LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE DOCTOR

Starfleet never intended for an Emergency Medical Hologram to operate as a ship’s primary physician, but U.S.S. Voyager’s EMH, better known as The Doctor, assumed that position when his vessel lost its chief medical officer en route to becoming stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Initial tensions with his crewmates aside, the Doctor evolved to be so much more than the sum of his programming during Voyager’s seven-year journey back home.

WORDS: JAY STOBIE

The Mark I Marvel Created at Jupiter Station by renowned holo-engineer Doctor Lewis Zimmerman, the EMH Mark I was a sophisticated program designed to function as a shortterm supplement to a sickbay’s medical staff, with its recommended use set at a maximum of 1,500 hours. Equipped with the ability to complete over five million surgical procedures and the medical knowledge of more than 3,000 cultures, the EMH Mark I could diagnose and treat conditions as well as any biological Federation doctor, but Starfleet saw the hologram as a tool rather than an additional crew member. As a state-of-the-art vessel, the U.S.S. Voyager was one of the first starships to receive the experimental system prior to its installation throughout the fleet in 2371. Prior to being referred to as The Doctor, Voyager’s EMH…

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