MICHAEL SULLIVAN : Page 2

After Janeway meets Sullivan, she visits Voyager's holographic research lab. There she accesses the Sullivan holoprogram. She upgrades his intellect parameters to give him the education of 19th century third year student at Trinity College, make him more outspoken and make him more curious about the world. Janeway also makes him three centimetres taller, and deletes the wife.

Janeway with the Sullivan holoprogram in Voyager's holographic research lab - the holoprogram is inactive

Janeway orders the computer to adjust the holoprogram so as to remove the facial hair, but decides she does not like that and orders it to provide about two days' growth

The changes Janeway makes become permanent. This is the version of the Sullivan hologram seen throughout the rest of [Fair Haven] and, along with a fault in his perceptual filters, throughout [Spirit Folk].

Janeway goes on to share a romantic interlude with him: she seeks him out at the railway station where they discuss Irish poets Jane Eldon and Sean Gogarty, only for Janeway to realise she has not read them, and they start off for Castle O'Dell. He expresses his romantic interest in her when he asks if she has a man waiting for her and she says no. They share their first kiss and embrace after an evening of dancing shared with others at his pub.

But the wonderful interlude ends after they spend an afternoon together and end up by the lake. There Sullivan falls asleep and starts snoring. Rather than nudge him with her elbow hoping that he would roll over and stop snoring and rather than whisper in his ear to wake him, Janeway was about to access the computer to alter his vocal algorithms before realising that it was all an illusion. So she left, without waking him, and her unexpected departure, without leaving any message, breaks his heart.

At the rings tournament that night he starts drinking whisky again, after having not drunk any for 15 years, in the hope that it will ease the pain. He picks a fight with Tom Paris when he suspects that he knows where Katie is but is just refusing to tell him.

Miserably Sullivan explains to Paris and the Doctor: "Three days. The happiest three days of my life. I was a fool to think she felt the same. .... We spent a perfect day together, by the lake. I drifted off to sleep. When I woke up, she was gone." He looks up at Paris. "Where is she, Tom?"
Paris: "Who?"
Sullivan: "Katie O'Clare, who else?"
Paris: "Katie O'Clare??"
Sullivan: "Your friend."
Paris now understands he means Kathryn Janeway. "Erm. Are you sure you didn't.....misinterpret....her interests? I mean, we're all friends here. Maybe she was just being friendly?"
Sullivan: "Are you calling me a liar?"
Paris: "Er no, no, not at all."
Sullivan: "I thought Katie and me were in love."
Paris whispers to the Doctor. "I may have to do some reprogramming."
Sullivan: "I mean, what's the matter? You don't think I'm good enough for her?"
Paris tries to placate Sullivan's rising rage: "I didn't say that."
Sullivan, desperately: "Then tell me where she's gone!"
Paris: "I don't know!"
"I think you do!" He attacks Paris. This starts a free-for-all brawl in the pub.

Later, Voyager manages to escape the terrible pounding from a neutronic wavefront by sacrificing secondary systems including the holodecks. Because they have no time to go through the holodeck shut-down sequence, all but about ten per cent of its elements are lost or irreparably damaged. Sullivan's holoprogram, however, survives intact. Since Paris estimates six or seven weeks to restore Fair Haven, Janeway calls up Sullivan in Voyager's holographic research lab and tells him she is going away but will visit Fair Haven again in six or seven weeks. Sullivan takes the opportunity to declare that he loves her, but she does not return the words, although in answer to his questions she does tell him that she does not have another man, that it is not because her friends disapprove of him (they actually think he is charming), and that she is "as ready as (she) will ever be" to settle down. He has to accept that she is cooling their romantic relationship, and must accept her departure, but he holds hope that she will one day return to Fair Haven and that their close friendship will continue. She kisses him farewell on the cheek, and then shuts down his holoprogram. Janeway orders the ship's computer to deny her any future access to his program, in order to ensure that she cannot alter his character or other parameters. The scene is depicted below:

Janeway revisits the holographic research lab and calls up the Sullivan holographic character.

Janeway: "Hello." Sullivan: "You disappeared on me, Katie. I woke up and you'd gone." Janeway: "I had some thinking to do." Sullivan: "Are you done?" Janeway: "I'm leaving Fair Haven." Sullivan: "Why?" Janeway: "Because." Sullivan: "That's not a very good reason." Janeway: "My situation is complicated." Sullivan: "Another man?" Janeway: "No." Sullivan: "Your friends, they don't approve of me?" Janeway: "They think you're charming." Sullivan: "Are you not ready to settle down yet?" Janeway: "I'm as ready as I'll ever be." Sullivan: "You're not making any sense." Janeway: "No, I guess I'm not." Sullivan: "Oh. I have a feeling you won't be forgetting us that easily. Fair Haven has that effect on people. But there's one thing I want you to know. I love you, Katie." Janeway: "I might actually be passing this way in erm, six or seven weeks. Maybe I'll stop by the pub." Sullivan: "See that you do." Janeway cannot continue the conversation as she is unable to trust her feelings. To the computer: "Oh computer, end program." Sullivan disappears. Janeway suddenly thinks of something and says to the computer: "Wait, I want to make one more modification to the character." Computer: "Specify." Janeway: "Deny Kathryn Janeway any future access to his behavioural subroutines." Computer: "Modification complete." Janeway: "Save program."

This is where the episode [#131 Fair Haven] ends. Michael Sullivan, along with the Fair Haven holoprogram, is seen later in 2376 (equivalent to "six or seven weeks") in the episode [#137 Spirit Folk].