Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Latent Image (1999)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor

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• [last lines] 

  The Doctor : [reading from 'La Vita Nuova']  "In that book, which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, appear the words 'Here begins a new life.'"

• The Doctor : The primordial atom... burst, sending out its radiation, setting everything in motion. One particle collides with another, gases expand, planets contract, and before you know it, we've got starships and holodecks and chicken soup. In fact, you can't help but have starships and holodecks and chicken soup, because it was all determined twenty billion years ago!

  Tuvok : There is a certain logic to your logic.

• The Doctor : So, keeping busy down on Deck 11?

  Ensign Ahni Jetal : Too busy. Uh, we're modifying one of the shuttles, making it more maneuverable, and more... 'cool'.

  The Doctor : Hmm. I see you've been working with Mr. Paris. My condolences.

• [the Doctor enters the bridge as Janeway is having a trivial discussion with the crew] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : If this is another house call, it'll have to wait. As you can see, I've got a mutiny on my hands.

  The Doctor : A mutiny? I suppose that's better than a conspiracy.

  Seven of Nine : Doctor?

  The Doctor : Tell her, Captain. Describe how you tampered with my program, how it was you all along.

  Tuvok : Perhaps you should accompany me to sickbay, Doctor.

  The Doctor : Et tu, Tuvok?

• The Doctor : [while examining unexpected scarring on Harry Kim]  No doubt about it, somebody performed neurosurgery. And that somebody... was me! These microlineal incisions are a dead giveaway; I developed that procedure myself!

  Harry Kim : I don't understand. I don't remember having an operation.

  The Doctor : I'm a little confused as well... because I don't remember performing it.

• [the Doctor is taking holographic pictures of Naomi Wildman] 

  Naomi Wildman : Is it going to hurt?

  The Doctor : Of course not. A few photons never hurt anybody.

• The Doctor : Causality. Probability. For every action, there's an infinite number of reactions, and in each one of them I killed her! Or did I? Too many possibilities; too many pathways for my program to follow. Impossible to choose. Still, I... I can't live with the knowledge of what I've done, I can't.

• The Doctor : Throwing a little party, are we? Why, I attended a party just recently. A birthday party, for a very nice young woman. I made a decision there, too. Several of them, in fact. When I came through the door, do I turn right or do I turn left? As I recall, I decided on... the latter. Then, what should I see before me but the hors d'oeuvre tray, and another decision: do I take a canapé? Or refuse? Oh, that's an easy one - I'm a hologram, I don't eat.

  [chuckles sarcastically] 

  Neelix : [to Security who just entered]  Something's wrong with him.

  The Doctor : Don't you know it's rude to refer to somebody in the third person? You had a choice, Mr. Neelix - "Should I do something rude or not do something rude?"

  Tuvok : Doctor, we must return to sickbay.

  The Doctor : Why should I? What if I don't want to return to sickbay? What if I decide not to return to sickbay? No - I don't choose this. Leave me alone, LET ME GO! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? WHY DID I KILL HER? Why did I decide to kill her, why? Somebody tell me WHY...!

• The Doctor : Oh, I'm all right. I'm a hologram. I don't get injured. I don't feel pain. I don't die - unlike some people I could tell you about.