[Nate the Great]

JANEWAY: Okay. The personnel situation. We've managed to find a replacement for the Transporter Chief, but we still need an Astrogation plotter, a Chief Engineer, medical support personnel.

You waited 45 days for this? And why isn't Carey already Chief Engineer?

JANEWAY: Regarding Sickbay, we still need a Chief Medical Officer.
NEELIX: What about that electronic man down in Sickbay?
TUVOK: It is an Emergency Medical Hologram and its abilities are limited. It can only operate within the confines of Sickbay.
PARIS: Not to mention its lousy bedside manner.
CHAKOTAY: Perhaps we should assign somebody to train with the hologram as a field medic.

Again, 45 days? Several people should've been training with Doc the week after they arrived.

JANEWAY: Good idea. Lieutenant, I understand you studied biochemistry at the Academy.
PARIS: Er, only two semesters.
JANEWAY: Close enough. You just volunteered to become a field medic.

Ugh. It's not like Tom already has a full time job. And wouldn't this be a great job for some of the non-Starfleet Maquis? Or are we going to imply that Janeway doesn't trust the Maquis to have control over a Starfleet officer's life? Unfortunate implications all around.

Incidentally I seem to recall that the reason Tom took two semesters of biochemistry was that he had a crush on a girl that was majoring in that field.

TORRES [OC]: I was thinking we could remodulate a tractor beam to match
[Engineering]
TORRES: The subspace interference. It might be enough to cut through the event horizon.
[Bridge]
CHAKOTAY: A subspace tractor beam?
TORRES [OC]: Exactly.

Yeah, this is complete nonsense. Tractor beams only operate at warp within the warp bubble. This is talking about cutting through the equivalent of a warp bubble.

JANEWAY: Let me be blunt. What you tried to do just now was out of line.
CHAKOTAY: In what way?
JANEWAY: When you decided to call Torres in Engineering.
CHAKOTAY: I've worked with her. I know what she's capable of. We needed an answer right away and I knew she could give us one.

Yes, this was a major misstep on Chakotay's part.

JANEWAY: Carey is the senior officer in Engineering.
CHAKOTAY: If you look at it that way, none of my people will ever have seniority.
JANEWAY: That's the problem, right there. They're not your people. You're treating the Maquis on this ship like they're still your crew.

Chakotay's response should be "if I don't defend the Maquis, they will mutiny. You do know that, don't you?"

JANEWAY: The Starfleet officers on this ship have worked all their lives to earn their commissions. How am I supposed to ask them to accept a Maquis as their superior officer just because circumstances have forced us together?

A good point. Both sides have good points, and if the show took advantage of the possibilities offered by the scenario, we could get good plots. But no, conflict is bad in Star Trek (whether or not that still applies is a screed for another time).

Frankly Tuvok should already be running a compressed Academy course for the Maquis to earn their commissions. It would've made a good subplot for the first season.

CHAKOTAY: Permission to speak freely.
JANEWAY: Go ahead.
CHAKOTAY: I have no intention of being your token Maquis officer.

Exactly. This should've been where Chakotay says, "either you have at least three Maquis senior officers, or you have none and the Maquis will mutiny immediately. They will beat you and then I'll be the captain and you'll be the spat upon crewman."

EMH: That's it?
KES: I'm sorry if
EMH: So it begins. The trivia of medicine is my domain now. Every runny nose, stubbed toe, pimple on a cheek becomes my responsibility.

Again, 45 days? Was the stardate just picked out of a hat?

EMH [OC]: May I request you activate monitor input forty seven, your Emergency Medical Holograph channel?

Obvious 47 is obvious. Wouldn't Sickbay be a bit higher on the list than 47? Top three at least.

CAREY: Is our priority here really the Medical Holograph system?

Actually it is, Carey! We have people sick NOW and the EMH is currently the only member of the medical staff. I'm beginning to think that your seniority wasn't earned.