The Doctor Brings Back A Message From Starfleet (1080p HD)

Star Trek Voyager - Season 4 Episode 14 - Message In A Bottle - The Doctor Returns To Voyager With A Message From Starfleet

[@mritty115]

"You're no longer alone" was such a heartwarming line, it almost makes me tear up even now.

[@TimoRutanen]

I wanted the doc to say 'Resistance is futile'

[@notchomomma239]

20 years later and this still hits ya right in the feels.

[@karadan100]

I know right? Such a great cast. I love Robert Picardo.

[@SantomPh]

love how the Federation just leaps to respond to the Doctor's information. Others might view it as some enemy trick or a prank. The Federation, the root beer of the universe

[@swordstoplowshares7604]

It's insidious

[@aakashgandhi3653]

The emh probably has an ID subroutine installed that they validated

[@Broockle]

@@aakashgandhi3653 ye but the rootbeer tho. 😂

[@dipperjc]

I love this episode but y'know what would have made it just a little bit better? If the Romulans, after interrogating the EMH, commented, "Wasn't there some scientist who was babbling about a Starfleet ship in the Delta Quadrant on his deathbed a few years ago?"

[@mikeb6902]

thats right, I forgot about that

[@eingoluq]

What is this in reference to?

[@dipperjc]

@@eingoluq Season 1, Episode 7. The Romulan from 20 years in the past who discovered Voyager.

[@eingoluq]

@@dipperjc Thanks, just watched it again for the first time in probably 20 years

[@quin2203]

Robert Picardo single handedly elevated this series. This ep of course was fantastic and allows for some great story arcs that followed.

[@SiXiam]

Too bad he sucked on Stargate Atlantis.

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

For real he was the best cast member of this series. Episodes like Latent Image, Living Witness & Critical care was amazing.

[@r0bw00d]

And Jeri Ryan elevated all the horny fans.

[@williampennjr.4448]

they were all great, but Picardo had a little more range and added a special quirk.

[@pens8766]

He was easily the most interesting character on the ship

[@emti29]

Thats why i like the premise of voyager. Getting stranded in the most remote region in the milky way and getting your crew home makes a good story. It was panned by critics and fans but i really like voyager.

[@JohnS-il1dr]

This is the godfather in relation to the garbage trek we got today

[@RobKMusic]

I love ALL Star Trek --> (RIP 1966-2005) but Voyager us definitely my favorite after TOS. TNG was great but in hindsight, it seemed like Federation backup was never too far away.

[@Seven8001]

Me too!!

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

The concept was great but I don't feel it ever really landed as well as it could have done.

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

@@TheCoolCucumber All good points.

[@user-roninwolf1981]

Technically, the end of the "abandoned" Hirogen network is actually in the BETA Quadrant; that's something the writers keep forgetting to clarify.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

0:19 I love that they played a sample of the DS9 theme when she said it was a Starfleet vessel.

[@blockmasterscott]

OMG, I never noticed that!

[@neo123321]

Oh yeah! Haha you have good ears 😅

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

@@neo123321 Re-listening, it's even better. It's an overlap of the classic Trek and DS9 themes played in a different key.

[@neo123321]

@@TheFiddleFaddle that’s pretty cool isn’t it! I miss these old trek days, don’t get me wrong the new stuff is great but there’s just something about the vintage stuff that can’t or hasn’t been recreated yet.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

@@neo123321 Trek does seem to be on an upward swing again, but it is definitely missing a lot of the novelty of the earlier eras.

[@brucekaraus7330]

Picardo and Mulgrew are just fantastic.

[@technofilejr3401]

3:40 When the show first started I thought the Doctor was a lame concept. But over 7 years he really grew on me. He became one of my favorite characters. This episode and the one in which the Doctor saves the legacy of Voyager on an alien planet just awesome. How could you lose the Doctor. He is a program and would have a backup. Despite Star Trek being loved by tech geeks, the writers didn’t understand basic computing principles.

[@cScottD]

I could be wrong, but I thought they established in TNG that once a program became sentient, it could no longer be copied, only moved.

[@jamesbizs]

@@cScottDwell, voyager also had an episode where his backup was lost and found on another planet….

[@thomasschulz2167]

Yes he's a program, but through the series it was brought up several times that his program matrix was too large for a proper backup to be completely and properly duplicated. There just was not enough of the specially formatted memory for a duplicate to inhabit. It's like trying to duplicate a program that exists solely on an almost full thumbdrive that was designed to only house that one instance of the program. Now other compatible systems could run or store his program, but you run the risk on there being irrecoverable packet loss if the second system is not as capable. More advanced tech like his Mobile Emitter or the Prometheus's Computer system, are probably backwards compatible or built with the required additional hardware. I'm pretty sure the Prometheus's systems were designed to be able to have entire medical and support teams holographically bolster the crews numbers. Which makes sense, as there are places where a holographic damage control team can go that a biological crew member can't. Like patching hull breaches for example.

[@technofilejr3401]

@@thomasschulz2167 Hmmm good point

[@waltlock8805]

@@TheCoolCucumber I remember an early episode where they basically said "Time travel shenanigans (temporal mechanics?) have no rules".

[@elvisneedsboats3714]

And just like that, a KZbin video of of a tv show from several decades ago brings tears to my eyes.

[@sixfootsixinchestall542]

I watched the original series when it was first broadcast, and then the subsequent series. This is the only episode of any Star Trek programs that ever made me cry.

[@Mxyzptlksac]

Same here. Until last year and Q and Picard hugged and said good bye

[@VintageMovieChannel]

neelix leaving

[@escarfangorn]

Have you missed the The Inner Light episode of TNG???

[@Fektthis]

This made you cry over Spock dying? (temporarily)

[@TheDilithiumChambers]

Drone, when seven says 'you're hurting me'

[@megandoyle7395]

One of my favourite voyager episodes

[@BWBDCan]

This one and we're Barkley makes contact. From the enterprise to star fleet command. Seems crazy but has some amazing ideas.

[@jeffpadilla9891]

Great episode, Andy Dick as the EMH was hilarious.

[@jaminova_1969]

Probably one of his best roles!

[@cine.musique]

@@jaminova_1969 good actor but such a mess of a human otherwise

[@teebob21]

@@cine.musique That very well be the two nicest things anyone has said about Andy Dick.

[@c182SkylaneRG]

Aw, "Message in a Bottle" was such a good episode!! I'm told it was the only writing/directing credit for one person, and widely agreed to be one of the best episodes of the series. It's the one episode we never overwrote with the next week's episode. We recorded the next week further along the same tape, or used a new tape. For a long while, this was the only episode we could watch to reilve any of Voyager, and I still think it was a good choice.

[@AnticDuelist77]

I dismissed Voyager at the outset. Then I thought about how I would feel if I were in their situation; lost and far from home, cut off from everyone and everything I know, and surrounded by strange and often hostile beings. In all honesty, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t survive that scenario.

[@legionaireb]

I just realized that when they sent The Doctor he was wearing his mobile emitter, but they didn't animate it dropping.

[@darkknight1a]

If you listen closely after Seven announces that the ship is a starfleet vessel, well, after that, they did play a little bit of the DS9 theme.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

We definitely needed episodes like this. Both to let the crew know that they had survived & to show the audience the progress in how far they've come.

[@markfox1545]

The crew knew they'd survived. They woke up each morning and lived - you're confused by this?

[@SiXiam]

@@markfox1545They obviously mean Starfleet and their families know they are alive.

[@karadan100]

@@markfox1545 Their families didn't and neither did Starfleet.. It was a well-rounded and highly important plot point which served to move the story forward and keep viewers invested.

[@rurirotaru516]

The doctor was great. The actor has been fantastic in many other things too. I'm always excited to see him show up in other things now.

[@Krackonis]

Woolsey :)

[@pojoseph29]

​@Krackonis I always hoped in early episodes that the Stargate would close on him as he stepped through. Amazing actor to say the least 😊

[@pablohammerly448]

I loved seeing Robert Picardo as the father of the super strong female humanoid security officer on The Orville, especially when he referred to humans as "the hillbillies of the galaxy!" 🥴

[@redmondpeters6221]

"You're no longer alone". Prophetic words am I right?

[@MrMackievelli]

We are a super duper advanced civilization but are unable to back up the doctor who is a hologram.

[@NuclearFridge1]

"Oh... Uh... Didn't we have a spare memory card in here? Or did we use it to record Klingon soul food recipes?" 🤔

[@keirfarnum6811]

Seven of Nine demonstrating her value to the crew once again. She rips!

[@DrummingWriterTrekfan84]

Especially the part of the episode where she electrocuted the herogen guy for not cooperating. Lol! 😂

[@L0kias1]

You are not alone , words we all hope to hear

[@imofage3947]

2:10 - Anyone else notice that the Doctor's Mobile Emitter disappeared with him when he was uploaded? It should have fallen to the floor. I think that happened once when he was destabilized by a phaser blast during that holographic rebellion against the Hirogen.

[@ianhampton3568]

He also doesn't seem to be wearing it when he is beamed back to Voyager

[@kidterra4483]

​@@ianhampton3568 When he came back to Voyager, they directly sent him to the Sick Bay, which had the emitters necessary. That is the continuity error during the sending though

[@markgc65]

do he lost it lmao.

[@heysmithify]

Hopefully the Doctor's mobile emitter stayed in the pattern buffers...

[@darkflamestudios]

I love this show so much. This episode brought so much hope to their journey.

[@zorkmid1083]

Good job editing this together. That last scene was priceless!

[@KENOMAN1969]

One of my favorite Voyager moments.

[@shaneculbertson4055]

That's the Mass effect relay

[@ThangPlants]

I get so emotional everytime I watch the end of this episode

[@johncowan1993]

Always catches me in the feels that last moment!

[@mcleodmichael1]

The lesson that this scene drives home is that a mission to outer space is such a dangerous place with the possibility of so many things going wrong so you damn sure don't go out there without self reliance, courage, everything you need to survive and most of all God help you if you get caught up there without a body suit.

[@somewhereoutthere8405]

Wonder if they could use the transporters to convert someone to energy, use the satellite array a “wave guide” and beam that person to the other ship in the Alpha quadrant?

[@codelong1592]

Voyager writers reading this: “shut your whore mouth”

[@sykoone]

They did attempt this in the episode with the romulan ship.

[@jekmr84]

"Far be it for me to deny an opportunity to be a hero" what a great line!

[@brianvincentdoucet4273]

A thrilling episode, to be sure.

[@maridaudran]

I never saw this episode. I will look for it. thanks!

[@frankiejamieson9429]

Love this moment would like to of seen doc talking to command that would of been investing to hear

[@seanbraley2772]

Not really rember the ep where they give him his rights as a liveing being a few seasons later command might not have been to nice to him

[@browonmb]

I always thought a good scene to add would have been to see the mobile emitter laying on the floor after the doctor's departure, giving the viewer (and the people in astrometric's) the suspence he might not return.

[@tvmasterc]

One of my favorite episodes of Voyager!

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Every comment is either "The Doctor's mobile emitter" or "The ship is actually in the beta quadrant." XD

[@leonkernan]

I never noticed, his mobile emitter disappeared when he did. Shouldn't it have fallen to the floor? It also didn't re-emerge with him. Guess it's lost until the next episode reset.

[@seanbraley2772]

Lol ya sense it would be double the digital work to have it drop I’m guessing they hoped we missed it pluse those pins are expensive to cast I only rember seeing it fall once in the ep with the other ships emh I’m guessing they didn’t want to risk braking it

[@ValleyProud916]

Such an underrated series. I loved it

[@barney9456]

0:06 Janeway got a proper glimpse of Seven's butt and gave a wide expression like "DAYUM!

[@jeffreyolin626]

Good catch.

[@oriontherealironman]

Less than 4 minutes and they did what no modern trek has. Evoke a genuine emotion.

[@agriculturesecretary]

You're really going to like strange new worlds if you ever get around to watching it.

[@theyux1]

Id argue the dipshit from chicago made everyone feel a bit.

[@someoldguy109]

This was a great series.

[@Mxyzptlksac]

I noticed the mobile emitter disappeared too

[@das-das-dasboot7956]

bit of an oversight, but forgettable. Great episode.

[@CadillacDriver]

What am I missing? I am trying to work out what's missing and where?🤔

[@das-das-dasboot7956]

@@CadillacDriver 2:11 - the docors left arm where the mobile holo emitter is sent with the doctor

[@CadillacDriver]

@@das-das-dasboot7956 hmmm. I must be on drugs. Do you mean when he is on the pad about to leave? Because it is on him there.

[@das-das-dasboot7956]

@@CadillacDriver yeh exactly, the emitter is a physical device, not holographic - yet it disappeared with him, when it should have fallen to the ground on the pad.

[@nelsongustavodeoliveirales9488]

Captain Janeway is awesome

[@TommyLind-qx8ey]

Fantastic hopeful episode ❤

[@karadan100]

YEAH GO VOYAGER!! What a show that was.

[@williampennjr.4448]

such great acting in this show, I cant understand why i have never seen any of them in other shows or movies since.

[@jaminova_1969]

Kate Mulgrew played "Red" in Orange is the new Black! And erri Ryan was just in Picard season 3. But you are right, I haven't seen the others in much else and think the Voyager is a quality show! I still remember seeing Robert beltran in Night of the Comet, one of my favorite 80's Sci-fi classics!

[@williampennjr.4448]

@@jaminova_1969 I've never watch Orange but I've heard its ratings are dropping. Picard is a pretty awful show not worthy of her acting abilities. Night of the Comet predates Voyager.

[@spk1121]

I don't really watch TV anymore, so I don't know of any recent roles, but after _Voyager,_ Robert Picardo made numerous appearances on _Stargate: Atlantis_ and was even a full cast member for a season or two when his character took over as expedition leader.

[@williampennjr.4448]

@@TheCoolCucumber Picard is another spin off of the Star Trek.

[@pablohammerly448]

​@@spk1121Robert Picardo also guest-starred on "The Orville" as the father of the super strong female humanoid security officer and he referred to humans as "the hillbillies of the galaxy!" 🥴

[@shoresean1237]

There are so many fan films I wish I could create, but two of them would be based on this episode: 1 - The Doctor's debriefing by Starfleet. That had to be something, and 2 - A rewrite of this reset to the original TV 'Lost In Space'. Don't know how all the logistics would go, but just to give them that hope of contact would be awesome.

[@jaminova_1969]

"Danger 7 of Nine! Danger!" Yeah, I would buy that!

[@jenniferreiser7226]

Voyager will forever be my favorite Trek series. I wish so badly that the newer Trek shows could recapture what made Voyager/TNG so fantastic. They’ve become almost indiscernible from Marvel movies at this point. Star Trek definitely could use a “return to form”

[@Alkelly-hh6rv]

Voyager was my favorite Star Trek. They did what was needed to stay alive.

[@divadivad9164]

1080p never looked so good.

[@Sparky1701]

I love Voyager - it was great Star Trek stories thru and thru. It had it's 'Spocks Brain' for some eps, but overall, the stories were awesome and I enjoyed all 7 seasons

[@arthouston7361]

I’m glad they gave Robert some lines that that had real meaning, the way they had done so with Brett Spiner. A lot of the initial EMH personality is very close to what Robert did as the doctor on the China beach series….a bit brusque, a little less than empathetic, but always on point with his science and his job. Everyone in the cast should be very grateful that they were able to take part in that huge family ….that is Star Trek.

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

"60,000 lightyears seems a little closer today"...for sure.

[@jeibal02]

😢😢😢😢 this video always got me

[@williamwhite2830]

Watched this episode last night

[@davidostrowski679]

The ship is in the Beta Quadrant. I always found it odd no one ever seemed to mention the Beta Quadrant throughout the whole show

[@NeonVisual]

The federation extends across both the alpha and beta quadrants, with the Klingon and Romulan space taking up most of the beta quadrant, and with the Gamma and Delta mostly unexplored. So until they can explore the furthest two quadrants they just divide the galaxy up into 4 so they can send deep space exploration vessels to gamma and delta. There's no need to specify a huge chunk of the galaxy as the beta quadrant because they already know the layout of those particular species. So, in this case the federation ship was mid way between alpha and beta, having left federation space and heading to the Romulan neutral zone. By the time Voyager got home they had mapped out huge chunks of the delta quadrant, so from that point onward the federation would refer to the explored parts of the delta quadrant by the species that inhabits it, such as Borg space, Kazon space, etc. They would only still call the unmapped parts "the delta quadrant". In DS9 they had barely begun exploring the gamma quadrant before the founders started a war as the wormhole was in their space, so they continued to call it the gamma quadrant the whole time.

[@biocapsule7311]

That's because the convention of how they quartered the galaxy on a map is base on where Earth is. The Federation is in both Alpha and Beta because the line that separate Alpha and Beta is where Earth is. Like how our traditional modern world map looks the way it does because it is center on the UK, at the time the largest empire in the world. The map depicts what is left and what is right of London. The whole Alpha Beta thing is a Federation convention depicting the the rest of the galaxy from what is left and right of Earth, then go forward.

[@andrewshouse9840]

They did mention it a few times. I think one mentionn was in the Doctor as secret agent episode late season 7.

[@ffnbbq]

Because they didn't want to confuse the audience, mainly. DS9 also stuck to referring to our side of the galaxy as "the Alpha Quadrant" and the war being over that, even though half of the Federation is in the Beta Quadrant, along with the Klingons and Romulans* *Quite how the Dominion was able to use Romulan space to attack the Federation when the Romulans were on the other side of the galaxy is uh, unknown.

[@WaterCrane]

As far as I know, while the divide between the Alpha and Beta Quadrants passes through the Sol System, most of the Federation's major hubs are in the Alpha Quadrant, such as Vulcan. It also contains Bajor (and, by extension, Deep Space Nine and the Bajoran Wormhole) and the Cardassian Union. The Beta Quadrant, on the other hand, is largely dominated by the Klingon and Romulan Empires.

[@itsmrpaddy]

This gave me goose bumps

[@bobbykaralfa]

if i was in a situation like that big shot or not. i probably wouldve broke down in tears

[@collinsdarkwa281]

The brings back messages

[@shaneculbertson4055]

Yeahhhh!!!!!!!

[@jaredharris1970]

My favorite moment was the final episode when all the star fleet ships were waiting for them

[@evertonporter7887]

The final scene when Voyager was heading to Earth, accompanied by the fleet, was one of the most satisfying endings to a show I've ever seen.

[@shaneculbertson4055]

Hard light holograms!!!!

[@shaneculbertson4055]

Seven of nine you see the stable element and I want to collect it!!!!!

[@mbitetto67]

02:05 - The doctor left the ship with his mobile emitter. 02:51 He came back without it.

[@GravesRWFiA]

and when all the terrors had fled from the box, one small thing was left behind, hope

[@jaredharris1970]

This show became more popular once Jeri came on and the minute they showed her in that cat suit ratings skyrocketed

[@kamso5803]

I got more from this 3 minutes clip than Discovery, Lower Decks and Picard combined. Strange New Worlds was alright.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

3:38 "You're no longer alone." When I got out of prison, at the probation orientation, one of the speakers told us that when we were locked up, our loved ones were right there with us. It would have been much more realistic for Janeway to say things you can't say on TV.

[@Tolinar]

It'll seem a LOT closer when they find out that dormant series of relays is Borg technology.

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

01:33 Janeway: "...With any luck they'll be able to send you back the same way you came." Doctor: "Fuck!" 😂 That is the way it sounded to me anyway, and I'm sticking to it, lol.

[@quantumac]

It's amazing how Voyager could not seem to transfer a _copy_ of the good doctor's program, but instead it could only _move_ it from memory bank to memory bank.

[@raggededge82]

I realize we're talking about a fictional technology in a fictional future but that is how Trek has chosen to address holographic characters, Moriarty for example, or the many EMH Mark I that were made obsolete and used for mining. A holographic matrix in-universe is a discrete unit as opposed to something that can be endlessly copied.

[@LOCKBEARD]

2:12 Doctor is transferred while wearing his mobile emitter. Should have dropped to the floor fools.

[@acmenipponair]

They missed that, it seems :D

[@Toybinging]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed that.

[@dougbrantley5844]

They fixed that in a later episode.

[@alphadog9211]

I noticed that too

[@aemiliadelroba4022]

Great news 📰

[@shaneculbertson4055]

Everyone on the teleporters and then teleport the starship home Borg technology seven of nine!!!! Try to talk to yourself...

[@NeonVisual]

He's a hologram and it was only his program that was transferred, it wasn't a transporter, nothing physical was sent.

[@tyronefrielinghaus3467]

Apart from the original series, I think Voyager is the best series. Love Janeway...

[@andresperez7476]

Hope they do make back home eventually 🐚🐙🐌

[@Soguwe]

They don't They get infected with a virus and cannibalise each other The doctor and the autopilot bring back the ship to earth, tho

[@Glaceon42]

They do. It takes a while, but they make their way home.

[@psutherla]

Boy, do I have some news for you.

[@ptonpc]

They turn feral. By the time the ship is found, they are wearing people's skin, eating others alive and have some of the bodies tied to the outer hull.

[@OptimusWombat]

@@ptonpc USS Serenity

[@BestoftheBest-oz4ei]

I know Voyager gets a lot of flack from Trekkies but I myself loved it and it was the only Trek series I watched from beginning to end.

[@klovenkane5982]

I got something in my eye..😢

[@user-ov4wd8qz6l]

Cool

[@diskdrive123]

Can send a entire hologram, but can't send a "hey, come back so we can talk" text....

[@victorjohnson7512]

And Captain Janeway, your Toyota Corolla was left in long term parking at the space port. The parking fee is up to $798,462 now.

[@stevedj101]

I don't remember this episode. Have to revisit the shows.

[@DrDeathReign]

anyone else notice he vanished with a piece of physical hardware on him. it didn't drop to the floor.

[@StYxXx]

2:12 Huh, the mobile emitter was transfered too :D

[@TentaclePentacle]

Yeah they messed up the special effect.

[@LetsDoThisFR]

They definitely just sent him with his holo-emitter

[@SuperVstech]

Heh... in their fush to transport the dr to the alpha quadrant, they transported the mobile emitter as well... i notice it didnt come back when he rematerialized...

[@lemal0432]

For me (Alone???) the Voyager series was the epitome of "Star Trek" - It beat all other iterations of Star Trek hands down.

[@cheekymonkey666]

one thing wrong with this clip they showed the doctor wearing his mobile emitter on his arm, it and him were transported through the network how ever when he came back he didnt have it so was the mobile emitter kept by starfleet?

[@shaneculbertson4055]

Another connection made update the star maps!!!!!

[@Mortified42]

I never understood how his holo-emitter went with him as it isnt part of his programming.

[@Cheva-Pate]

Ahhh… Seven!

[@ff3player]

The Doctor's message at the end of this episode seems to suggest that the Romulan Telek R'Mor from the first season installment "Eye of the Needle" did not, or could not, make arrangements to send Voyager's personal letters to their families, in 2371, after his death in 2367, which would have informed Starfleet of the ship's location in the Delta Quadrant.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Probably Tal Shiar shanaggins.

[@tonynelligan1930]

noticed the his personal holoprojector also went with him. it should of just dropped to the deck shouldn't it? and no projector when he came back.

[@John_P._Buryiak]

The "um actually" nerd in me feels the need to point out that when Voyager sent the Doctor from astrometrics he was wearing his mobile emitter which disappeared along with the Doctor when it should have fallen to the floor as it is a real piece of equipment, not a hologram. That said, I'm not crying, I just have something in my eyes.

[@jethal]

That's one thing I never understood.. if you email a file.. you dont lose the file on your end, you're sending a copy. Though yes, I agree, good episode. The Doctor would be in no danger, in fact there would be another copy of him.

[@joshuaa3075]

After this scene they all joked about how they would need to go to star trek conventions and sign autographs when it was all over. Then speculated whether there would be any movies.