THE DOCTOR

Although the Doctor, apart from in a few episodes e.g. [#12 Heroes And Demons], does not choose a name (except in an eventually unrealised timeline in [#171 and #172 Endgame]), for the purposes of the Fair Haven holoprogram, the Doctor adopts the persona of Father Mulligan, the village priest. No first name is known. The population of Fair Haven is Roman Catholic, which is in keeping with the vast majority of the southern Ireland population for the time period in which the holoscenario is set. The Doctor's duties as priest include hearing confessions - he tells Janeway: "I've been hearing a lot of confessions lately" but, as both the priest and following doctoral professional practice, when Paris jokes: "Heard any good confessions lately?" he replies: "Doctor-patient confidentiality, Mr Paris."

The Doctor rides a bicycle, which no doubt aids him in travelling around to visit the parishioners. bicycle bell The screenshot shows him arriving by bicycle for the arm-wrestling contest in Sullivan's Pub. The Doctor's professional domain in the Fair Haven holoprogram is St. Mary's Church, which is a stone-built structure, whose interior is plainly furnished.

In [Fair Haven], Harry Kim ruins Liam's standing as an arm-wrestling champion, undefeated for three years in four counties. The match takes place in Sullivan's pub. The Doctor places a bet of five shillings on Liam and then, upon Paris' protest that he will hurt Kim's feelings, two shillings on Kim. During the contest he exhorts Kim to win. When Kim does so, the Doctor claims: "I knew you could do it, Ensign!" and triumphantly collects his winnings from Paris.

The Doctor goes over to the table where Kim and Liam are ready to begin the arm-wrestling contest. "Gentlemen!" He raps a glass three times on the table as the signal to begin. The sound of the excited crowd is deafening as they shout support for their man. The Doctor joins in, calling out: "Go on, Mr Kim, show him what for!"

Liam forces Kim's arm right over until it touches the table....almost! But then Kim summons up extra strength and, shouting with the effort, forces Liam's arm over.....and wins! He is thrilled!

Seamus to Liam: "Come on, my boy, push, push!"

Doctor: "Try! Try!"  Kim: "I'm trying!"  Doctor: "Come on, try harder!"

Seamus to Liam: "You've got him, you've got him." Doctor to Kim: "You're losing!"

Kim starts to turn the tide.

Seamus: "What in God's name...? Come on, Liam, push!"

Victorious Kim: "Yes! Yes!"

Drawing on his knowledge of the holograms in Fair Haven and the experience gained from hearing confessions, the Doctor encourages Janeway to confide in him, telling her he has heard a lot of confessions lately, about her romantic relationship with Michael Sullivan and her broken heart

In [Spirit Folk] we see the Doctor enjoying his chosen role as it gives him a chance to perform in front of an audience - maybe not opera, but oratory and the chance to declaim his speech loudly to effectively a captive audience congregation.

The Doctor is in the middle of conducting the service of Mass. The congregation responds: "Amen." Doctor: "Please be seated." They all sit. He goes up into the pulpit. He relishes his role as he prepares to address the congregation, so much so that it looks like a theatre, with the audience gathered to watch a great stage performance. "I recently heard a tale of two farmers, who shall remain nameless for this sermon. It seems one broke the other's plough and refused to replace it. His comeuppance was served to him, not by the hand of God, but by the other farmer, in the form of a clogged irrigation ditch. Now do you think their disagreement stopped there? Of course not. They go on, just as the heathen did of old. After all, one spiteful act deserves another, right?"

The audience start to discuss it among themselves. The Doctor slams his fist down, demanding their full attention. "Wrong! What these sinners have forgotten is that they are neighbours." Grace talks quietly to her companion: "He's in love with the sound of his own voice." The Doctor's sermon is continuing: "Man or woman, parent or child, flesh and blood or photons and forcefields." He pauses, realising what he has just said. He continues: "It has been said...." She revises her opinion and makes another whispered aside: "On the other hand, perhaps he's been nipping at the sacramental wine."

Doctor: "...and as such our community is everything. It is our world, and we are a part of it, as a branch is part of a tree. Do you see branches tearing leaves off one another? No! Do you see roots hoarding water from the trunk? No!! Do you see-"

When Seamus witnesses Paris repairing his crashed car by saying: "Computer, replace damaged tyre." and the wheel is replaced as if by magic, Seamus suspects that Paris and his friends from out of town are spirit folk. As far as he is concerned, the suspicion is confirmed when he and Milo witness Paris playing a prank on Harry Kim by turning Maggie, his date, into a cow just as Kim is about to kiss her. This is described in detail in Holocharacters: Seamus Driscol and the [Spirit Folk] Episode Guide; the cow incident is given in detail in Holocharacters: Maggie O'Halloran. While Milo and Seamus are watching Paris, they have the following conversation, which shows an aspect of the character of the Doctor/Father Mulligan:

Milo: "Maybe we're going about this the wrong way. We should go down to St Mary's and tell Father Mulligan the whole story."
Seamus: "He's not going to talk about the supernatural."
Milo: "Ah, if you'll fill his collection box he'll listen to anything."
Seamus: "True."

Seamus and Milo with Maggie the cow in St. Mary's Church;
the Doctor's back is in the foreground of the picture

However, Maggie tells Milo and Seamus of a strange dream wherein she wandered around with nothing but a bell around her neck. This puts the Doctor's claim in doubt that he saw her (in her human form) that morning. Suspicion against the Doctor grows when Grace Declan tells people at Sullivan's Pub that she saw him vanish on Sunday after he gave his sermon - obviously the Doctor is one of the spirit folk to be able to conjure such magic!

The Doctor dons his mobile emitter and enters St. Mary's Church to rescue Kim and Paris, who are spirit folk the townsfolk have captured. But the townsfolk are unimpressed by the Doctor's chastisement, and he is accused of being one of the spirit folk, and is tied up with Kim and Paris. A search of the Doctor reveals what Seamus and the other villagers believe to be magic talismans; they are in fact transport enhancers which he had intended to put on Kim and Paris so that they could be beamed off the holodeck. The villagers also find the Doctor's mobile emitter. When they remove it, he becomes vulnerable and his holoprogam becomes integrated with that of Fair Haven. He is thus vulnerable when Seamus hypnotises him, and he falls into a trance.

Questioned by Seamus and Sullivan while in the trance, the Doctor reveals that he actually has no name as he has not chosen one yet, and that the spirit folk come from "Voyager". Sullivan, realising the mobile emitter is a machine not a talisman, puts it on and is transported to Voyager. The scene is depicted below.

The church doors open and the Doctor enters intent on rescuing Kim and Paris.

The Doctor rebukes them all in a loud voice: "Sinners!" He approaches Paris and Kim. "Sinners, all of you. You have the audacity to turn a house of worship into a prison?! This is where we gather to pledge our love for our fellow man, not condemnation! You should all be ashamed of yourselves!"

Seamus: "Quite a rousing sermon, Father. But I'm afraid you're not going to find too many takers tonight." Milo: "Not after your little vanishing act. It seems Grace Declan saw you disappear into thin air on Sunday." Seamus: "I'd say the town's a wee bit unholy! You're in league with them, aren't you!" He orders the townsfolk: "Tie him up with the others!" The Doctor protests as he is manhandled. He cannot contact Janeway to get himself transferred from the holodeck.

Seamus searches the Doctor and finds a strange object (a transport enhancer). They discover a strange object on the Doctor's arm that they do not recognise. (It is his mobile emitter.) Milo: "Look here, Seamus - another talisman."

Seamus: "Quick, get it off of him." Milo grabs it and the Doctor fritzes. They are stunned at the sight of him partly dematerialising and materialising again. If they were not certain before that he is one of the spirit folk, they are sure now!

Seamus swings a silver spoon in front of the Doctor to induce a trance.

As Seamus swings the watch, the Doctor tells him, fed up: "I hope you know this is blasphemous. Oh this is ridiculous. I can't be hypnotised." He sighs. But on Voyager's bridge, Chakotay is unable to isolate the Doctor's program, and Janeway realises that he has been integrated into the Fair Haven matrix and is thus vulnerable.

The Doctor has fallen into a trance! Seamus to the Doctor: "Tell us the words. How do we banish the spirit folk to the other world?" The Doctor speaks in a trance: "There is no other world, only Voyager." Milo: "Voyager?" Doctor: "Federation starship, Intrepid class, registry number NCC-74656." Sullivan: "You're from some sort of vessel?" The Doctor acknowledges: "Mm-hm." Seamus: "He's talking gibberish."

Sullivan: "Maybe he's not." To Paris: "This ship of yours, is that where you took me?" Seamus is consulting the 'Faerie Magyk' book. "Look here: it says if you can get a spirit to reveal his true name you'll render yourself impervious to his charms." None of the Fair Haven folk of course realise that the Doctor has no name. Milo nods. He turns to the Doctor and demands: "What is your true name?" Doctor: "I haven't decided on one yet." Seamus realises that the book is useless and slams it shut. When Paris refuses to confirm whether Katie O'Clare is on Voyager, Sullivan asks the Doctor.

Milo: "What are you doing, Sullivan? Seamus: "No man who's ever gone to the other world has ever come back!" Sullivan: "I have." He addresses the Doctor: "How do I get there?" The Doctor looks up at him, then down at his closed hand. Sullivan opens his hand and looks at the mobile emitter.

The Doctor, Paris and Kim are about to be taken into the street and burned alive (a traditional punishment and "defence" against witchcraft) when Sullivan returns from Voyager, bringing Katie O'Clare (Janeway) with him. Janeway having to explain to the superstitious townsfolk that the Voyager crew are not spirit folk. She does not explain (to Michael Sullivan) that the townsfolk are holograms nor that the Doctor is a hologram as opposed to human (organic). Instead she allows them to think the Voyager crew are time travellers from the future, who like to spend time in Fair Haven. She informs them that she, the Doctor, Tom Paris and the others, use technology but it is not magic. She removes the mobile emitter from Sullivan and returns it to the Doctor's arm. At once his program is again separated from the Fair Haven holoprogram and he "wakes" from the trance, oblivious to everything that has happened since he went under.

Janeway re-attaches the mobile emitter to the Doctor's arm

the Doctor wants to know what is going on but she hushes him, then continues to speak to the Fair Haven townsfolk

The townsfolk forgive the Voyager crewmembers and friendships are resumed, but with the visitors now known as friendly time travellers.