I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?

  • Jojo, Lady of the West
    4•2 months ago

    I believe that there’s simply some given understanding - probably some basic theory taught at school - that allows characters to make the distinction

    If that were the case, why would we have multiple episodes about whether or not a computer is a person? Or, perhaps more significantly, why was the ‘basic theory’ not brought up when we did?