Questions tagged [star-trek-emh]
For questions regarding the Emergency Medical Hologram (aka "The Doctor") in the Star Trek: Voyager television series. Use this tag with the [star-trek] tag, as well as the [star-trek-voyager] tag.
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Why is the EMH in Voyager so much more human-like than Data?
In Star Trek: Voyager, the EMH is clearly more human-like than Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation:
When a hologram died in "Heroes and Demons," the EMH
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How does the Doctor recover his ethical subroutines?
In the episode Equinox Part II, the EMH is operating on Seven of Nine, his ethical subroutines having been deleted. Shortly after, he appears on Voyager — presumably after being beamed over by Equinox'...
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How does the EMH see?
Voyager's EMH is apparently simply a collection of photons and force fields, controlled by a computer, either on board Voyager or in his mobile emitter. Yet he seems to see and hear things from the ...
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Does the EMH ever laugh?
From time to time the EMH seems to "chuckle," usually because he's made a clever comment. I'm referring here to genuine laughter (as genuine as a computer program can laugh; no need to split hairs and ...
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What is the EMH's/Voyager's definition of "voluntary"?
In "Vis à Vis," the EMH materializes inside of the holodeck as Tom Paris is working on a car. The Doctor blows the horn to test Paris' hearing.
He then states, "I realize that your sickbay training ...
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What is meant by the EMH's "motion sickness"?
In "Dark Frontier," after entering transwarp in the Delta Flyer, the EMH complains about motion sickness to Captain Janeway. He states that he'll have to "adjust his matrix to accommodate for extreme ...
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Why did the Voyager Doctor have to scrub in?
In S03E04 episode of Voyager (The swarm) we see the Doctor aka EMH, prepare to operate on Lt Tom Paris. Surprisingly, he seems to be sterilising his hands with a machine that emits a faint red light. ...
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Why was the EMH Mark I used to scrub plasma conduits?
Apparently it's pretty easy to create a holomatrix, even more so with only basic algorithms, such as scrubbing plasma conduits.
Why did Star Trek go to the trouble of changing the EMH Mark I, instead ...
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How does the EMH get into the "system"?
In the episode "Thaw," a few inhabitants of a planet and Harry Kim are taken hostage by "The Clown," an "evil" entity that is the product of the humans' fears. The Clown won't permit the hostages to ...
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Does the EMH have a sense of smell?
The EMH clearly can hear and see. He doesn't have a sense of taste. Can he smell?
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Can the Chief Medical Officer relieve the captain during any situation?
In "Persistence of Vision," the EMH lets Captain Janeway know that he, as the CMO, can relieve Janeway if he deems it necessary. He does just that, and the captain retires to the holodeck.
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Why does The EMH Doctor feel emotion, but Data does not?
Both The Enterprise-D/E's Data, and Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, are crew members who are artificial intelligences.
In TNG, Data is depicted as being incapable of feeling emotion (at least ...
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How did the EMH remain "solid" when beamed aboard the hologram ship?
In "Flesh and Blood," the holograms beam the EMH over to their ship. Just prior to doing so, Tom Paris attempts to download the EMH's program into the mobile emitter. I assume this would keep the EMH "...
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Did Robert Picardo have a cold in 'Jetrel'?
This may seem a bit of a weird question (to be honest, it is) but I was watching the Voyager episode 'Jetrel' and noticed that whenever the EMH spoke, he sounded like he was suffering from a cold. I ...
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How did the Backup EMH make the journey back to the Alpha Quadrant without the mobile emitter?
When he was activated at the beginning of VOY: Living Witness he obviously has no mobile emitter since he is a backup copy. He is also seen outside of the holo-recreation of Voyager and walking around ...
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