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Emergency Medical Hologram's Log: Star Date 47101.6
The Captain continues to make slow progress.
The claims she has made to having lived another life have, incredibly, been confirmed by our own ship's computer.
Unless there has been some sort of infiltration and placement of false information within its database by an alien or by something/ someone else, Captain Janeway and actress Kate Mulgrew appear to be the same person.
I have been able to match their DNA. And alarmingly, I have also been able to match the DNA of every human and part human crew member on this ship to that DNA of an individual who lived around four hundred years ago.
It is an incredible discovery to be honest. Not least because nobody appears to have discovered this information before.
But there is no unaccounted evidence of our ship's database having been tampered with.
It is still possible that these memories have been implanted into the captain's brain and that the Borg, for whatever inscrutable reason of their own, have added this false information to Voyager's computer.
But I cannot understand why and to what purpose.
As the crew continues to explore possible reasons that the Borg may wish to deceive us in this way, Captain Janeway, or "Kate" as she appears to prefer (though initially she would prefer none of us to address her at all), remains in an induced sleep in my converted office in sick bay.
Having exhausted herself with anxiety and dangerous, manic behaviour, acting captain Chakotay and myself agreed to allow her to sleep. At least for now.
Tuvok, Chakotay, Neelix and myself have provided a constant presence, a vigil, over the captain.
Perhaps it is unnecessary but, well, we are all concerned. And the crew is worried and confused.
Seven of Nine has kept what she feels to be a respectful distance.
I am of course concerned for Seven's well-being also but she appears to be coping and is deeply involved, along with much of the crew, in finding answers to this most unusual of mysteries.
But according to the database, the crew are all distant descendants of themselves. I, that is to say, Dr Zimmerman, is also a distant descendant of himself. This of course is ridiculous and there must be another explanation.
Seven of Nine, naturally, has taken uncovering this mystery as a deeply personal and urgent matter. Her and the captain have after all been romantic partners for over two years now.
According to the captain, "Kate", Seven of Nine took her own life after being denied custody of her son following an affair. Their affair.
Seven's name/ identity (at that time) was Jeri Ryan. And they were both actresses. Actresses in a science fiction television show. Playing characters of the individuals they are now.
At first it had seemed obvious where the captain had managed to create such an incredible story of former lives and former identities from. I had thought she had a simple case of memory loss and confusion.
But she had been Kathryn Janeway four centuries before Kathryn Janeway was even born.
And Mr Tuvok and I are of the belief that these are not in fact implanted memories.
They did not leave the usual residual trace of memory modification and Mr Tuvok, to my consternation as he did not request prior permission from myself, the senior medical officer of this ship, was able to mind meld satisfactorily with the sleeping captain.
"She was the earth actress Kate Mulgrew and she still is", he confirmed condescendingly to me, though with no explanation or theory as to how this was possible.
But he was still able to access memories of spacefarer Kathryn Janeway, and to confirm that this woman, Kate or Kathryn, or both, still appears to have a large quantity if not all of Captain Janeway's memories and knowledge.
It would not be unreasonable to conclude that the captain has been subject to a long and cruel experiment. Or did whoever is responsible for this not intend for the captain to be able to recall these memories of a former life at all?
Is that why no other member of the crew has memories of their former lives either?
Who can be responsible for this? If what Mr Tuvok says is true, then it would have to be an individual with almost God-like abilities.
Q, of course, has been considered. But even this seems too much of an elaborate stunt for him to have orchestrated.
Or maybe this is simply the way of the universe and nobody has ever been conscious of this truth before.
Maybe we are creators of our futures in ways that we had never even considered.
Whatever the truth may be, I remain concerned for a captain who has been a leader and a friend. I am left to put my faith in hope. As at this moment, science is stumped.
End of log.