Timeline for Why did Captain Janeway feel that using the Doctor as an expendable messenger boy was more important than keeping him around to heal the crew?
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| Jan 12 at 0:15 | comment | added | user3559247 | My assumption with this episode, is that they were risking the version of the doctor they had befriended over the last couple of years, but would still be able to use the factory reset version, so the loss of medical skill would only be the improvement over himself since he was first turned on. | |
| Jan 9 at 14:42 | answer | added | komodosp | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 18, 2022 at 16:48 | comment | added | FreeMan | Having just seen this episode a few days ago, I wondered this as well. Of course, I've often wondered how "subroutines degrade" and why there don't seem to be backups of any of the ship's software or data, considering they have multiple "giga-quads" of storage. It finally hit me - they'd only licensed one copy of the EMH, so they'd have been violating the terms of the license by sending one copy and keeping another on board! | |
| Nov 11, 2019 at 0:38 | answer | added | Valerie Dey Bolejack | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 10, 2018 at 11:25 | answer | added | Grant | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | enorl76 | @Matt for the record I agree. Seemed very strange to risk the newfound knowledge and experiences of the doctor's matrix. A Janeway hologram with limited interactions but a key piece of "authentication" proof, similar the professor from I,Robot hologram... "I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions." | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 15:14 | comment | added | Matt | or better still, "Computer create a holographic image of Captain Janeway, add personality from Janeways psychological profile, upload all log entries, save program", then just talk to the new hologram and say notify starfleet at all costs and tell them our situation. In short there is NO reason to risk the doctor | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 14:58 | comment | added | Matt | Its just for drama and makes no sense. It make more sense to simply say: 'computer, transfer all logs entries and the following message to Harry's bikini wearing volley ball player 1, reprogram personality with the directive to contact starfleet" then "computer, transfer volley ball player 1 to the astrometrics lab". While time is urgent this would have taken LESS time than asking the doctor if he would go, and explaining the risks involved | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | Lorendiac | @enorl76 -- I'm not sure what you mean by "anything else might not be convincing enough." Could you please elaborate? | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 20:49 | comment | added | enorl76 | On the main point, the doctor was decided to be the "only" option because anything else might not be convincing enough. Of course, there's also artistic license here for the sake of storytelling. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | enorl76 | One point, email for example, was designed to be text only and couldn't handle binary data, yet, extensions to the protocol enabled this by including defining partitions and base64 encoded data within the email. The biggest challenge in interfacing the alien communication network would be establishing the protocols that it uses, and trying to find a way to transmit the holographic data by encoding it somehow in a format compatible to the alien communication network. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 13:41 | comment | added | n00dles | @Lorendiac If you're enjoying it, I'd recommend watching the series from the start, Cpt.Janeway is infuriating on occasion but I loved the series as a whole(I've watched it 4 times over the years). ...and try to take some ST situations with a spoon of sugar as sometimes it's just a means to an end :] | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 23:27 | comment | added | Lorendiac | @1252748 -- while I appreciate the compliment, the funny thing is that I was honestly hoping that someone would tell me that this was not the case; that there were other things which Janeway logically could have felt that Starfleet desperately needed to know as soon as possible! (And which longtime fans of the show would have remembered when they saw this, even if the writers failed to mention those things.) Thus far, the two answers I've gotten are not supporting my hopeful optimism, though -- I'm increasingly suspecting that Janeway simply made a Bad Call in the heat of the moment. | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | 1252748 | Far more thought and effort went into writing this question than the episode it's asking about. | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | n00dles | Did they mention in the episode there was no backup of the Doc? Because there is, I added it as an answer. | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 15:29 | answer | added | n00dles | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 12:00 | answer | added | Paul D. Waite | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 11:49 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | “until recently, I had only ever watched one episode of Star Trek: Voyager in my entire life” — precious memories of a happier time. | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 11:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/843059834425675776 | ||
| Mar 18, 2017 at 3:19 | history | asked | Lorendiac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |