Something I thought of when reading Scorpios post here in Gen Trek is wheather or not the Vic Fontaine program is an individual program, only to be used by one person, or if there are multiple copies of him that anybody could use anywhere as it technically is just a program, albeit one where the main character is more or less self aware?
The Vic Fontaine program?
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Was Felix a little tribute to the Bond character of the same name?
Every holodeck/suite with a copy COULD run a seperate Vic program, sentient or not. Vic was self aware, but not uncopyable.
I thought the mobile emitter was a 27th century (or whatever) invention from those time-travelling starfleet officers?
Well yeah, but I'd argue that The Doctor is a good example of what holograms are. Sure, there's tons of EMHs, but the Doc is the only one that's really him.
By the same token, if there's a bunch of Vics kicking around, they have different experiences. Vic #47 didn't get Odo and Kira together and he didn't comfort Worf and Nog in their times of grief.
I think the point is moot though. I always got the impression that Julian and Felix were homeslices and Vic was custom-delivered for Bashir.
In the novels it was said that the mobile emitter was being produced after holograms staged a revolt in the Voyager Relaunch.
Well, Vic DOES smoke, and Kai Winn DID go up in smoke. They have so much in common...
It seems taht Felix was a professional holoprogrammer, presumanly human and not in Starfleet. My take on it was that he did plenty of generic holonovels and such for the masses, but did "custom" work as well when it suited him (hey, when you're in paradise, there literally must be millions of writers out there publishing stuff simply because they don't HAVE to work for a living in the Federation). Perhaps Felix wrote the secret agent programs for which Bashir was an enthusiastic fan, so he adapted a Vegas program to add Vic as a unique sentient component. There may be OTHER Vegas programs out there with different lounge lizards, but this is the only Vic Fontaine.
One wonders if there are Federation laws out there governing the creation of sentient holoprograms. We've seen it done on occasion (DS9, ENT) where someone creates a whole community of sentients, but what's to stop someone creating a whole civlization? And what would become of them once they demanded rights, property, and admission to Starfleet? The Voyager wrtiers certainly didn't think too much on these repercussions, beyond not actively destroying the ones that had become obsolete (VOY) and putting them to use essentially as slaves elsewhere.
Mark
It seems taht Felix was a professional holoprogrammer, presumanly human and not in Starfleet. My take on it was that he did plenty of generic holonovels and such for the masses, but did "custom" work as well when it suited him (hey, when you're in paradise, there literally must be millions of writers out there publishing stuff simply because they don't HAVE to work for a living in the Federation). Perhaps Felix wrote the secret agent programs for which Bashir was an enthusiastic fan, so he adapted a Vegas program to add Vic as a unique sentient component. There may be OTHER Vegas programs out there with different lounge lizards, but this is the only Vic Fontaine.
One wonders if there are Federation laws out there governing the creation of sentient holoprograms. We've seen it done on occasion (DS9, ENT) where someone creates a whole community of sentients, but what's to stop someone creating a whole civlization? And what would become of them once they demanded rights, property, and admission to Starfleet? The Voyager wrtiers certainly didn't think too much on these repercussions, beyond not actively destroying the ones that had become obsolete (VOY) and putting them to use essentially as slaves elsewhere.
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