Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 36: Lifesigns [VHS]

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Voyager's most intriguing character, the holographic Doctor (Robert Picardo), gets a plot of his own. When Voyager rescues a dying Vidiian woman named Denara Pel (Susan Diol) who suffers from the phage (an AIDS-like epidemic), the Doctor springs into action, digitizing her brain and creating a holographic version of her, as he tries to save her actual body with a brain graft. But even as he works on her humanoid form, he finds himself beguiled by the holographic version he has created--and despite the fact that he is also a computer-generated hologram, he realizes he is falling in love with her. Picardo, one of the great unsung character actors in movies of the 1980s (he's a regular in the films of director Joe Dante), has a good time with the persnickety hologram's attempts to come to grips with human emotions, including a lesson in love from the redoubtable Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill). --Marshall Fine