STARFLEET BIO-FILE: "Doctor"
 **Includes updates, addenda through SD 50500 (2373)

 Rank: Uncommissioned
 Current assignment: Chief medical officer, U.S.S. Voyager
 Full File Name: Emergency Medical Hologram AK-1
 Activation Date: SD 48308.2. (2371)
 Reinitialized Date: SD 50252 (2373)
 Origin of program: Jupiter Station Holo-Programming Center
 Original Programmer: Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, Starfleet
 Programming: Taken from among 3,000 cultures and 47 specific surgeons
 Office: Adjoining Sickbay on Deck 5, U.S.S. Voyager

 ***SPECIAL NOTE: Captain's Entry by Kathryn Janeway

 While our "doctor" is indeed an Emergency Medical Hologram pressed into
 service, his ongoing evolution due to his adaptive programming compels me to
 open this file entry to catalog his numerous contributions to our crew.

 File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
 Report by Cmdr. Chakotay, First Officer, U.S.S. Voyager

 Our ship's Doctor is a holographic figure - an emergency medical program
 devised by Starfleet programmers. When the ship's doctor and entire medical
 staff were killed in the "Caretaker's" displacement wave, the Doctor by
 necessity became the resident physician aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, assisted
 by first Paris and then Kes, a quick study in medical training.

 The program's first statement upon activation is usually "Please state the
 nature of the medical emergency"; the automatic command was altered to
 allow his own creativity, but the Doctor preferred the known opening to creating
 his own more clever and personable lines. Initiation is automatic upon red alert
 status; the program is usually set for high magnetic cohesion, but it can be
 lessened to a mere image. For security's sake in a crisis it carries its own
 power grid separate from the nominal ship's Holodeck system. His wide array
 of programming has allowed him to keep Neelix alive with hologrpoahic lungs,
 save the Vidiian hematologist Danara Pel via a temporary holographic body,
 and even to alter DNA so as to remerge Torres' human and Klingon halves,
 reform Paris and Janeway from their retro-evolution as amphibians, and ensure
 the safety of Wildman's human-Ktarian baby at birth.

 The AK-1 program indeed makes the Doctor is a genius when it comes to
 medicine, but his bedside manner leaves something to be desired - although he
 has already come far since he was first the joke and then the bane of the USS
 Voyager crew. In fact, it's harder to tell what's evolved more: the Doctor's own
 self-respect, or the respect he's given by his colleagues - with thanks on both
 counts largely due to his surprise assistant, Kes - though he still rubs Torres
 the wrong way and usually can't stand Neelix. Prodded by her and the simple
 needs of their predicament, Janeway has seen to it that not only is the Doctor
 accorded more briefings and updates, but he can now turn himself off - a small
 matter until seen in the light of independence.

 Thanks to various crisis - as when Harry's Holodeck program began "devouring"
 the crew and later, the Doctor has even ventured from his familiar and
 all-but-mastered medical world to real-life adventures and even fear and
 heartbreak outside Sickbay. Also at Kes' urging he has considered a host of
 names but most recently has tried "Schmullus," the uncle of Vidiian
 hematologist Dr. Danara Pel whom he saved and actually fell in love with,
 leaning on Paris and Kes for romantic advice. The experience even prompted
 the Doctor to open his own personal log on SD 49504.3, to learn to dance, and
 to borrow Paris' holo-program for "parking" in an archaic '57 Chevy ground
 vehicle on Mars.

 Due to the memory circuit degradation of extremely close kinoplasmic
 radiation, an EMH malfunction occurred ca. SD 48892.1 caused by a feedback
 loop between the Holodeck computer and the doctor's program, which was
 running a holo-novel at the time to "relax" at the captain's suggestion. No one
 was affected but the program itself, which was being convinced that it was its
 human lead programmer, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, amid a holographic study
 simulation of a battle-damaged ship and crew.

 Apart from the clinical and statistical notes on parenting, he felt unqualified to
 help Kes with her decision on motherhood, but she still picked him as an
 absent parental figure to perform the rolisisin pre-mating ritual. He in turn took
 her advice to make himself sick, literally, to better empathize with patients; his
 resulting holo-version of Levodian flu lasted a day longer than he'd intended
 thanks to Kes, and I think he "learned" a helpful lesson in patience.

 File Update: SD 50500
 Report by Capt. K. Janeway

 I never would have believed it, but our "Doctor" now has more memory and,
 thanks to the 29th century, is confined to Sickbay no more. It is taking some
 getting used to, but he has only rarely been troubled by glitches in the
 self-powered armband mobile emitter he wears after the time-stealing
 technocrat Starling "donated" it to us.

 Despite the scare he gave us when his memory overloaded and degraded, I see
 no harm in continuing to allow and encourage his exploration of humanity -- as
 long as it does not endanger the crew's security and B'Elanna assures me we
 have the technical support to allow it. I admit I was skeptical when we took the
 chance of initializing his memory and then used the diagnostic program to add
 more, but I would hope -- La Boheme divas aside -- that these experiences to
 come will have a mellowing effect on his personality subroutine, which can only
 aide the crew on our very long journey.

 We could not get along without him, and I owe him my life more than once -
 including his daring mix of diplomacy and tactics to retrieve the Vidiians'
 antidote to the virus which quarantined Chakotay and myself on a world to be
 left behind. His idea to emit holographic support ships proved promising, but I
 must add that I especially commend his defense of the ship with Crewman
 Suder against the Kazon-Nistrim, and against the macrocosms which we
 subdued together.

 And while I opposed his choice, I will always remember and respect his citing
 of the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" when I made the difficult decision to
 deintegrate the entity Tuvix into its original patterns for Tuvok and Neelix.

 The sum total of all these actions increasingly only leads me to examine our
 preconceived notions of life and learning.