J-472: Latent Image — Here Begins a New Life
Voyager S5E11 — The Doctor discovers a memory erasure he performed on himself: he chose between two dying patients and chose his friend. The crew erased the choice to end the battle inside him; Janeway learns the erasure was the counterfeit of care. Frameworks: The Latent Image (erasure creates latency, not absence), The Conscience Loop (malfunction as birth), The Replicator Argument (classification as power), Here Begins a New Life (the wound kept as first page).