The interior of Jupiter Station is decorated and furnished according to standard Starfleet designs, with the same colours and amenities (such as food replicators) that are found in starbases and space stations. The station comprises the personnel's work areas, living quarters in the saucer modules, and leisure facilities. The latter include a café; Dr Zimmerman offered the job of café manageress to a Bajoran dabo girl called Leeta, [DS9: Dr Bashir, I Presume?]. Unsurprisingly for the birthplace of modern holographic technology, the station includes several holodecks for leisure use. The station facilities include, again unsurprisingly, docking ports and shuttlebays, transporters whereby personnel and equipment can be beamed aboard of off-station, and personnel escape pods in case of emergency.

The Doctor says that he was programmed at Jupiter Station holoprogram centre by Dr Zimmerman, [#6 The Cloud]. Tuvok was stationed at Jupiter Station for a time prior to 2371 and while there he carried on a correspondence with Kathryn Janeway, [#40 Tuvix]

Among other things, Jupiter station contains the laboratory, holographic research facilities and living quarters for Dr Lewis Zimmerman, who is perhaps the Federation's foremost scientist in holographic research and development. It was Dr Zimmerman who designed Starfleet's Emergency Medical Holograms (EMHs) including the Mark 1 - a Mark 1 currently serves aboard USS Voyager and, since he has chosen no name for himself, is known simply as "the Doctor". A Mark 2 was installed aboard USS Prometheus, a Starfleet prototype vessel visited by the Doctor in 2374.

Dr Lewis Zimmerman [Life Line]

The screenshots show the holoprogram including the diagnostic program (described below), as invoked by Voyager's holodeck systems, in [The Swarm].

entering the holodeck doors (shown open), there is a short corridor which leads to the set of doors which form the entrance/exit of the laboratory (these doors are shown looking at them from within the laboratory); note the Jupiter logo by the doors

Up to the approximate time that USS Voyager was launched from Earth Station McKinley on stardate 48038.5, the Jupiter laboratory looked as it does in the holoprogram contained within the Starfleet database. It is assumed that the holoprogram is available to all Federation starships and facilities with an EMH. The holoprogram contains a diagnostic program for the EMH. Voyager's copy of the holoprogram was first activated during early 2373, in [The Swarm], when the Doctor experienced cascade failure due to a level 4 memory fragmentation. The diagnostic program is in the form of an adaptive heuristic matrix of the same design as that of the EMHs, in order that it can interact intelligently with Starfleet personnel. Like the EMHs, the diagnostic program has no name. The computer systems in the holographic environment form part of the program, a design feature which enables them to be accessed by the diagnostic program and organic personnel alike. The diagnostic program's visible manifestation looks identical to Dr Zimmerman, i.e. it was created in its maker's image, and comes complete with his (prickly and often irritating) personality. The diagnostic program no longer existed after it programmed Voyager's computer for a complex program whereby his matrix was used to overlay and extend the Doctor's matrix. That successfully treated the memory fragmentation, restoring all of the Doctor's memories up to that point, and ensured that he could have all the runtime he needed or wanted without suffering another memory fragmentation.

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