User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-71.31.18.85-20141012152749/@comment-178.219.97.150-20141013213026

"Doc often seems to end up with the antagonists of the series.", says his trivia. Maybe this time it isn't much different and he's held hostage by Pirates? Or they could have mistaken him with one of their medics and now he's working for people who he doesn't even know and may not know the truth about them.