Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Warhead (1999)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor

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• The Doctor : I was the one who asked you to bring that device aboard in the first place. I even argued with the Captain to keep it aboard after we learned what it was.

  Harry Kim : 'It' was an artificial intelligence, like you. But I have to admit, his personality made you seem like Mr. Congeniality.

• The Doctor/Warhead : Reintegrate my neural matrix, and return me to the others.

  Harry Kim : We won't do that.

  The Doctor/Warhead : I have no intention of proceeding to my target. I will stop them.

  Harry Kim : How?

  The Doctor/Warhead : I am a weapon of mass destruction.

  [Kim is still looking unsure] 

  The Doctor/Warhead : You want me to see past my programming. Then you must try to see past your doubts.

• Harry Kim : You're a sentient being. You don't have to be a slave to your programming. Look at the Doctor.

  The Doctor/Warhead : He's a tool, a holographic puppet.

  Harry Kim : That "puppet" saved your life. If it weren't for him, you'd still be damaged and alone on that planet. He's the one that convinced me to beam you aboard. And when we discovered what you were, and some people wanted to destroy you, the Doctor defended your right to exist.

  The Doctor/Warhead : What's your point?

  Harry Kim : Even though he was only programmed to be a doctor, he's become more than that. He's made friends, he's piloted a starship, he even sings.

  The Doctor/Warhead : Despite all of his achievements, did he ever stop being a doctor?

  Harry Kim : No, but...

  The Doctor/Warhead : And I can't stop being a weapon.

• The Doctor/Warhead : I am simply completing my mission. Only the target has changed.

• The Doctor/Warhead : I am what I am.

• Harry Kim : I better get to the bridge. You never know when Ensign Kim'll be called upon to take command again.

  The Doctor : Voyager could do worse.

• Harry Kim : Look, Doc, the truth is, I never would have gotten through to him without you.

  The Doctor : Of what I heard, I wasn't much help.

  Harry Kim : You were. I held you up as an example of how an artificial intelligence could exceed its programming. I didn't realize how true that was, until today.