Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Phage (1995)

Jennifer Lien: Kes

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• Kes : How does a real doctor learn to deal with patients' emotional problems, anyway?

  The Doctor : They learn from experience.

  Kes : Aren't you capable of learning?

  The Doctor : I have the capacity to accumulate and process data, yes.

  Kes : Then I guess you'll just have to learn - like the rest of us.

  The Doctor : [after a slight pause]  Have you ever considered a career in medicine?

• The Doctor : First they tell me there's no doctor, so I have to be on call twenty-four hours a day. And then they tell me there are no nurses, so I have no one to assist me.

  Kes : I thought Tom Paris was assigned to you.

  The Doctor : Like I said, no one to assist me.

• The Doctor : I am an emergency medical supplement. A supplement. That's all. I wasn't programmed for any of this. It's just... unacceptable.

  Kes : I don't know anything about holographic engineering. But if you want my opinion, you haven't been acceptable. You've been remarkable.

• Kes : [discussing Neelix, whose life hangs on an experimental procedure the Doctor has planned]  I want to know what this means. What are you going to do to him?

  The Doctor : There's no time to explain the exact procedure to you right now.

  Kes : Oh, well, make the time. Because I'm not gonna let you perform any... experimental surgery on Neelix until I know exactly what you're doing and what the risks are.

  The Doctor : The risk is that it won't work. And if it doesn't, he'll die. But it is his only immediate chance for survival.

• The Doctor : I've only done what the program allows me to.

  Kes : Give yourself some credit. You saved his life. YOU did, not some program.

  The Doctor : It may seem that way to you.

  Kes : That's exactly how it seems.

  The Doctor : You're very... kind.