Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Basics, Part II (1996)

Martha Hackett: Seska

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• Seska : Why create a thoron leak if you're not hiding someone?

  The Doctor : I would think it's obvious: To make you believe I was hiding someone. I've had your people crawling through the bowels of this ship for hours, looking for an intruder.

  Seska : You're more talented in the art of deception than you led me to believe.

  The Doctor : I was inspired by the presence of a master.

• Seska : Doctor, I have to inform you about a change of command. I'm curious how you'll react. The Kazon-Nistrim have taken Voyager.

  The Doctor : [flatly while examining Seska's baby]  How interesting.

  Seska : Does your program have any problem with that?

  The Doctor : One humanoid is pretty much the same as another from a holographic point of view. I'm programmed to provide medical care to anyone who needs it.

  Seska : Tell me, is it within your program's capabilities to lie or be deceptive?

  The Doctor : I've learned that a bedside manner occasionally requires me to... how shall I put it... soft-pedal the truth? But bald-faced lying, calculated deceit - I don't have much experience with that sort of thing; but, my program is adaptive. If you really need me to be deceptive, I'm sure I could learn.

  Seska : It's not exactly what I meant.