I can understand why some might doubt that Vic or the EMH are sentient. The only response I can think of is, how can you prove that YOU are?
If this thread is any indication, many can't.
I can understand why some might doubt that Vic or the EMH are sentient. The only response I can think of is, how can you prove that YOU are?
If this thread is any indication, many can't.
So, in the spirit of fun, what's in YOUR 'head canon?'
Actually I'm a bot, just a really subtle one
The coders could have studied what gave Moriarty sentience when making Vic, and eliminated the problematic parts. How many stillborn sentient programs were dragged screaming to the recycle bin while making Vic Fontaine?At least with Moriarty and the Doc, they gave some technobabble reasons for sentience. Vic was just a holosuite program. No explanation.
I like this one.DSC Klingons were an attempt to correct the Augment Virus that went too far.
Or Klingon children, even hybrids, age faster. In a couple of episodes of Voyager, Torres says she's 5 or 6 when her father leaves. In the flashback scenes from Lineage, she looks about 12.Alexander was really born in 2360 after Worf and K'Eylar had a fling in 2359. That would make him 7 in "Reunion", 8 in the fifth season of TNG, 10 in the seventh season, and 14 in DS9's sixth season. That lines up much better. I can see the Klingons having teenagers or anyone's who's finished puberty and is able-bodied serving in their fleet.
Perhaps there was also rumors about Archer's encounter with the Borg.The Hansens found out about them, either through an El-Aurian, another race that was conquered by them, or by declassified low-profile intel and decided to learn more about them.
I like it! It's a nice simple explanation that fits with everything we're told. And since we know that Spock has more sensitive hearing than humans, it stand to reason that his hearing would also be more susceptible to damage."Shouty Spock", assuming we don't get a different explanation, suffered temporary hearing damage in that catastrophic Rigel VII mission and had to shout to hear himself speak.
That was the explanation that Michael Jan Friedman went with in his My Brother's Keeper trilogy.I've always thought the R was a personal joke between the two!
That was the explanation that Michael Jan Friedman went with in his My Brother's Keeper trilogy.
Except that he was still suffering from it years later in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "The Corbomite Maneuver"....I like it! It's a nice simple explanation that fits with everything we're told. And since we know that Spock has more sensitive hearing than humans, it stand to reason that his hearing would also be more susceptible to damage.
Tinnitus.Except that he was still suffering from it years later in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "The Corbomite Maneuver"....
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