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	PLAYED BY: Robert Picardo SPECIES: Human Male Beginning his work on The Doctor, Zimmerman initially contemplated making various additions to The Doctor, but when The Doctor protested at Zimmerman's inability to accept him as he was, Zimmerman's anger and frustration at what had happened to the Mark Is came to the fore, ranting about the negative reaction of Starfleet to the other Mark I EMHs and his own grief at the garbage cleaners they had become. As Zimmerman sank into a chair in depression, The Doctor offered an awkward moment of comfort to him, reminding Zimmerman that he was still doing the job he was designed for and was actually rather good at it. This encounter marked the first steps in their near-father/son relationship, with The Doctor confessing that he'd hoped Zimmerman would be proud of his achievements if the two of them ever met, and Zimmerman admitting that, for all his anger about the fate of the other Mark Is, he was grateful that at least one of them was still doing what Zimmerman had designed them for. Before The Doctor departed, Zimmerman slightly grudgingly posed for a photograph with his "son", and said that The Doctor could drop them a communication the next time his ship got the chance to do so.
	PLAYED BY: Tamara Craig Thomas SPECIES: Hologram Haley was the closest thing to a friend Dr. Zimmerman had. Some time prior to 2376, Zimmerman was attending an important symposium on Vulcan when Haley's holographic matrix began to fail. Zimmerman canceled his lecture and returned immediately to Jupiter Station to repair it. Haley also worked for him while he designed the first Emergency Medical Hologram. She remembered how proud he was that his creation would be saving lives throughout the quadrant; he even modeled it after himself, which she understood as he'd put so much of himself into the program. While serving as his secretary at Jupiter Station, she also served as a personal assistant, and prepared his meals. When he came down with a degenerative virus, she insisted that he eat more salad because it was healthy, and made it several times, despite his request for pork chops. When Zimmerman was convinced that he would die of the virus, he dictated in his will a request that Haley's program be allowed to run for as long as Jupiter Station remained in service. She also had a working friendship with Reginald Barclay, who was an acquaintance of Zimmerman's. Barclay had served on Jupiter Station while the EMH was being designed. Barclay also occasionally told her stories of his adventures on the Enterprise, and about his friends there, including Counselor Deanna Troi and her love of chocolate. When The Doctor's holomatrix began to apparently fail – actually a "glitch" designed by Barclay and the others to encourage The Doctor and Zimmerman to work together – Haley encouraged Zimmerman to work with The Doctor by reminding him of the time he'd cancelled a symposium just to help her, forcing him to acknowledge that he was fond of The Doctor in his own way.
	PLAYED BY: Jack Shearer SPECIES: Human Male Admiral Hayes sent another message to the Voyager after regular communications were established through the MIDAS array, informing Janeway that they had dispatched two deep-space vessels towards the Voyager's position and requesting information on the ship's mission and status of the Maquis. Janeway was troubled that Starfleet still saw the Maquis as a separate entity, since she now considered them all part of her crew.

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