| In this episode, the Doctor, while running
scans on the entire crew, discovered that he had operated on Ensign Kim
eighteen months ago, but both he and Kim did not remember the operation.
When Seven of Nine (who was not on Voyager eighteen months ago) agreed
to help the Doctor discover what happened, the Doctor loosed 24 hours worth
of memories. Eventually the Doctor set a camera up in sickbay and
caught Captain Janeway deleting his memories.
After help from Seven of Nine, Janeway decided to tell the Doctor what happened eighteen months ago. When the Doctor discovered that he chose to save Harry Kim over another patient with an equal chance of survival, he realized that his decision was based on friendship. The Doctor entered another feedback loop and could not stop thinking about his decision repeating what happened eighteen months ago. But this time Janeway allowed him to live out the malfunction instead of covering it up. In the end we saw the Doctor start down the road of recovery when he picked up a book of poetry and started reading. This episode was both entertaining and exciting. I really enjoyed it. But one thing that I found difficult to accept was that the Doctor's program would be advanced enough to cause the malfunction and then to fix it using human methods. I actually began to forget that the Doctor is a computer. Review by: Andrew Luby
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Andrew's Rating: 8.6
Anthony's Rating: 7.8
Carl's Rating: 9.1
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