I actually thought the Doctor was one of, if not the best characters in the show, he had so much character development.
@thefurrybastard19642 жыл бұрын
I think they wasted the Doctor's potential a lot on silly joke episodes. He was a great character, but wildly underused.
@kittywarrior2592 жыл бұрын
@@thefurrybastard1964 but that was part of character development and getting to know the character :/
@thefurrybastard19642 жыл бұрын
@@kittywarrior259 No, it was turning the character into a joke.
@kittywarrior2592 жыл бұрын
@@thefurrybastard1964 but they didn’t-
@thefurrybastard19642 жыл бұрын
@@kittywarrior259 But they did.
@GermanioYT2 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that everyone used to deactivate the doctor in the middle of his speech when he goes on a tangent and it also happens with this video.
@badkitty2602 Жыл бұрын
😅👍
@danamoore17882 жыл бұрын
His adlib got written into the character. And it was a great throw back to McCoy.
@tonyjackson40782 жыл бұрын
They couldn't stop giving the Doctor things to do, he was so enjoyable.
@si2foo6 ай бұрын
thats because the rest of the characters had nothing really to do or say about themselves. paris was a failed cadet/ officer fucked over by wesley becacuse he is a twat. thats all his story is he doesn't really grow aside from redeeming him self as a capable officer but hge does that in the first season. kes I forgot was even in the show, tuvok is boring as hell barely remember anything he does, kim is the stand in for the viewer he has no personality or character because we are supposed to empathize with him. bellaona is a hot head engineer type who honestly i cant remember any growth from her aside from getting pregnant. chakoyta is boring as hell, seven was eye candy and some what interesting, janeway is a war criminal and a shit captain, she loosens up a little as the series goes on but she still is a horrible captain. neeliks the comic relief. the doctor is the only one with growth because he is the only one with space to grow into he is a new born program with no history and massive new tasks infront of him. compare that to everything else
@magburner2 жыл бұрын
That moment whilst the Doctor and Seven were singing 'You are my Sunshine', and he turned around to look at her, and became speechless. He well and truly exceeded the sum of his programming.
@Scottyd21UK Жыл бұрын
If you said My Clementine i would have slapped you
@Scipio488 Жыл бұрын
I think that was the one time Voyager made cry. Buckets.
@DarkTraveler092 жыл бұрын
I will admit, I can understand why he felt conflicted in playing the Doctor at first. When you initially think of A.I. Holograms...you think of an entity that has no emotion, no humor, nothing that would warrant any major character development. But, I can say that they made the right choice picking Robert for the role. He breathed a unique form of life into the Doctor. The Doctor would have to be among my top favorites when it came to the Voyager saga.
@elijahcanning30202 жыл бұрын
The TNG episodes with Moriarty showed that a Hologram could be come more than just a collection of photons. The character development of the Doctor was some of the best in Voyager.
@insertanynameyouwant53112 жыл бұрын
@@elijahcanning3020 just a collection of photons? There is no life in the Universe but the photon one! Also captain Proton may proceed lol
@MourningNihilist2 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@carloschu71272 жыл бұрын
Dry Humor.
@onlashukshugaharra67792 жыл бұрын
At least you spelled "Doctor" correctly, err, um, I means, "Docter," lol. 😀
@pattyamato87582 жыл бұрын
Re his audition and his "I'm a doctor, not..." thats straight from Original Series and McCoy - "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a miracle worker"
@TroutBoneless4 жыл бұрын
Picardo would have been good as Neelix, but Ethan Philips really brought something special to that character. I can't imagine anyone else as the doctor, it had to be a broadway actor
@beyondlimitationsvideo3 жыл бұрын
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@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock2 жыл бұрын
That character is insufferable. I love the Doctor though. No other actor could have done what King Robert did
@datboiderrty2 жыл бұрын
I only liked neelix when Tuvok was choking his hologram
@beingsshepherd2 жыл бұрын
I quite liked the challenge of Neelix. He was from a different world in every sense and meant well. I imagine he'd be perfect for children's television.
@TroutBoneless2 жыл бұрын
@@beingsshepherd Neelix was absolutely a childrens show character. To be fair tho, Star Trek was always marketted as a childrens show
@marklandgraf76672 жыл бұрын
5:18 "I am the embodiment of modern medicine." I would argue, though, that since he is photonic, he is actually the enlightenment of modern medicine.
@JimmyNoob10 ай бұрын
I see what you did there 😂
@Roanix12 жыл бұрын
It makes me happy that he's just as charismatic in real life as his character is in the show
@MMuraseofSandvich2 жыл бұрын
Picardo wasn't aware of the long-running "I'm a doctor, not a ..." joke in Trek, because he mentions that if he knew about the joke he wouldn't have used it in his audition. And of course the writers on Voyager (and First Contact) took every opportunity to make that joke because Picardo channeled the same energy De Kelley and later Karl Urban did as Bones. Delivery was different, of course-- instead of an indignant Southern gentleman the EMH was a sardonic, sarcastic hologram.
@PatsyClinesDaughter4 жыл бұрын
“It’s just a theory though, you know.” Omg he is soooo adorable I love him so much
@OneofInfinity.2 жыл бұрын
Robert sure made the character his.
@FurryEskimo2 жыл бұрын
I thought it was very ironic, but this character actually ended up being my favorite. Like how Data was the only one trying to show ‘emotion’ in Next Gen, I felt like the Doctor was the most ‘human’. The irony was, nice.
@AlanCanon22223 жыл бұрын
"It's just a theory though." Fortunately, Star Trek fans never take theories and run with them.
@CaptainHessi14 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite characters in Star Trek!
@rkmugen2 жыл бұрын
I hope when Voyager finally made it home, that Starfleet would've had the idea to build Soong-type android bodies for EMH and ECH holograms to inhabit in particularly hazardous situations. I mean, it would make sense, since I would imagine it would still be somewhat out of reach for even 25th Century technology to re-create the Voyager EMH's mobile emitter, which is from the 29th Century (stolen by a 20th Century crazy businessman).
@james13sylar2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure the holograms are compatible with Noonien technology, it might like Apple vs Windows. And the Federation seems very reluctant to attempt to create new life, organic or synthetic, since then they have to go through all the work of deciding if they are their own individuals or not. Data was granted autonomy, but the droids they made on his image didn't seem to have his level of cognition and self awareness, probably to avoid that dilema. Even the Persocomps might have been recognized as "sentient beings with independence" according to Lower Decks, and the same is probably what happened to the Doctor, he is shown to be walking freely in some alternate futures, but the rest of the holograms seem to be limited to prevent them from becoming self aware or modify their programming. In short, when a "robot" becomes sentient, the Federation welcomes them, but they try really hard to avoid getting to that point.
@waldoman72 жыл бұрын
@@james13sylar @James Sylar what was unique about data was only his brain, which is basically the one part this suggestion is asking not to have. The EMH is the brain, or at least, the program within the brain that is voyager's computer which by some lucky accident has accomplished the same thing that Soong did(sapience) As for the body, correct me if I'm wrong but a simple humanoid robot to perform basic physical duties seems well within federation capability. In 2021 we could already make a crude maid robot and by 2031 it won't be crude. The hard part is the brain.
@seriascannain66752 жыл бұрын
I do not see the point of that story line unless it is about an AI Rebellion \ Revolution within the Federation!
@heisdeadjim2 жыл бұрын
The strangth of the EMH and the weakness was that it was a hologram. As we saw with the Prometheus, the Andy Dick EMH, the Doctor can go wherever there are hologram emitters. So assuming a ship is built with emitters all over, the doctor can move from one part of the ship to another at will. Giving him a corporeal body means he becomes time.limited by needing to walk or run to get from A to B. Him being an android limits his movement shipwide.
@NoahSpurrier2 жыл бұрын
“It’s just a theory, though.” Picardo gave a great performance on this show.
@washcloud14 жыл бұрын
He's delivered the best comic lines standing up though :p
@DinoD_13 Жыл бұрын
Such a great actor and character.
@mathewdeering2 жыл бұрын
Don't get me wrong, Voyager was what got me into Trek, but there were only two characters in it that I would say are truly great in the realms of the whole of Star Trek. Seven, and the Doctor.
@whetulloyd66604 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite characters on the show. I love Star Trek Voyager and thanks to 'Netflix' I am watching the series again 😀
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@tonymarino84 жыл бұрын
My favorite character on Voyager. Robert Picardo is an amazing person an actor.
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@beingsshepherd2 жыл бұрын
@@beyondlimitationsvideo 'Video unavailable'
@gregorydean40382 жыл бұрын
Spock Data and the EMH all had the same template, discovering humanity and emotion. It's what they had in mind for him, he was just unawares. Once he mastered it, he past it on to seven. Same trope used over and over. But picardo was hitting different tho
@jasonreed75222 жыл бұрын
I think its because with the Doctor it was always in the background and never the focus of an episode the way TNG handled Data's emotional growth. The Doctor just subtly grows and expresses the most human emotion of them all first, irritation, and from their the rest grow like joy "his singing" or habit "they removed the mandate to ask what the emergency was and he decided to say it anyway because it felt right". In contrast Data is very in your face about how he discovers emotions and learns to deal with them in a very child like way. (It makes sense its childish because you learn to understand emotions as a child)
@persephone342 Жыл бұрын
The man is an absolute joy! When he’d sing an aria, I would be brought to tears. I also an Opera singer. The passion and discipline it takes to sing opera is often overlooked and misunderstood by those that don’t enjoy it.
@fatbastard75392 жыл бұрын
They took some of the attitude from Marvin the robot in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
@AengusFallon14 жыл бұрын
"Wait a minute...Picardo!"
@zprodigy13 жыл бұрын
'Please state the nature of the medical emergency' squeeeeeeeee! :D
@Jeng428010 жыл бұрын
I loved the doctor! And Voyager was amazing. :)
@michael.barlow3 жыл бұрын
I dont get the hate for it its my favorte ST series and I like all of them. Its the most rewatchable of them all IMO
@quantumjet253 Жыл бұрын
Seriously, genius casting. The Doctor is absolutely one of the greatest characters in the whole of this franchise, and while that's in part down to the writing, Picardo was perfect for this part. I really hope we see him back in a future show. I want to see a Seven-led, Captain, with Picardo as part of the crew.
@odisseusrh11 ай бұрын
You should see him as Richard Whelsly in the Stargate franchise
@quantumjet25311 ай бұрын
@@odisseusrh Ok, I'm a bit shocked. I've actually wateched all of Stargate, and really enjoyed it, but I don't remember him being in that. It was a long time ago, so maybe I need a rewatch. I guess I might have been on to something regarding seven though!!! Perhaps I ought to stick with guessing the future, rather than recalling the past.
@odisseusrh11 ай бұрын
@@quantumjet253 he's only on Stargate for like 2 or 3 episodes then crosses over to Atlantis to be boss after Col Carter's tenure as leader.
@Locutus4942 жыл бұрын
2:50 Disappointed they missed "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop" from First Contact (though I guess, technically speaking, that was a different character).
@eryqeryq Жыл бұрын
My favorite character on the show.
@marcse7en2 жыл бұрын
The Doctor is my FAVOURITE Voyager character! 👍😂
@JohnDoe-sl6di Жыл бұрын
Doctor is my favorite voyager character. Wish he showed up more in the other shows
@Wooktent2 жыл бұрын
So Picardo invented Doc's sass. Amazing
@stream_gene11 ай бұрын
The showrunners went in thinking Neelix was going to be the break out character, and oh how the tables turned. Picardo took this potentially shallow role and gave it the impetus for the writers to explore the potential the EMH had for comedy and drama. Such a wonderful tour de force.
@stratfordbaby7 ай бұрын
Never saw Robert in the flesh but from what we see in the interview, he seems like a genuinely interesting person.
@Tigershark_3082 Жыл бұрын
Robert Picardo is such a fantastic actor
@matthew8153 Жыл бұрын
The video ends right as he’s about to given an example of the suggestions he was allowed to make. I can’t help but feel as though that represents something.
@magicalhats2 жыл бұрын
looking back, the Doctor was my fav voyager character. love all the episodes that focused on him
@respectfulanarchist4272 жыл бұрын
This Brit is so grateful to the USA for Star Trek. I was brought up with it & Star Wars. Thanks USA.
@RemnantCult2 жыл бұрын
You folks have Dr. Who and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so it all balances out!
@Fatherofheroesandheroines2 жыл бұрын
This guy sounds like the Doctor in real life lol
@seraphinaaizen62782 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure if you were to ask someone who their favorite voyager character was, 99% of people would say "The Doctor". He was the breakout character for the entire run time of the show.
@philiphunn194 Жыл бұрын
Which is kinda funny, because the producers expected Neelix to be the breakout character. Who knows, if Picardo had played him, maybe he would have been.
@Tap-a-roo Жыл бұрын
Robert Picardo was a joy on Voyager, on the Stargate series ... pretty much everything. Great actor.
@TheSubwaysurfer3 жыл бұрын
I just loved his performance on the showCHINA BEACHwhere he also played a doctor and was trilled when he was cast in voyager
@dannyr29762 жыл бұрын
'The Doctor' was the best character throughout the show imo, his constantly sarcastic frustrated demeanour in the early episodes did make me laugh, but Mr Picardo kept Voyager on a trajectory based on quite a weak premise...
@jasonreed75222 жыл бұрын
The premise was fine, the follow through was not. The question of how does a federation crew stranded from home react and survive is very interesting and freeing of all the samey Federation space politics that have been established over 3 shows and i think around 17 seasons (can't be bothered to look it up). The problem is that they used the wrong story structure. OG star trek is very episodic, TOS is litterally a soap opera in space with plots reminicent of Shakespeare. But in general the episodes are fly to planet, inciting incident, plot, clean resolution, next episode is 3 weeks in universe later after everything gets reset by visiting a shipyard to pick up a new shuttle, top off the torpedoes and antimatter tanks, and get a new coat if paint. Voyager needed story arcs similar to in Enterprise's Xindi war where the ship still had battle damage 5 eps later. The producers could even have kept tabs on how many resources have been expended and recovered, especially with focus on battles where they are out of torpedoes or aiding a planet in barter for goods because they don't have currency. But the best part of Voyager were certain characters, the Doctor being the best. He has a few "solo" episodes like message in a bottle or when his backup file is found on a planet in the far future and the historical timeline is wrong (but evil Janeway was a certain kind of awesome)
@dannyr29762 жыл бұрын
@@jasonreed7522 The Janeway from 'Living Witness' was frikkin' badass! Season 4 was my overall favourite, but the whole premise I found problematic from a sustainable logistical side. A Federation ship stranded in a quadrant of space having to find compatible technologies. Voyager's state-of-the-art bio-neural circuitry was more efficient than previous Starships, but Voyager eventually would need to dock at a starbase. My other issue was crew compliment, at least with previous shows crews could be temporary assigned, even killed off, and though unfortunate, replaced easily. Voyager started with a crew of 150, how many crewmembers were actually 'redshirted' over the seven years? Also found it convenient so many of the senior crew died when the ship was found into the Delta Quadrant!
@myfriendbro2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Pakistan and I am a Surgeon. IMHO he is the best doctor in all Trek with Julian Bashir a second
@fastertrackcreative7 ай бұрын
"It seems that someone has forgotten to terminate my program. I'm a doctor, not a nightlight." 🤣
@vdxx15 жыл бұрын
I Love Voyager the BEST EVER !!!!!!!!!! Thanks
@trevorblair90622 жыл бұрын
I loved his character
@stratfordbaby Жыл бұрын
Not only is he a program, he's sentient. For him to have pride, to have hurt feelings, that's consciousness, that's sentience.
@tekmepikcha68302 жыл бұрын
OMG This was a good interview and insight behind the character!
@TotallyRadicoolDude2 жыл бұрын
It's a tragedy that the doctor from Voyager never met Data.
@PieFights2 жыл бұрын
starting at 2:43 The Doctor is paying tribute to the legend Doctor McCoy from the oringal series with the lines of I'm a doctor not a
@MegaBoilermaker2 жыл бұрын
And as for "I am a Doctor not an Engineer" I am both.
@dread-cthulu3 жыл бұрын
Best Voyager character.
@odisseusrh11 ай бұрын
Spock, Data, Doctor. 3 best Star Trek characters.
@odysseusrex59082 жыл бұрын
The Doctor is the best thing about Voyager. He started out, as Picardo describes him here, as just a computer program, purely functional, and it would have been entirely realistic to leave him like that but, instead, they let him develop, very slowly. Many other shows would have had some significant event which would have instantly turned him into a fully fleshed out sapient being, but Voyager didn't do that. They let it happen gradually, in a very believable manner. It was excellent science fiction.
@jasonreed75222 жыл бұрын
His first bit of growth was the emotion/feeling of irritation (at others) when he complains about being used incorrectly, which is perfectly reasonable for a tool. Contrast him with Data who gains emotions in spurts and get while episodes dedicated to understanding them, which sort of happens with 7/9 as she regains her humanity in spurts, litterally having the machines removed from her. I just wish that when they had her learn a leason that the writers would remember she grew a little.
@philiphunn194 Жыл бұрын
I liked his guest appearance on Deep Space Nine - when the EMH v.1 was activated briefly he was basically the irascible, unreasonable Doctor from the pilot, as opposed to the more nuanced version of the character concurrently appearing on Voyager.
@KasaiWolf078 ай бұрын
He, Seven, Paris and Tuvok were the best characters.
@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock2 жыл бұрын
Hey Harry you're such a tip top officer that starfleet would prefer to have a hologram in charge over you. Lol!
@themamosians6215 күн бұрын
The doctor in Voyager i honestly think is one of the best characters in the whole of star trek and Robert P made the character
@piotrd.485011 ай бұрын
"I guess it is comforting to know that... at least one of you is still doing what I designed you to do." (Life line)
@-M0LE Жыл бұрын
Superb character Superb actor
@williamsweeney3215 Жыл бұрын
I love his I’m a doctor lines an awesome connection to bones.
@henry222ist2 жыл бұрын
This puts a smile to my face.
@enrac2 жыл бұрын
From First Contact, "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop"
@robertcooke9632 жыл бұрын
My favourite character throughout Star Trek
@travisporco2 жыл бұрын
the doctor is actually another fascinating almost-human character
@jannieschluter9670 Жыл бұрын
Doc is so brilliant!
@sarbnitrof46632 жыл бұрын
You never really think about it but Picardo kind of sounds like Kirk.
@timothy46642 жыл бұрын
He had the best arc of all star trek doctors
@5urg3x Жыл бұрын
His character evolution was so great
@shreddersaurusrex323 Жыл бұрын
“I’m a doctor, not a night light.” 😂😂😂😂
@arthouston7361 Жыл бұрын
Well…… I have a big advantage here being an older actor and Star Trek fan going back to the original series, and I had the pleasure of watching Robert Picardo on China Beach, where his demeanor as a doctor was very similar to the emergency medical hologram….. and I think that those two parallel experiences were both wonderful. I like to believe that the former role prepared Robert well for the latter role.
@Hannes.Richter2 жыл бұрын
This guy... such a gold standard
@MCF9612 жыл бұрын
“Damn it Janeway, I’m a doctor not a space cadet.”
@arielklay232 жыл бұрын
I just realized that the EMH character on Voyager is a *lot* Marvin depressed robot from Hitchhikers' Guild to the Galaxy.
@henryasher19202 жыл бұрын
You could have let the man finish his sentence!?
@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 Жыл бұрын
I guess someone somewhere said 'Computer, end programme'
@Madeintheshade65 Жыл бұрын
In the part 1 of 2 in Endgame the Doctor finally reveals his name he chose wait for it…Joe
@AngelOfDeath420 Жыл бұрын
Second only to Bones in my book :) IF I made a program like the Doctor I would use his physical parameters.
@Jayteaseepiirturi3 ай бұрын
It's interesting to hear the background here... Because in the end I kind of found the Doctor's development be quite natural. It wasn't just crammed into the story. I felt he evolved in quite a natural way. Just... I never kind of understood why he was given such an unlikable character to set things off. Unfriendly and impatient. In the very end, I love what they did with the character even if he never quite made it to one of my favorites.
@ShasOSwoll2 жыл бұрын
"I could ask them a question, and say-" *video ends* The perfect "Doctor" way to end the video
@2ndEndingVintage4 жыл бұрын
where's part 2 of this segment ??????!!!
@wastedyouth191985 Жыл бұрын
Every Great actor who's played a great character: Oh i'll just wing it, i don't really want this part anyways. (10 years later : It was an amazing adventure)
@sanddagger3611 ай бұрын
I love how he hated the beginning of the doctor. He thought he was boring. If he had been singing opera right after activation, it would not have worked. He needed to start off that way, and I'm glad he stuck it out. He very well could've quit and been recast. All they had to do was say Kim changed the shell of the program to improve bedside manner and that would've been it.
@nicholasmaude69062 жыл бұрын
It just occurred to me that if Walter Matthau was about twenty years younger he'd have made a good choice to play the Doctor;):).
@NickDaGamer19982 жыл бұрын
The one character Rick Berman did good
@sloo6425 Жыл бұрын
03:25 I was think more of Wrath of Khan fame Ricardo M .... Wait I can hear something... "Khaaaaaannnnnn!!!"
@-carlos-danger18912 жыл бұрын
I love Star Trek, but if there is one thing that I've noticed over the years, it's that Star Trek actors love to talk about themselves.
@AndrewChapman2 жыл бұрын
Wow, imagine if Picardo had been Neelix.
@RMKry Жыл бұрын
Best actor for ST doctor.
@dmw13 Жыл бұрын
What's amazing is that he thought Neelix was the great character when actually the doctor was the emerging Data type character. Neelix was left by the wayside and the doctor was a main stay that coloured every episode he was in, especially the emergency command hologram version!
@marvenlunn60862 жыл бұрын
I'm a doctor not a nightlight sounds like doctor McCoy
@hungryhungryhobo1962 жыл бұрын
Well he did say he was made from the knowledge/experience of 40 medical officers who's to say McCoy wasn't one of them
@999benhonda11 ай бұрын
The doctor character was a great replacement for data's character. Like data, he starts off slow but gets great development and becomes a great exploration of being human and a great place for natural humor.
@richardoakley88002 жыл бұрын
But you were perfect for the part
@BoomGiggity11 ай бұрын
4:52 - Marvin: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
@randywarren7101 Жыл бұрын
I definitely liked Robert Picardo in "China Beach" and Stargate:SG1\Stargate:Atlantis besides being in ST:Voyager!
@colin86969082 жыл бұрын
next lets do a interview with Kes, and her slow decent into madness.
@andytay55072 жыл бұрын
VERY enlightening. But PLEASE fix the 'Docter' typo.
@TheOmegaRiddler Жыл бұрын
I'm a doctor, not a database. Maury: The lie detector says you lied.
@One_and_Forsaken2 жыл бұрын
I dont know about you but the Doctor was always my favorite character of the show :D