Stardate not given: A man called Gar kidnaps the Doctor and sells him to a hospital on an alien planet. While Voyager is trying to track down Gar, the Doctor learns that the hospital is controlled by a computer, the Allocator, that decides about the treatment of the patients depending on their assessed value for the society. The Doctor smuggles redundant cytoglobin from the privileged "Level Blue" to "Level Red" where the medicine is urgently needed. When his covert actions are exposed, he infects the bureaucrat Chellick with a virus to force him to change the medicine allocation policy.

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