Star Trek: Voyager - 10 Greatest Doctor Episodes

This episode is one of the few with the Doctor having a main storyline without any character development. Instead, it provides excellent tension throughout the entire episode with humour in spades.

It demonstrates how good Voyager's writing could be and gives both Picardo and Andy Dick, who played the Prometheus' EMH, the chance to flex their comedy muscles. And flex they did. The actors play off each other beautifully and their comedic timing is flawless. The development of the relationship between them is easy to follow and viewers are treated to some hilarious interactions as they work together.

Using a seemingly abandoned alien sensor network, he is sent to a Federation ship in the Alpha Quadrant. Once there, he finds out from the EMH on the ship that it has been taken over by Romulans. The Doctor decides to retake the ship, and so begins a laugh-filled attempt to do just that.

Between the facial expressions of both EMHs and their clumsy attempts to get the ship back into Federation hands, viewers are spoiled for moments of pure hilarity. The writing in this episode is brilliant, as tension and humour are expertly balanced to achieve simultaneous feelings of anxiety and glee.

While it may not be an episode of growth for the Doctor, it provides fans with an adventure showing the comedic side of him that they had glimpsed in earlier episodes.