Star Trek: Voyager®. "Body and Soul"

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"Body and Soul," Star Trek: Voyager," season 7, episode 7; running #153 (Wikipedia) or 152 (Memory Alpha): 15 November 2000.

Comic in tone, which justifies complexities: The former Borg, Seven of Nine; the Doctor, "an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I"; and Ensign Harry Kim, human, are on a shuttlecraft

intercepted by a ship from the Lokirrin species. The Lokirrin's captain [...] accuses the Doctor of being a "photonic insurgent" and threatens to decompile his program. Ranek has his men board the Delta Flyer [shuttlecraft] but they only find Seven and Kim; the two are captured and taken to the Lokirrim brig. There, Seven secretly reveals to Kim that she is really the Doctor, Seven having allowed him to download his program into her Borg implants. The Doctor, in control of Seven's body, begins to experience human senses for the first time. Though not immediately taken by what he can smell, he's certainly delighted by what he can taste, quickly indulging

in food and eventually sexual arousal.[1]

Plot given in detail, with other discussion on Memory Alpha site VOY episodes, linked here.[2]

Mentioned in Grech et al.'s "Sex in the Machine," p. 17. Discussed briefly by Victor Grech in "Brain and Dualism in Star Trek".


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