History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor

* JerkassHasAPoint: From the crews' point-of-view, the Doctor's complaints are exaggerated and his attitude is ungrateful. After all don't they treat him as one of their own, with the freedom to pursue his own interests? The fact that the Doctor and the other holograms like him might have the innate ''right'' to respect and freedom has not occurred to them.

* TheWarOnStraw: The Doctor's opus, ''Photons Be Free''. As usual, the EMH's heart is in the right place, but his ego undercuts it. He thought he could write a holonovel showing all of his coworkers in an unflattering light, publish in the Alpha Quadrant and that everyone onboard would be [[DidntThinkThisThrough pretty much OK with that]]. During the tedious 10-minute prologue to the story the he drones on in a Creator/NoëlCoward dressing gown (This is his ''[[SmallNameBigEgo only]]'' novel). The Doctor takes some creative license with his life on ''Voyager'': His mobile emitter is [[{{Anvilicious}} a giant backpack that weighs him down like a ton of bricks]], everyone onboard treats him like pocket lint, and Captain "Jenkins" [[TriageTyrant murders patients in sickbay]] to bump her people she wants treated higher up the priority list. Naturally the only person to escape this farce unscathed is Seven of Nine. In revenge, Tom Paris pens a holonovel depicting life under an obnoxious EMH: He’s got an appalling comb-over, barely bothers to diagnose his patients and [[DirtyOldMan groans lustfully]] as he gives "Two of Three" a massage (after injecting her with a roofie).

* TheWarOnStraw: The Doctor's opus, ''Photons Be Free''. As usual, the EMH's heart is in the right place, but his ego undercuts it. He thought he could write a holonovel showing all of his coworkers in an unflattering light, publish in the Alpha Quadrant and that everyone onboard would be [[DidntThinkThisThrough pretty much OK with that]]. During the tedious 10-minute prologue to the story the he drones on in a Noëll Coward dressing gown (This is his ''[[SmallNameBigEgo only]]'' novel). The Doctor takes some creative license with his life on ''Voyager'': His mobile emitter is [[{{Anvilicious}} a giant backpack that weighs him down like a ton of bricks]], everyone onboard treats him like pocket lint, and Captain "Jenkins" [[TriageTyrant murders patients in sickbay]] to bump her people she wants treated higher up the priority list. Naturally the only person to escape this farce unscathed is Seven of Nine. In revenge, Tom Paris pens a holonovel depicting life under an obnoxious EMH: He’s got an appalling comb-over, barely bothers to diagnose his patients and [[DirtyOldMan groans lustfully]] as he gives "Two of Three" a massage (after injecting her with a roofie).

->''"It's just frustrating to hear that I have no more legal standings than a replicator."''

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* TheWarOnStraw: The Doctor's opus, ''Photons Be Free''. As usual, the EMH's heart is in the right place, but his ego undercuts it. He thought he could write a holonovel showing all of his coworkers in an unflattering light, publish in the Alpha Quadrant and that everyone onboard would be [[DidntThinkThisThrough pretty much OK with that]]. During the tedious 10-minute prologue to the story the he drones on in a Noëll Coward dressing gown (This is his ''[[SmallNameBigEgo only]]'' novel). The Doctor takes some creative license with his life on ''Voyager'': His mobile emitter is [[{{Anvilicious}} a giant backpack that weighs him down like a ton of bricks]], everyone onboard treats him like pocket lint, and Captain "Jenkins" [[TriageTyrant murders patients in sickbay]] to bump her people she wants treated higher up the priority list. Naturally the only person to escape this farce unscathed is Seven of Nine. In revenge, Tom Paris pens a holonovel depicting life under an obnoxious EMH: He’s got an appalling comb-over, barely bothers to diagnose his patients and [[DirtyOldMan groans lustfully]] as he gives "Three of Eight" massages (after injecting her with a roofie).

* ContinuitySnarl: "As far as I know, Captain, you've never executed one of my patients." Uh... does [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E24Tuvix Tuvix]] count?

* DownerEnding: PBF ends with the Doctor being decompiled by Captain Jenkins, despite a PatrickStewartSpeech by Three.

* {{Anvillicious}}: InUniverse -- Tom says that the Doctor's holonovel is "about as subtle as a Ferengi mating dance".

* TheWarOnStraw: The Doctor's opus, ''Photons Be Free''. As usual, the EMH's heart is in the right place, but his ego undercuts it. He thought he could write a holonovel showing all of his coworkers in an unflattering light, publish in the Alpha Quadrant and that everyone onboard would be [[DidntThinkThisThrough pretty much OK with that]]. During the tedious 10-minute prologue to the story the he drones on in a Noëll Coward dressing gown (This is his ''[[SmallNameBigEgo only]]'' novel). The Doctor takes some creative license with his life on ''Voyager'': His mobile emitter is [[{{Anvilicious}} a giant backpack that weighs him down like a ton of bricks]], everyone onboard treats him like pocket lint, and Captain "Jenkins" [[TriageTyrant murders patients in sickbay]] to bump her people she wants treated higher up the priority list. Naturally the only person to escape this farce unscathed is Seven of Nine. In revenge, Tom Paris pens a holonovel depicting life under an obnoxious EMH: He’s got an appalling comb over, barely bothers to diagnose his patients and [[DirtyOldMan groans lustfully]] as he gives "Three of Eight" massages.

-->'''Lieutenant :''' Let's get one thing straight. You're not one of my shipmates! You're a tool - like this hyperspanner. And tools can be replaced. So why don't you go back to your Sick Bay before I start to do a little reprogramming?!

* [[AndroidsArePeopleToo Holograms Are People Too]]

* JustAMachine

* StylisticSuck: ''Photons Be Free''

-->'''Holo-EMH:''' Sorry. ''([[AThreesomeIsHot smirks]])'' They're [[SameSexTriplets triplets]], you know.

-->'''Paris:''' Don't be ridiculous. That character is not you. For one thing, he has much more hair.

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: With the Doctor as SympatheticStu.

** Seven cuts off the Doctor in mid-transmission when he keeps fishing for compliments from Broht

* WrongNameOutburst