Post by Holodoc on May 10, 2002 13:52:06 GMT -5
What amazed me was that she never gets me anything pertaining to my interests. Usually, it's clothes I wouldn't be caught dead in.
This time of all times... She must have picked up the Hologram's Handbook at Barnes & Noble when I was ogling the journal section.
Anyway, you can't actively boycott something your mother bought for you. There's just so much one can take this within reason (and they said I wasn't a reasonable hologram).
I didn't read it yet. I have other things queued up, like Dark Matters pt 3 by Christie Golden. If inspired, I might give Peter David's novelization of Spider-Man the next slot. Ever since I completed the first draft of my novel, there's suddenly more time during my commute to read...
But I digress. I looked at the cartoons in HH. One I found particularly funny, in which the Doctor is on the floor inside Sickbay's doorway. He's trying to get his mobile emitter from the middle of the corridor with a broom handle. In the foreground and out of Doc's sight is Tom Paris, stifling a snicker.
I did notice a chapter in which Picardo has the Doctor writing about adding gender to himself, which is pretty absurd when you have even the smallest knowledge of how computers and programs work (I maintain that the Doctor always had the equipment, just not the subroutines or "drivers" installed for anything to work until Danara Pel came along). If the Doctor could make permanent changes to his matrix, he be taller, no longer bald, or made any number of other alterations to change his appearance. However, incidents and mention surrounding the issue have conflicted since the second season, and are open to interpretation. This is a good example of the difference between disagreeing with a concept and - like the Orgs issue - citing something out of character.
If you've read the Picardo chat transcript from last Monday, you might have caught a new term: "biologicals." I noticed it at the time, but it didn't click until our liaison suggested that Picardo might have reconsidered my position. Well, it's still out of character for the Doctor to use slang where correct terminology exists - unless the species or race themselves established the term. Barring any underlying agenda instigated by Paramount and TPTB, I would have to say that using an innocuous term is far more worthy of compromise by diehard fans and Trek nitpickers.
But in truth, it still doesn't work. Think of all the millions of species and races included in such a generalization. It's barbaric, and simply not conducive to a Starfleet mindset. The day there is no compulsion to endow the Doctor or any EMH with this habit is the day the writer responsible has socially and intellectually proved themselves qualified to represent an inhabitant of the 24th Century
