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November 1, 2000 |
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Critical Care *Synopsis: The Doctor's program is stolen from the U.S.S. Voyager and he is forced to work on a large, multi-tiered hospital ship. While Captain Janeway and her crew try to find him, the Doctor decides to take matters into his own hands when dealing with the unethical treatment procedures for the sick and dying aboard the hospital ship. Webmistress's thoughts: This writers brought out some good qualities of the doctor in this episode... and some questionable ones too. A holographic doctor will do his duties as programmed. It was said in a previous episode that the doc had grown beyond his initial programming so that he is now more human. In this episode, he was not as concerned with who owned him as injured and sick people were being transfered into the 'red room'. He rushed over to help the injured before they had resolved the ownership situation. However, when he became concerned with the way certain people were being treated because of their rank in society, he infected the leader with the a lethal virus. His ethical subroutines seemed to have been malfunctioning, but when he was returned to Voyager and had Seven do an analysis of his programming, nothing was found to be wrong. So was the doc right in injecting the leader with a fatal disease? Do you think the doctor would have cured him if he wouldn't have given the command to have everyone else treated? Afterall, he would have been responsible for a person's death... doctor's don't kill, they cure. Your Thoughts: Give me your thoughts to this review. |
