Talk:Emergency Medical Hologram

Wikified and moved from EMH. Emergency Medical Hologram is always capitalized, so that has been preserved. Acronyms make for bad article titles. Philwelch 20:01, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Encyclopedic?
Does pure fiction belong in an encyclopedia? The "Star Trek" series was a real television series, buy the EMH never *really* existed.


 * Actually, yeah, Wikipedia does cover fictional stuff, as long as it's significant (of course, one has to make clear that it is fiction). In and of themselves, there's nothing wrong with entries about fiction--what kind of encyclopedia would we be with no article on Frodo Baggins? [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 03:58, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * That said, I think we go too far into triviality, and this article is probably an example. But it doesn't really hurt anything and there's no way to make people stop doing it. So such is life. Isomorphic 04:02, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Merge??
Should this be merged with The_Doctor_%28Star_Trek%29?--Sonjaaa 04:03, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

See discussion at Talk:Emergency Medical Hologram to keep discussion in only one location. Cburnett 05:51, May 11, 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm going to merge parts of the article into The Doctor (Star Trek) as was discussed here. I have cut out a large chunk of text from the article because it was not related to the technology in general but the "doctor" characters is particular. I have archived the cut text at Talk:Emergency Medical Hologram/temp, the full version of the article just prior to my "rampage" is there here. I'll spend some time re-wording and putting back into the article stuff that is relevant to the EMH technology itself (history stuff minus the character developement parts), the rest will be merged into the The_Doctor_%28Star_Trek%29 article where apropriate. --Sherool 1 July 2005 12:12 (UTC)


 * As there is no further use for it I'm putting the temp subpage I created up for deletion now. --Sherool 9 July 2005 16:44 (UTC)

Slaves?
Given the sophistication of the EMH programming & their involuntary assignment to menial tasks, can it be said the Fed endorses slavery? Trekphiler 10:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Activation date
This article currently states that the EMH was first activated on stardate 48315. However, a stardate of 48308 is established in Caretaker and repeated in later episodes. Year of Hell refers to stardate 48315, but I think this is a reference to the changes in the timeline going on throughout the episode. Aquae 11:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * IIRC, the "housecall" to Jupiter Station refers to EMH Mk1 being activated 48315. Anybody got the DVD? Trekphiler 08:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Dec 20 edit by Klingoncowboy
I'm sorry - I don't understand why the Mark I was added under the Prometheus. This is not a list of appearances, rather, this is a list of individual EMHs (i.e. each EMH becomes its own individual once it is installed in a ship and is activated, growing and learning for itself). The Mark I on the Prometheus was the Voyager Mark I making a house call, so to speak - the Prometheus system was hosting two EMHs simultaneously (possibly using the same ability the Doctor used to simulataneously support his Vidiian lady friend). GBC 17:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

3 or 4 or 3?
does the back up count as he is just an out of date (so to speak) version of the doctor that got separated from him and youre all forgeting that the enterprise-e's emh was a mark 1 and he survived reassingment (im presuming the reassingment of mark 1's happened before star trek first contact) so does this stay as 3 (if the enterprise e's emh doesnt count and the backup stay's) or 4 (if the backup and the enterprise e's emh stay) or 3(if the backup goes and the enterprise e's emh goes in)81.108.233.59 (talk) 16:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Redirect
This article merely regurgitates plot, and lacks citations to third-party sources to establish notability. I am redirecting it to The Doctor (Star Trek), where most of this content is already covered. --EEMIV (talk) 21:05, 3 January 2010 (UTC)