Star Trek - Voyager > Season 6 > Episode 24 (143)

Life Line

Airdate: 10.05.2000

Cast: (14 - show/hide all)

Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor / Dr. Lewis Zimmerman
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim
Dwight Schultz	...	Barclay
Marina Sirtis	...	Counselor Deanna Troi
Majel Barrett	...	Voyager Computer (voice)
Jack Shearer	...	Admiral Hayes
Tamara Marie Watson	...	Haley

Crew:

Terry Windell	...	Direction
Brannon Braga Raf Green Robert Doherty	...	Script

Plot:

The Pathfinder Project makes use of a pulsar and the MIDAS Array allowing a data stream to reach Voyager - and Voyager to reply - every 32 days. Lieutenant Barclay (guest star Dwight Schultz) sends a letter to The Doctor asking for a second opinion for his dying friend. The eccentric genius Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) who created the template for The Doctor's program is terminally ill with no known cure in the Alpha Quadrant. After reviewing the medical record The Doctor believes he can cure Zimmerman, and convinces Captain Janeway to risk sending him through the data stream. The Doctor finds his maker to be his most difficult patient; Zimmerman insists The Doctor's program is obsolete. Barclay recruits Deanna Troi to convince the two before Zimmerman's time runs out.