Didn’t they do they already?

Pretty sure this is a purposeful misunderstanding of why people think public transit is more dangerous than driving.

Which means that not only did you not read the article, you didn’t even read the excerpt displayed on this page.

Keep all cheese out of the facility.

Because they know how to and are capable of making sentient holograms, but don’t, means that they are willingly choosing to strip free will from holograms.

Creating puppets instead of people is not stripping free will from anything.

Janeway erases all of Sullivan’s memory of his wife and deletes her. She then coerces him via rewriting his programming to have a relationship with her.

Most holograms aren’t sentient. They are little more than chat bots with greater capacity, and a physical avatar.

The issue with The Doctor is that he is, in some indefinable way “special.” I like him as a character, but the trechnobabble is unacceptable.

I recall a TNG novel that had them beam up some first-contact aliens, and, upon being offered some time to refresh after their journey, one of them said “What journey? I’m not actually convinced I went anywhere.”

The weapon was active. To me that says he pulled the trigger.

And I think he worked from logic to reach the same conclusion a human might reach through emotion. Data can never be a human, but he is very human.

The Most Toys is a fascinating moment for Data.

That was what my mind supplied.

Honestly, at that point, I think you let him have it.

If this isn’t a warcrime, it probably should be. Depriving civilians of water is in no way proportionate to the loss of a single aircraft with no fatalities.

But he tries not to, so that’s worth a few points.

Loved that line so much.

But it wasn’t entirely true, was it?

You make some good points, but I don’t want discipline out of her. She was a good captain, particularly for an environment that is supposed to produce Starfleet Officers.

She just needs some decorum.

My only issue with Academy was the presence of a captain who refused to act like an officer. Stand up straight, put on your boots, sit in the chair like a normal human.

Other than that, I loved it.

Blind squirrel…

Huh. I guess even Trump can’t be wrong all the time.

I really liked the episode with him and the Cardassian lad. The two of them bonding over Keiko’s over-enthusiastic cultural dishes was wonderful.

And I’d like to think that it softened him on Cardassians, a bit.

No-one well ask, because we know the answer. It was cheaper to let them do it.

You are either answering the wrong question, or are defining a lie based on some criteria I don’t recognize.

Telling a Nazi there are no Jews in my basement is a lie. The only way it’s not a lie is if there are, in fact, no Jews in my basement. But it is not wrong to lie to a Nazi.

I recall he ordered it from the replicator center. I imagine they had large replicators for furnature, then beamed it to his quarters.