10 Emotional Star Trek Moments That Made The Fans Cry
4. Blood Is Thicker Than Photons And Forcefields
It is fair to say that when Voyager's EMH Mark I was first activated for 'use' in the Delta Quadrant, the vast majority of the crew (aside from Kes) considered him to be little more than a walking, talking copy of Gray's Anatomy/Dr McCoy's Comparative Alien Physiology.
During the journey home, The Doctor's quest to expand his program included the creation of a holographic family. At first more Stepford Wives than equal lives, Charlene, Jeffrey, and Belle were so practically perfect and servilely sycophantic that it was a good job there was a physician at hand to treat the hyperglycaemia. B'Elanna swiftly added a bit of spice into the subroutines, and The Doctor's family life got a lot more real.
When The Doctor's (Kenneth's) young daughter Belle, player of the ridiculously risky parrises squares, has an accident during a match, things take a dramatic turn for the worse. Despite The Doctor's best efforts, Belle's injuries prove fatal. At first unwilling to continue the program and witness his holographic daughter's death, it is Tom Paris who convinces The Doctor not to walk away from the situation just because he can. The Doctor, Charlene, and Jeffrey then gather around Belle's bedside in her final moments, and we see just how human this one EMH has become. Made of light or flesh and blood, the ties of family run just as deep. Not a dry eye in the house!