The computer was tasked with creating an opponent that could defeat Data. Doing so required analyzing Data to assess what would be needed to fulfill that request. And the most complete source for that info would be the transporter, which has broken Data down at a molecular level and rebuilt him numerous times. And using that info, the computer imitates Data’s own neural net as a baseline, then grafts a holo character on top of it. That these the things are compatible and can be so easily integrated is also demonstrated in A Fistful of Datas.
The EMH had to be built from scratch, as there wasn’t a way to essentially steal Soong’s life’s work as a shortcut.
Morgoon@startrek.website 1 year ago
The years of research and development were spent making sure it didn’t end up in self-aware megalomaniacal computer storage
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
Not believable. Starfleet trying to fix glaring issues with their technology in an attempt to prevent those issues from happening in the future? They could never!
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
When they refit the Enterprise-E after fighting Shinzon, they gave the captain’s chair a seatbelt.
It happens.
teft@startrek.website 1 year ago
Actually the years were spent converting Moriarty’s holomatrix to the EMH. It explains his bedside manner perfectly.
ooterness@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This 100%. In Star Trek, it’s easy to make intelligent life by accident: Badgey, Exo-Comps, Lore, Wesley’s unnamed nanites. The hard part is keeping them from taking over the ship and killing all the organics.