"Tattoo"

[Rom's Sehlat]

The reason I started this thread: Kes said the Doctor has never experienced pain. But in a prior episode where the Doctor was stuck in the holodeck, he experienced pain. He got a minor cut and was slapped in the face. So he did experience pain, even if it was superficial.

So Chakotay finally finds his sky spirits-- they're just Delta Quadrant humanoid natives who took a generational journey to Earth to recruit some Neanderthals to join their cult, complete with a tattoo (that hasn't changed in 2000+ years...) and random swirly circle symbols.

 

[BillJ]

The reason I started this thread: Kes said the Doctor has never experienced pain. But in a prior episode where the Doctor was stuck in the holodeck, he experienced pain. He got a minor cut and was slapped in the face. So he did experience pain, even if it was superficial.

Because Voyager was a wildly inconsistent mess.

 

[JB2005]

The reason I started this thread: Kes said the Doctor has never experienced pain. But in a prior episode where the Doctor was stuck in the holodeck, he experienced pain. He got a minor cut and was slapped in the face. So he did experience pain, even if it was superficial.

Because Voyager was a wildly inconsistent mess.

QFT.

Fair enough UPN didn't want the show to be serialised, but things like that are just lazy. They could still have made attempts at continuity.