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{{Update Intelligence}} "'''The Doctor'''" was the name given by the crew of the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] [[starship]] {{USS|Voyager}} to their [[Emergency Medical Hologram]] (alternatively abbreviated as "[[EMH]]"). The ''[[EMH Mark I]]'', of which the Doctor was an example, was a computer program with a [[holographic]] interface in the form of a [[Human]] male #REDIRECT [[Chief medical officer|doctor]]. Although this program was specifically designed to function in emergency situations only, the Doctor on the USS ''Voyager'' was forced to become the ship's doctor on a full-time basis. This was a result of and subsequent to the fatal loss of the starship's entire medical staff when the vessel, with little chance of returning home to the [[Alpha Quadrant]], was suddenly relocated to the [[Delta Quadrant]] by the [[Caretaker (Nacene)|Caretaker]]. Prolonged use resulted in the Doctor developing emergent behavior. ==Origins==The EMH Mark I, properly known as the ''Emergency Medical Holographic Program AK-1 Diagnostic and Surgical Subroutine Omega 323'', was developed by a team of engineers to be an emergency supplement to the medical team on starships. Only meant to run for a maximum of one thousand five hundred hours, it had little personality and the apparent objectives of first assessing an emergency situation before dealing with that crisis, as efficiently as possible. It was capable of treating any known injury or [[disease]]; programmed with medical knowledge of every member world in the Federation (at least, as of [[2371]]), it had the knowledge of five million surgical treatments and was capable of adapting to create new medical treatments. It also had a [[database]] of spiritual medical treatments practiced by [[Native American]]s. It was created on [[Jupiter Station]], by [[Lewis Zimmerman]] (on whom the hologram's appearance and voice were based). [[Lieutenant]] [[Reginald Barclay]] also worked on the project, testing the EMH's interpersonal skills.  According to the Doctor, his original program was not configured to cry, bleed, feel pain or hunger, nor sing or dance. Neither was he programmed with [[Reproductive system|reproductive]] organs, as he had no need for them. ( ==Aboard ''Voyager''=====2371===On [[stardate]] 48308.2, the Doctor was activated by [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim]], to help treat crew members injured in the ship's transit into the [[Delta Quadrant]], after the original medical staff had been killed. The Doctor quickly established that the ''Voyager'' crew would be stuck with him for a while and that he would be the sole provider of medical care aboard the ship.  The Doctor's first few weeks as a full-time medic on ''Voyager'' were not easy. He had no control over his [[activation subroutine]]s, so anyone (except himself) could switch his program on or off at will. Most of the crew considered him merely a [[computer]] program and he in turn was curt and rude to the crew. His thoughts on his duties were less than great; he was unhappy that he was used for even menial tasks. He was also upset at being the last to find out about events that were not directly in his purview, such as the [[Maquis]] crew joining ''Voyager'' and both {{MA|Neelix|Neelix}} and [[Kes]] having come aboard. He once noted (upon creating a [[chroniton]]-based remedy for [[Chakotay]], when his body fell into [[temporal flux]]), ''"Anywhere else, that cure would have won me a prestigious award. Here, it's just another day in the life of an under-appreciated EMH."'' When ''Voyager'' was caught in a [[quantum singularity]], the Doctor's [[imaging processor]] began to malfunction, causing him to shrink. This malfunction was eventually repaired. One of the Doctor's first major achievements on board ''Voyager'' was holographic [[lung]] treatment for {{MA|Neelix|Neelix}}; when Neelix's lungs were removed and stolen by a [[Vidiian]], the Doctor devised a plan to use holographic lungs to allow him to remain alive. The Doctor's idea worked but Neelix was confined to an [[isotropic restraint]]. The Doctor was later able to transplant one of [[Kes]]' lungs into Neelix, with help from the Vidiians.  It was not until Kes volunteered to work with the Doctor as a medical student that relations between him and most of the other crew members began to improve, with the majority of the crew becoming more accepting of the Doctor and vice versa. Kes was one of the first people to consider the Doctor as a person; she encouraged him to think of himself as another member of the crew (by helping him to realize the better parts of himself) and began tutoring him on social graces – skills he later taught [[Seven of Nine]]. Kes was initially shocked at the crew's general attitudes toward the Doctor so she asked [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]] if the Doctor could be treated as equally as any other crew member. Janeway agreed and gave the Doctor control over his deactivation sequence.  [[Image:Unarmed.jpg|thumb|The Doctor after his first confrontation with "[[Grendel]]".]]The Doctor was sent on his first away mission by Janeway and was tasked with rescuing Kim, [[Tuvok]] and Chakotay from a [[Beowulf]] holoprogram that had been invaded by an [[energy]] creature. Janeway's reasoning for deploying the Doctor on this mission was that he alone could not be snatched from the holodeck. He did, however, lose an arm on his first encounter with the being, which had manifested itself as the monster [[Grendel]]. Samples of photonic energy had been beamed aboard ''Voyager'' and this energy was part of the alien. Once returned to the [[alien]], the crew was released.  When the mental energy of [[Chakotay]] and the [[Komar]] were forcing members of ''Voyager'' to behave against their will, the Doctor was the only crew member who could not be controlled. As no-one but him could be trusted, Janeway transferred her [[command code]]s to the Doctor, so that he could countermand orders if he thought doing so was required. However, his program's initialization routine was later deactivated until the incident with the Komar ended.  An accident aboard ''Voyager'' caused the Doctor to confuse illusion with reality. A hallucination of Lieutenant Reginald Barclay told the Doctor that he was real, that he was actually Lewis Zimmerman and was married to a very Human Kes. The illusory Barclay persuaded the Doctor that he was caught in a hologram of ''Voyager'', with [[radiation]] killing him after an accident. The Doctor became convinced that the only way to escape was to fire a [[phaser]] into ''Voyager''{{'}}s [[warp core]], an act that seemingly would result in the simulation's destruction. At the last possible second, Chakotay convinced the Doctor that he was about to destroy his own matrix – simultaneously telling him that he was their friend, regardless of whether he was a hologram or flesh and blood. The problem was solved, although the Doctor was left intrigued as to why he had hallucinated about the nature of his existence rather than to simply have had his program's defenses activated. He diagnosed that Kes' mating cycle (known to [[Ocampa]] as "the ''[[elogium]]''") had been activated by a swarm of [[space]] aliens. During this period, he acted in the role of [[Kes]]' father for a foot massage that served as the precursor to the Ocampan mating ritual. [[Kes]] eventually decided not to have a child at this point and her ''elogium'' was nevertheless ended when ''Voyager'' subsequently vacated the aliens' territory. It was assumed afterward that the ''elogium'' had been prematurely triggered by the aliens and that Kes would still be able to conceive, when the normal time came. ===2372===In [[2372]], the Doctor still didn't consider himself a true member of the ''Voyager'' crew. Repeatedly, the Doctor (upon activation) opened [[communications]] channels all over the ship, until Janeway told him not to snoop.  In response to criticisms that he was unsympathetic to crew members feeling the effects of 'common' illnesses, he programmed himself with [[Levodian flu]], a twenty-nine hour illness, as a demonstration of how a little illness shouldn't be a cause of whining or moaning. Thirty-one hours into the illness, the Doctor was almost fearful, not knowing what was happening or why and disliking the feeling of not being himself. Kes soon after admitted that she had modified the program to teach the Doctor a lesson, as it would have hardly been a real illness if he had known when it would end.  [[Image:Denara Pel hologram.jpg|thumb|Denara Pel's holographic body]]When a Vidiian [[scientist]], Dr. [[Denara Pel]], was beamed aboard ''Voyager'', the Doctor attempted to cure her of the [[Phage]]. He transmitted her synaptic pathways into a hologram of her body without the disease and put her real body in [[stasis]] until he could find a cure or a way to extend her life. He grafted a piece of [[B'Elanna Torres|Torres]]' [[brain]] tissue onto Dr. Pel's brain, as [[Klingon]] [[DNA]] had been found to be resistant to the disease. He also became attracted to Pel, even going so far as to add dancing to his program so he could share the experience with her. While trying to evade the Vidiians, ''Voyager'' entered a [[plasma cloud]] which caused the ship and its crew to be duplicated. The Doctor was on one of the ships and delivered Ensign [[Samantha Wildman|Wildman]]'s baby, who died shortly after birth. After the other ship was invaded by Vidiians, the Doctor on that ship saved that Ensign Wildman's baby, keeping it hidden from the Vidiians until that Kim and the baby could board the "first" ''Voyager'', which they did just before their ship [[selfNCC-destruct]]ed, killing the Vidiians and saving the "first" ''Voyager''. The Doctor found a way to separate and restore Tuvok and Neelix after a transporter accident combined them into a single entity named [[Tuvix]]. However, the Doctor refused to perform the procedure as he would have to kill Tuvix. Janeway eventually performed the procedure.  The Doctor played an essential part in the defeat of the [[Kazon]] led by [[Seska]] and [[Culluh]]. After the crew was captured and stranded on a primitive [[planet]] the Doctor – who escaped deletion by claiming that he was totally neutral as a hologram and thus didn't mind whether Kazon or Star Fleet were in charge of ''Voyager'' – helped to sabotage the backup [[phaser coupling]]s. This allowed [[Tom Paris]] and his [[Talaxian]] allies to retake the ship and save the crew. The Doctor was briefly disabled when Seska locked out Star Fleet voice commands after turning him off, preventing Suder from reactivating him, but the Doctor left a message for Suder, assuring the former killer that the Doctor was confident he would succeed in retaking the ship and complimenting him on both his courage and dedication to the crew.  ===2373===[[Image:EMHDiagnosticProgram.jpg|thumb|Diagnostic Program Alpha-11]]In [[2373]], the Doctor reached the limit of his memory capacity and started suffering from massive amnesia. When an alien attack injured Paris, the Doctor was unable to operate due to forgetting his medical skills. It soon became clear that his program would disintegrate completely. Another hologram, [[Diagnostic Program Alpha-11]], was used to find the source of the problem. The problem was in the Doctor's core programing which had become severely fragmented. This was caused by the constant use of the EMH over the course of 2 years. The Diagnostic Program stated that maximum operation was around 1500 hours (roughly 2 months.) To further complicate things, The Doctor had allowed his programing to develop interest in things such as Opera music, relationships with the crew and engineering skills. These "extras" had filled all of his available memory buffers leaving little room for his program to operate in its intended function. The only option was proposed by [[Kes]]. Her idea was to overlay the Diagnostic Program's programming matrix onto the Doctor's. This effectively deleted the Diagnostic program and integrated its core portions as a graft onto the Doctor's program. This procedure restored the Doctor but led to massive memory loss, including his recollection of the crew's identities and most events of the previous two years. Although some memories seemed to survive intact, it was unclear if the Doctor would struggle to regain his hard-won personal skills. He assisted in stopping [[Henry Starling]]'s plan to steal a [[timeship]] which accidentally traveled into the past, simultaneously acquiring a [[mobile emitter]] that permitted him movement beyond the limit of ''Voyager'''s holoemitters. He rescued Chakotay and Torres from some freedom fighters, returned to Voyager and enjoyed his new found freedom from Sickbay. He also helped Janeway rid ''Voyager'' of an attacking [[macrovirus]] when she returned from an away mission and the rest of the crew had been infected.  In an attempt to improve himself, the Doctor created [[EMH program 4C]], adding personality subroutines to his [[holomatrix]] copied from many historical figures, including [[Lord Byron]], [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Socrates]], [[Marie Curie]] and [[T'Pau]]. Unfortunately, the Doctor didn't realize that even great historical figures had character flaws and a dark side to their personality. Taking on a "[[The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde|Jekyll and Hyde]]"-type split personality, he attacked [[Zahir]], an alien whom Kes had befriended. As the subroutines degraded, the 'Dark Doctor' kidnapped Kes and tried to arrange passage to another planet. During this time, he still apparently cared for Kes albeit in a twisted fashion compared to his normal personality. He attempted to kill Zahir, wanting Kes to remain with him, claiming that she needed his help due to her naiveté. After being beamed aboard ''Voyager'', the added subroutines finally collapsed and the Doctor returned to normal.  [[Image:Lollipop family.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's holographic family]]The Doctor once created a [[holodeck]] family in order to experience Human family values, assuming the name of "Kenneth." Initially the program was idyllic but, when Torres reprogrammed it to be more "realistic", the Doctor found it harder to cope, even contemplating deactivating it permanently after his 'daughter' was fatally wounded in an accident. Paris helped the Doctor learn to cope with the negatives as well as the positives in having a family and the Doctor returned to the program to mourn the loss of his daughter with his wife and son.  The Doctor proved instrumental in assisting the crew's escape after [[Nyrians]] commandeered ''Voyager'' and transported the ship's crew into an artificial environment. Chakotay, as the last crew-member on board, transferred the Doctor's program into the mobile emitter before he could be deleted. Torres subsequently modified the Doctor's optical sensors, allowing him to "see" portals between artificial environments and – with the aid of another prisoner, named [[Jarleth]] – the crew reached the Nyrians' spaceship and retook ''Voyager''.  ===2374===In [[2374]], ''Voyager'' became involved in a war between the [[Borg]] and [[Species 8472]]. Janeway made a pact with the Borg - in exchange for technology that could defeat Species 8472, the Borg would give ''Voyager'' free passage through their space. After Kim was injured in an attack by Species 8472, his [[cell]]s began to be destroyed but the Doctor used [[nanoprobe]]s to cure him, enabling ''Voyager''{{'}}s crew to develop a weapon that could be used against Species 8472 and therefore giving the crew a bargaining chip to negotiate a temporary alliance with the Borg. The Doctor removed most of Seven of Nine's Borg implants, after she came aboard ''Voyager'' and was severed from the [[Borg Collective]]. He restored her to her human form, although she was left with a need to regenerate. Like the rest of the crew, the Doctor mourned Kes' departure from the ship, as her enhanced abilities became too dangerous for her to remain aboard ''Voyager''.  [[Image:Dejaren.jpg|thumb|Dejaren in 2374]]The Doctor and Torres answered a [[distress call]] and found a hologram named [[Dejaren]] alone on a ship. Initially, the Doctor tried to befriend the hologram, who was eager to learn about the Doctor's freedom on ''Voyager''. Dejaren's own crew never treated him as anything other than equipment and kept him constantly confined in one part of the ship. Eventually, the Doctor and Torres discovered that Dejaren had killed the [[organic]] crew on the ship, having been driven mad by constantly being treated as a tool. After failing to convince the Doctor that holograms were a higher form of life, Dejaren tried to kill Torres and deactivate the Doctor by stealing his mobile emitter. Fortunately, Torres was able to successfully deactivate Dejaren by destabilizing his holomatrix, leaving the crew with a greater appreciation of the Doctor's personality.  [[Image:EMHs.jpg|thumb|left|The EMH Mark II meets the EMH Mark I]]The Doctor, upon his first mission to the [[Alpha Quadrant]], was instrumental in establishing contact with [[Star Fleet]]. Shortly after ''Voyager'' discovered a [[Hirogen communications network]] leading into the edge of the Quadrant, the crew attempted to send a message to a particular Star Fleet vessel, the USS ''Prometheus'', that was within range of the farthest relay. When the message failed to reach the Alpha Quadrant, however, ''Voyager''{{'}}s crew decided to send a hologram, as it was less likely to decompile before reaching its destination. The Doctor was the only program large enough to have a chance of making it through the network intact and ''Voyager''{{'}}s crew lacked the time to write a holographic message before the ''Prometheus'' moved out of range. When the Doctor reached the ''Prometheus'' and discovered that the ship had been taken over by [[Romulan]]s, he once again claimed holographic neutrality to escape deletion. The Doctor had to activate the experimental [[EMH]] Mark II on board the ''Prometheus'' and, despite the initial conflict between the two (the Mark II apparently thought that the Doctor was defective and obsolete, while the Doctor regarded the Mark II as an arrogant new upstart), the holograms retook control of the vessel, combining the Doctor's own personal experience with the Mark II's detailed knowledge of the ship. Having defeated numerous Romulan warbirds surrounding the ''Prometheus'', Star Fleet officers boarded the vessel and the Doctor was subsequently able to speak directly with Star Fleet Headquarters wherein he set the record straight about ''Voyager''{{'}}s disappearance. The Doctor returned to ''Voyager'', with welcome news that the ship was no longer alone.  Later in 2374, the Doctor and Harry Kim played an important role in helping to retake the ship from the Hirogen, who were using the ship's previous crew as prey in holoprograms but had left both the Doctor and Kim free, so that the Doctor could heal the crew and Kim could work on expanding the holodecks. The Doctor was forced to treat Seven of Nine but, upon doing so, he secretly restored her memories, starting a chain of events that would bring ''Voyager'' back under the control of the crew. During a [[Nazi]] program, he and Neelix persuaded the Klingons in one program to attack the Hirogen and Nazi soldiers.  ===2375===[[Image:Crell Moset.jpg|thumb|Dr. Crell Moset]]In an attempt to save Torres – who had a [[cytoplasmic lifeform]] attached to her – the Doctor called upon a holoprogram of a [[Cardassian]] named Dr. [[Crell Moset]], who was one of the foremost [[xenobiology|exobiologists]] in the Alpha Quadrant. [[Tabor|Ensign Tabor]] informed Janeway and the Doctor that Moset was accused of having committed war crimes during the [[Occupation of Bajor|occupation of]] [[Bajor]]. Moset wished to kill the creature, in order to detach it from Torres, but the Doctor overruled him and removed the creature after delivering it a neural shock. After Torres regained consciousness, the Doctor deleted the Moset program from all of ''Voyager''{{'}}s files.  [[Image:President-of-earth.jpg|thumb|The Doctor as the President of Earth]]The Doctor undertook the role of the [[President of Earth]] in the holoprogram ''[[The Adventures of Captain Proton]]''. In doing so, he interacted with [[photonic lifeform]]s, in a successful attempt to persuade them to help [[Captain Proton]] in stopping [[Doctor Chaotica]]; the Doctor even joked that he might run for office, once the crew returned to Earth.  While performing medical exams on the crew, the Doctor found that he had performed a surgery on Kim that he did not remember. Janeway and the crew hid the truth from him until he discovered that, during an away mission, Kim and Ensign [[Ahni Jetal]] had been seriously injured in an alien attack. Even with Paris helping the Doctor, he could only save one of the injured crew and, since he knew the ensign better, it was Kim he saved, basically allowing Jetal to die. After this event, the Doctor started to have a mental breakdown – his program was unable to cope with the ethical side-effects of his choice, constantly trying to deduce why he had "decided to kill her" – and the crew were therefore forced to wipe his memory of the incident. Janeway debated whether she should wipe the Doctor's memory once again but, after Seven pointed out that they were essentially treating the Doctor like a piece of equipment rather than a person, Janeway helped him accept his decision, realizing that they couldn't give the Doctor the means to work with the crew as an equal only to treat him like a machine when things became difficult. ( The Doctor tried to teach Seven of Nine social graces, including teaching her how to be pleasant with her fellow crewmates and how to act on a date. He also discovered her singing voice and they sang several duets together. The Doctor became attracted to her during their sessions but refused to admit it to her. When Seven told the Doctor that she no longer needed the lessons in romance, because there were no suitable mates aboard, the Doctor was crushed and returned to the holodeck for a lonely rendition of ''Someone to Watch Over Me''.  ===2376===[[Image:warhead_torpedo.jpg|thumb|left|The weapon the crew found]]In [[2376]] An [[artificial intelligence]] was found on a planet and the crew discovered that it was a [[series 5 long-range tactical armor unit|weapon]] sent on a mission of destruction. The machine interfaced with the Doctor's matrix and took it over. It threatened ''Voyager'' to take it to its target until it was convinced that its mission had been an accident; its systems had been triggered by a computer error and a target had merely been selected at random. Transferring its intelligence out of the Doctor, it was [[beam]]ed off ''Voyager'' and destroyed other war machines on the same obsolete mission.  Early in the year, the Doctor was investigating the {{USS|Equinox}} and was disabled by that ship's EMH, who stole his mobile emitter and returned to ''Voyager'', posing as him. Later, when he was reactivated by Captain [[Rudolph Ransom|Ransom]], his [[ethical subroutine]]s were deactivated to coerce him into extracting information from Seven of Nine. After being restored to himself and escaping to ''Voyager'', Seven offered to add security measures to his program to prevent further tampering, assuring him that she bore him no ill-will (she even 'teasingly' informed him that he was off-key when he sang to her as he tapped into her implants). He also deleted the ''Equinox'' EMH upon returning to ''Voyager'', although the ''Equinox'' EMH tried unsuccessfully to threaten him with holographic bombs.  [[Image:Star Fleet Medal of Commendation.jpg|left|thumb|Medal of Commendation]]Captain Janeway awarded the Doctor the [[Star Fleet Medal of Commendation]] for his part in repelling raiders who wanted to strip ''Voyager'' of essential components. This predicament was both incited and resolved successfully thanks to the Doctor's experimentation with introducing daydreaming to his program; the aliens hacked into the Doctor's program but, due to his daydreams, they were given an exaggerated image of ''Voyager''{{'}}s defenses and were tricked into retreating. In light of his accomplishments, Captain Janeway gave permission for research into the creation of an [[Emergency Command Hologram]], to take command of the ship if the [[senior staff]] were ever immobilized. However, he was left more than slightly embarrassed due to the fact that several of his daydreams featured Janeway, Seven and Torres competing for his affections (as well as one where he painted Seven in the nude), although Janeway assured him that it was only Human to fantasize.  The Doctor played the part of the village priest in the ''[[Fair Haven]]'' program. When he tried to free Kim and Paris from the townfolk who believed they were evil spirits, he himself was captured and hypnotized. Pressed to reveal his true name, he admitted that he "had not decided on one yet."  When ''Voyager'' encountered con artists posing as Janeway, Tuvok and Chakotay in an attempt to make money, the Doctor proved instrumental in the recovery of the stolen property. After tricking [[Dala]], one of the con artists, into boarding the ''[[Delta Flyer]]'', the Doctor and Tom Paris knocked her out. The Doctor subsequently altered his holographic matrix so that he resembled Dala, allowing him to confront the other two con artists and learn where they had concealed their stolen property before turning them over to the local authorities.  While encountering the [[Qomar]] he began singing, which awed the aliens, as they had no concept of music. He gave a recital on the planet. They asked him to stay and he considered resigning. However, on another visit to the planet, he discovered that the Qomar had made what they considered a superior holoprogram (in that it could sing notes outside the human vocal range) and that he was not wanted. He returned to ''Voyager''.  ===2377-2378===[[Image:Deanna Troi with the Doctor and Lewis Zimmerman.jpg|thumb|The Doctor with his creator, Lewis Zimmerman, and Deanna Troi]]The second mission to the Alpha Quadrant occurred when Lewis Zimmerman was dying and the Doctor requested to be transmitted back to the Alpha Quadrant to help treat him. While he was at Jupiter Station, Lewis Zimmerman fought the Doctor and his treatment, regarding the Doctor's presence as an unpleasant reminder of his failure with the Mark I as a whole. This caused Reginald Barclay to contact [[Deanna Troi]] to help out with the situation. Neither the counselor nor Barclay could make either doctor reach any sort of agreement, as both of them were too stubborn to back down. It wasn't until the Doctor began to decompile that Lewis Zimmerman corrected the error and the two reached a mutual understanding that bordered on a father/son relationship. This was mainly reflected in a conversation where the Doctor admitted that he'd hoped Zimmerman would be proud of his accomplishments if they ever met and Zimmerman confessed that he was grateful that at least one EMH Mark I was still doing what he had designed them for. The treatment worked and, shortly before the Doctor left for ''Voyager'', Zimmerman told the Doctor that he could call him, next time ''Voyager'' was given a chance to communicate with Earth.  During the [[2377|last year]] of ''Voyager'''s journey home, the Doctor's program was stolen and sold to Dr. [[Chellick]], who was in charge of a medical hospital on the planet [[Dinaali]]. The Doctor was appalled at the medical malpractice that was taking place. Only the rich or useful were accorded the best medical care, while others were left to die or denied medicine because of their social standing. He, along with a few medical personnel, helped change the situation although the Doctor suffered an ethical crisis afterward; in order to convince the staff to change procedure, the Doctor had deliberately infected a member of the hospital staff with a potentially fatal virus, the member of staff then being classified as a lower grade patient and forced to change his normal procedure to save his own life.  Seven of Nine and the Doctor became one when, in order to hide his matrix from aliens who hunted and destroyed holograms, he was downloaded into her cybernetic implants. He experienced the Human feelings of taste and touch for the first time and although Seven was angered at his 'abuse' of her body while he was in charge; the Doctor felt Seven showed excessive restraint and did not allow for superfluous pleasure, a thing that the Doctor felt was an important part of life. After they returned to ''Voyager'', however, Seven seemed to better understand his point of view, bringing a meal to sickbay and describing the sensations of eating it to the Doctor to allow him to continue to experience it.  An away team became trapped on a planet with a toxic atmosphere and a rescue was launched. The Doctor not only went on the rescue mission but almost single-handedly rescued the entire team when he dressed as a native and infiltrated the native's caves. He explained that since he was a hologram, the radiation had no effect on him and he was able to effectively disguise himself as part of the plan. Later on ''Voyager'', he treated a baby infected with radiation poisoning and cured him and a native with the help of Seven of Nine. Shortly after this, the Doctor discovered that B'Elanna Torres was pregnant with Paris' child. At first, Torres initially tried to reprogram the Doctor to alter the child's [[DNA]] and remove the Klingon traits, fearing a repeat of her own upbringing, when her father left because he couldn't handle two Klingon women. After talking with her, Tom Paris eventually convinced Torres that he would love their children no matter what they were like and he hoped that every one of them would be just like her. After apologizing to the Doctor for reprogramming him, Torres asked him to be the child's godfather and he willingly accepted.  When ''Voyager'' responded to a Hirogen distress call, the crew found that the holograms created as victims for Hirogen training had turned against the hunters. A group of these holograms had escaped to a ship and later kidnapped the Doctor. He discovered the holograms were just trying to find somewhere where they could live in peace. Eventually agreeing to help them, he escaped with them and took Torres to help the holograms set up a civilization of their own.  [[Image:Iden.jpg|thumb|Iden in 2377]]However the holograms, led by [[Iden]], took extraordinary measures to achieve their freedom even going along with Iden's plan to attack and eventually destroy a mining vessel to obtain and "liberate" fellow holograms. The Doctor's suspicions were confirmed about Iden when he admitted he wished to start a new [[religion]], with him as the "man of light" having freed numerous holograms in various and often violent fashions. Eventually, the Doctor had to destroy Iden, to protect everyone else. Ashamed by his actions, he volunteered to turn in his mobile emitter but Janeway assured him that nobody blamed him for doing the human thing and making a mistake in judgment.  When ''Voyager'' was abandoned due to [[tetryon]] radiation flooding, Captain Janeway activated the ECH for the first time, allowing the Doctor to repair damage to the ship while the crew waited in the escape pods for ''Voyager'' to be declared safe once again. The Doctor managed to defend the ship against scavengers and had begun enacting repairs by the time Chakotay and Kim, who had been on an away mission, returned to the ship. The Doctor further demonstrated his command abilities by utilizing a [[photonic shockwave]] to disable two [[Quarren (species)|Quarren]] ships. While repairing the ship along with Ensign Kim, they frequently conflicted regarding the impromptu chain of command – while Kim was actually a [[commissioned officer]], the Doctor was programmed with the experiences of renowned commanders throughout [[history]]. After it was Harry's strategy that saved the ship from attack, the Doctor was later forced to admit he lacked the valuable ''practical'' operational experience of other officers and made peace with Harry before returning to his normal role as the 74656#Chief Medical Officer.  When the crew was forced to transport alien prisoners to a distant planet, where they would be executed for their crimes, the Doctor was appalled at the death penalty rule enforced by the planet. He also discovered that [[Iko]], one of the patients, had actually been born with a brain defect that left him prone to violence. Using Seven's nanoprobes, the Doctor managed to cure Iko of this defect, effectively restoring Iko's conscience and making him a new person. Iko's appeal was, tragically, rejected but the Doctor and Seven were able to take some small measure of comfort in knowing they had helped him.  The Doctor activated his command subroutines again in [[2378]] in an attempt to rescue Captain Janeway from the [[Hierarchy|aliens]] who had kidnapped her. His holographic matrix altered to allow him to pose as various members of the crew, such as Janeway, Torres and Chakotay, the Doctor was eventually able to evacuate engineering and subsequently active the ECH program. As the Emergency Command Hologram, the Doctor had the authorization to [[Warp core ejection system|eject]] ''Voyager'''s [[warp core]]; he then tried to free the captain by exchanging the core as ransom. He was able to rescue Janeway and recover the core but when the excess subroutines inserted by the aliens nearly caused his program to collapse, he made several embarrassing "deathbed" confessions including his love for Seven. Having recovered, he subsequently spent a whole week in sickbay out of sheer embarrassment but was eventually convinced by Janeway to rejoin life on the ship.  ==Personal Life=====Kes===[[Image:Kes.jpg|thumb|left|Kes in 2373]]Kes and the Doctor bonded considerably. Their friendship began early in the first year after Kes displayed great interest in [[medicine]]. This interest led the Doctor to commence training with her which brought them close as colleagues. Kes was able to quickly study the works given by the Doctor, which greatly intrigued him. Although the Doctor's personality wasn't pleasing to the rest of the crew, he reacted in a kinder manner to Kes, treating her as a colleague and friend. Early in the second year of their journey, the Doctor once commented that he found Kes beautiful. When his program began to degrade, prompting holographic hallucinations that he was his own creator Lewis Zimmerman, he became convinced that he was married to a Human version of Kes. [[Image:DoctorComfortsKes.jpg|thumb|The Doctor comforts Kes in [[Chez Sandrine]]]]However, there was never any romance in their relationship; the Doctor and Kes quickly settled into a father/daughter role, with the Doctor teaching Kes as a medical assistant. Kes also trusted the Doctor enough to perform the role of her father in the ''[[rolissisin]]'', a foot massage that was a precursor to the mating ritual, commonly marking the change in relationship between father and child as the child became a parent herself.  It was Kes who persuaded Janeway to give the Doctor control over his own deactivation code, a significant step towards the Doctor being regarded as a full member of the crew rather than a piece of equipment. She helped him become part of the crew and interact with them, as well as helping to restore the Doctor's program when it began to degrade from being online for so long. She also encouraged the Doctor to tell [[Denara Pel]] about his feelings for her and subsequently worked with Tom Paris to set the Doctor and Denara up on a date in the holodeck.  The next year Kes helped save the Doctor's matrix when, due to his program having been active for far longer than it was designed for, he began to lose his memories and skills as a doctor. After Torres activated a [[hologram]] of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, he explained that the Doctor had been online too long and was deteriorating. Kes persuaded Dr. Zimmerman to graft his matrix onto the Doctor, restoring his mental capabilities. When the Doctor's program developed a secondary, evil personality, the 'Dark Doctor' still appeared to care for Kes, albeit in a more twisted fashion than the normal Doctor. Not only did he try to kill [[Zahir]], the alien whom Kes had developed feelings for, but he also claimed, during his capture of her, that she needed his help due to her naivete.  ===Tom Paris===[[Image:TomParis2377.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Paris]]Although their relationship was often a difficult one, the Doctor also managed to become close friends with Paris, who affectionately referred to the Doctor as "Doc" on several occasions. One of the key points in their friendship was the fact that it was Paris who helped the Doctor explore one of the most difficult aspects of being a member of the crew: relationships. When the Doctor was initially rejected by [[Denara Pel]], he went to Paris for relationship advice and Paris helped set the Doctor and Denara up on a date in a holoprogram, informing the Doctor that his current approach to women was all wrong. When the Doctor created a holographic family and one of his 'children' faced death after an accident, it was Paris who convinced the Doctor to keep running the program rather than shut it down, realizing that the Doctor needed to experience the negative aspects of family life if he wanted to develop as a person.  After Kes' departure from the ship, Paris was chosen as the Doctor's new medical assistant, serving as ''Voyager'''s (CMO when the Doctor was unavailable. Over time it became clear that, although he complained about the role, he still wanted the Doctor's respect as a person. This was the main reason Paris resented the Doctor's holonovel about abused holograms, ''[[Photons Be Free]]''; he worried that 'his' character, a womanizer called Lieutenant [[Marseilles]] who cheated on his wife, reflected how the Doctor saw ''him''. Despite this, when the crew arranged a trial to determine the Doctor's legal rights, it was Paris who objected to [[Tuvok]]'s suggestion that they claim that the Doctor had no right to sell the holonovel in the first place, as they would basically have been admitting that the Doctor was not a real person.  ===Kathryn Janeway===[[File:Kathryn Janeway, 2377.jpg|thumb|left|Captain Janeway]]As the crew's journey unfolded, Janeway soon found herself becoming friends with the Doctor, despite initially regarding him as just another hologram. The Doctor also initially disliked Janeway, making several notes on what he regarded as her more 'questionable' command decisions before he fully came to regard himself as part of the crew. As the journey unfolded however, the two of them became closer, particularly when Janeway and the Doctor were the only two crew members standing between ''Voyager'' and the [[macrovirus]] that was attacking the ship.  As the journey went on, the two of them also began to develop an almost mother/son relationship, with the Doctor often coming to Janeway when he needed personal advice or information about how his program was developing, as well as consolation about any wrong decisions he had made in recent times. It was Janeway who stopped the Doctor from deleting the additional subroutines that made him unique when he felt responsible for a death. Janeway assured the Doctor that none of the crew thought any less of him when he was embarrassed about the fantasies created by his daydream program, and Janeway told the Doctor that none of the crew blamed him for betraying them to try and help a crew of holograms. As well as that, when Janeway faced death after being captured by an alien species, the Doctor risked everything to save her.  ==Relationships=====Freya===Early in his activated existence, the Doctor began a search for a name. His first idea was [[Schweitzer]], before his first away mission on the [[holodeck]] to investigate disappearing crew members. During the mission he attracted the attentions of a holographic character [[Freya]]. Before going to sleep she kissed the Doctor and invited him to join her saying, "''You know where I sleep.''" On the following holodeck mission, she was stabbed protecting him and died with his name on her lips. As a consequence the Doctor found it painful to use that name anymore and began his search anew.  ===Denara Pel===In [[2372]], the Doctor encountered the Vidiian doctor Denara Pel and developed romantic feelings for her; indeed, it was implied later on that the two of them had sex. She gave him the name [[Shmullus]], after her uncle who always made her smile. When they met again later that year, Denara again called the Doctor Shmullus, although he never used the name despite his fondness for it; presumably, like with "Schweitzer," he found the memories attached to the name too painful.  ===Holo-Family===The Doctor decided to create a holographic family, [[Doctor's Family Program Beta-Rho]], in ''Voyager'''s holodeck in [[2373]], using the name Kenneth for himself. At first it was blissfully perfect until B'Elanna Torres, after a visit, suggested adding randomness and "realism". As a result, his teenage son [[Jeffrey]] became rebellious and began to hang out with some unsavory Klingon youths. In addition the Doctor had arguments with his wife [[Charlene]] and lost the formerly close bond he had possessed with his daughter [[Belle]]. The family bonded together better shortly after, as a result of his daughter's death. After a conversation with Paris the Doctor was persuaded not to delete the program after this incident but to work through the death with his remaining family.  ===Mareeza===Later that year ''Voyager'' became trapped in [[orbit]] around a planet where time advanced at a much faster rate than normal. The Doctor determined that the transition in to this accelerated timeframe could be fatal to a [[humanoid]] and so volunteered to transport to the surface himself. It was intended that he would only spend three seconds on the planet which equated to around three days on the surface but attempts to transport him back to ''Voyager'' failed. Chakotay guessed that the Doctor would spend his time in the city's cultural center and he was located a short time after being transported down. However, to the Doctor, he had spent three years on the surface. He met a woman named [[Mareeza]], whom he later described as his "roommate", and had a son named [[Jason Tebreeze]].  ===Seven of Nine===[[Image:Seven's suspicions.jpg|thumb|Seven and the Doctor in sickbay]]The Doctor was responsible for the removal of Seven's implants and also conducted her weekly maintenance sessions. He also took it upon himself to teach Seven social behavior, using the same interpersonal relationship exercises Kes once practiced with him. Later, he created a holodeck simulation of ''Voyager'' for her to become more comfortable with large social gatherings.  The Doctor encouraged Seven to explore romantic relationships in [[2375]]. He coached her in the basics of dating and grooming, using a lesson plan entitled [[Love Amid the Stars]]. He also discovered her singing voice and the two sang a duet of ''[[You Are My Sunshine]]''. He was partially motivated by a wager made with Ensign Paris, who believed that Seven would not be able to bring a date to a reception planned aboard ''Voyager'' without making a scene. Although Seven's date with Lieutenant Chapman ended up in disaster, she attended the reception with the Doctor and charmed the guests with a toast to individuality. However, she was hurt to discover that the Doctor's help was due to the bet. At this point, the Doctor found himself falling in love with Seven but refused to admit it to her. He tried to apologize to her but she came to him first and said she no longer needed the lessons in romance, because there were no suitable mates aboard. The Doctor was very disappointed that Seven did not reciprocate his feelings.  In [[2376]], while the Doctor was stranded aboard the {{USS|Equinox}} along with Seven, the crew disengaged his ethical subroutines to extract activation codes for their warp drive from Seven's cranial implants, which would leave her mentally disabled. The Doctor almost went through with the procedure but Captain [[Rudolph Ransom]] stopped him. He apologized to Seven for the incident and she held no ill-will towards him.  The Doctor created a subroutine for daydreaming in early [[2376]]. Seven featured prominently in several fantasies, either serving as a damsel in distress or competing with other female ''Voyager'' crew members for the Doctor's affections. He even fantasized about painting her in the nude. When the fantasies began to overrun his program, his mental activity was tied into the holodeck, allowing Seven to see what he had been daydreaming. She did not take offense but after she kissed him following Captain Janeway's announcement that the [[Emergency Command Hologram]] subroutines would be developed, she made it clear that it was simply a platonic gesture.  [[Image:Seven-Doctor Preening.jpg|thumb|The Doctor as Seven of Nine]]While Ensign Kim, Seven and the Doctor conducted a routine survey onboard the ''Delta Flyer'' in [[2377]], they were captured by a race known as the [[Lokirrim]]. The Lokirrim had waged war against holographic lifeforms who rebelled against Lokirrim rule and, as a result, banned all holographic activity within their borders. Seven transferred the Doctor's program to her cortical implant in order to hide him from the Lokirrim and prevent him from being decompiled. In the process the Doctor took control of Seven's motor abilities and was essentially trapped in her body. The Doctor tried to engineer an escape by cultivating a relationship with a Lokirrim official, [[Ranek]], but the new sensations of taste and emotion were too tempting for the Doctor. He ended up overindulging in several foods and causing pain to Seven. Ranek later called Seven to the ship's bridge with the intention of setting up a romantic liaison. Although the Doctor was able to see his command codes, Ranek attempted to kiss him in Seven's body. Shortly afterward, he went to complain about the incident to [[Jaryn]], a crewwoman whom the Doctor had been working with to treat injured Lokirrim crew. The Doctor became sexually aroused when Jaryn gave Seven a neck massage. Both incidents greatly irritated Seven and, once the Doctor had been returned to the [[mobile emitter]], they got into an argument about the values of indulgence. The Doctor felt Seven showed excessive restraint and did not allow for superfluous pleasure, which the Doctor believed was an important part of life. Kim managed to return the subject to escape and the Doctor and Seven worked together once again to transmit a distress signal to ''Voyager''. The Doctor was downloaded back into Seven's implants and was able to convince Ranek to join her on a second date. They knocked him out at the first available opportunity and transmitted a message to ''Voyager'' including the ship's command codes. Their plan was discovered by Jaryn and Seven was taken captive. After ''Voyager'' arrived, Seven returned the Doctor's program to the mobile emitter and they escaped. Upon their return to the ship, Seven decided that the Doctor had a point about her restraint concerning pleasures such as food. She brought a meal to sickbay and described the sensations of eating it to the Doctor, allowing him to experience it vicariously.  When the Doctor's rights as an individual came into question, Seven testified at the hearing conducted with Star Fleet Command. She spoke highly of the Doctor, appreciative of his efforts to help her develop individuality.  In [[2378]] when the Doctor believed he was about to die he finally admitted his feelings for her and was embarrassed when he survived. The Doctor was also crestfallen when he learned Seven had begun to date Chakotay.  === ''Lana'' === ''In an alternate timeline when it took ''Voyager'' twenty-three years to get home, the Doctor married in [[2404]] to a woman named [[Lana]]. He had also finally given himself a name, Joe, after Lana's grandfather. He had become a significant figure at [[Star Fleet Medical]] and remained close friends with Reginald Barclay. Remaining fiercely loyal to his former captain, he didn't hesitate to obtain some [[chronexaline]] for Admiral Kathryn Janeway despite not knowing why. When he found out from Reg he informed Captain Harry Kim and they decided to keep it in the 'family' (the Voyager crew). Kim moved to apprehend her without telling Star Fleet or his crew the true reason why, although in the end Kim allowed the Admiral to proceed with her mission to change history.''  ==The Mobile Emitter==[[Image:Mobile emitter.jpg|thumb|The Doctor's mobile emitter]]In [[2373]], ''Voyager'' encountered the ''[[Aeon]]'' under command of Captain [[Braxton]]. Due to a [[temporal paradox]], ''Voyager'' was transported to Earth in [[1996]]. During this mission the Doctor obtained a piece of [[29th century]] [[technology]] from Henry Starling, originating from the ''Aeon'', called a [[mobile emitter]]. This device, though only a few centimeters long, was able to contain the entire EMH program and project the Doctor autonomously. After the [[timeline]] was restored and ''Voyager'' returned to the Delta Quadrant, the Doctor kept the emitter. It was quickly established that the transfer of the Doctor's program to and from the emitter would be quite easy; practically all the Doctor had to do was issue a voice command and attach the emitter to his left shoulder. This device proved to be of vital importance and saved the crew of ''Voyager'' on numerous occasions. One of the most notable times when the emitter proved useful was shortly after the Doctor had acquired it. He helped Captain Janeway fight off a swarm of macroviruses that had infected the ship; since Janeway had been away at the time, and the Doctor (as a hologram) was naturally immune to the virus, they were forced to stand alone to save the crew. It also allowed the Doctor to help crew members all over the ship which was especially useful after Kes left the ship a short time later. The mobile emitter helped the Doctor to watch over the ship while the crew was in stasis during a trip through a radioactive [[mutara class]] [[nebula]]. While proving to be helpful in allowing the Doctor to help Seven of Nine during this situation, the nebula affected the mobile emitter damaging its [[electro-optic transmitter]]. The Doctor, later, linked the emitter to the [[EPS relay]] network. For some time, this worked, until the EPS relays started to fail, after which the emitter went off-line.  Due to a transporter accident, the mobile emitter was combined with some of [[Seven of Nine]]'s nanoprobes. This, combined with Ensign [[Mulcahey]]'s DNA, created a new [[Borg drone]] with 29th century technology and the mobile emitter intact as an integral part of its [[central nervous system]]. This drone called himself [[One]] and eventually sacrificed himself in order to save the crew of ''Voyager''. Afterward, the mobile emitter was salvaged and returned to the Doctor.  On some occasions the emitter was stolen from the Doctor and used by rogue programs, such as [[Dejaren]], [[Iden]] and the reprogrammed EMH Mark I of the {{USS|Equinox}}. On all occasions however, the Doctor was able to recover the emitter with no apparent side effects to his program. The mobile emitter was also used by a version of the Doctor that had corrupted files after he had attempted to improve his personality.  Other notable occasions where the emitter was used by holograms other than the Doctor were when the [[Leonardo da Vinci]] hologram was transferred to it after both the emitter and main computer core were stolen in a transporter attack and when the Doctor loaned the emitter to the Barclay hologram that had been received in a data stream. Micheal O'Sullivan also used it to be transferred out of the holodeck and onto the Voyager bridge, believing the emitter to be a charm to get into the spirit world.  ==Alleged War Crimes==[[Image:QuarrenWModule.jpg|thumb|Quarren, holding the Doctor's backup module]]In [[2374]] a group of [[Kyrian]]s, lead by [[Tedran]], beamed aboard the ''Voyager'' and took several people hostage. They were defeated when Tedran was killed by the Vaskan ambassador [[Daleth]]. Several days later ''Voyager'' was attacked by nine Kyrian ships. Several troops managed to board ''Voyager'' and stole various pieces of technology before escaping including the [[Emergency Medical Hologram backup module]]. The devastating war between the Vaskans and Kyrians that followed was called [[The Voyager Encounter]], as the official records were altered to portray the Kyrians as the victims and ''Voyager'' as the aggressors. 700 years later a backup copy of the Doctor's program was reactivated in the [[Kyrian Museum of Heritage]] by [[Quarren (Kyrian)|Quarren]] and blamed for war crimes the crew of ''Voyager'' didn't commit. The Doctor explained the real history of the Kyrian/Vaskan conflict and although this caused old tensions between the two races to once again boil over, it led to a new understanding between them and eventually created a harmonious society.  The copy of the Doctor became the Kyrian Surgical Chancellor for many years after these events. Eventually, however, he left his post in a one man ship with the aim of reaching the Alpha Quadrant, claiming that "he had a longing for home".  ==Alternate realities and timelines==* In the [[alternate timeline]] that Kes experienced when she began to travel backwards in time, the Doctor was offline for months during the "[[Year of Hell]]" conflict. When his program was restored, the Doctor developed a full head of hair, chose the name "Doctor Van Gogh" (although he briefly thought about calling himself Mozart) and tried to develop a means of extending Kes's life via use of a bio-temporal chamber which triggered her jumps back through time. Subsequently – or previously, depending on your perspective – the Doctor of the present cured her of her sudden jumps back in time and this timeline never came to pass.  * In an alternate timeline where ''Voyager'' crashed into an ice planet while attempting to reach Earth via the use of a quantum slipstream drive, the Doctor's program was recovered fifteen years later by Chakotay and Harry Kim, who had been in the ''[[Delta Flyer]]'' when the crash took place. With the Doctor's help, they managed to devise a means of transmitting information to Seven of Nine's cortical implant before ''Voyager'' was destroyed, hoping to save the crew by stabilizing the slipstream and allowing them to reach Earth. After the attempt failed, it was the Doctor who suggested to a tearful, defeated Kim that rather than hold the slipstream, they should try to shut down the drive; if they couldn't get ''Voyager'' home, they could at least save the crew. With the ''Flyer'''s [[warp core]] about to breach and rapidly running out of power to send the data, the Doctor volunteered the use of his emitter as a power source. Kim wished the Doctor goodbye before removing the emitter. This timeline was erased when Kim, moments before the ''Flyer'' exploded, successfully transmitted the data to Seven of Nine that would shut down the slipstream drive, with a message from Harry to his past self the only trace left of that history.  ==Creative outlets==[[Image:The Doctor sings on Qomar homeworld.jpg|thumb|The Doctor, singing]]The Doctor took a keen interest in [[opera]], frequently practicing his singing with a holographic soprano.  Seven of Nine helped with the Doctor's singing capabilities when, while being held against her will on the USS ''Equinox'', she noticed his vocal modulations deviated by 0.30 decihertz. When they returned to ''Voyager'', she informed him of this fact and he agreed to meet her on the holodeck: "''Just you, me and a tuning fork.''"  Singing was not the only creative outlet for the holographic doctor. He worked hard to create a [[holonovel|holographic novel]] called ''[[Photons Be Free]]'', based on an EMH on the starship ''Vortex'' and the treatment he faced from the [[organic]] members of the crew. The characters and the environment were strongly based on the crew of ''Voyager''. After discovering his friends were concerned about his interpretation of them, he agreed to change it despite the weeks of work involved. His publisher didn't appreciate the delay and so published the original version. In an argument with the publisher, the Doctor was told he had no rights: although he may be the author, as a hologram he wasn't a sentient being. During the subsequent debate, Janeway, [[Tuvok]], Seven, Barclay and Kim spoke on the Doctor's behalf: Tuvok pointed out that the Doctor had created an original piece of work; Seven explained how the Doctor helped her develop as a person; Barclay compared the Doctor's aid to Zimmerman as a son seeking his father's approval; Kim explained how the [[Emergency Command Hologram]] subroutines represented a Human desire to change; and Janeway cited the Doctor's defiance of her orders as a Human action, something that a mere hologram - designed to obey orders - couldn't have done. At the conclusion of the 'trial', the Doctor, though not deemed a "person" at the time, was found to have the same rights as a non-holographic author and was allowed to recall the original version of the holonovel in favor of the new one when it was ready. The judge further urged the Doctor to continue his fight for sentience upon his return to Federation space.  The Doctor also was something of a [[Holophotography|shutterbug]]. He enjoyed using a [[holo-imager]] to record his experiences, times with his friends and away missions.