This episode is pretty much The Secret Life Of Doctor Mitty but it’s Doctor-centric so I’m not going to complain.
The Doctor gives a singing performance to the crew when Tuvok goes mad with Pon Farr. Using song the Doctor is able to save the day. Though this is all the Doctor’s daydream I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was real. He’s been turned down for an away mission and puts in formal letter to the Captain complaining and wanting to become an Emergency Command Hologram. Meanwhile hidden within a nearby nebula (because there’s always a nearby nebula) is a ship spying on Voyager. An alien, who looks like Mr Potato, has been able to tap into Voyager’s computer but he dodges a bullet and is only able to see the Doctor’s fantasies which of course he takes as real. In another fantasy the Doctor assumes command of his ship after Janeway is killed for about the billionth time in the series by the Borg. He destroys the Borg cube with his own invention, a “photonic cannon”. It gets so his fantasies begin happening all the time but who can blame him, so Torres fixes it. Meanwhile the order has been given by the aliens to attack Voyager as they discovered it’s by itself but Mr Potato, like everyone who watches the show, has grown to like the Doctor. He warns the Doctor who has to take command in real life to save the day with bluffing about the “photonic cannon”. Ah, the Kirk maneuver.
Janeway at the end awards the Doctor the Starfleet Metal of Commendation which just looks like a button she found down the back of the Captain’s chair one day. Hey, that’s probably where they get half their dilithium from too.
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