In the fictional Star Trek universe, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman is the creator of the Emergency Medical Hologram, or EMH. Dr. Zimmerman is the Director of Holographic imaging and Programming on Jupiter Station, and is regarded as the father of modern holography. He has won the Daystrom Prize for Holography on at least one occasion. Ironically, he regards his most notable achievement, the EMH series, as his greatest personal failure. When Zimmerman received the commission to build the EMH Mark I, he put far too much of himself into the task at hand. While there was nothing wrong with the basic operation of the program, Zimmerman modelled it on himself, from physical parameters to psychological profile, and it was that psychological profile that proved the program's downfall. Zimmerman himself can best be described as irritable, impatient, arrogant, stubborn and brilliant, all traits which he passed on to the EMH Mark I, leading Starfleet Medical to reassign the series after receiving complaints of the program possessing an extremely poor bedside manner. Zimmerman attempted to have the programs decommissioned but was overruled at a higher level, leaving the Mark I series to be used for [ - ]

In the fictional Star Trek universe, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman is the creator of the Emergency Medical... [ + ]