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==Casting== In a 2020 interview, Picardo said his agent told him that he was selected from 900 actors who auditioned for the role. {{quote|"I got the part without understanding that the character would be the outsider, the [[Spock]]-like character. The character who initially inherited that was [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]], who had no emotion and longed to be a real boy in the same way as Pinocchio. I thought that, because [[Tuvok]] was a [[Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcan]] character, he would deal with those issues. Once I realized that I had gotten the plum role, it was a delightful surprise. I went from thinking I had the dullest role in the show to believing I may have the best role in the show. That was a little daunting."<ref name="Interview">{{cite web|url=https://www.startrek.com/news/voyagers-caretaker-an-interview-with-robert-picardo|last=Stobie|first=Jay|title=Voyager's Caretaker: An Interview with Robert Picardo|date=16 January 2020}}</ref> }} He added that he first learned what a hologram was from being selected for the role. "I was confused, I didn't know what it meant for him to be a hologram or a computer program. I didn't understand enough about Star Trek 'science,' which is based on real science, although we still don't know how to make a hologram with density. So I got the part without knowing at all what I was in for."<ref name="Interview"/> Picardo initially auditioned for [[Neelix]]. Despite [[Ethan Phillips]]' getting the part, Picardo was asked by the producers to come back and audition for The Doctor—something that shocked him, because usually actors would be passed over completely.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1245.html |work=Star Trek Official Site |publisher=StarTrek.com |title=Robert Picardo ("The Doctor" - VOY) |date=May 6, 2002 |quote=When I didn't get the part, the producers shocked me by asking me to reconsider The Doctor. Usually in TV, when you have tested for one role, they simply throw you into the ash can and move on to another actor. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709203940/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1245.html |archive-date=July 9, 2010 }}</ref> During his audition for the role of The Doctor, Picardo was asked only to say, "Somebody forgot to terminate my program." However, he then [[wikt:ad lib#Verb|ad lib]]bed, "[[Leonard McCoy#"I'm a doctor, not a..."|I'm a doctor, not a nightlight!]]" (Picardo was initially afraid that he might have ruined his chances—ad libbing, he explained, was something that one just "did not do" in an audition.)
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