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The Doctor Played By: Robert Picardo Rank: Uncommissioned Current assignment: Chief medical officer, U.S.S. Voyager Full File Name: Emergency Medical Hologram AK-1 Activation Date: SD 48308.2. (2371) Reinitialized Date: SD 50252 (2373) Origin of program: Jupiter Station Holo-Programming Center Original Programmer: Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, Starfleet Programming: Taken from among 3,000 cultures and 47 specific surgeons Office: Adjoining Sickbay on Deck 5, U.S.S. Voyager The Doctor is a holographic figure - an emergency medical program devised by Starfleet programmers. When the ship's doctor and entire medical staff were killed in the "Caretaker's" displacement wave, the Doctor by necessity became the resident physician aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, assisted by first Paris and then Kes, a quick study in medical training. The program's first statement upon activation is usually "Please state the nature of the medical emergency"; the automatic command was altered to allow his own creativity, but the Doctor preferred the known opening to creating his own more clever and personable lines. Initiation is automatic upon red alert status; the program is usually set for high magnetic cohesion, but it can be lessened to a mere image. For security's sake in a crisis it carries its own power grid separate from the nominal ship's Holodeck system. His wide array of programming has allowed him to keep Neelix alive with hologrpoahic lungs, save the Vidiian hematologist Danara Pel via a temporary holographic body, and even to alter DNA so as to remerge Torres' human and Klingon halves, reform Paris and Janeway from their retro-evolution as amphibians, and ensure the safety of Wildman's human-Ktarian baby at birth. SOURCE: STAR TREK CONTINUUM |
