile. Voyager traced the attackers and learned that Neelix's lungs had been transplanted into the Vidiian named Motura by his "honatta" (person charged with finding him suitable transplant organs). The Vidiians are suffering the terrible organ and tissue degeneration caused by the phage and, desperate to survive, often carry out forced organ-harvesting from unwilling aliens. With no prospect of regaining his original lungs, Kes has one of hers transplanted into him and Neelix is able to resume an ordinary life. |
Above left: The holographic lungs are readied - shown here on a monitor in Sickbay. Above right: Neelix is kept in isotropic restraint.
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[#7 Eye Of The Needle]
Kes speaks to Captain Janeway about the rude and dismissive way people are treating the Doctor: "So because he's a hologram, he doesn't have to be treated with respect or any consideration at all?" |
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 The Doctor deactivates his program 183Kb. |
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[#12 Heroes And Demons] *
The Doctor has considered taking a name so that he can feel more fully the sentient being he feels he is. Beam here for more details. In this story he assumes the name Dr Schweitzer upon being assigned to his first away mission to the holodeck. His mission is to trace the whereabouts of crewmembers who have gone missing in Kim's holosimulation of the epic saga 'Beowulf'. He meets the holocharacter Freya, a shield-maiden, and her death affects him so deeply that he decides to drop the name Schweitzer. However his first mission is successful in that he makes first contact with a photonic energy lifeform and secures the release of the captured crewmembers. He gains a special commendation from Janeway as a result. |
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[#13 Cathexis]
Chakotay and Tuvok return from a dark matter nebula. Chakotay is brain-dead and Tuvok has been attacked. Mysteriously the ship is taken off course and heads for the dark matter nebula. There the crew learn that the Komar, a species whose members are able to inhabit others' bodies for a time, have brought them here in order to live off the crew's brain energy. Meanwhile, Chakotay's disembodied consciousness roams the ship. The crew are able to drive out the Komar, and the Doctor reintegrates the First Officer's consciousness into his body. |
| In this story the Doctor's wide-ranging knowledge of medical cultures is displayed. After the Doctor declares Chakotay brain-dead, he finds Torres moving stones on a medicine wheel, which is believed to help the sick man.
Torres: "The wheel represents both the universe outside and the universe inside our minds as well. They believe each is a reflection of the other. When a person is sleeping or on a vision quest it's said that his soul is walking the wheel. But if he's in a coma or near death it means that he's gotten lost. These stones are signposts to help point the way back."
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| In answer to the question of how he managed to re-integrate Chakotay's consciousness, the Doctor replies, feeling not fully appreciated: "It involved three neural transceivers, two cortical stimulators and 50 gigaquads of computer memory. I would be happy to take you through the process but it would take at least ten hours to explain it all to you. Needless to say, it was a remarkable procedure. I would consider writing a paper about it if there were a convenient forum in which to publish it." | 
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[#14 Faces]
Away team members Paris, Durst and Torres are captured by Vidiians. As part of a Vidiian scientist's search for a cure to the phage, Torres is split by a DNA-device called the genotron into two people - a wholly Klingon Torres and a wholly Human Torres.
The Doctor carries out dermaplastic surgery on Chakotay to effect a disguise. Looking like a Vidiian, Chakotay is able to infiltrate the Vidiian prison and rescue Paris, whilst the other away team survivor, the (Human) Torres, is rescued by herself (her wholly Klingon half). The Klingon counterpart is killed. The Doctor informs the Human Torres that he will restore her to her former self i.e. one person who is half-Klingon and half-Human: "Using tissue from your counterpart I can replicate the Klingon DNA. Then over the course of several days I'll re-integrate that genetic material into your cellular structure. .... Your cells' ability to synthesise proteins has been severely compromised. You need the Klingon genes to survive." |
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[#15 Jetrel]
Haakonian scientist Dr Ma'Bor Jetrel (in second picture) seeks out Neelix and comes aboard Voyager. But Neelix is far from pleased to see him, as Jetrel invented the Metreon Cascade, a weapon of mass destruction, which massacred hundreds of thousands of Talaxians on Rinax a decade or so previously. The victims included all of Neelix's family. Neelix is reluctantly persuaded by Janeway and Kes to let the repentant Jetrel examine him for poisoning as a result of exposure to the Metreon Cloud. Neelix asks the Doctor: "Are you sure you can't do this?" The Doctor responds: "Your new-found confidence in me is flattering, Mr Neelix, but Dr Jetrel has instruments designed specifically to analyse Talaxian physiology." Upon diagnosing Neelix as suffering fatally from poisoning, Jetrel contrives Voyager's return to Rinax, claiming to want to synthesise an antibody using samples from the Metreon Cloud, and the Doctor is assigned to assist him. However, Jetrel's real motive is far more ambitious and he deactivates the Doctor to avoid discovery. |
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[#17 Projections] *
The Doctor suffers delusions that he is a human named Dr Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, and that he is trapped in a holographic projection of USS Voyager on the holodeck at Jupiter Station in the Alpha Quadrant. Moreover, the Doctor hallucinates that Voiyager must be destroyed to allow him to escape safely and starts to set about the task. In fact, he was on the holodeck when there was a surge of radiation. The surge disrupted his imaging system and caused a feedback loop between the holodeck computer and the Doctor's program, eradicating the Doctor's memory circuits. Voyager's crew manage to repair the fault. |
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