Is the doctor a real person?

[Guy Gardener]

No crew?

Barges not ships.

Wasn't there a comment that it smelled so bad that regular humans didn't want the job?

(Seems not?)

ZIMMERMAN: Because you're defective. Emergency Medical Hotheads. Extremely Marginal Housecalls. That's what everyone used to call the Mark Ones until they were bounced out of the Medical Corps. I tried to have them decommissioned, but Starfleet in its infinite wisdom overruled me and reassigned them all to work waste transfer barges. That's where you'd be too, if you hadn't been lost in the Delta Quadrant. Do you know how humiliating it is to have six hundred and seventy five Mark Ones out there, scrubbing plasma conduits, all with my face?
EMH: I'm sure they're doing a fine job.

Complex holograms cannot be copied?

They have to be individually built?

Why would there only be 676 of EMH's Mark 1 in all reality if they could be copied easily?

EMH mark one is not entirely software. It's also a massive lump of hardware buried into he walls of Sickbay that 24th century technology cannot replicate virtually. Fortunately the mobile emitter is not 24th century technology.

Each EMH needs a processor the size of a minivan to work before you even network it against power requirements and the Barge's hologrid. I can only assume that each EMH's physical processor is uniquely attuned to drive it's own... No?

The Equinox EMH transferred to Voyager's Sick bay, and then the Doctor's Mobile Emitter.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Holo-Seska ("Worst Case Scenario"): so sentient, she might as well be the real Seska brought back from the dead.

Her goal was to blow up the ship.

Suicide.

Any living, real, reasonably sane person asked to murder themself by an asshole is usually prone to reply "Go #### yourself".

 

[Lance]

True, I can't imagine the real Seska having the balls to strap the figurative bomb vest to herself and walk into the figurative town square before figuratively blowing herself up.

Of course, the holo-Seska was a replication of the role that real Seska was playing: a terrorist. Very meta. While there's no doubt Cardassian Seska wouldn't, would the play-pretend Bajoran Seska have had 'suicide bomber' as a modus operandi?

 

[Guy Gardener]

More so than if her code was sentient/alive, then deleting Seska is murder.

Deleting the Equinox EMH was definitely murder if he was a real living person, or as much so as Voyager's EMH.

Hell, Janeway murdered Mrs Sullivan because she was finally in heat.

What about evil HoloBarclay working for the Ferengi?

Do you think that the Ferengi programmed into him the wiggle room to decide his own fate, or decide if it was cool to murder ever one on Voyager?

...

Have you seen the Doctor who episode Blink?

The Doctor stuck in 1969 has a transcript of a conversation that a recording of himself from 1969 is going to have in 2007 with a woman from 2007. He is able to seem to be able to answer her questions, and converse with her freely because he has a transccript of the completed conversation that she has not yet completed and therefore talking to nothing but blank air, which is sorta what she is doing as well, even though it seems to she that the recording is talking right at her as if he was a real person.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0H3gylDWpY[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdbLu_x0gY[/yt]


Sally is talking to a very old video taped conversation as if it is a real person, despite that it's 38 years old and millions people have already listened to that conversation out of context....

Oh, my earlier appraisal that only real people say go #### yourself when sent on suicide missions seems to have been a hastily made comment in error.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxhD_XKsUI[/yt]

My point is that if thousands of responses to every conceivable question was fed into the EMH, then his ability to answer and ask questions has nothing to do with the person standing in front of him talking and everything to do with the people programming him years, maybe decades earlier, depending on how much of his conversational style was just lifted from the public domain.

 

[Lord Manitou]

A hologram is a thing that exists in computer banks and not in front of your face. The projection device is what should be lauded and not this particular hologram. Holographic projection is top-level physics.
The robot-human program called the doctor is a list of memory addresses in the computer for robot interaction. It is something put aside because it is no concern.
Why should that much memory address be a concern when they have enough data area called the holo-buffer to contain a human being?

 

[hux]

If Moriarty was "programmed" by the computer to be sentient, self aware then surely the computer possesses whatever magic beans are required to qualify as sentient, self aware

So either the computer is a slave capable of sentience but not allowed access to that ability by the Starfleet scum overlords or Moriarty was as sentient as my bum hole and instead of putting him in a mini-holo adventure, they should have simply laughed in his face

Maybe I should annoy the TNG board with this

 

[Lance]

So either the computer is a slave capable of sentience but not allowed access to that ability by the Starfleet scum overlords or Moriarty was as sentient as my bum hole and instead of putting him in a mini-holo adventure, they should have simply laughed in his face

There's nothing worse than a sentient bum hole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_My_Bum_Went_Psycho

The protagonist is a boy called Zack Freeman who has to seek the help of some "bum-hunters" to catch his bum after he learns it is actually the leader of a band of rogue bums determined to control the world.

Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a yard.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I wonder if the EMH was afraid of is own farts if they were randomized, or if he would dread the countdown to each and next popreordained bottom bubble?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Someone needs to have "the talk" with him so he knows he will never be a real boy without farts. I am sure that will go down a treat.

 

[Guy Gardener]

He can't holographically squirt a little methane, but he can program the ships environmental system to match his noises with smells.

 

[hux]

If they announced right now that the next Trek show would involve a sentient talking anus, who would say.....no, I'm not watching that

Nobody, that's who

The sooner television employs me, the sooner television is saved

 

[Guy Gardener]

I just watched a massive talking vagina take over the planet in Man Seeking Woman.

There was some irresponsible use of time travel and shit happened.

But I think it may have had something to do with the (penis) tentacle monster from a couple episodes earlier not hooking up with the vagina monster, when they should have been destined to get it on and live happily ever after, which is what opened Earth up to a closing down sale on freedom and liberty forever and ever and ever.

So yeah, the worst thing you can imagine is already a TV show.

 

[hux]

Actually, television proved that it can go one better than the worst I can imagine when it excreted "I live with models" into my poor eye holes

 

[Lord Manitou]

vagina monster?
The rest of it is quite real.