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Star Trek: Voyager: Real Life (1997)
Touching episode
This episode features a fantastic performance by Robert Picardo in an involving story about his holodeck family. It starts off with a saccharin sweet - too good to be true - version of a family that the doctor created and is then tweaked by B'lanna to act like a real family. This closer to reality version of a family is messy and difficult with all of life's complexities that is then brought closer together by tragedy involving the youngest daughter. It all could have fallen apart except for good performances led by Picardo as the doctor who is in top form. He, at one point, ends the program feeling he cannot face the emotional loss. But, it is Tom Paris who persuades him that part of having a real family is sharing both the good and bad times and finding some way to pull through. How many times do you wish you could just say, "end program", to some of life's harder moments? We know we can't and the doctor faces it just like we often have to. Oh, yeah and Tom has to survive flying through some storm in space while we wait to find out what happens next with the doctor and his family.