Renaissance Man ( episode ) The Doctor must become a master of disguise to save Captain Janeway . Summary . Teaser . The Doctor sings " Questa o quella " very loudly with the full orchestral music accompaniment playing as he steers the " Delta Flyer II " . This is much to the disgruntlement of Captain Janeway , who was trying to sleep in the aft compartment , though she conveniently shrugs it off with a replicator giving her a cup of black coffee when she emerges . They discuss The Doctor ' s many abilities and how he is capable of much more than a common Human because he is a hologram , and so is not bound to many of the physical restrictions an organic form is subject to . They also briefly converse that he and the captain rarely spend any time together , but when he states that they should do so more often sometime in the future , he doesn ' t notice Janeway ' s sudden look of dismay . As the " Delta Flyer " passes by a Mutara - class nebula , they encounter a subspace eddy . The turbulence created by the eddy prompts Janeway to suggest that she take the helm , but The Doctor assures her that control of the situation is well within his capabilities . Act One . On " Voyager " , Vorik and B ' Elanna Torres are trying to track down some plasma surges when Tom Paris tries to lure her to lunch with potato salad under the glow of a red giant . However , sense of duty and a promise to the captain prevent Torres from going along . Meanwhile , Ensign Harry Kim is in charge when Lieutenant Ayala detects an odd transmission from the " Delta Flyer " , via a pulse directed at its transceiver array . Kim attempts to hail the " Flyer " without success , but after some modifications , establishes contact with the vessel . Janeway describes an attack by aliens that damaged the " Flyer " s communications system , and states that she and The Doctor are fine . She asks Kim to notify Chakotay to meet with her once she has docked . In her ready room , Janeway tells Chakotay about the attack , stating that a technologically superior race , the R ' Kaal , were the cause of the damage to the " Flyer " , and that they almost didn ' t make it back . Apparently , " Voyager " had unwittingly been traveling through their space for three weeks , in violation of their laws . She described how the R ' Kaal were ecological extremists , believing that traditional warp drive damages the fabric of space . They wanted to destroy " Voyager " with their cloak ed fleet , but Janeway convinced them to allow them to settle on an M - class planet in exchange for surrendering their warp core . Chakotay attempts to protest , but Janeway says that she is tired of their long journey and its perils . She also tells Chakotay to not discuss it with anyone . She orders him to set course for the nearest planet and dismisses him before he can protest further . Janeway goes to engineering and asks Torres to make modifications to the " Flyer " s tractor beam so it can safely tow a warp core . After Janeway leaves , Torres pages Chakotay to tell him about it . He then goes to the bridge and asks Janeway about it , wondering why she told Torres about their situation . She doesn ' t seem to have a response and states that she doesn ' t feel well and leaves for her quarters , Oddly , she briefly seems to talk to herself quietly as she goes . Chakotay , confused , then goes to sickbay and asks The Doctor if anything was wrong with Janeway ' s health , but The Doctor says there was not . Chakotay does get him to agree to examine Janeway in her quarters , and then departs for astrometrics to ask Seven of Nine to attempt to detect any cloaked ships in the area . While there , Kim calls for him and says a transmission is coming through . Once on the screen , a Supreme Archon Loth demands to know when " Voyager " will surrender its warp core . Chakotay stalls by saying they can ' t do it until they have reached the planet they are heading for . Loth gives a deadline of ten hours before the ship will be destroyed . After The Doctor tells Chakotay that Janeway is in perfect health , he goes to her quarters to see her , but she is not there . He calls for her on his combadge , but just then she comes around the corridor . In her quarters , they debate the necessity of their current circumstances , and Chakotay mentions a mission at Lessek Prime where Janeway saved an away team by disobeying her captain ' s orders . After Janeway says that the situations are totally different , Chakotay reveals that he made the whole thing up and attempts to call Tuvok , since Janeway is apparently an impostor . " Janeway " , however , places a dampening field around the room to block his call . Apologizing , she retrieves a hypospray from under the desk and approaches Chakotay , who catches her wrist with both hands . He struggles to hold back the hypo from his neck , but " Janeway " isn ' t even straining , proof that she isn ' t Human . The hypo relentlessly reaches its target , rendering him unconscious . Act Two . " Janeway " then transports Chakotay to the morgue where she hides him . She then goes to sickbay and puts a foot up on the office desk where the mobile emitter can be seen on her ankle . She is actually The Doctor . It is revealed that Janeway was taken hostage by two Overlooker s before they managed to return to and are demanding the warp core in exchange for her release . They are monitoring his perceptual subroutines and thus can see and hear everything from his point of view ; he can ' t talk or write a warning to the crew without them knowing . In an attempt to free the captain , The Doctor has assumed the identity of various members of the " Voyager " crew . The Doctor contacts the Overlooker captain , Zet , demanding to speak to Captain Janeway . When he does , she directly orders him not to eject the warp core and to tell Tuvok what ' s happening . Zet reminds The Doctor that Janeway ' s life is at stake , and increases his demands to include some of " Voyager " ' s bio - neural gel packs . Desperate to save Janeway , The Doctor disobeys her order and agrees . Janeway is on the Overlookers ' Hierarchy survey vessel . Once off the call , Janeway tries to sow doubts into the pair by stating The Doctor is fooling them , using holographic fake scenery . One of the Overlookers , Nar , wants to call off the plan , but Zet only briefly hesitates . It appears they are Hierarchy renegades and have planned this for months . They already have a buyer , and he is not backing off . Meanwhile , The Doctor gets to work , impersonating Chakotay to talk to Tuvok about his scans of the " Delta Flyer " , then ( with Janeway ' s voice ) calls Torres to Janeway ' s quarters so he can get in engineering while impersonating Torres . He is able to get Vorik to tell him where spare gel packs are stored , however , while in the process , The Doctor is surprised by Paris , obviously not knowing of their earlier encounter . Postponing an impromptu meal to that evening , he gets Paris to leave , however , just as he completes retrieving the gel packs , Kim calls Chakotay to astrometrics . There , Kim tells The Doctor ( as " Chakotay " ) that the message from Loth came from within the ship , holodeck two to be more precise . Kim then goes to holodeck with " Chakotay " in tow . There , Kim finds the holodeck logs have been deleted . Just as he finds out The Doctor is responsible , he is incapacitated and moved to the morgue . Act Three . While The Doctor tries to unwind with " The Blue Danube " in the background while sitting at his desk with his kit with the three comm badges he acquired , Tuvok enters to confront him with a discrepancy in the message sent through the deflector dish exposing The Doctor ' s involvement . The Doctor feigns ignorance but Tuvok is insistent , destroying one of the sickbay ' s holoemitter s . The Doctor then jumps through the glass into his office and escapes with the mobile emitter . Tuvok quickly calls for security backup and follows him into the holodeck . The Doctor has locked the doors and made multiple copies of himself inside , buying time . Tuvok asks Torres to cut power to the holodeck as he is threatening The Doctor at the same time . The Doctor , however , already made his escape and uses a Jefferies tube to get to engineering . Tuvok orders a shutdown of all turbolift s and transporter s . The Doctor convinces the real Torres , as Chakotay , that there is an imminent warp core breach in progress , however , Paris calls Torres to say The Doctor is right near her . He confines her with force fields and activates his Emergency Command Hologram subroutines and successfully ejects the warp core . He tries to transport to the " Delta Flyer " but transporters are down . Quickly , he shuts down internal sensors and , as Torres , he goes through Jefferies tubes again to get to the shuttle bay . Tuvok reasons his plan and intercepts him , not fooled by seeing Torres . However , The Doctor makes a surprising leap off the wall and over Tuvok , grabbing his phaser and stunning him . He steals the " Delta Flyer " to tractor the ejected warp core to the Hierarchy ship . Janeway , seeing Nar fixing obsolete engine parts , starts to strike up a conversation with him about it by giving him a tip in fixing it . Nar happily thanks her and shares his fondness for his hobby and his dream of starting an outpost for such an outlet . She proposes that Torres might be interested in acquiring everything when Zet interrupts them . Then , they detect the " Delta Flyer " . When The Doctor arrives at the kidnappers ' ship , however , they change plans and take him hostage , too , intending that he stay and work for them , with a few modifications to his program , of course . Act Four . Eventually , Paris finds Chakotay and Kim at the morgue and , with relief , finds they are just unconscious . Soon , Torres is able to restart the impulse drive . Oddly , an altered version of " The Blue Danube " starts playing on every com channel of the ship . At first , they think the recording is flawed and several of the notes are played off key . Chakotay tries to pause the music , but the computer won ' t comply . This , along with the fact that The Doctor had played the piece flawlessly a month earlier during a recital , prompts Tuvok to suggest The Doctor altered it on purpose . Using a Fourier analysis , they crew discovers that the off - key notes are actually a warp signature embedded within the music , which allows them to track the aliens , 6 . 7 light - years away . Meanwhile , on the Overlookers ' ship , Janeway thinks about escape , trying to amplify The Doctor ' s matrix to disrupt the force field . During , The Doctor apologizes for his actions , but Janeway doesn ' t think this is the time . Nar comes to them to upload The Doctor ' s first assignment . He allows him to do so , and , quickly , objects . They want him to infiltrate a Hierarchy surveillance base to steal data . However , in doing so they begin to destabilize his main program . Act Five . Paris and Tuvok are tracking the Overlookers ' ship in a shuttle . While Nar fumbles with The Doctor ' s program and warns Zet he will decompile soon , Tuvok fires on the ship and beams Paris over to the " Delta Flyer " . Zet orders Nar to fire on both vessels , which he does reluctantly while suggesting they give back the warp core so they ' ll leave . Zet complies , but also tries to arm a torpedo to destroy it , killing them while they escape and shocking Nar . Another blast damages the force field , releasing Janeway and The Doctor who subdue Zet and release the warp core . Zet continues to fight The Doctor , but , surprisingly , Nar decides to help them and knocks Zet out . The crew quickly arrives back on " Voyager " directly to the holodeck , where Kim , Seven and Torres quickly get to work on his program . Believing he will not survive , he makes a bit of a deathbed confession to the whole group , including , among other things , that he recorded Janeway ' s " questionable " command decisions , told Neelix about a time when Tuvok had a particularly bad rash ( breaching doctor - patient confidentiality ) , violating confidentiality , and told someone Kim ' s saxophone playing was bad . Finally , he turns to a confused Seven to admit that he is in love with her . He does survive , however , when Torres manages to delete all the added subroutines in time . He ' s immediately embarrassed . Janeway visits The Doctor in his office in sickbay , telling him that his friends miss him . The Doctor felt unsure if he had any friends left after his " deathbed confession " . She does remind him that he would be punished by not being allowed to leave sickbay for six days , but considering that he stayed in sickbay that entire week , she considers it as time served . She then invites The Doctor to join her in the holodeck for coffee at an outdoor cafe in Buenos Aires , taking him up on his offer to socialize with him a bit more , but only on the grounds that he would leave his rank at the door , and that there would be no opera . He accepts . Memorable quotes . " " I ' ll be there . . . sweetheart . " " " " ' Sweetheart ' ? Well , aren ' t you getting affectionate in your third trimester . " " " " Sit down and relax , captain . You have a hologram at the helm . " " " " You know , this might be our last chance to be alone . . . for the next " eighteen " years . " " " Voyager " can survive without its warp core . . . but not without its captain . " " " " Now , it doesn ' t have either ! " " " " You wouldn ' t shoot a pregnant woman , would you ? " " " " Ensign , at your recital last month , I told Lieutenant Torres that your saxophone playing reminded me of a wounded targ . I should have put it more delicately . I ' m sorry ! " " " " A pregnant woman should not be eating this ! Do you want to give me an arterial occlusion ? " " " Oh , one drumstick is not gonna kill you ! " " " " I love you , Seven ! " " " " Doc . . . got anything else you ' d like to confess ? " " " " Goodbye , my friends ! Speak well of me . " " " ( The Doctor vanishes . ) " " Is he . . . " " " " No , I got him . " " " ( Torres reactivates him ; he ' s cringing in anticipation of destruction then opens his eyes . ) " " " What happened ? " " " " I deleted the extraneous subroutines . " " " " So , I ' m not going to decompile ? " " " " You ' ll probably outlive us all . " " Links and references . 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