IIRC, the scene was Robert Picardo's idea; he went to the writers and suggested it (probably so he could be in a big-sceen ST film, since Voyager wasn't likely to get its own films....)
Awesome how Picardo was able to swap right back to default doctor: Intolerant with no flair and no developed personality, but still the same ol' doc when actually face-to-face with the borg.
@@stephenbruce1548 "I'm a Doctor, not a doorstop" is a joke about how Mccoy used to react. "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer", "dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker"...etc
No one alive nor anyone that has ever lived or will ever live on this planet will ever be so perfect for this role. The Doctor is one of my favorite characters of all time, regardless of medium or genre!
It was a golden era for Star Trek … perfect casting for so many roles … Picard, Data, Worf, Riker, Garek, Odo, the Doctor, Quark … so many casting home runs …
My father and I used to watch TNG/DS9 together. But the one show we really got into was Voyager. Loved it. When we saw this in theaters we were so happy. It's an awesome cameo!
"I swore I'd never use one of these" i love the idea that Beverly was forced to accept the installation of an EMH unit but refused to use it until now lol
@@DavidKnowles0 well tbh it was never supposed to be part of the crew, it was only for extreme cases where having an extra doctor on hand would be beneficial, like if there were a lot of patients at once or if the medical team is incapacitated
This is such a brilliant film. I didn't even know Gates McFadden could act until I saw her in this! And the first Voyager crossover moment, so well written. It made the Trek universe feel more cohesive and real, which is a good thing, as they changed so much for this film.
Not disagreeing with you but I just wanted to white knight for Gates McFadden; there's been a couple really decent TNG Crusher eps that DONT involve sexy ghost candles where I thought she gave a really great performance. Remember Me, Suspicions, High Ground to name my faves! She was pretty great in the last season of Picard too I thought, surprisingly so. Everyone wants to rip on her plastic surgery but I thought she was one of the few characters who by her mannerisms and delivery really did feel like an older version of their TNG characters. But weirdly I always felt like she phoned it in in Insurrection!
@@directive0 I didn't watch Picard and when I saw first saw a picture of her in season 3 it took me a minute to figure out who she was even supposed to be. She didn't look anything like her old self.
This is my favorite moment in a fantastic movie, and to get to see Robert Picardo's EMH Doctor on the big screen in the 90s was such an unexpected delight!
"I believe someone has failed to terminate my program... I'm a doctor, not a night light." Legend has it, Robert didn't know about the running gag with Bones when he ad libbed that "I'm a doctor" joke.
Yes they were roaming the galaxy in search of this technologies. After this they return to the collective and the borg queen had 3 kid. The USS Enterprise EMH married one of the resulting borg princess.
It would have been a perfect moment at the end of the movie, had the EMH made it through his distraction techniques, and they repeated Bob's audition line for Voyager; On the bridge, everything is all set to return to the 24th century, Picard is about to give the command to set the ship under way, and then the comm system beeps; "Sickbay to bridge, I believe someone has failed to terminate my program, I'm a doctor, not a nightlight!", briefly getting a few confused & awkward looks from the bridge crew, followed by Picard's "Engage!", little moments that just make it more fun... :D
I couldn't help but LOL in the theater the first time I saw this scene, especially when the doctor offered the Borg an analgesic cream while nervously backing up and forced to come to a stop when he reached the bulkhead. 😄😆🤣
would have been hilarious had he started turning them back into normal crew members🤣🤣🤣 using his surgical knowledge the borg vs the emh who will prevail🤣🤣🤣
@@miraveta You know... I'd call your comment completely uncalled for but then I just remembered VOY: Message In a Bottle that reveals that Voyager's EMH does in fact have what you would call... genitalia...
They shouldve activated him as Emergency command Hologram. 4 pips would appear on his neck and the photonic canon would grow out of his arm saving the Enterprise and ending the movie...
They recycled quite a bit. The Enterprise D engineering table was a refurbished one from ST IV. The roof of the transporter on the 1701D was the floor pad of the 1701.
@@TexasNorthDFW The TNG sets were built over the Star Trek I-IV movie sets with the same layout and many recognizable details left intact. Star Trek V and VI temporarily reclaimed them but couldn't make too many changes. Star Trek V could hardly touch them because its filming schedule overlapped TNG's.
Janeway: "You can't have another Janeway, that'd be too confusing" Jankom: "Don't worry Admiral, Jankom Pog has found another programme" EMH: "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" Janeway: I need more coffee....
@joecolman1968 the set for this scene is the same set they used for the sick bay on voyager. It's dressed up a bit to look more cinematic, but you can see the layout is identical
You'll be even more confused when you notice that the Enterprise-D's battle bridge, the Enterprise-A's bridge, the Stargazer's bridge, the Hattaway's bridge, the pirate ship's bridge, the Prometeus bridge, the brig and the room of Utopia Planitia recreated on the holodeck were the same place.
Taken straight out of the Dr McCoy book of "I'm a Doctor not a magician ." Only with a slightly less miffed off tone. And also lacking the "Damnit Jim!" part too. 😅 It still makes me wish we had got the chance to know Voyager's original Chief Medical Officer though.
That is because the Enterprise E was launched in 2372 while Voyager was launched in 2371 so alot of the Starships built around that time shared the same sickbay design to keep it simple.
@@jceggbert5 It probably is in concept, they didnt need to show all of it for that one scene so they just shot it on the Voyager sickbay set with some tweaked lighting and props
Yup. It’s a grand tradition to reuse sets. The Enterprise A’s engine room in The Undiscovered Country looks suspiciously like the Enterprise D engine room.. and the Voyager engine room was actually TNG’s engine room heavily rebuilt. But it’s steel superstructure was the same.
I still wonder if he was able to stop them for a while, or if they identified him as hologram, and didnt bother assimilating him ? Could he have used a hypospray to sedate some of them, or would they have been immune to it because of the nanomachines floating around inside them? btw.: Dont some of the borg use heat sensors, couldnt they tell immediatly where the crew went by residual heat?
Who knows? The EMH can't be assimilated but neither was it programmed for physical combat. At best, it could only distract the borg to buy the others time.
Just before this scene cut off, I think that the borg used their laser scanners on him and this caused some interference with his program, thereby they could tell he was a hologram.
I always wondered why Starfleet did not create Hologram soldiers with physical weapons. We see that Borg shields cant stop a physical weapon. So Hologram soldiers attacking with faster speed than a normal human and laying waste to the Borg.
saw this movie for the first time last night, lol. Seeing the EMH made me smile! But felt bad that Crusher only brought him online to be a sacrifice to buy them time.. 😂 Was curious why we got this cameo instead of any DS9 characters
Some clever editing here. The Doctor is never in any of the shots with the other characters, so they likely filmed his shots afterwards. Likely for scheduling reasons. Now if they were _really_ clever they possibly could have added an over the shoulder shot with a body double and you just don’t see his face.
You know its weird in my memory of the first time i saw this scene. I remember from the borgs pov having his hand around the doctors neck while scanning him and the doctors face becoming distorted
I wonder if "remove the BORG implants and restore crewmen back to their original Federation Species," could be a command issued to an EMH, like does that violate ethical subroutines? Does it violate ethics if the Borg didn't voluntarily become Borg and would want to leave the collective if given the choice.
considering the mental breakdown the EMH underwent in Voyager after maybe a year of service, the EMH program can feel mental distress. and crusher just murdered him to save her own skin.
I think it’s actually from the PAL release rather then the actual NTSC. It’s really interesting if you don’t know. But when American TV gets releases in places like England on PAL it has to be Pitched Up to fit the PAL frame rate. If you have never heard the originals you wouldn’t even know… but it’s the main reason that foreign people think that Americans have high squeaky voices..
@@sg39g Don't forget that the EMH _is_ programmed with the _Hippocratic Oath,_ the oath, named after the Greek physician Hippocrates that all doctors take when they complete medical school, which is a vow to _"do no harm"._
I think given the EMH designs capabilities I’d say swearing to never use one is condemning some patients to more severe freeing or death. It’s ridiculous old git style arrogance. It doesn’t seem to do justice to the program either. Given use and time they are good, moral, and a credit to their creator.
Interesting but this EMH has none of the experiences gained by the Voyager EMH so is fundamentally an entirely different person, like a twin separated from birth. Only thing is that the EMH programs outside of Voyager unlikely ran for more than a few hours at a time, couple days continuous at most, so they never got to develop even a sliver to the level of the Voyager EMH. Quite sad really.
When Voyagers EMH Doctor was able to get to the Prometheus and StarFleet Command, they should have updated Voyagers crew uniforms to the First Conract ones, like on Deep Space 9.....
