Emergency Command Hologram

TheEmergency Command Hologram (ECH) was an extension of theUSSVoyager'sEmergency Medical Hologram, first imagined in one ofthe Doctor's fantasies. The program was eventually implemented byCaptain Kathryn Janeway onVoyager. Essentially, the ECH was a 'backup captain', intended to take control of the ship in the event of the current command crew being incapacitated for some reason. The ECH possessed information from the tactical databases of all the major strategists in Starfleet, and could incorporate them into its plans for controlling the ship. When the subroutine was activated, his uniform changed to command colors. (VOYepisodes: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", "Workforce")

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24th century[]

The extension was first envisioned by The Doctor after he had added daydreaming subroutines to his program in2376. His initial request to Captain Janeway for the subroutine to be added to his program was denied, but after The Doctor demonstrated his abilities in practice, Janeway reconsidered and ordered research into the development of the ECH to begin as soon as possible. (VOYepisode: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy")

Exactly when the ECH subroutines were completed and added to The Doctor's program is unknown. What is known for certain is that Janeway eventually activated The Doctor's command subroutines in2377 whentetryon radiation forced everyone to abandon ship. After the ship was abandoned, but before The Doctor could begin repairs,Voyager was attacked by scavengers. He and thecomputer disabled one ship and evaded the others by hiding in a nebula. He managed to begin repairs, butlife support was not yet online whenChakotay,Harry Kim andNeelix returned from anaway mission (of course, being a hologram, this was not a severe problem nor a vital system for him to focus on).

After Chakotay and Neelix went to find the rest of the crew, who had been abducted by theQuarren, Kim and The Doctor disagreed about who was superior to the other; Kim was a commissioned officer, but The Doctor had information about all of Starfleet's great strategists. In one battle with the Quarren, The Doctor called up information about aRomulan battle from his tactical database, leading him to use aphotonic shockwave against the ships, before retreating. But in the final battle against the Quarren it was Kim's plan to sabotage threeescape pods and detonate them once in the enemies'tractor beams that savedVoyager. This provided a lesson to The Doctor about experience. He realized that he was needed onVoyager as a medic more than as a commander, and made peace with Kim before handing back command to rescued Captain Janeway. (VOYepisode: "Workforce")

During a trial on the rights of The Doctor initiated when hisholonovel was published without his permission in 2377, Harry Kim cited the ECH extension in The Doctor's favor, regarding it as a Human desire to develop and change that a simple hologram, designed merely to do a specific job, would not have been capable of. (VOYepisode: "Author, Author")

In2377, the Doctor, disguised as Chakotay, used Chakotay's codes to transform himself into the ECH. As the ECH, The Doctor had authorization to eject thewarp core, which he did. He then escaped from the ship aboard theDelta Flyer II with the warp core to exchange it with theHierarchy for Captain Janeway's freedom. Both Janeway and the warp core were recovered and returned toVoyager, although The Doctor remained in sickbay for a week out of embarrassment about the "deathbed" confessions he had made while the excess subroutines from theHierarchy were being deleted. (VOYepisode: "Renaissance Man")

In 2385, following theAttack on Mars, theETH hologram Janeway from theUSSProtostar was upgraded to be theUSSProdigy's ECH.(PRDepisode: "Ouroboros")

25th century[]

InMarch 2410, the Hierarchy lent one of their ships to the Doctor, who activated his ECH subroutines. This iteration wore command white and four pips on the collar. The ECH commanded his ship during the final assault onVaadwaur Prime and helped defeat theVSW Vozroz. WhenVaadwaur Supremacy leaderGaul was defeated, the ECH transported to Gaul's command center along with the rest ofAdmiral Tuvok's senior staff to analyze the Vaadwaur's databanks. (STO -Delta Quadrantmission: "Takedown")

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USSVoyager senior staff personnel
commanding officer	Janeway •Chakotay •Eden •Tuvok	executive officer	Cavit •Chakotay •Ellis •Paris
second officer	Tuvok •Paris •Kim	chief engineer	Honigsberg •Torres •Vorik •Conlon
chief medical officer	Fitzgerald •The Doctor •Jarem Kaz •Sharak	counselor	Astall •Cambridge
operations manager	Kim •Campbell •Lasren	science officer	Wildman •Patel
security chief/tactical officer	Tuvok •Kim	flight controller	Stadi •Paris •Tare •Gwyn
see also:engineering personnel •medical personnel •operations personnel •pilots & flight control personnel •security & tactical personnel •sciences personnel •other personnel

Emergency holographic programs
emergency holograms	Command (ECH) •Conn (ECH) •Counseling (ECH) •Engineering (EEH) •Hospitality (EHH) •Medical (EMH) •Navigational (ENH) •Tactical (ETH) •Security (ESH) •Security Gorn (ESG)
related technology	Emergency Hologram basic installation •Emergency Medical Android (EMA) •Jupiter Station Diagnostic Program Alpha-11 •Long-term Medical Holographic program (LMH)