To help himself feel more human, he alters his program to give himself daydreams, which he calls cognitive projections. The Doctor wants nothing more than for the Voyager crew to acknowledge his sentience but feels like the crew sometimes still sees him as just a computer program. After six years of being the chief medical officer on board the USS Voyager, the Doctor has evolved from an Emergency Medical Holographic program into a sentient holographic being. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy does a great job exploring and developing the Doctor's character. The Doctor injects Tuvok in the butt with the hypospray, and Tuvok collapses. Here are five episodes starring the Doctor that did a really good job developing this unique character. The Doctor's evolution from a "talking tricorder" into a sentient being was fascinating to watch, which is why he has been ranked as one of the best characters in Star Trek. He gained the loyalty and respect of the crew, developed several close friendships, fell in love, made himself a family, and managed to get his crewmates to see him as a sentient being who deserved the same civil and social rights as everyone else on board instead of just a computer program. Over the seven years the Doctor served onboard Voyager, he expanded his program and evolved into a fully-fledged individual with emotions, interests and hobbies.
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The Doctor was designed to function in emergency situations only, but when the USS Voyager was relocated to the Delta Quadrant and lost their human doctor, a lack of a suitable replacement meant that the Doctor had to be run full time, making him Voyager's new full time chief medical officer. He contained information taken from 3,000 cultures and 47 surgeons and had the appearance of a male human doctor. The Doctor (played by Robert Picardo) was an emergency medical holographic program (known as an "EMH" for short) and the chief medical officer onboard the USS Voyager.