Yes.
Maybe. We don’t really know that. Seems likely though.
she wasn’t.
early in season 1? Sure. Afterwards? Not really.
I’m saying that by then he was a person, with all the needs and quirks of personhood. This was one of the main points of his characters.
If Crusher was incapacitated for a few months another doctor would fill in, but her job would still be waiting for her once she had recovered. It might be different if she was declared dead, but even in Before and After they said they were not sure they could recover the doctor, not that he was not recoverable.
Riker and Dee were talking about intership transfers on Lower Decks, moving one of the new kids to Ops from somewhere else.
My mind goes back to Geordie trying to figure out what to do with Barclay. Every other lying duplicitous supervisor that Broccoli had had, had promoted Barclay off ship to a more prestigious position, and Geordie considered doing exactly the same thing, until Reginald was an admiral somewhere in a tiny office doing nothing and bothering no one, just like Admiral Janeway.
You don't know when the Doctor became sentient.
Some people assume it happened after Swarm when he had to rebuild himself from nothing, after eating that service hologram, a situation that he was still complaining about to Henry Starling in Futures End. PS The Doctor is a vampire, every year or two he has to eat a Hologram almost as complex as he is.
Other's think that it's actually the Mobile emitter, which gave the Doctor stupid levels of processing, heretofore unheard of in the 24th century, which justifies calling him sentient in the 24th century, but probably not in the 29th.
The Exocomps from TNG Quality of Life were built as a service species. Slaves. but they were not sentient. so it didn't matter. Then they became sentient and it did matter. Which meant the trillions of space dollars (no money in the Federation) spent on inventing this lifeform was flushed down the drain because all those plans of thriving on a slave economy were bupkis.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Regular Federation Holograms must have been designed not to be sentient and to never become sentient or never want to be come sentient, because the Federation wanted slaves to mow their lawns and serve their food.
Limiters would have been installed.
Seven had a limiter for exactly the same reason.
It killed her, if she got too happy (Code for orgasmic).
There is no AI rebellion if every time a drone or a hologram experiences hope, their heads explode.
Fiscally it is in the Federations self interest to suppress all evidence of self aware holograms, and to make it more and more impossible to happen again every time a waiter starts thinking that they want to be an actor.
Also.
Swarm probably happened in the Before and After Time Line, but Futures End did not, or at least The Doctor did not walk out the other end of it with a mobile emitter. So the Before and After Doctor did have a catastrophic failure that required being rebuilt from almost starting principles, and he may not have reinstalled any limiter that must be part of all basic Federation holograms, but he never had access to 29th century technology.
Flip a coin.
Also...
We don't know if the Doctor that was reinstalled to Voyager in the before and after Timeline after Kes had been the CMO for 9 months was a Doctor with almost three years of life experience on the verge of sentience, or if it was a factory reset.
A factory rest nonsentient EMH has no interest in replacing or supplanting a humanoid Doctor.
