I think my favorite part about the Doctor was that he was an accident. Data was created to be an artificial being rather than a tool, but if things had gone according to plan, the Doctor as we know him never would have happened at all. He could only have come to exist through the bizarre circumstances of the Voyager's critical location error, and by the time they get close enough to make contact with Starfleet the people back home don't quite know what to make of him.
I think my favorite Doctor episode by far was the one where he gets sent back to Federation space to try and save his "father", and had to struggle against Dr. Zimmerman's resistance to acknowledging him as a person.
Second favorite would be the one where he finds out that the crew wiped an event from his memory because he suffered what is more or less a psychotic break because of a paradox that resulted in his making a life-or-death choice based on personal bias... Its dark, and sad, and just...God, you feel so bad for him.
He ever felt more human to me than he did in those two episodes.
There's a saying out there about how the internet is the first thing mankind has created which that it doesn't understand. In a lot of ways I always felt like holodeck technology was similar. For the most part it's used for escapism and entertainment, but it's been shown to be capable of so much more. There are tons of examples of things backfiring and creating sentient or almost sentient constructs completely by accident. Moriarty, the Doctor, the, er, Fairhaven incident (*snerks*).
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Date: 2012-04-01 03:20 am (UTC)I think my favorite part about the Doctor was that he was an accident. Data was created to be an artificial being rather than a tool, but if things had gone according to plan, the Doctor as we know him never would have happened at all. He could only have come to exist through the bizarre circumstances of the Voyager's critical location error, and by the time they get close enough to make contact with Starfleet the people back home don't quite know what to make of him.
I think my favorite Doctor episode by far was the one where he gets sent back to Federation space to try and save his "father", and had to struggle against Dr. Zimmerman's resistance to acknowledging him as a person.
Second favorite would be the one where he finds out that the crew wiped an event from his memory because he suffered what is more or less a psychotic break because of a paradox that resulted in his making a life-or-death choice based on personal bias... Its dark, and sad, and just...God, you feel so bad for him.
He ever felt more human to me than he did in those two episodes.
There's a saying out there about how the internet is the first thing mankind has created which that it doesn't understand. In a lot of ways I always felt like holodeck technology was similar. For the most part it's used for escapism and entertainment, but it's been shown to be capable of so much more. There are tons of examples of things backfiring and creating sentient or almost sentient constructs completely by accident. Moriarty, the Doctor, the, er, Fairhaven incident (*snerks*).