Character Star Trek: Voyager · 2372

Kohl physician

Survivor held hostage by the Clown

A doctor among the Kohl survivors held in a nightmarish shared simulation by the Clown, eventually freed when Captain Janeway offers herself in the hostages' place.

The Kohl physician is one of five people from the Kohl settlement who went into stasis to wait out an ecological catastrophe, and one of three still alive when Voyager finds them nineteen years later. He appears in the second-season episode The Thaw.
Like his companions he has spent years as a plaything of the Clown, the embodiment of their collective fear, and has seen two of the group die of fright. He is frightened to the point of exhaustion and dreads any attempt at escape.
After the Clown executes the group's leader, Viorsa, Janeway bargains for the release of the last hostages. The physician and the remaining woman are revived, as is Harry Kim, and the Clown fades away once left alone.