Was the Doctor repeating himself?

[Guy Gardener]

Part of his program is "entertainment value" to make sure the crew doesn't go insane from the tedium... And frankly staying fresh with vital new material for 150 people constantly... He must have been able to identify precise social clusters acting as stormwalls and safely regurgitate the same issues and developmental problems which would have crew running in circles to be his saving grace angel...

Affirming busywork.

So any story we saw focusing on the Doctor was probably redone a few times to make the little people from the lower decks feel special, that they are part of the EMH's support network.

Or course, Janeway would have to be in on this, and certainly Kes, and maybe his other Nurse, Tom Paris.

 

[RoJoHen]

I think it's pretty well-established that the lower deck people aren't worth the senior staff's time, including the Doctor.

 

[Guy Gardener]

We missed out on watching Tal Celes walk around for 6 years with her tight little bottom because of exactly that sort of thinking!

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying...it took 6 years before anyone even realized those people were there!

 

[Guy Gardener]

You don't count Learning Curve? The episode where Tuvok took some of the more troubled Maquis and forced them through a crazy bootcamp style personality rendering crucible until they abided with his inhuman expectations.

 

[Navaros]

RoJoHen said:
I think it's pretty well-established that the lower deck people aren't worth the senior staff's time, including the Doctor.

I agree with this. It's evidenced many, many times in Voyager. One time Chakotay brings it up in regards to negotiating with the Kazon. Chakotay says a lot of the crew wants to negotiate so she should consider their feelings, and Janeway gets peeved at this and shouts; "This is not a democracy!"

Then in the last episode Janeway decides that the senior staff is all a family so they get to make Voyager a democracy amongst their own selves, whereas the peons of the crew remain SOL and their feelings remain irrelevant.

I'm sure the same "morals" also apply to peons of the crew interacting with the Doctor.

 

[RoJoHen]

Guy Gardener said:
You don't count Learning Curve? The episode where Tuvok took some of the more troubled Maquis and forced them through a crazy bootcamp style personality rendering crucible until they abided with his inhuman expectations.

I would count it, except that shortly thereafter we never heard from them again.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ah! The Bolian Chel, turned up again in the beginning of the 7th season and eventually replaced Nelix to become Chef Chel who left the Menu something to be desired for even by Neelix's standards.

 

[RoJoHen]

Fair enough, but just because they mentioned him doesn't mean anything. They made it home just in time for them to never have to eat his food!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Eight times out of ten I should have lost this conversation. It's good faith to expect so little from Voyager, unfortunately eventually everyone roles snake eyes when they're after a hard eight.

What about when Kes was asleep or down in aeroponics? Was their another Nurse (Yes, i know no such Nurse character was mentioned other than Tom, but that's still a piss poor staff for the doctor.) which got put through the same rungs as she did? Did he get a few different engineers to double check his math when he created his family? That sort of stuff.

Chell was a bone. Two episodes, three in the final season? It's pathetic of me to lap up such gruel and be grateful. I am Voyagers b'tch.