Star Trek: Voyager, "Latent Image"

Star Trek: Voyager, "Latent Image." Production #206 (20 January 1999),[1] season 5, episode 11.[2]

In her summary in Cinefantastique 31.11 (April 2000): 41,[3] Anna L. Kaplan notes that when the Doctor[4] images Harry Kim of the Voyager crew, the Doctor

finds evidence of [a] neurological procedure performed [...] a year and a half ago. The technique was invented by the Doctor, but he has no memories of the event. Seven of Nine,[5] [...] helps the Doctor retrieve his lost memories. As files are reconstructed, it becomes clear that someone has tampered with his program. [... It was] Captain Janeway, who at Seven's urging, allows the Doctor to relive the events in question. As he re-experiences a triage decision,[6] to save his friend Harry, the choice once again causes a feedback loop between his ethical and cognitive subroutines. He is forced to live the events over and over, which is why Janeway deleted his memory files. This time, Janeway makes a different decision, allowing the Doctor to work through the conflict, no matter how painful or how long it takes. (p. 41)

Note for the holographic Doctor having, and cyborg Seven helping to resolve, serious ethical issues.

(We link above to a brief and sanitized definition of "triage"; note that in practice it can involve excruciating decisions quite literally of life and death, full recovery or lifelong suffering.)

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