Revulsion ( episode ) The Doctor meets another sentient hologram , and tries to help the troubled program with his problems . Summary . Teaser . A man slumps to the floor , dead from a blood y wound to the back of the head . Another man drags the corpse away , then scrubs away the bloodstains . But as he scrubs , he begins to fade in and out , as if in a malfunctioning transporter . He immediately goes to a console and sends out a hail , identifying himself as an HD25 isomorphic projection , and calling for help . Act One . Aboard the , Captain Kathryn Janeway , her senior staff and much of the crew are in the mess hall , holding a promotion ceremony for Lieutenant Tuvok . Lt . jg Tom Paris evokes laughter with an account of a particular prank he and Ensign Harry Kim pulled on Tuvok involving his security console and the replicator in his quarters . Janeway recounts how Tuvok corrected her in front of three admiral s for failing to observe proper tactical procedures during her first command . Her ego was bruised , she recalls but , she adds , he was correct . She applauds him , stating that she has come to rely on his insightful and unfailingly logic al advice . Citing his outstanding service as chief tactical officer and security chief , she pronounces him promoted to lieutenant commander and attaches a black pip to his collar , adding it to the two gold ones he has , indicating his new rank . With typical Vulcan stoicism , he thanks the captain and assures all present of his continued service to the best of his ability . The formal part of the proceedings over , those present mingle as refreshments are served . B ' Elanna Torres makes to leave , but Paris catches up with her in the corridor . He states that it is ridiculous that they have not spoken in three days , since Torres told him that she was in love with him , to which Torres agrees , acknowledging that they need to talk . Paris explains that he is is aware of the extreme conditions of their situation during the exchange , and says he understands that she probably didn ' t mean it . Looking extremely uncomfortable and vulnerable , she corrects him , stating that she did mean it , but she does not expect him to reciprocate . She begins to babble about " forgetting the whole thing " but is interrupted by Paris , who tells her to " shut up " and passionately kisses her . They are interrupted by The Doctor , and an embarrassed Torres takes her leave . The Doctor informs Paris that , due to Kes ' departure , he has been granted permission by the captain to begin training a replacement , and Paris is " unfortunately " the most medically qualified person on board . Meanwhile , in the mess hall , Captain Janeway and Neelix discuss Neelix ' s first official assignment as ambassador , and Commander Chakotay takes Kim aside . He has an assignment for him : upgrading of the ship ' s astrometrics laboratory . It will be beyond state of the art , utilizing Borg as well as Starfleet technology . He will be working alongside Seven of Nine . Kim becomes quite nervous when told this , as his last collaboration with her proved quite physically painful but , not having a choice , he acknowledges the order . The bridge calls Janeway and informs her of a distress call from a nearby ship . She goes to the bridge , taking with her The Doctor to provide possible medical insight into whatever crisis the distress call may be due to . The Doctor is very excited to see that the hailer is a hologram like himself . He pleads with Janeway to allow him to go to the ship , citing that he is the obvious choice to render assistance to a hologram . Janeway is very reluctant . She tells him that he is their chief medical officer and if he were to be destroyed , it would be catastrophic for the crew . However , his eagerness wins her over , along with his suggestion that Lt . Torres accompany him to watch over him . A very uneasy Kim enters a darkened Cargo Bay 2 . Reluctantly , he calls to Seven of Nine . She responds as she descends a ladder and Kim becomes visibly nervous . They begin to discuss plans for the initial phase of the lab ' s design . The Doctor and Torres head for the stricken ship using a shuttlecraft . They arrive and beam aboard . As they begin to look Torres , tricorder in hand , goes to a console and begins working at it . The isomorph appears behind them , in the shadows , stalking them . He picks up a hammer - like object and sneaks up towards them quietly . Oblivious to the danger , the two officers banter . The Doctor ' s holographic nature is mentioned . Upon hearing this , the isomorph dematerializes , dropping the object , and re - materializes on the other side of the room , as if he had just come in . The noise of the object hitting the floor alerts the officers . The hologram apologizes for frightening them and steps forward and the officers introduce themselves . Act Two . The hologram ' s name is Dejaren and he is disappointed to learn that only The Doctor is a hologram . Torres scans him as he flickers and believes she can repair his holographic projector s . He shows her where they are and she begins repairing them . The Doctor asks him what happened to the crew . Agitated , Dejaren responds that the ship had left their home planet Seros eight months prior . There had been six members of the crew , all flesh and blood . Two of the crew , it seemed , had become infected with a fatal virus which quickly spread to the others . Unlike The Doctor , Dejaren has no medical subroutine s , thus there was nothing he could do except stand by and watch them all succumb to the illness . After they all died , the ship ' s neglected systems started to malfunction , including his holographic systems . Torres returns and informs Dejaren that she has temporarily stabilized him but she needs to repair his primary holomatrix and asks him where it is . He informs her that it is down below , but warns her that that deck is flooded with radiation ; she would be killed instantly . He points her to an alternate interface on the deck they are on and she goes to it . Back on " Voyager " , Kim and Seven of Nine continue designing the astrometrics laboratory . Seven ' s nature as a former drone drives her to be as precise as possible but she makes a mistake , which Kim points out , somewhat to her distress . She also shows a flagrant disregard for procedures she finds inefficient or unnecessary . Seven , using her left hand which still has remnants of a Borg exoskeleton , reaches into a power coupling despite its extremely high energy level , which could cause severe injury or death . Kim sternly warns her not to do this again , whether the exoskeleton can handle it or not ; safety protocols dictate that the power be shut off first . Nonchalantly , she acknowledges his warning . On the derelict Serosian ship , Torres works on Dejaren ' s holomatrix while The Doctor is in another area , scanning . Dejaren is with him , admiring his mobile emitter , which allows The Doctor to go to areas without holographic projectors . Dejaren mourns his own inability to do so . The Doctor tells him about when he was first activated and how he had to deal with the initial discourtesy of being treated like a mere tool . But , he adds , he has gradually gained the respect of the crew , who now view him as an equal . He has , he continues proudly , even developed hobbies : art , literature and music . He suggests that Dejaren could do the same . Dejaren seems frightened by the suggestion but The Doctor assures him that the way he has handled this crisis will speak well in his favor . He finishes his work and puts away his scanner , not noticing the bloodstain it had been obscuring . Dejaren casually wipes it away with a rag before he can see it . Torres continues working while Dejaren enters behind her , startling her . He goes up to her , passing close to a ripped - out power cable on the floor , still crackling with energy . Torres sternly warns him to be more careful , lest he destabilize his matrix completely , destroying himself . He offers her food , which she takes and nibbles . He looks at the open bulkhead with agitation . He bemoans the condition of the ship , saying that he feels like a part of it , as it sustains him . Torres sympathizes with him . His reaction is completely unexpected . He disparages her , retorting that she is organic , existing apart from her ship , thus she could never understand . Raving manically , he mocks her and all other organic lifeform s , calling them repulsive . He exists , he sneers , as pure energy but she , like all organics , depends on food and water to survive , " " grinding up plants and animals with teeth , swallowing it into a pit of digestive acids " " , shedding hair and skin , leaving her oily sweat on everything . She is , he yells , a " filthy animal " and he is ashamed to be made in the image of an organic . Completely shocked , Torres just stares at him . His raving ends and he apologizes . She quickly leaves but his look , as he watches her go , is very sinister . Act Three . Torres enters the area of the ship where The Doctor is working and informs him of Dejaren ' s behavior . She voices her opinion that he should be deactivated as his behavior denotes psychosis . Further , she had discovered that there was nothing wrong with the environment on the lower decks ; Dejaren lied about them being irradiated . She suggests that he is hiding something down there . These revelations disturb The Doctor . He suggests Dejaren ' s behavior may be the result of the traumatic ordeal he has endured . That may be , Torres agrees but she still intends to find out what is down below . She asks The Doctor to keep Dejaren occupied while she goes and checks on the lower desk . He agrees , just as Dejaren enters , holding a holographic fishbowl containing a holographic fish which he calls Spectrum . Torres casually leaves as The Doctor engages Dejaren in conversation about his " pet " . Back on " Voyager " , Kim and Seven continue their work on the astrometrics lab . They endeavor to remove a data node containing Borg navigational data in order to access it . When they pull it from its socket , Seven of Nine sustains a deep laceration on her hand . This distresses her greatly because , as a drone , she would have healed almost instantly from such an injury . Kim immediately takes her to sickbay . In The Doctor ' s absence , Paris , a trained medic , oversees sickbay . He warns Seven to be more careful , as she no longer has her Borg healing factor and could have severed her carpal nerve which would require major surgery . Shaken , she leaves . Kim angrily rebukes Paris for his perceived insensitivity towards her , frightening her with his talk of severed nerves and major surgery . Paris , amused , correctly deduces Kim ' s infatuation with her , but seriously warns him not to pursue it . Kim leaves after weakly denying the accusation . Act Four . Back on the derelict vessel , The Doctor keeps Dejaren occupied as Torres searches the lower decks . She is looking , not only for anything out of the ordinary but also for Dejaren ' s main holomatrix controls , so that she can shut him off . Moving carefully along the darkened corridors , she comes to a chamber , opens it and enters . Lights automatically come on . Horrified , she sees the bloody remains of the dead Serosian crewmen strewn on the floor . She now realizes the truth : there was no viral infection . Dejaren ' s manic anti - organic rant was far more ominous than she had realized . Having gone insane , he murdered the crew , loathing their organic nature , which means that " her " life is now in jeopardy . Hurriedly , she searches for his matrix controls and finds them . Above , The Doctor listens to Dejaren as the latter tries to persuade him to leave " Voyager " and join him on his ship instead . Dejaren begins to argue his perspective to The Doctor : the organics treat holograms like mere tools , he insists . He has spent his entire existence cleaning up after them . He has learned now that this does not have to be the way of life and will not give control of the ship to any organic . The Doctor tries to reason with him , stressing that , as technological entities , they need maintenance that only organics can give . Dejaren rants that this is untrue : they do not need nourishment , nor do they suffer from disease , therefore " they " , not organics , are the higher form of life . Torres accesses Dejaren ' s matrix , triggering an alarm . Furious , Dejaren transfers himself to her location . Horrified , The Doctor rushes there on foot . As Torres works on Dejaren ' s holomatrix controls , he materializes behind her . She swings a fist at him , but he becomes intangible , rendering the punch ineffective . He then makes his hand " partially " intangible and sticks it into her chest , squeezing her heart . She gasps in agony , but manages to touch a button on a control panel that shuts him off before blacking out . As he vanishes , he screams in rage and frustration . The Doctor enters , finds her lying unconscious , and tends to her . Act Five . Aboard " Voyager " , it is late at night . Kim is working on the astrometrics lab schematics alone in the empty mess hall . Seven enters in response to his summons . He informs her he had an inspiration concerning the lab ' s design . At her request , he hands her the PADD s on which he has outlined his idea . Refusing his offer to sit , she comments on the low lighting in the room , insufficient to see the PADD ' s displays properly . Kim begins flirt with her . Smiling , he calls the light " relaxing " and offers to take her to the holodeck to watch the Ktarian moonrise simulation . Seven ' s response makes Kim extremely embarrassed . She notes aloud his attempts to engage her in idle conversation and his dilated pupils whenever he watches her body . She asks him point - blank if he is in love with her . Kim , not expecting such bluntness , blurts out that he is not . Her next question embarrasses him further : does he wish to copulate ? He stammers that he does not , but she notes the elaborate ritual of seduction and how roundabout it is compared to the Borg method of simply assimilating a species they want . Nevertheless , she concludes , she is willing to " explore her Human ity " . Advancing on him , she instructs him to remove his clothes . Kim stutters that he was only being friendly and suggests they end their work for now . Seven matter - of - factly agrees and returns to Cargo Bay 2 , leaving Kim to slump back in his chair , looking badly shaken . The Doctor revives Torres and informs her that he has found the bodies of all six murdered crewmen . He also informs her of the damage Dejaren did to her heart , which she confirms when pain stabs through her chest when she tries to rise . He has tried to transport them back to the shuttle , but some kind of interference is preventing it . She stumbles to a console to try to get through . She asks for her tool kit , which he goes to retrieve . On the way , he sees Spectrum in his bowl on the floor , and realizes that Torres did not deactivate " all " the holographic projectors . He hurries back and finds Torres again lying unconscious on the floor , this time with a bloody head wound . Dejaren stands over her with the same hammer - like instrument he first tried to sneak up on them with . He wails in psychotic anguish at The Doctor ' s perceived betrayal of a fellow hologram . The Doctor tries futilely to reason with him . They engage in taking physical blows at each other , a useless exercise , as each simply phases the others ' blow through himself without harm . Then , however , Dejaren attacks The Doctor ' s mobile emitter , knocking it off - line and deactivating his program . Gleefully , he picks it up . Torres comes to and struggles to stand up but fails . Dejaren advances on her , hammer in hand . Torres scrabbles away , through corridors , closing doors after her . Dejaren merely phases through them and continues pursuing her . Eventually , he chases her into the room where his psychotic state was first revealed to her . The broken power cable still lies on the floor . Dejaren enters ; having had to leave his bludgeon on the other side of the closed doors , he reaches to strangle her with his bare hands . Torres scrambles backward to the console near the cable and activates power to the cable , which begins to crackle with energy . She seizes it and plunges it into Dejaren ' s chest , completely destabilizing his matrix . A vacant look appears on his face as his program is destroyed , permanently . Torres takes the mobile emitter and re - activates The Doctor . She informs him of Dejaren ' s fate , and they leave to go to the shuttle . At the start of the day , Kim enters Chakotay ' s office to report to him on the progress of the astrometrics lab . He reports that the schematics are complete . Chakotay commends him on their quick work and turns his attention to the construction phase . After what happened the night before , Kim very much prefers not to work with Seven in any way again . He nervously suggests that an engineering team would be better to handle the construction . Chakotay appears confused , asking Kim if he does not want to supervise the construction after all the work he put into the design . Kim nervously declines . Chakotay gravely asks him if there is some sort of problem between him and Seven . He blurts out no , then almost trips over himself seeking dismissal to leave . Chakotay sternly orders him to state what is going on . Kim falteringly tells him of what happened the night before , making sure to be very vague on the details . He refers to the incident as merely basic " " Borg - Human cultural differences " . " Chakotay matter - of - factly tells him that Seven said otherwise . Kim looks as if he is about to retch . Stammering badly , he asks Chakotay if Seven spoke to him about what took place . Chakotay tells him that Seven said that her opinion is that they are making progress , but she is confused by what she called " " our ' complex social interactions ' . " " Kim weakly feigns confusion as to what she meant by that . Chakotay again complements him on his work , but makes it clear that he will stay on the project and work with her . Dismissed , Kim miserably leaves . Chakotay watches him go and when the door closes , he breaks into an amused smile and laughs . Torres and The Doctor , having returned to " Voyager " , are in sickbay , where The Doctor works on her heart . Paris comes to see her , concerned . They suggestively make plans to " meet " later in her quarters , with The Doctor humorously commenting that he is detecting " increased hormone levels " . Paris makes to leave , stating that he going to check on Kim , who is apparently " having a nervous breakdown " . The Doctor , hearing this , begins to feign Dejaren ' s psychotic behavior , manically ordering Paris to remain and clean up the sickbay from his " oily residue on every hypospray " and " sloughed secretions on every console . " But before the two officers get too alarmed , especially Torres , he smiles , revealing the jocular nature of his actions . He states that a little clutter never hurt anyone , and that he thinks the sickbay should have a " more organic " feel . Paris inquires to Torres as to the reason for The Doctor ' s odd behavior , to which she cryptically replies " " it ' s a long story " " . Memorable quotes . " " Had I known this commendation entailed ritual humiliation , I might have declined . " " " " During my three years on " Voyager , " I have grown to respect a great many of you . Others " [ sideway glance to Paris and Kim ] " I have learned to tolerate . " " " " B ' Elanna , this is ridiculous . It ' s been three days and we haven ' t said a word to each other . " " " " I know , we have to talk . " " " " About what you said . I mean , the part about being in love with me . I realize you were suffering from oxygen deprivation and we were literally seconds away from death , so I know you probably didn ' t mean it . " " " " Oh no , I meant it , but I don ' t expect you to reciprocate . Really , you can just pretend that I didn ' t say it . In fact let ' s just pretend that I didn ' t . . . " " " " Shut up . " " [ passionately kissing her ] " " The captain had authorized me to recruit someone with advanced medical training to help out in sickbay . Unfortunately , the most qualified crewmember is you . " " " " You want " me " to be the new nurse ? ! " " " " If that ' s the title you prefer . It . . . will only be temporary , three duty shifts a week . Report to sickbay at 0600 hours . Bring a tricorder , and a smile . " " " " I always wanted to learn Borg . " " " " That is difficult to believe . " " " " I was kidding . It was a joke . " " " " I don ' t know much about Borg women but my advice to you is : don ' t . " " " " When I was first activated I was regarded as little more than a talking tricorder . " " " " This is going to get tedious . " " " " I exist as pure energy , but you depend on food and water to survive . Frankly , I find it disgusting . Look at you . " Look at you ! " Grinding up bits of plants and animals with your teeth . Secreting saliva to force it down your esophagus into a pit of digestive acids . You can ' t even stand to think about it yourself . What a repulsive creature you are , constantly shedding your skin and hair , leaving your oily sweat on everything you touch ! You think that you are the height of intellect in the universe but you are no better than any filthy animal ! And I am " ashamed " to be made in your image ! " " " " 59 . 2 percent . " " " " I beg your pardon ? " " " " That ' s how much power went into life support . 59 . 2 percent & ndash just to keep them breathing , warm , comfortable " " " " They do require quite a bit of maintenance , don ' t they ? " " " " I should know & ndash I spent my entire existence cleaning up after them & ndash when they were busy sleeping , or eating , or engaging in their slovenly carnal pleasures ! " " " " I just spent the last ten minutes hearing his views on biological life . Let ' s just say they ' re a bit unconventional . Did you realize that we organics are a bunch of inferior , disgusting animals ? " " " " Now that you mention it . . . " " " " I see the way your pupils dilate when you look at my body . " " " " Oh , you ' re getting blood everywhere . . . " " " " Are you in love with me , ensign ? " " " " Well . . . no . " " " " Then you wish to copulate ? " " " " No ! I mean . . . I . . . I don ' t know what I mean . " " " " We . . . we had a misunderstanding . " " " " About ? " " " " Oh , it ' s nothing really important . Just your basic Borg - Human cultural differences . " " " " Really ? That ' s not what " she " says . " " ( Fearful stuttering ) " " You . . . you . . . you . . . you spoke . . . you spoke to her ? " " " " All of these elaborate rituals of deception . . . I didn ' t realize becoming Human again would be such a challenge . Sexuality is particularly complex . As Borg , we had no need for seduction , no time for single - cell fertilization . We saw a species we wanted , and we assimilated it . Nevertheless , I am willing to explore my Humanity . Take off your clothes . " " " " Uh . . . Seven . . . " " " " Don ' t be alarmed . I won ' t hurt you . " " " " I ' m sorry about the mess . I haven ' t had time to clean up . [ bemused look from Torres ] It was a hectic day ! I treated two broken bones , an upset stomach and a lacerated hand . " " [ flirting ] " " Does this mean you ' re too tired to meet later in my quarters ? " " " " Are you sure your heart can take it ? " " " " I ' m detecting elevated hormonal levels . If you two don ' t take it easy , I ' ll have to declare a medical emergency . " " " " The last time we worked together I struck you at the base of your skull and attempted to contact the Collective . " " " " These things happen . " " Links and references . 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