I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
It’s non-canon, but if it makes you feel any better, according to the “Path to 2409” lore in Star Trek Online The Doctor won a court case and was ruled sentient in 2394.
(Apparently it was even expanded into a class-action lawsuit, and resulted in the freeing of 600 other EMH Mk. 1 dilithium-mining slaves.)
Somewhere it also wins the copyright of a novel he wrote. In dispute was whether he was a person or not, because machines can’t produce copyrightable material