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Star Trek: Voyager Character
The Doctor
Activated: Stardate 48308.2
Status	Alive
Gender	Male
Species	Emergency Medical Hologram
Origin	Voyager
Portrayed by	Robert Picardo
First Appearance	"Caretaker, Part 1"
Profession	Doctor
Relatives	Jason Tebreeze (son)
Special Features	Has the knowledge of five million surgical treatments and able to create and adapt new treatments.

The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager is often simply referred to as The Doctor and is a holographic program trained in emergency medical procedures. The character is played by Robert Picardo.

History

Throughout the length of the series, The Doctor struggled with his identity trying to determine if he was more than a program. Despite trying to find a name for himself, he didn't settle on one until the series' finale when it was revealed that at some point in the future he became known simply as Joe. Although the crew of Voyager considered the doctor to be a friend and an individual with all the assumed rights of individuals, Starfleet rendered all similar EMHs obsolete and used them to work in mines. When the doctor published a novel, using his crewmates as thinly veiled characters in a metaphor for the enslavement of holograms, the crew became upset and he attempted to withdraw the novel from print. The publisher refused, arguing the doctor was not a person. His rights as a creative idividual were argued in a hearing bearing similarities to the one Data underwent in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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