To say that "Star Trek: Voyager"'s Emergency Medical Hologram evolved beyond his programming would be an understatement.
He was developed as part of a job lot (the Enterprise-E had its own identical EMH in "First Contact"), and only came online because the USS Voyager's original doctor was killed en route to the Delta Quadrant. And yet this photonic physician quickly established himself in the waiting room of "Trek"'s greatest doctors — in fact, there's little more than a laser scalpel between him and the similarly irascible Dr McCoy.
