Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Life Line (2000)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman

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• The Doctor : You'd need a phaser drill to get through that thick skull of his!

  Dr. Zimmerman : Get out!

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Gentlemen...

  Dr. Zimmerman : Oh, spare us your psychobabble!

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I came here thinking that you were opposite sides of the same coin, identical but different. Now I see you're both exactly the same - you're both jerks!

  Leonard the Iguana : Jerks.

• The Doctor : Try to leave a few of my enhancements intact. I don't want to look like every other EMH on the block.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Reginald was right about you. You HAVE exceeded the sum of your programing. You've accomplished far more than I would have ever predicted but, let's face facts, you never overcame the inherent flaws in your personality subroutines. You're arrogant, irritable - a 'jerk', as Counselor Troi would say.

  The Doctor : I believe she was describing YOU as well.

  Dr. Zimmerman : Don't change the subject.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Do you know how humiliating it is to have 675 Mark Ones out there scrubbing plasma conduits... all with my face?

• Haley : Lieutenant Barclay is here to see you.

  Dr. Zimmerman : I told you I wasn't...

  Haley : He says it's urgent.

  Dr. Zimmerman : Can't it wait till I'm dead?

• [the Doctor is going to be sent to the Alpha Quadrant through a data stream] 

  Seven of Nine : I've removed your singing algorithms. They'll be stored in the memory buffer until you return.

  The Doctor : Why?

  Seven of Nine : Your program's too large for the data stream. I have to extract all non-essential subroutines.

  The Doctor : They're essential to me. They're part of who I am.

  Seven of Nine : Are you planning on performing opera during your visit?

  The Doctor : No.

  Seven of Nine : Will you be reciting poetry?

  The Doctor : Doubtful.

  Seven of Nine : Hoverball? Holophotography?

  The Doctor : I may want to take a few snapshots to document my trip.

  Seven of Nine : Sexual activities?

  The Doctor : I get the point.

• The Doctor : I was compressed into a data stream and transmitted from the Delta Quadrant.

  Dr. Zimmerman : [grouchy]  Congratulations. I recommend a tour of Jupiter's third moon. I hear the lava flows are lovely this time of year.

• The Doctor : What were your initial symptoms?

  Dr. Zimmerman : [sarcastically]  Radical hair loss.

• The Doctor : I ran a mitochondrial scan. There was something... odd about the results, so I spent a full hour analyzing, and what did I discover? He's a Vulcan marsupial. He reconfigured my tricorder!

• Dr. Zimmerman : You brought a Mark One 30,000 light years to treat me? I was wrong about you, Reginald, you do have a sense of humor.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Enough questions! Finish your scans and get out of here!

  The Doctor : Doctor?

  Dr. Zimmerman : I said get out of here!

  The Doctor : I traveled halfway across the galaxy to treat you. The least you could do is show a little gratitude.

  Dr. Zimmerman : Thank you. GET OUT OF HERE!

• Haley : Sounds like you're making progress.

  The Doctor : How so?

  Haley : He only teases people he likes.

  The Doctor : Then he must love me.

• [Dr. Zimmerman has proposed sending a Mark IV back to Voyager] 

  Barclay : They don't want a Mark IV. They want their friend.

  Dr. Zimmerman : No EMH was ever designed to be anyone's friend! He's just a hologram!

  Haley : Is that how you feel about me? Just a hologram?

  [he stares at her] 

  Dr. Zimmerman : I will not be ambushed in my own lab.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Well... I guess it is comforting to know that... at least one of you is still doing what I designed you to do.

• The Doctor : We should begin the procedure. Please - give me a chance to make you proud of me.

  Dr. Zimmerman : [after a pause]  Maybe we could... try it. See how it goes.

  The Doctor : See how it goes.

  Dr. Zimmerman : Just don't expect me to put you in my will.

• The Doctor : To your knowledge, have you been exposed to theta radiation?

  Dr. Zimmerman : No.

  The Doctor : Neutron flux?

  Dr. Zimmerman : Never.

  The Doctor : Have you had intimate relations with a Bolian?

  Dr. Zimmerman : These are questions first year medical students would ask!

  The Doctor : I'm just being thorough.

  Leonard the Iguana : Just being thorough.

• The Doctor : Undercover insects? Talking iguanas? This isn't a research station! It's a... three... ring... circus! You should charge admission!

• The Doctor : Computer, deactivate iguana.

  Dr. Zimmerman : How dare you!

  The Doctor : I'm a doctor, not a zoo keeper.

• The Doctor : [after squashing Roy the holographic fly with a book]  Finally. I've accomplished something.

• Seven of Nine : [looking at Dr. Zimmerman's profile]  You bear a striking resemblance.

  The Doctor : He used his own physical parameters as a model for my matrix. Can't say I blame him. A doctor needs to inspire confidence in his patients. Compassionate eyes and a strong chin can go a long way.

• Haley : Lunch!

  Dr. Zimmerman : [sniffs the air]  That's not pork chops.

  Haley : It's salad.

  Dr. Zimmerman : I didn't ask for salad.

  Haley : It's healthy.

  Dr. Zimmerman : I'm dying. A piece of meat won't kill me any quicker.

• The Doctor : I also have an exceptionally high tolerance for difficult patients.

  Dr. Zimmerman : I didn't program you for sarcasm.

  The Doctor : You'll find I'm full of surprises.

• Dr. Zimmerman : You weren't programed to care. You were programed to hold a scalpel.

  The Doctor : I told you, I'm not the same EMH you created six years ago.

  Dr. Zimmerman : Of course, you can sing and dance. I should install you in a Ferengi nightclub.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : [on Barclay's Voyager program]  So, this is Voyager. I like it.

  The Doctor : It's a remarkable facsimile, but Mr. Barclay did get a few of the details wrong. For one thing, Neelix doesn't purr.

• [Dr. Zimmerman pinches Deanna Troi in the arm] 

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Ow!

  The Doctor : He thinks you're a hologram.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : [to Zimmerman]  I can assure you I'm quite real!

  Dr. Zimmerman : [quickly closing his dressing gown]  Oh. Well, the last beautiful woman to walk in here turned out to be *him*.

  The Doctor : I'll take that as a compliment.

• Barclay : [about Dr. Zimmerman]  I take it that you, um, still haven't been able to diagnose him.

  The Doctor : On the contrary. The patient appears to be suffering from an acute case of ARROGANCE!

• The Doctor : Thank you, Counselor, for extending that olive branch.

• Haley : Star date 53292, my program malfunctioned and you canceled a lecture on Vulcan and came all the way home to repair me.

  Dr. Zimmerman : There's nothing worse than addressing a room full of pointy-eared blowhards.

• Dr. Zimmerman : "Emergency Medical Hotheads!" "Extremely Marginal House calls." That's what everyone used to call the Mark Ones, until they were bounced out of the Medical Corps.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : Reg tells me you won't let The Doctor help you.

  Dr. Zimmerman : He's a Mark-1. He's obsolete. I'd be safer in the hands of a Klingon field medic.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Good riddance to bad photons.

• Dr. Zimmerman : You're still searching for that ship, what's it called, Pioneer?

  Barclay : Uh, Voyager.

• Dr. Zimmerman : Your program's been stabilized.

  The Doctor : I - I'm going to be okay?

  Dr. Zimmerman : No, you're going to be better than okay.

  [reinitializes the Doctor's program] 

  The Doctor : Welcome to sick bay. How may I help you today?

• The Doctor : Fractal algorithms are notoriously unstable.

  Dr. Zimmerman : In the hands of a novice. Oops.

  The Doctor : Oops? What's oops?