Letters Home

Voyager has been in the Delta Quadrant for just over ten years now. They have been in contact with Starfleet via Pathfinder for four years, thanks to Reg Barclay. These are the letters members of the senior staff wrote to their families.

Usual disclaimers apply; I just can't be bothered writing one at the moment.

Doctor Zimmerman

I know we don't get along very well, but you are a stubborn old man, and I am an equally stubborn hologram modelled on your appearance and personality.

I have been almost ordered to write this letter. I could have written someone else, but I thought because of out previous meeting, you would be the better alternative. So you will have to put up with it.

How is Haley going, and your other holoprograms? Or do you really not care about your only surviving EMH-1?

Lewis, I would love to be on better terms with you, but for anyone to have a civilised conversation with you, you need to change your attitude. How would you like it if someone spoke to you the way you speak to everyone else?

You are very lucky that people like Reg Barclay and Counsellor Troi still speak to you after the way you take out your moods on people who are only trying to help you.

I have never been a bitter man, but after meeting you, I can't say that you have made me a better person. Meeting my creator, who is essentially my father, should have been the best experience of my activated life.

Instead, I was ashamed of your attitude and ashamed to call you my father.

I hope this has opened your eyes a bit before you lose someone so close and dear to you that they never come back.

Please take my words into consideration next time you ignore an act of kindness and a good deed is ignored on your part.

Kind regards,

The last remaining EMH-1

Doctor, CMO of

Lewis Zimmerman read the spite-filled letter from his pet project, the EMH-1, with a shocked look on his face.

"What're you reading, Lewis?" Haley asked, walking in from the other room.

"A letter from the EMH-1 on Voyager; he's told me, and I quote, that you take your moods out on people who are only trying to help you, end quote."

Haley looked at him.

He stared back. "What?"

"He's right, you know."

"About what?"

"Your attitude; it needs to change. You are so stubborn that one day someone will leave you out to dry and no one will be here to clean you up."

Lewis sat in thought as Haley walked away, reflecting on his letter.

Maybe the EMH is actually right about something…