Emergency Medical Hologram

THE DOCTOR CAREER AND ADVENTURES Season Four

Emergency Medical Hologram "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

 

The Doctor designed Seven's dermoplastic garments. This included leisure/evening wear [#116 Someone to Watch Over Me]. The picture shows Seven in cargo bay 2. She is wearing, for the first time, the dermoplastic garment designed by the Doctor. This event is shown in [#70 The Gift]. The Doctor tells her that he stimulated her hair follicles so that she now has hair: "A vicarious experience for me, as you might imagine."

The Doctor and Dejaren Torres tells the Doctor Dejaren is a lunatic and has lied. Dejaren shows the Doctor his isomorphic fish Spectrum. This and his other words confirm the Doctor's suspicion that Torres is right.

On stardate 51186.2, in [#73 Revulsion], the Doctor asked Janeway to assign him to the away mission to help Dejaren because he was an isomorphic projection a.k.a. a hologram: Dejaren was a menial maintenance worker on a Serosian vessel, with extreme-hazard clearance and it was his responsibility on the ship was to clean the reactor core and eject the anti-matter waste. Janeway allowed the Doctor to go on the mission provided he took Torres with him, who knew more than anyone about his mobile emitter. Dejaren claimed two of the six crew members brought a deadly virus back with them when they came back from surveying a planet: the virus spread to the rest of the crew and they all died. It took some time for the Doctor and Torres to learn that Dejaren had a hatred of "organics" and had really murdered the crew which he said had treated him badly. The Doctor inadvertently encouraged the violent deranged Dejaren by describing to him his own experience as a hologram: "When I was first activated, I was regarded as little more than a talking tricorder. I had to ask for the privileges I deserved: the right to be included in crew briefings, the ability to turn my program on and off. It's taken some time, but I believe I've earned the respect of the crew as an equal." Dejaren is impressed. The Doctor tells Dejaren that his programmers will be impressed by how he handled the situation: "You've already exceeded the sum of your subroutines."

[#75 Scientific Method]

The Doctor surmised on stardate 51244, in [#75 Scientific Method], that unseen hostile aliens were aboard Voyager: various crewmembers became ill or suddenly suffered an unexpected medical condition.

Torres and the Doctor used the electron resonance scanner in the science lab to scan DNA samples from Chakotay (suffering from a condition similar to progenia i.e. premature aging) and Neelix (developing into a Mylean). The Doctor found a microscopic tag (pictured) on the base pair sequence. The contaminant was like nothing he has seen before and was the cause of the genetic mutations. The Doctor observed this level of submolecular technology goes well beyond what Starfleet has developed. The tags were slightly out of phase, and the Doctor concluded that was why the initial scans did not reveal them. At that very moment Torres was about to make the aliens visible she was suddenly incapacitated, and the Doctor's program was deleted.....

....but he managed to hide in the da Vinci holosimulation. From there he contacted Seven so that only she could hear him. He adapted her ocular implant, via which she detected there were 56 aliens on board carrying out detrimental experiments on the crew. Janeway steered Voyager between two binary pulsars, almost destroying Voyager. This successfully frightened the aliens into leaving the ship. Of their two ships, one was destroyed attempting to leave. The aliens were of a species called Srivani, but the name is not stated on the tv screen.

[#75 Scientific Method]

Every so often the Doctor tells the captain that she is working too hard. He does so in this story, in which he is seen giving her a massage which for her is an uncomfortable pummelling. The Doctor: "....You work absurdly long hours, under constant stress, eating on the run, without sufficient exercise or rest. Your body is crying out for mercy." Janeway, being pummelled hard on the back: "It certainly is right now! There must be an easier way to do this, Doctor. A hypospray maybe?" Doctor: "Always looking for the simple fix. Sometimes there's no substitute for intensive osteopathic pressure therapy. You're fortunate to have a masseur who can work all day without tiring."

[#76 and #77 Year of Hell] depicts Voyager's struggle against Annorax, a member of the Krenim species who had built a timeship with a weapon that could erase species and worlds from history. In that story USS Voyager sustained so much damage from Krenim chroniton torpedoes that Janeway was obliged to give the order to abandon ship. Only she, the Doctor and other senior staff remained aboard to make repairs and search for missing crew Chakotay and Paris. Janeway worked so hard, without rest, even when injured, that the Doctor relieved her of duty. However, she carried on despite this. Eventually she forged an alliance with the Nihydron and the Mawasi and together they attacked Annorax's timeship. Once Paris had disabled the timeship so that it was no longer protected against time changes, Janeway did the same to Voyager and crashed the ship into Annorax's. This reversed all the events experienced since they entered Krenim space, and so of course Janeway was never relieved of duty by the Doctor.

Annorax [Year of Hell]

The occasion on day 180 of the Year of Hell when the Doctor relieved Janeway of duty:
In the messhall, the Doctor revives an unconscious Janeway. He tells her she suffered third degree burns to 60% of her body. He has healed most of them but without a dermal regenerator he cannot repair all the damage to her skin. She has been left with scars on her face and arms. "I'll consider them mementoes," she says. The Doctor says she is staying for the next few days with him, for observation.
Janeway: "Is there something else wrong with me?"
Doctor: "Not physically."
Janeway: "What are you suggesting?"
Doctor: "Traumatic stress syndrome. Symptoms: irritability, sleeplessness, obsessional thoughts, reckless behaviour, all of which you've demonstrated over the last few weeks."
Janeway: "My only obsession is with saving my ship, my people. If I've been taking some chances in order to do that it's hardly a medical condition."
Doctor: "I'm not going to stand here while you rationalise yet another brush with death."
Janeway: "You don't have to."
Doctor: "As Chief Medical Officer I have the authority to relieve you of your command."
Janeway: "You're not going to do that."
Doctor: "If in my medical opinion your judgement has been impaired, I can, and I will."
Janeway: "Try it and I'll shut down your program."
Doctor: "That threat in itself is evidence of your unstable condition."
Janeway: "I am sorry, Doctor. I've been operating on instinct for so long I did not think before I spoke. I have no intention of de-activating you, but I won't stay in this messhall."
Doctor: "Is that final?"
Janeway: "Final."
Doctor: "Then you leave me no choice. Captain Kathryn Janeway, under Starfleet Medical Regulation 121, Section A, I the Chief Medical Officer do hereby relieve you of your active command, effective immediately. Have a seat."
Janeway: "How do you plan to implement this protocol, Doctor? Mr Tuvok doesn't have a security team, both the brigs have been destroyed, and with the internal forcefields offline you'll have a hell of a time keeping me confined. You've got to grab a phaser because before I give up command you'll have to shoot me."
Doctor: "You realise this incident will be noted in my official logs. By refusing my orders you risk a general court martial."
Janeway: "Compared with what I've been through the past few months, court martial would be a small price to pay. If we make it back home, I'll be happy to face the music."

During [Year of Hell], Janeway overrode the Doctor's concern for her medical welfare. For instance, after the crew abandoned ship leaving behind only the senior staff, Voyager took refuge in a class 9 nebula. On day 133 gas from the nebula got aboard Voyager due to a malfunction in the ventilation system. Janeway and Kim repaired it. They had only a few minutes of air but by holding their breath they exceeded the Doctor's specified time limit. The Doctor scolded Janeway for not sparing the time to be treated. He told her that Kim made the time to be treated, and that as the alveoli in her lungs were chemically burned she needed to stay off her feet for 48 hours. She said she has too much work to do. She ordered him to inject her with trioxin in order to help her breathe better. He pointed out that trioxin is only used in emergency situations as a stop-gap measure, but she ordered him firmly, "Trioxin, NOW!"

The Doctor arrives in USS Prometheus' sickbay

In [#82 Message in a Bottle], stardate unknown, Seven detected, via the Hirogen network stations, a Starfleet vessel in the Alpha Quadrant which could be reached, and the Doctor was sent to make contact. On arrival, the Doctor discovered that the ship, the USS Prometheus, was a prototype ship. But Romulans had seized the ship and killed all the crew. The Romulans were taking the Prometheus back to their territory. The Doctor enlisted the help of the Prometheus' EMH, the EMH Mark 2, and together they thwarted the Romulans. The Federation repossessed the Prometheus. The Doctor returned to Voyager and reported that Starfleet had declared Voyager officially lost fourteen months ago; the Doctor had set the records straight. He told Starfleet everything that had happened to the Voyager crew. Starfleet had contacted their families with the news, and promised they won't stop until they find a way to get Voyager back home. There was a message for Voyager: "You're no longer alone."

The backup Doctor before the Kyrian-Vaskan Commission. Revised history: Janeway kills Tedran. Corrected history: Daleth kills Tedran. The backup Doctor as Surgical Chancellor.

The story depicted in [#91 Living Witness] were experienced, not by the Doctor himself, but by the Doctor's backup module 700 years after the events portrayed by the series 'Star Trek: Voyager'. In the narrative below "the Doctor" means backup module. The backup module was found by the Kyrians buried nine metres below the ruins of a city. The Doctor learned that Voyager's involvement in the Kyrian-Vaskan war were misinterpreted, and that both sides believed the warship Voyager helped the Vaskans by destroying Kyrian cities, and that Voyager captured the Kyrian leader Tedran and murdering him. Even 700 years after those events there was still Kyrian-Vaskan distrust. Facing charges of being a war criminal, the Doctor, supported by Quarren, the Curator of the Museum of Kyrian Heritage, asked the Kyrian-Vaskan Commission Commission to investigate further: the Doctor explained that if he could access the bio-readings from the tricorder which examined Tedran "at the moment of his death" he could prove that "he was killed by a Vaskan weapon not by Captain Janeway." Eventually the Doctor was able set the record straight. As a result the Kyrians and Vaskans reached a new understanding. The Doctor served as their Surgical Chancellor "for many years" before taking a small craft and heading for the Alpha Quadrant, attempting to trace the path of Voyager: "He said he had a longing for home."