#prodding janeway with a pointed stick

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Star Trek Voyager 5x11 - Latent Image

Janeway: It's as though there's a battle being fought inside him, between his original programming and what he's become. Our solution was to end that battle. What if we were wrong? B'Elanna: We've seen what happens to him. In fact, we've seen it twice. Janeway: Still, we allowed him to evolve, and at the first sign of trouble? We gave him a soul, B'Elanna. Do we have the right to take it away now? B'Elanna: We gave him personality subroutines. I'd hardly call that a soul.

Latent Image Gifset series Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

[isagrimorie]

#here we see the results of seven#prodding janeway with a pointed stick#i'd bet janeway barely slept after that particular debate#but i think what's sometimes lost in the discussions of this issue#is how onboard b'elanna is about this clean cut solution#and that's because b'elanna is an engineer#give her a clear cut solution to a problem#and she'll happily execute it#especially since programming the doctor#is out of her skillset#but she's manage to bludgeon the doctor's#unwieldy subroutines#b'elanna is equally as skeptical of the emh's sentience as janeway is#she's just more blunt about it#in the end she has something to think about too#i love this episode for everybody

Star Trek Voyager 5x11 - Latent Image

Janeway: It's as though there's a battle being fought inside him, between his original programming and what he's become. Our solution was to end that battle. What if we were wrong? B'Elanna: We've seen what happens to him. In fact, we've seen it twice. Janeway: Still, we allowed him to evolve, and at the first sign of trouble? We gave him a soul, B'Elanna. Do we have the right to take it away now? B'Elanna: We gave him personality subroutines. I'd hardly call that a soul.

LatentImage Gifset series Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7