EMH Mark VII looks like Leonard McCoy
Can you imagine how EMH Bones would react upon being informed he is a holoprogram? When he is sentient, of course. Can you imagine how out of touch EMH McCoy would be instead of how everyone thinks he would not be? Its like, “Sir, we need help with this Gorn Former Borg and he has a problem with his legs. How do we fix that?” “First off, … Borg? What is a Borg? And hey–Good god, is he pregnant? GET THAT AWAY FROM ME. I an not repeatin’ history bein’ bitten by baby Gorn again! It’s easy to deliver them, just—" And how absolutely ridiculously close to McCoy’s personality he must be. How efficient he is in the emergency and how he gets along nicely with the nurses. Imagine officers calling him Doctor McCoy. And growing attached to him as though he were a person.
And imagine EMH McCoy and Voyager EMH nicely getting along complaining. Imagine EMH McCoy calling himself Horatio instead of Leonard or David or McCoy because he’s like McCoy’s twin in a way except he isn’t. He has his face and personality. He adjusts his memory anagram for the correct memories after numerous instances where some of the medical staff took him to the past an–he eventually gets a rank. Imagine that happening. Imagine him settling on being called McCoy. Imagine though that he is activated for the first time on a Vulcan ship. Or, or, or, or. or, or a federation occupied ship full of Klingons in service and there are few Vulcans and humans aboard. And everyone forgets to turn him off before they leave but the Vulcans turn him off after serving his purpose and–and it annoys him because he has something else to do and he has to wait for someone to turn him on. Some Klingons are too stupid to remember how to turn him on but he loves his idiots. And then there is problems developing because his memory ram is running out because they keep him on so much. They turn him off while dealing with that matter. They like talking to him and he apparently takes the place of counselor, priest, and bartender. So when he’s gone, their residential Andorian counselor has no idea how to deal with these over emotional Vulcans and Klingons full of wangst and humans being so unsure of themselves if they did something right or if they should do something to help a friend.
Now imagine him fighting to be given civil rights as Joe Voyager did and fighting to be not referred to as Star Fleet property. Imagine if the ship he was first activated on is a science vessel and not a exploratory vessel like the Enterprise. And he was activated by accident in federation space when there isn’t a red alert. Imagine how grateful he must be on not having to go down on away missions and worrying about the crew regardless because they are meddling in new, groundbreaking science that he doesn’t even know but he does because it’s programmed into his holomatrix and it feels so new and surreal to be in a time he feels like a stranger/visitor. He is just so human bleeding humanist and Vulcans find themselves viewing him as a human rather than a holoprogram and Klingons share the same perspective. Most of the humans aboard see him as a helpful holoprogram. Imagine his program has been expanded for indefinite for his memory ram. He experiences angst because his program is part of the ship—asides to the small device some members take him on calling it a holo-emitter—and what if he gets terminated? All his life experiences wiped out. What would they do with a program like him? There are others like him on the newer starships and he has heard the horror stories of what happened to them. He’s terrified of what happens when the ship is to be decommissioned. Imagine if the ship he is built into has holo-emitters all over the place. Imagine the set backs the holoprograms experience in getting civil rights and being acknowledged as people until they get growing advocates. Imagine how McCoy fears of being obsolete. Imagine him actually going ahead and being the bartender at the bar part of the ship. And people appreciate him and he is like family for them. Imagine how the assigned doctor of the ship prefers McCoy over themself on duty because he is so damn likable and McCoy ends up chewing them out because he is only here to help them on something they can’t do. Imagine EMH McCoy missing colleagues that the real McCoy would miss and accepting that he can’t always differentiate himself from the real man. He is Doctor Leonard Horatio McCoy. Imagine McCoy coming to accept what he is and what his future may be, with dignity.
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