Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Flashback (1996)

Robert Picardo: The Doctor

Quotes 

• The Doctor : If you were human, I'd say you had a severe panic attack.

  Lieutenant Tuvok : I am not human.

  The Doctor : No kidding.

• The Doctor : I don't know what happened to you, but there can be any number of explanations: hallucination, telepathic communication from another race, repressed memory, momentary contact with a parallel reality - take your pick. The universe is such a strange place.

• The Doctor : Memory is a tricky thing.

• The Doctor : I think we may be dealing with a repressed memory. The memory engrams in the dorsal region of the hippocampus are being disrupted. It's causing physical damage to the surrounding tissue. In Vulcan medicine this is known as t'lokan schism. It means that the subject is inhibiting a traumatic memory, which is beginning to resurface.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : And that's causing brain damage?

  The Doctor : Strange, I know. In human subjects, repressed memories are nothing more than psychological traumas, which can be dealt with with standard trerapeutic techniques, but in Vulcans there is a physical reaction to the battle between conscious and the unconscious. In extreme cases, the mind of the patient can literally... lobotomize itself.