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SEASON 2 AND [#42 & #43 BASICS]

 

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[#25 Tattoo] The Doctor programs himself to suffer Levodian flu for 29 hours, in order to help him empathise with his patients. He becomes distressed when the 29 hours end and he still has the flu. In fact, Kes has secretly extended the program to add the realism of not knowing exactly when illness would end.

[#35 Lifesigns] * The Doctor saves a dying Vidiian woman, Dr Danara Pel, by transferring her synaptic patterns from her weak phage-ridden body into a holographic representation of her as a well person. This is in order to give him time to treat her physical body. He treats her physical body by grafting phage-resistant Klingon DNA in the form of a tissue sample from Torres into Danara's cerebral cortex. As they spend time together, the Doctor and Danara realise they are romantically attracted to each other. As this is the first time the Doctor has fallen in love, he is unsure how to deal with the new feelings and he seeks advice on women from Tom Paris, while Kes urges Danara to let the Doctor know how she feels about him. The result is their first date, which takes place in an Earth "primitive land-based vehicle", a '57 Chevy on Mars, which is one of Paris' holoprograms. When Danara beams into the car with him, the Doctor lavishes flowers, chocolates and a cuddly toy upon her. Danara is at first reluctant to "return" to her real body until the Doctor assures her, "Listen to me: nothing could ever change the way I feel about you, not a few scars, not some diseased skin, nothing." At this time, the Doctor makes the inaugural entry in his personal log, on stardate 49504.3. The Doctor makes Danara laugh for the first time in a long time. She gives him a name, Schmullus. It was her uncle's name - he made her laugh too. Thereafter the Doctor keeps it as a private name, kept between the two of them. The Doctor downloads a dancing subroutine into his program so that he can dance with Danara in the Chez Sandrine holoprogram. They spend two weeks together before they have to part - she to return to her work and the Doctor on Voyager headed for the Alpha Quadrant.

[#40 Tuvix] Beaming up from a planet with some plant specimens including orchids, a transporter accident results when all of Tuvok's and Neelix's biological matter merges on the molecular level. This produces a single being, who adopts the name Tuvix. All vital signs are stable, and he has the memories of both men, but a single consciousness. Initial microcellular scans show no cause or method of separation. Kes performs a full bio-spectral analysis in the science lab while the Doctor examines the genetic data. A biochemical analysis shows that the orchid contains the same elements as many plants-chloroplasts, lysosomal enzymes, cytoplasmic proteins. But it is the presence of lysosomal enzymes that could be evidence of symbiogenesis, which provides the explanation for their situation. Symbiogenesis is a rare reproductive process where symbiogenetic organisms merge with a second, hybrid, species. For example, Andorian amoebas are able to merge with other single-cell organisms to form a third unique species. Neelix and Tuvok were broken down to a microcellular level during transport, and enzymes that cause symbiogenesis interacted with their DNA while they were in the matter stream. The Doctor initially makes over one hundred attempts to reverse the symbiogenesis using the medical transporter. With each attempt there is complete cellular collapse since the genetic codes of the test flowers become so scrambled that the targetting scanners are unable to recognise the original patterns. Eventually, the Doctor develops a radioisotope which attaches itself to the DNA of one of the merged species, but not to the other. To reverse the process of symbiogenesis they must beam out the selected DNA and segregate the two merged species. To do this they have to modify the molecular imaging scanners, and compensate for the higher levels of radiation. However, Tuvix objects, protesting that the procedure would kill him and he has a right to live. The Doctor refuses to carry out the operation, citing the "do no harm" principle of the Hippocratic Oath. Janeway therefore carries out the separation procedure.

[#41 Resolutions] During an away mission on an uninhabited M-class planet, an insect bites Janeway and Chakotay, infecting them with a virus. The Doctor tries to find a cure, working non-stop for a month, and the pair are placed in stasis chambers for the last 17 of those days. Eventually, the Doctor has to report that he has been unable find a cure, but he informs them that something in the planet's environment shields them from the effects of the virus. The Vidiians, whose medical science is very advanced, may possess an antiviral agent that will counteract the virus, but Chakotay and Janeway are not prepared to risk the crew contacting the Vidiians for fear of being subdued and submitted to forced organ-harvesting. Therefore the pair settle on the planet and send Voyager homeward, now under Tuvok's command. However, heeding the crew's pleas, Tuvok does contact the Vidiians who agree to provide the serum. But it is a trap. In the midst of the attack, Danara Pel, who has brought the serum in good faith, secretly contacts the Doctor and a method is arranged for its safe transport to Voyager. Danara and the Doctor have secret audio-visual contact At the same time, Voyager manages to escape the Vidiian trap, and then returns to the planet to retrieve Janeway and Chakotay who are successfully treated with the serum.

END OF SEASON 2 AND START OF SEASON 3

Chakotay challenges the rescued Kazon aide of Seska's the Doctor reports on the patient's condition and rejects an ARA scan the Doctor and Suder plot strategy the Doctor tries to comfort Suder after he is forced to kill a Kazon soldier Seska fires a phaser at a control panel, taking the Doctor offline the Doctor testifies to Suder's courage

[#42 and #43 Basics] While Tuvok continues to rid detained murderer Lon Suder of his violent nature (see entry for [#32 Meld]), Chakotay receives a desperate subspace message from Seska. She has given birth to the child that was fathered with his stolen DNA, and she claims that Maje Culluh is going to take her son away. Though knowing that Seska is untrustworthy, the Voyager crew set out to find Seska. En route, they rescue a Kazon-Nistrim officer, one of Seska's aides, from a crippled shuttle. Not trusting the rescued Kazon, who adds to Seska's story and claims Culluh killed her, Chakotay asks the Doctor to conduct an Autonomic Response Analysis (ARA), a form of "lie detector" test, but the Doctor replies that he is unable to do so as the test depends on making a baseline comparison with the known response for a given species, and it cannot be used with any of the new species of the Delta Quadrant because there is no record from which to make the comparison. The Doctor orders 40 milligrams of pulmozine to combat the toxic nitrogen tetroxide fumes inhaled by the patient while aboard his damaged shuttle. The patient recovers but the Doctor reports that he shows signs of polycythemia, a blood disorder, but it is actually the result of the chemicals in his bloodstream that will serve as the explosive when he turns himself into a suicide bomber during a Kazon attack on Voyager. The explosion severely damages the ship and allows the attacking Kazon to seize control. Seska, very much alive, triumphantly enters the Bridge along with Culluh, and she shows Chakotay the baby. The Doctor takes himself offline and sets his medical holographic automatic recall for 12 hours so he that he can hide during the Kazon's search of the ship. Then the Kazon maroon the crew on a primitive planet without technology, leaving them in a struggle for survival. But neither the Kazon nor Seska know that Paris has escaped in a shuttlecraft and that prisoner Lon Suder is secretly free on the ship. Suder goes to Sickbay but as he and the Doctor plot tactics, Suder is disturbed by the realisation that to recapture Voyager he will at some point probably need to kill Kazon soldiers as he is afraid of returning to his violent ways. As Suder goes about the task, Seska visits the Doctor to obtain a medical check-up for the baby. The Doctor surprises her when he shows her medical evidence that the father is not Chakotay but Culluh, which rather annoys her. When Suder returns to Sickbay, he has in tow a dead Kazon whom he was forced to kill to avoid detection. Distressed by the killing, Suder collapses but refuses medical aid, preferring to rely on Tuvok's meditative techniques, and the Doctor does his best to comfort him. When Seska realises that the Doctor is capable of lying, has lied to her and is working against the Kazon, she disables his program. When Suder again returns to Sickbay, he finds the Doctor has left a message for him, expressing full confidence in him to carry out the daring plan to retake the ship. Executing the plan, Paris and some Talaxian allies attack Voyager. Meanwhile Suder disables the ship's backup phaser systems, but is killed in doing so. Seska is killed during the attack and Culluh decides to abandon Voyager. The crewmembers are retrieved, and the Doctor informs Tuvok that he would have been proud of Suder.