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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.

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#b'elanna torres #kathryn janeway #the emh (doctor)#star trek voyager #voyager 5x11 #latent image (voyager)#voyager edit #trekedit #star trek edit #and 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

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