The Voyager Doctor's Key Moments
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Latent Image
(5x11)
- The crew finally catches up with us when they realize what we've known
about the
Doctor since "Projections" in Season 2: the Doctor has a soul and a
conscience.
The Doctor was at one time faced with a no-win scenario, which
resulted in the death of a crew member. The solution to his subsequent
reactions was
to rewrite his program, and lock him out of any memories involving that
incident
and the existence of the deceased. Eighteen months later, his resourcefulness
unearths those memories, and the same things start to happen. Only this time,
Captain
Janeway
realizes that what the Doctor is experiencing are grief and a nervous
breakdown.
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Someone to Watch Over Me
(5x22)
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In this Pygmalionesque story, the Doctor's mentoring of Seven of Nine's
social skills take a turn when it
is
decided that she is ready to start dating.
An interesting development on
his part is an achievement of social tact which usually escapes
artificial intelligences; he decides not to tell Seven that he has fallen in
love
with her. Such restraint was
nonexistent in Season 2's "Lifesigns."
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Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
(6x4)
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The Doctor adds cognitive projection to his program. Translation: the ability
to
daydream. His fantasies resemble that of a typical human male.
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Blink of an Eye
(6x12)
- In which the Doctor shacks up with a ladyfriend and helps raise her son
for over three years during a timeskewed away mission. And his true nature
wasn't
detected?
Bravo, Doctor!
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Virtuoso
(6x13)
- The Doctor learns humility - and how fickle fandom can be.
Touched upon in "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy," we see now that, since the
Doctor's
personal goal is no longer trying to become human (for all intents and
purposes, he
already is), it is now to be accepted and appreciated. By the end, the
Captain once again catches up with us and accepts him as a full
person, flaws and all.
Speaking of flaws, this episode contains many with regard to series &
character continuity (for
example: as needy as he may appear, it is highly unlikely that the Doctor
would ever
forfeit his medical programming to make room for vocal enhancements. And in
light of events one year earlier in "Latent Image," the notion is
incomprehensible. And I won't go into Doc's moot comparison to Harry
Kim he uses to justify leaving the ship).
Some of the Doctor's most
memorable scenes appear in
this episode. So, for sheer entertainment - as a story isolated from the
Voyager
Universe - this episode should not be missed.
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Life Line
(6x24)
- The Doctor meets his maker - literally. By the end of this classic tale,
he has a
place to write home to and someone he can call "Dad." One might say that he
helped
Lewis
Zimmerman exceed his programming.
Based on a story by Doc actor Robert Picardo.
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