# ST:Voyager Doctor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298 "2011-06-04T11:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/1 "2011-06-04T11:26:01Z")
I’m not the biggest fan of voyager but i’ll be damned if the holographic doctor isn’t one of my favorite characters out of the entire star trek universe - rivaling McCoy and on occasion surpassing him. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/2 "2011-06-04T11:28:15Z")
I’ve recommended transmitting this holographic matrix over to that sector known as ‘Cafe Society’, captain! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/3 "2011-06-04T11:34:37Z")
That’s because Robert Picardo is one of the best character actors out there. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/4 "2011-06-04T13:34:25Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > That’s because Robert Picardo is one of the best character actors out there. Agreed. His characterization was brilliant. One of the bright spots of that series. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/5 "2011-06-04T13:45:05Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjOifRG-u8) is one of the greatest scenes ever committed to film. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/6 "2011-06-04T13:55:50Z")
I just recently saw [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv06bs1XyHI) from Picardo to a fan. Read the description. That is one awesome guy. And, yes, he was by far the best character on that series, and definitely one of, if not the, best actors. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/7 "2011-06-04T14:04:33Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society (the old fashioned way, no beaming involved). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/8 "2011-06-04T15:19:04Z")
_This_ Doctor is so good that the (other) Doctor even borrowed his schtick in an episode from last season: confronted with an emergency hologram, he said: “please state the nature of the emergency.” Laughed myself silly, I did. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/9 "2011-06-04T16:13:20Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Moved MPSIMS –\> Cafe Society (the old fashioned way, no beaming involved). Did you at least use the Heisenberg Compensator or did you just route it though a subspace channel? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/10 "2011-06-04T16:28:08Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I’m not the biggest fan of voyager but i’ll be damned if the holographic doctor isn’t one of my favorite characters out of the entire star trek universe - rivaling McCoy and on occasion surpassing him. I agree. The Doctor was the only reason to watch the otherwise-unwatchable \*Voyager \*with the sound on. (The only reason to watch it with the sound off was Seven of Nine). ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/11 "2011-06-04T16:35:27Z")
Robert Picardo wrote a few songs about Voyager that he sings at conventions. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CXxZ2qfhYTc/hqdefault.jpg "Robert Picardo Sings! Song 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXxZ2qfhYTc) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UUMzRByx2lo/hqdefault.jpg "Robert Picardo Sings! Song 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUMzRByx2lo) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HUHaUOHERUc/hqdefault.jpg "Robert Picardo Sings! Song 3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHaUOHERUc) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YLDrKG7Qt30/hqdefault.jpg "Robert Picardo singing!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDrKG7Qt30) ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/12 "2011-06-04T17:12:25Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > That’s because Robert Picardo is one of the best character actors out there. Yeah, I usually like him when he pops up on another TV show - he was good on Smallville and Castle. (checks IMDB.) On the other hand, I can’t remember much about his guest starring turn on ‘Chuck’. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/13 "2011-06-04T17:42:21Z")
Robert Picardo and John de Lancie were the hosts of the Star Trek concert we went to - they were both excellent. I must also say, hearing the Star Trek original theme live, played by a philharmonic orchestra, sent chills down my spine. But back to the point of the thread, I really enjoyed The Doctor, too. Maybe that’s why Kate Mulgrew’s acting looked so bad - I was comparing it to Robert Picardo. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/14 "2011-06-04T23:46:26Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjOifRG-u8) is one of the greatest scenes ever committed to film. Oy! I’ll never be able to listen to “La Donna è Mobile” again without hearing the new lyrics about Tuvok’s raging _pon farr_ hormones. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/15 "2011-06-04T23:58:59Z")
Is Picardo a good actor or was he merely surrounded by bad actors/actresses and idiotic characters so he looked good by comparison? And was Kate Mulgrew worse as Janeway or Mrs Columbo? Probably more of the former but the latter was a factor. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/16 "2011-06-05T00:06:55Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > That’s because Robert Picardo is one of the best character actors out there. > [@chrisk](#): > > Yeah, I usually like him when he pops up on another TV show - he was good on Smallville and Castle. > > (checks IMDB.) On the other hand, I can’t remember much about his guest starring turn on ‘Chuck’. Hmm… I loved him as the gym teacher on “The Wonder Years”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/17 "2011-06-05T00:27:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I loved him as the gym teacher on “The Wonder Years”. So that’s where I’d seen him before Voyager. [Coach Cutlip](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0022364/)! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/18 "2011-06-05T01:57:23Z")
He also did a creepy turn as a doctor in the film version of The Handmaid’s Tale. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/19 "2011-06-05T07:30:41Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Oy! I’ll never be able to listen to “La Donna è Mobile” again without hearing the new lyrics about Tuvok’s raging _pon farr_ hormones. I used to remember the first few verses of that piece from high school chorus. Now, if I have to sing it on the spot, I usually slip into the Doctor’s version right at the start of verse two. At the moment, I can’t remember the entire correct version. Grrr. Also, I thought Robert Picardo was the best actor on that series. Granted, that’s like saying he’s the coldest fridge in Alaska, but I think he’s good. I really liked the episodes when he: -went nuts due to too many personality algorithims and tried to murder crew members -had to be rebooted and Janeway sat with him while recovering -the Beowulf episode (Cheesy, I know) There’s still more, but I’m done for now. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298/20 "2011-06-05T15:25:39Z")
He was wonderful in **China Beach** with Dana Delaney. ( Did their characters ever hook up? I wanted them to…) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-voyager-doctor/584298.md?page=2)