I've only just started watching star trek voyager...tell me why the doctor is so??? Unhinged?!

I'm only on episode 3, and he's just been informed the captain is missing, and he's like "ugh I'm on the voyage of the damned"

BABE??? YOURE FERAL

VOYAGER CHARACTERS RATED BY HOW LIKELY THEY ARE TO GO TO THERAPY, AND HOW THAT GOES DOWN

harry: don’t be deceived, this doesn’t mean harry would go to therapy willingly. but i am 90% sure at that whatever posting he took after voyager, he was asked to do therapy and he scoffed because he didn’t go through the dominion war, why would he need therapy? but he’s still convinced to do it to go with the flow, you know, make everyone else feel a little less bad for needing therapy. but no matter how he ends up in therapy, that therapist is just shocked by all the shit harry’s telling him, and he can tell harry’s not telling the whole truth, but because he can’t make harry tell him anything he doesn’t want to, especially if it’s about the others’ insane psychological issues, that therapist needs to start getting therapy themselves. i’m half convinced this was migleemo and this is how he ended up on the cerritos.

chakotay: he’s perfectly well aware that he needs therapy, but he puts it off successfully for a long time by justifying that with so many dominion war veterans, he does not want to take away their more urgent care when he’s relatively well off in terms of functioning. of course, he’s hiding the trainwreck of a personal relationship he had with seven, and by the time he takes the protostar posting he’s like, okay, alright, i’ll take a therapist with me on the protostar, this is going to help. and then he vanishes. and the therapist probably dies. rip.

tuvok: tuvok’s first inclination is to look for a psychiatrist, not a therapist. he can compartimentalize his trauma so much easier if he just points to any kind of damage he might have incurred between all those mind melds and head trauma in between missions. this lets him look a lot saner than most of the voyager crew who refuse to see any kind of professional but eventually t’pel outs her foot down and confronts him with the fact that his time on voyager has had a lasting impact on his rationality and control and he Requires assistance in addressing it. even then it’s most likely some kind of spiritual guidance, which is pretty close to therapy for vulcans considering their spirituality revolves around psychological control and all that, but he still dodges the needing therapy allegations publicly like a pro.

the emh: he recognizes that he needs therapy, would most likely want it, but he doesn't last more than a couple of weeks with anyone he tries because he thinks they're too dismissive of his issues because he's a hologram, so he tries to pour out his issues into trying to defend the right to mental healthcare for holograms while avoiding any kind of therapy himself because he doesn't want to go through all of that again.

seven: the federation has universal healthcare so therapy is available to seven, but she still refuses mental health care services when she realizes what the attitude towards xBs is in the federation. the closest she ever came was considering couples therapy when she was still with chakotay but that was a passing consideration and it was the prelude to her breaking away from the federation entirely after she broke up with chakotay. if she has received any kind of therapy afterwards it’s unlicensed, highly questionable, and probably self-managed which really shouldn’t have been the case. 

tom: he’s fully well aware he needs therapy, but he refuses to on the principle that he knows the therapists are going to blame his issues on voyager when clearly it all started with his dad and his unfair expectations of him and — but he does end up going to therapy specifically as couples therapy when his relationship with b’elanna was beginning to fall apart. the therapist recommends they both go individually for their own issues and they reject that vehemently. they probably continue to attend just for the insane task that is co-parenting miral between the two of them and they continuously rotate their therapist when they start getting into voyager a little too much.

b’elanna: it’s a miracle tom even got her to couples therapy at all. in the meantime, she’s mostly journaled, read books about therapy, done everything in her power to prove to everyone that she has her own mental health in her own hands and she’s doing great, but she can’t engineer her way out of depression since the age of 6 so you know. it would take a huge crisis for her to finally end up caving to suggestions that she go to therapy.

janeway: everyone who’s worked with her since voyager is telling their therapist about janeway and the way she is. no one directly asks her to go to therapy and the few people that do get shut down because clearly she’s keeping everything together, right? but the psychology academics’ circle of the federation and probably beyond know that they need to be ready for the day kathryn janeway gets therapy. they’ve been talking amongst themselves about who’s going to do it, who’s ready for it, how the dsm is going to have like 42 new mental illnesses at the end of it all and how they’re going to divide the work when they all start working on the scientific papers that make their careers based on how this woman’s brain works.

YOU’VE JUST BEEN VOYEEZERED

Round Two

It appears we have some things in common after all 🤔

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 2 - Bracket 1 - 5

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

The Doctor propaganda:

They're an AI doctor who's very funny, a part of the main cast, and are left on for a questionable amount of time which leads to shenanigans.

He's a holographic doctor who takes over the role of the ship doctor. While the crew eventually finds a way to enable him to go to different areas of the ship, his being a hologram (at its core, a computer program) is a key aspect of his character that is very relevant in many episodes

He is a virtual hologram of an emergency medical program on board a space ship. He is a sentient AI in universe.

Quorra propaganda:

Quorra is an ISO. ISO's or Isomorphic Algorithms, are a race of programs that spontaneously evolved on the Grid, as opposed to being written by users.

The crew of the Voyager sleep on the ship for months after returning to the Alpha Quadrant. It seems wrong not to be on the ship that was home for almost eight years, and for the most part Starfleet doesn't push their weary travelers against doing as such.

It helps with the quarantine anyways, the Doctor making sure that the other Starfleet doctors are gentle with his patients, his crew. Lt. Barclay helps stamp out any nasty remarks or looks, making sure the doctors all knew that the hologram was a member of Voyager, and the crew all threaten to be temperamental with some of the more stubborn doctors.

Captain Janeway lets Starfleet document every upgrade they had gathered, but asks to remain captain of the ship once everything was taken care of. Call her sentimental, but Voyager served her and her crew well despite everything, and Janeway didn't mind being captain for a while longer.

The former Maquis are all pardoned and inducted into Starfleet at the promotions they had all received over the years, and while some of them take some time to see what happened to former friends and family, they all returned back to Starfleet, to Voyager.

While I'm aware Starfleet would probably not keep them together/promote Janeway and Chakotay, I think they'd let it slide for a while to let Voyager serve together for a while longer before they all eventually began to splinter away and make their own paths. Also despite the show never letting it happen (which was so stupid), Harry was promoted twice while in the Delta Quadrant, and is gifted Voyager when he's made Captain.

The Doctor in particular ends up remaining with Janeway for a while, if he's not with Zimmerman and Barclay. While a lot of people doubted the Doctor had grown into his own person, with a soul and life outside of his programming, the news spread quickly. Maybe he fights for hologram rights, or maybe he spends some time updating his files while exploring Earth, but in the end the Doctor just goes to see everything he could ever want, and save lives along the way. He's there long after his beloved crew passes on, being there every time they all pass, but is pleased to watch over the next generations they all pass on, and thats more than enough for him.

I finally finished Voyager, and I have Thoughts 💜

When you're already in love with an episode of Voyager just 3 minutes in and then this credit appears on the screen:

Thought of an episode idea and used @borgchip‘s design for a femme EMH!

Can someone who is dead-set against AI art ever having value tell me how it's affected their viewing of Measure of a Man or Author, Author? I'm genuinely curious if the events of the past few months have made people rethink those episodes.

love my boring space soap opera

Why do they keep making my man SMALL

PLEASE IM CACKLING

No you don’t understand he has to go fast

Quarter-Finals

Red Dwarf was the blueprint in leaving me attracted to arrogant, grandiose, sarcastic holograms... thanks for feeding me in that regard, Voyager 😳💖