Ever wish the crew would call the DR. on all his BS?

Why did they put up with him for seven years? At the end of the day he really was just a tool...a projection from a machine and yet they indulged him in all his eccentric behavior. Frankly he could have used a good bitch slapping from time to time.

 

Precisely. The Doctor was a sentient, thinking thing; it's true he was made up of photons and forcefields as opposed to flesh and blood, but his manner of construction was not at issue here.

Besides, if they did, Voyager wouldn't have been half as fun.

 

By the time of "Author, Author" I thought the doctor had become an ungrateful bitch in need of a serious smackdown. But his arrogance and self-centeredness before that were simply hilarious.

 

It's ironic that the best character on the show wasn't an actual living person.

 

The show focussed on him way too much. Why didn't they just shut his program off and only drag him out when he was needed? Surely it cost too much in energy to keep his program running so much.

 

Probably not - given that the holodeck was conveniently on an incompatible power supply it wouldn't surprise me if the Doctor's holoemitter power supply were also incompatible with the ship - thus there's no power loss in using him.

 

Good theory except in a couple of episodes in the early seasons they had him shut down when not in use or when power was an issue.

 

All this fuss over the Doctor being a hologram and nobody even mentions how Chakotay was a wind-up toy the whole time.

And how they stopped winding him up after the second season.

 

I thought he was a wooden statue...

 

Voyager showed all us racist people that Holograms have feelings too

 

...or just have emotional subroutines designed to appear like human emotions.

 

Exactly! He really was just a tool. I don't believe he was ever truly sentinent...he may have thought he was and tried to act like he was but in reality he really was just a computer program.

 

By definition, to "think" that you are sentient means that you're sentient. Y'all are silly.

 

I disagree, he was a complete tool.

Oh wait...

 

I agree. I hated Fraiser Crane in Space. I wish Paris would have reprogramed him to only sing AC/DC songs.

 

if he was truely sentient, couldn't he have named himself?

 

Wtf?

 

This is basically why I liked VOY. :thumbsup: Quite aside from his reality or non-reality as a sentient being, the Doc was just a fun, entertaining character to be with. He made up for a lot of VOY's faults, and I'm glad the show became more Doc-centric as the years wore on.

 

Not true, R2-D2 & C-3PO believe they are sentient but aren't, they're just programmed to mimic human behavior. Droids are built to be property, therefore aren't sentient beings.