I consider it an homage to Dr. Who.Maybe they were trying to imitate Dr Who.
What happened to choosing a name for the doctor?
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Lame reason. Too bad her last word wasn't "Doctor".
I consider it an homage to Dr. Who.Maybe they were trying to imitate Dr Who.
The tardis lands on voyager, the timelord comes out and says i'm the Doctor, Janeway says i don't think so the Doctor is in sickbay.
The only reason he cared about a name was because of Kes. She helped him evolve. She was key to his evolution. She never accepted him as JUST a hologram. She felt he needed a name. When she was gone, it became irrelevant, I think because during his development beyond a mere EMH he realized he was more than just a name. People called him Doc and The Doctor. He was content. The only reason he settled with a name in the Finale was because he got married. He said so much. Needed something on the certificate or something like that. I actually loved that he picked Joe, because it showed how irrelevant it all became to him. He was the hologram that shined the light on holograms having rights at all. That was pretty epic. Dude was beyond mere names!
And yes I still squee when he shows up on any scifi show I love.
And yes I still squee when he shows up on any scifi show I love.
I consider it an homage to Dr. Who.Maybe they were trying to imitate Dr Who.
The tardis lands on voyager, the timelord comes out and says i'm the Doctor, Janeway says i don't think so the Doctor is in sickbay.
That's nothing.
in the X-Men vs TOS crossover comic book, Nurse Chapel is in some distress, so shouts out "DOCTOR MCCOY!!" To which simultaneously Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Doctor Hank 'The Beast" McCoy both reply "Yes?"
He is called "Zimmernan" in Book 2 (The Escape) and Book 4 (Violations) http://lynx677.110mb.com/bookreviews.html
Which is the reason I've always referred to him as "Zimmerman".
However, after further consideration I think his name should be Shmullus Zimmerman.
Exactly.
I've been watching a lot of voyager, lately, and have been realizing how integral the Kes character was for the Doctor. She was likely even responsible for saving him in the episode the Swarm.
I would have preferred he was rebooted.
The Doctor as an asshole like he was in the pilot was a much more enjoyable character.
The Doctor as an asshole like he was in the pilot was a much more enjoyable character.
I think it was because him being just The Doctor defined his character as being a emergency hologram, the writers early on picked up on this and gave up on giving him a definite human name.
Maybe one warning about Future Catastrophe did come back with Kes from the Before and After Timelines?
"Doctor, you'll be a laughing stock. You keep finding a new name for yourself every month. You don't have the sticktudity to keep one name, for your own sake, for your reputation as a sane entity, just call it quits before you have 80 revised birth certificates."
"Doctor, you'll be a laughing stock. You keep finding a new name for yourself every month. You don't have the sticktudity to keep one name, for your own sake, for your reputation as a sane entity, just call it quits before you have 80 revised birth certificates."
My guess is that they left too late to give a name. His holographic creator should've given him one at the point of completion. But did he need a name, after all 'Doc' says it all, a name and his profession allin one.
In a fanfic I wrote a few years ago, that's the name I had him choose for himself upon reaching the Alpha Quadrant.
In a fanfic I wrote a few years ago, that's the name I had him choose for himself upon reaching the Alpha Quadrant.
Exactly, it's the only logical choice.
I liked Sweitzer the best, I wish he would have stuck to that.
You know when you're playing spore and you have to log off your brother and sisters/flatmates/wifes saved character game settings, to get to the game you are playing?
The Doctor is a game the crew played.
All the crew are on different levels of the game playing to different degrees of excellence and even at different difficulty levels, considering the doctor has access tot he ships psyche profiles he doesn't want to shake anyone up too much.
Different social networks/clusters on Voyager were at different points in the game and some less heartless assholes down in the lower decks had actually named him and had sex with him...
Considering how the universal translator seemed to work, that your mind/perceptions were altered telepathically by the ships computer to view that aliens not Speaking English were speaking English when they are standing in front of you and if you were deaf you could read their lips in English no matter what language they were speaking...
No one would be none the wiser if the Doctor had a hundred names because the ships computer controls the appearance of the spoken word.
Printed too probably.
The Doctor is a game the crew played.
All the crew are on different levels of the game playing to different degrees of excellence and even at different difficulty levels, considering the doctor has access tot he ships psyche profiles he doesn't want to shake anyone up too much.
Different social networks/clusters on Voyager were at different points in the game and some less heartless assholes down in the lower decks had actually named him and had sex with him...
Considering how the universal translator seemed to work, that your mind/perceptions were altered telepathically by the ships computer to view that aliens not Speaking English were speaking English when they are standing in front of you and if you were deaf you could read their lips in English no matter what language they were speaking...
No one would be none the wiser if the Doctor had a hundred names because the ships computer controls the appearance of the spoken word.
Printed too probably.
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