Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Projections (1995)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman

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Quotes 

• The Doctor : Did I program Mr. Paris to be so annoying?

  Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III : Actually, I programmed him. I modeled him after my cousin, Frank.

  The Doctor : Hmm, Computer, delete Paris.

• The Doctor : You're injured.

  Neelix : [looks at the red substance on his shoulder]  Aaaah! Aah! Oh! What's wrong? Is it serious?

  The Doctor : Don't panic, Mr Neelix. It looks superficial.

  Neelix : Am I going to die?

  The Doctor : [inspects the substance]  Not unless you're allergic to tomatoes. That isn't blood. It's some kind of sauce.

  Neelix : [tastes the sauce]  Nondoran tomato paste. Ooh, that'll leave a nasty stain.

• [last lines] 

  The Doctor : I am curious about one thing.

  Kes : What's that?

  The Doctor : The radiation surge caused my program to malfunction, and my codes and circuits began to degrade. And yet, instead of detecting that threat to my program, I experienced an elaborate delusion concerning the nature of my existence: human or hologram, person... or projection. Why? Why would my program focus on such an esoteric dilemma?

  Kes : Well... I sometimes ask those kind of questions. Who am I? What am I doing here? What's my purpose in life? Doesn't everybody?

  The Doctor : Not me. I know exactly who I am and what my purpose is: I am the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the starship Voyager.

  Kes : [smiling mysteriously]  Are you sure about that?

• The Doctor : Computer, delete Paris.

• The Doctor : Can you give me a ship's status report?

  Voyager Computer : Affirmative. Warp core is offline. The ship is restricted to emergency power and auxiliary systems only. Structural integrity breach on Deck Six, Deck Seven, and Deck Twelve. Deflector shields inoperative. Weapons array off-line. Communications, off-line. Sewage and waste reclamation off-li...

  The Doctor : All right, I get the idea!

• Neelix : You're bleeding.

  The Doctor : [derisively]  Bleeding? That's impossible.

  [he wipes blood from his neck though, leaving him stunned] 

  Neelix : Don't panic, Doctor. It looks superficial.

  The Doctor : I'm not programed to bleed.

  Neelix : Maybe you should check your program.

• [the apparent holodeck malfunctions cause the Doctor to have real sensations] 

  The Doctor : I think I'm hungry... I'm not sure what for, but I'm definitely hungry. This is impossible!

• Commander Chakotay : None of this is real.

  The Doctor : So I've been told.

• The Doctor : [studying Dr. Lewis Zimmerman's personal file]  He looks a lot like me. In fact, he looks exactly like me. Computer, is this me?

  Voyager Computer : Affirmative.

• The Doctor : [about the bridge]  Well... It's bigger than I thought.

• The Doctor : And Kes is my assistant, not my wife?

  Commander Chakotay : Your wife?

  The Doctor : Never mind.

• The Doctor : I am a real person.

• The Doctor : These tricorders aren't picking up any of your life signs. At first, I thought they were malfunctioning. But now, I find they show *me* to be a, a living, breathing, bleeding human being!

• [first lines] 

  The Doctor : Please state the nature of the medical emergency.