Robert Picardo credited as playing...
The Doctor
- Dr. Danara Pel: Before I met you, I was just a disease, but now, everything's different. When people look at me, they don't see a disease anymore. They see a woman - a woman you made, a woman you love, a woman you're not afraid to touch.
- The Doctor: Danara, I was never afraid to touch you.
- Dr. Danara Pel: Why? Because you're a doctor?
- The Doctor: Because I love you.
- The Doctor: Mr. Paris, I assume you've had a great deal of experience being rejected by women.
- Lieutenant Tom Paris: Oh, thanks a lot, Doc.
- The Doctor: You said before you knew me... that you were just a disease. Well, before you, I was just a projection of photons held together by force fields, a computerized physician, doing a job - doing it exceptionally well, of course but, still, it was... just a profession, not a life; but, now that you're here, and my programming has adapted, I'm not just working anymore. I'm living, learning what it means... to be with someone, to love someone. I don't think I can go back to the way things were either. Danara, please... don't die.
- [the Doctor has shooed off Neelix and the Gigolo]
- The Doctor: I apologize.
- Dr. Danara Pel: No. They were just being nice.
- The Doctor: Irritating, isn't it?
- The Doctor: My program was developed by Dr. Lewis Zimmerman in a lab on Jupiter Station; I was activated on stardate 48308. Since that time I've performed 347 medical exams, healed eleven compound fractures, performed three appendectomies, and, in my greatest feat of medical prowess, I once cured Mr. Neelix of an acute case of the hiccups.
- The Doctor: By the way, Danara, I've been meaning to tell you.
- Dr. Danara Pel: Yes?
- The Doctor: I'm romantically attracted to you and wanted to know if you felt the same way.
- [the Doctor is upset because someone has given Danara's body lethal nytoxinol]
- The Doctor: We have to find out who's trying to obstruct your recovery.
- Dr. Danara Pel: *I* administered the nytoxinol.
- The Doctor: Didn't you know it would kill you?
- Dr. Danara Pel: You mean kill her.
- The Doctor: She *is* you!
- Dr. Danara Pel: *Was* me. I don't ever want to be her again!
- Dr. Danara Pel: Where are we exactly?
- The Doctor: On a planet called Mars, inside a primitive, land-based vehicle. It's called a '57 Chevy. Mr. Paris is quite an automobile aficionado. This is his program.
- Dr. Danara Pel: What is it that we're supposed to be doing?
- The Doctor: I believe it's called... parking.
- The Doctor: I'm used to being in control of my faculties, confident with my decisions, but lately, whenever Danara's program is deactivated and I should be concentrating on my work, I find myself thinking of nothing but her.
- Kes: Why don't you reactivate her?
- The Doctor: Because whenever I do that, I suddenly feel... unsettled, unsure of myself, and I have no idea what to say. Why would people seek out situations which induce such unpleasant symptoms?
- Kes: Because when the other person feels the same way you do, it's the most wonderful thing in life.
- Dr. Danara Pel: I think it's best if we keep our relationship... professional.
- The Doctor: Well... I'm going to... try stimulating the posterior sciatic nerve.
- Dr. Danara Pel: You're very funny.
- The Doctor: I am? Well, several clinical studies have shown humor to be very therapeutic. Consider it part of your treatment.
- Dr. Danara Pel: You are a computer simulation?
- The Doctor: An incredibly sophisticated computer simulation.
- The Doctor: Don't your people have recreational facilities?
- Dr. Danara Pel: Congregating in groups is strictly regulated. It's considered to be a threat to public health.