As the two worked together on the project, the Doctor became enamored with Dr. Pel's synaptic pathways into a hologram that depicted her as she would look without the phage.īased on experiments conducted on Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres the previous year, the Doctor took samples of her Klingon DNA as a starting point for his research. The Doctor was determined to find a cure for her and placed her body in stasis while he worked on it. Denara Pel, who was near death due to the phage. In mid- 2372, Voyager received a Vidiian scientist named Dr. Thankfully, Chakotay managed to convince the Doctor that he was about to destroy his own matrix, and the Doctor was freed from the holodeck. He was convinced by Barclay that the only way to escape was to destroy the holographic Voyager by firing a phaser at the warp core. Zimmerman and was trapped in a holodeck simulation of Voyager at the Jupiter Station. He was visited by Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, one of the engineers that worked on his programming, who told him that he was in fact Dr. ( VOY episode: " Heroes and Demons")Ī few weeks later, an accident aboard Voyager while the Doctor was in the holodeck, led him to confuse illusion and reality. The crewmembers were released, when the Doctor returned the other being. He discovered that they were being held by a being of photonic energy after Voyager took aboard some photonic energy. ( VOY novel: Violations)Ī few months into Voyager's journey home, the Doctor participated in his first away mission to the holodeck after several officers had been taken from the Beowulf holoprogram. Zimmerman, after his creator, but must have decided against it soon thereafter, returning to simply "the Doctor". ( VOY episodes: " Eye of the Needle", " Heroes and Demons") Around the time Tutopan pirates robbed Voyager of its main computer, the Doctor had taken the name, Dr. She also suggested that the Doctor find a real name so that he could feel more like a member of the crew. Kes also began to tutor the Doctor in the social graces to improve his bedside manner and overall attitude. However, the Doctor soon made a friend in Kes, who as well as having an interest in studying medicine, served as a champion for the Doctor's rights to Captain Janeway, which meant that he was treated with respect by the crew, and had control over his own activation sub-routines. ( VOY episodes: " Parallax", " Time and Again") The general attitude shown to him made the Doctor believe he was unimportant to the crew and that he was often left out when it came to important information, such as the arrival of Kes and Neelix aboard Voyager, and the repair of his holographic imaging matrix after Voyager encountered a quantum singularity. With the Doctor only being a hologram in the eyes of the crew, they often treated him as a piece of technology, and because of the Doctor's programming his bedside manner was seen as rude by the majority of the crew. The Doctor's early days aboard Voyager were difficult for him. Upon his activation he learned that the entire medical staff had been killed during the journey to the Delta Quadrant and that he was the only medical officer aboard. The Doctor was first activated aboard Voyager on stardate 48308.2, shortly after Voyager had been flung into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. Life Aboard Voyager Activation and Early Years