It’s the Barclay show again. I wonder if they’ll get a certain Enterprise counsellor along too? I feel like Troy McClure on the Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase.
On Voyager they receive data from StarFleet that includes a letter to the Doctor from Barclay on Jupiter Station. It seems his creator Noonien Singh... I mean, Dr Zimmerman is dying. The Doctor looks at his medical data and decides he can help him. Janeway reluctantly agrees to send him to the Alpha Quadrant since Paris can takeover for a while. Yup, that’s exactly how sending data works. Seven removes a lot of the Doctor’s subroutines so that he’s below 12 “megaquads”. Course you can probably download that now in 4 minutes. The Doctor arrives at Jupiter Station to see Barclay and Hayley, who seems to be Zimmerman’s “friend”. Zimmerman doesn’t want to be examined by him as he’s only a Mark One hologram. I know the feeling, I had the same problem with a Sega Master System. To annoy the Doctor, Zimmerman reconfigures his tricorder. Him and Paris could talk about pranks. Meanwhile on Voyager there’s a pointless scene about StarFleet and the Maquis. Anyway back with the Doctors and Troi pops up to counsel them both because what else has she to do? She comes to the conclusion that they’re “both jerks” and she knew Wesley. The Doctor’s programme starts to degrade and Zimmerman is convinced to repair him but the degrading was a deliberate fault to get the two in the same room. They eventually settle their differences and the Doctor cures Zimmerman in return. Oh and turns out Hayley’s a hologram. Well of course she is.
Well they’ve finally figured out how to make a pretty good episode. Put Robert Picardo in it. Twice. And have him co-write it too.
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