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- Episode aired Sep 11, 1995
- TV-PG
- 45m
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The doctor tries to determine what is real and what is not when he is activated due to what appears to be a ship-wide emergency.The doctor tries to determine what is real and what is not when he is activated due to what appears to be a ship-wide emergency.The doctor tries to determine what is real and what is not when he is activated due to what appears to be a ship-wide emergency.
Roxann Dawson
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
Renna Bartlett
- Wounded Voyager Officer
- (uncredited)
John Copage
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Heather Ferguson
- Command Officer
- (uncredited)
Ken Gruz
- Holographic Wounded Officer
- (uncredited)
Kerry Hoyt
- Crewman Fitzpatrick
- (uncredited)
Julie Jiang
- Voyager Ops Lt. j.g.
- (uncredited)
Ken Lesco
- Holographic Kazon-Nistrim
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the ship computer is reporting systems that are offline, it lists Sewer and waste management. A long running joke with Star Trek fans is that "bodily functions" such as visiting a toilet are never mentioned. This is one of the few times it is hinted.
- GoofsIt's established that the Doctor is on the holodeck and running a simulation. Lieutenant Barclay says he needs to destroy the holographic imaging system to confirm his being a real person. However even when the Doctor does do this he's still on the holodeck and therefore he wouldn't have disappeared because he destroyed the simulated holographic imaging system. Had he destroyed the real one in Engineering he would've indeed disappeared. This is clearly a false way to prove to the Doctor that he's real.
- Quotes
The Doctor: Did I program Mr. Paris to be so annoying?
Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III: Actually, I programmed him. I modeled him after my cousin, Frank.
The Doctor: Hmm, Computer, delete Paris.
- ConnectionsReferences 36 Hours (1964)
Featured review
Does the EMH dreams of electric Kes?
The doctor takes a trip through the universe of Philip K Dick. As PKD would put it, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
The android, I mean doctor, is unable to distinguish between what is reality and what is an extension of his own holographic universe, whether he is a real human being or just an identical simulacra. Its great for his own character arc but unlike a classic PKD story the lines between what is real and imagined identity, and furthermore what the protagonist can trust of their own fundamental perceptions and consciousness, is neatly tied up. Even the doctor smirks knowing that he no longer has any illusions of whether his entire system of perception is real or fake. Compare this to say other PKD inspired movies like Blade Runner or Total Recall where the story leaves you with the distinct possibility that the protagonist is choosing to live in the reality they would prefer. Not as a replicant, not in a virtual mental vacation.
Even the relationship between Kes and the doctor felt very Dickian to me. She has another man sure but...does she love the doctor anyway? Is she trying to help him or hurt him? When she walks away into her own universe where he can't follow she leaves him one last time asking if it (his life, their feelings) was real.
It's a lot more palatable to know that it ends so that every thing is as it should be for the next episode. But it leaves me without that bewildered craving for the total disruption of the senses and basic human comprehension of reality that a book like The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer could give me.
The android, I mean doctor, is unable to distinguish between what is reality and what is an extension of his own holographic universe, whether he is a real human being or just an identical simulacra. Its great for his own character arc but unlike a classic PKD story the lines between what is real and imagined identity, and furthermore what the protagonist can trust of their own fundamental perceptions and consciousness, is neatly tied up. Even the doctor smirks knowing that he no longer has any illusions of whether his entire system of perception is real or fake. Compare this to say other PKD inspired movies like Blade Runner or Total Recall where the story leaves you with the distinct possibility that the protagonist is choosing to live in the reality they would prefer. Not as a replicant, not in a virtual mental vacation.
Even the relationship between Kes and the doctor felt very Dickian to me. She has another man sure but...does she love the doctor anyway? Is she trying to help him or hurt him? When she walks away into her own universe where he can't follow she leaves him one last time asking if it (his life, their feelings) was real.
It's a lot more palatable to know that it ends so that every thing is as it should be for the next episode. But it leaves me without that bewildered craving for the total disruption of the senses and basic human comprehension of reality that a book like The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer could give me.
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- jakubenterprises
- Feb 28, 2024
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