“Doctor Smoke” sounds like your gamer tag, or maybe it’s just a contact number on your phone that you call before majoring. voyager Binge session. So how did someone as dignified as the doctor, at least in Kes’s eyes, get such a name?
It all starts with an early draft of “Parallax,” in which Tom Paris engages in his favorite pastime: annoying other people. In this case, he gave the doctor several unflattering nicknames.
inside voyager One of the names used by draftsmen and flies is “photon face.” This is pretty lazy even by the standards of school bullying. He tried a slightly more whimsical nickname, “Doctor Smoke and Mirrors”, which clearly refers to the Doctor’s holographic nature.
Kes overhears Paris calling the Doctor by this name before starting a conversation about sex with the police officer, who is confused about whether Paris likes him or not.
