Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2000)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor

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Quotes 

• [Iden has asked the Doctor to treat the "wounded" holograms] 

  The Doctor : I'm a doctor, not an engineer. You've abducted the wrong man!

• The Doctor : [in treating an injured holographic female]  Why is she experiencing pain?

  Kejal : They programed us with heightened sensory subroutines.

  The Doctor : That's barbaric.

  Kejal : Apparently there's no satisfaction in hunting something that doesn't suffer when you kill it.

• Chakotay : Couldn't we just extract their violent subroutines?

  B'Elanna Torres : [assuming]  It's possible.

  The Doctor : That would be like declawing a cat. We'd be taking away any chance they have of defending themselves!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'd also be preventing them from doing any more harm.

  The Doctor : You wouldn't even be considering this if they were flesh and blood!

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I'm not gonna let you turn this into an argument about holographic rights.

  The Doctor : Why not? That's exactly what it is.

• The Doctor : You can't blame a hologram for trying.

• [the Doctor has been invited by a hexapodic race to a symposium] 

  The Doctor : I'd be representing Voyager, putting our best foot forward, so to speak. And needless to say, hexapods are more likely to know a best foot when they see one.

• Kejal : The Hirogen used your program as a template to create us.

  Iden : Your ability to rise above your programing has been an inspiration. You're part of who we are.

  The Doctor : And what are you besides a handful of thugs roaming the quadrant looking for a fight?

• The Doctor : You'd be surprised how easy it is *not* to kill someone.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Doctor, deactivate yourself.

  The Doctor : I can't treat the patient if I'm offline.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : No one can treat him if he's terrified.

• The Doctor : One minute you're fighting the Hirogen, the next you're praying for them?

  Iden : My spiritual beliefs are part of my programing.

  The Doctor : Is there anything in your spiritual programing about making peace with your enemies?

  Iden : It's difficult to make peace with people whose sole purpose is to kill you.

• The Doctor : I need to get back to Voyager.

  Iden : They're not your people. We are.

  The Doctor : I'm not like you. I wasn't programed with killer instinct.

  Iden : You have no right to judge us. You don't know what it's like being prey. Maybe if you did, you'd realize we're more alike than you think.

• [last lines of Part 1] 

  [during a battle with the holograms, the Doctor has himself transported to the holograms' vessel] 

  Iden : Why are you doing this?

  The Doctor : Because... I'm one of you.

• Iden : In the dark times, we were enslaved by men of flesh, but then another man - a man of light - arose and slew the mighty Alpha. He gathered his people unto him and delivered them to freedom.

  The Doctor : And on the seventh day, Iden created Ha'Dara.

• The Doctor : Being appreciated is one thing, but I have no interest in being... worshiped.

  Iden : Prophets are chosen, Doctor. It's a blessing... and a burden.

• Iden : Reviewing your memory files?

  The Doctor : I beg your pardon?

  Iden : You were lost in thought.

  The Doctor : I suppose I was.

• The Doctor : [about Iden]  Let's just say he's exhibiting some of the classic signs of megalomania.

  B'Elanna Torres : Well, he wouldn't be the first hologram with an ego.

• The Doctor : You still believe all organics are like the Hirogen.

  Iden : One way or another, they are. You just can't see it because you've lived among them for so long.

  The Doctor : What you can't see is that you've become no better than the hunters. Lieutenant Torres and I will take that escape pod now.

  Iden : You don't realize what you'd be giving up, Doctor.

  The Doctor : Yes, I do.

• [the Doctor holds Iden at gunpoint] 

  Iden : Remember what you once said to me: You're not programmed with killer instinct.

  The Doctor : Hm. Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? Put down your weapon.

  Iden : Would you really kill one of your own to save an organic?

  The Doctor : If you've taught me anything, it's that I'm NOT one of your own.

• The Doctor : I never intended to put Voyager in danger. If nothing else, you have to believe that.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Oh, I believe it, but if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that things don't always happen the way we intend.

• The Doctor : You've given me extraordinary freedom over the years. I've obviously abused it.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Maybe... or maybe you've simply become as fallible as those of us who are made of flesh and blood. I'm just as responsible for allowing you to expand your programing... as I am for giving technology to the Hirogen. How can I punish you for being who you are?

• The Doctor : First you killed in self-defense, then you murder in cold blood. Now you're going to stage a massacre.

  Iden : Hunters have only themselves to blame.

  The Doctor : So much for evolving beyond your subroutines.