Why Could The Doctor Not Create Multiple Avatars of Himself?

[exodus]

Which makes it questionable why Krell Moset wasn't one of them...since the data was in Voyager's memory banks, it's not like he was unknown to the Federation...

They already gave us the same example in TNG when Geordi created the hologram of the engineer that designed the new warp core for the Enterprise. When then learned upon meeting the real her, the personality profile was incorrect.
The data base may contain the accomplishments of people but not their complete personal profile or the means in which they achieved such goals.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The doctor is a man.

Making doppelgängers is masturbation for his ego.

Why stop at two when he could populate the galaxy with an endless retinue of himself?

The Borg proved that.

Then there was those prototype robots.

Those Amoeba Galaxies.

Gods, if tribbles could fly through space.

Holograms if left unchecked, if they were self aware without limitations to their ability to procreate, they'd be quickly considered as vermin by all and sundry.

He couldn't make Avatars because it was a bloody awful and extremely dangerous idea.

 

[Sandoval]

During the last couple of seasons we needed less of The Doctor not more.

Create multiple Doctors in one place and before long you're fuelling the Robert Picardo ego-trip even more by having an EMH orchestra backing up the EMH who is doing all that mediocre opera singing.

And that can only end badly.

 

[Guy Gardener]

And what if they all try to be the ECH at the same time?

There was an episode of Charmed where the horrid one got split into three, and another one where the angry one got a few extra arms when she became the avatar of Shiva. the off thing was that because they used her own arms for her extra arms rather than hire a hand model, her four additional arms all had exactly the same wrist band tattoos her other lefts and rights had...

The doctor should have been telekinetic, or had the appearance of telekinesis if really he was able to manipulate the complex lattice of forcefields that made up his body projected from the wall emitters maintaining the illusion that he had the substance to "pick shit up" like beakers and coffee cups.

On the holodeck he should have had the powers of god, or at least Neo.

 

[JB2005]

They wouldn't though, because there's only ever 1 "doctor" the holograms are just like his limbs...

 

[Guy Gardener]

There were two doctors during Equinox, until the Doctor murdered his Equinoxian counterpart.

And what about the garbage scowl they retired EMH1's all clean now?

Not discontinued and erased.

And one program doesn't seem to run the many bodies need to clean the scowl, other wise suggesting to himself that he should read a book he just read does smack a little of madness.

i wonder if one mobile emitter could do a conjoint twins sort of deally that two holograms could share the emitter?

 

[Sandoval]

The mobile emitter could generate loads of Doctors as long as they were all holding hands.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Yeah "hands".

That's exactly what they would be holding.

 

[Gary7]

Some of the Star Trek series stumbled up against established scientific principles in effect during our time. Their concept of how programs work and are stored/backed-up didn't really jive with reality. With a flawed foundation, speculation on what could have been done with the holographic doctor become pointless to debate. Data is either stored in memory or copied onto some non-volatile media like a hard disk or optical storage. An entire program can be backed up. It can also be copied, as many times as you wish, up until available storage is exceeded. Thus, the Doctor being "lost" should have never been an issue, and there could have been all kinds of reprogramming experiments tried out without risk of losing the original. Multiple avatars, concurrent personalities, clones of himself to work on other patients while he is busy with a critical one, etc. There was so much potential that was handicapped by principles that didn't really make much sense. They didn't even bother to elaborate on them... just had to "go with the flow".

 

[tighr]

I know the whole "not being able to have more than one doctor" is a bit of hand-wavium, but I always shrugged it off by saying that you can't duplicate the Doctor because he's only got one matrix, so multiple avatars couldn't run on the same matrix. In the episode The Swarm, where his matrix was degrading, they overlayed another matrix to stabilize him, which killed the diagnostic matrix they used.

And I see no problem with the way the 29th century mobile emitter works. It's 1000 years advanced from our point of view, and 500 from the Voyager crew, so it should be suitably futuristic. We see other instances of wirelessly downloading data from devices without any visible method of interface before. Notably, in the episode One Small Step, Seven of Nine downloads the entire database of the Martian command module, simply by slapping a tricorder to the wall of the ship. In Live Fast and Prosper, the fake Tuvok downloads the entire database of the Delta Flyer by wandering around waving a diadem around his neck for a minute or two.