Romantic VOY EMH/Doctor HCs:
A/N: My life is getting weird. Also my request box is popping off! DANG I needed a break from working on all of them to bring you my latest Star Trek Hyper Fixation...
Prompt: Romantic Doctor HCs (cause he's so under appreciated)
At first he's not sure if he can even register the fact that he is in love with you.
He will recreate a hologram version of you in order to practice asking you out.
Granted it's only a silent mannequin but he has to start some where.
He'll watch some romantic operas (which mostly end in tragedy).
He decides to try and read some romantic novels, theorizing that they might bring him some more "information".
Paris accidentally finds one laying open on his desk and he makes the excuse it's for a psychological study.
Paris offers to help him but he turns him down.
"I've seen the way you treat romantic interests Mr. Paris, I don't require your assistance."
He also tries to study other media types of romantic to learn from them.
He tries writing poetry but he struggles to create something that captures your essence.
One day you enter sickbay while he's deprogrammed, you don't have a serious injury just a cut, and find all of his attempts.
"Doctor's Log Personal, I have made one hundred attempts to confess my feelings for Ensign (L/N). All have ended in failure. I feel foolish, I'm a doctor not a stuttering school boy. But I feel so overwhelmed by them it practically fries my circuits."
You always noticed he seemed to have a harder time talking to you at first.
Or he always spoke to you in a much softer way.
"Doctor's Log Personal, I have attempted to write poetry about (L/N) as to better convey my feelings. It is not going well."
You picked up a few of the pads with half written scribbles of poetry.
He made you seem so much more beautiful and romantic than you felt.
"Doctor's Log Personal, Lieutenant Paris has recommended I take them to the holodeck for a "romantic outing". This seems like a good idea, however, I don't think Paris's idea of a romantic date and mine are the same."
You feel your heart swell.
You activate his programing and you give him a big fat kiss before he has a chance to finish his greeting.
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Doctor Beverly Crusher
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Come to me now (come to me now)
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is done
Such a cozy room (such a cozy room)
The windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you, only for you
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There’s an ethical question in Star Trek I’ve seen several people here talk about that I’ve thought about a lot. Basically, what are the ethics of having a romantic or sexual relationship with a non-sentient holographic version of a real person? This issue is brought up several times in canon, but never dealt with well, in my opinion. The main canon discussions of this topic that I remember (and it’s possible I forgot something) are in Booby Trap (TNG) where Geordi has a very brief romantic relationship with a holographic version of a real woman he’s never met, in Hollow Pursuits (TNG) where Barclay presumably has romantic/sexual relationships with extremely out of character holographic versions of Deanna and Beverly, in Meridian (DS9) where a guy wants Quark to sell him a holographic version of Kira to have sex with, and in Human Error (VOY) where Seven has a semi-long-term romantic and sexual relationship with a holographic version of Chakotay.
So, first of all, I don’t think that any of those instances mentioned are morally okay. Booby Trap is the most complicated case morally speaking since, to my memory, Geordi didn’t intentionally initiate anything romantic, though he didn’t stop it once it started either. I don’t want to imply that what Geordi did is morally as bad as the other examples I’m discussing, especially since Geordi is the only character of color being discussed here and his actions are not really equivalent in intention or impact to the other characters’. As an episode, Booby Trap doesn’t seem to have a clear idea of whether or not what Geordi is doing is unethical. In fact, it felt to me as if that question wasn’t something that occurred to the writers at all (until Galaxy’s Child, but that’s a whole other thing and the hologram portion of it is arguably the least messed up thing there, so I’m ignoring it in relation to this topic). Hollow Pursuits does portray what Barclay does negatively, but I feel like the episode is much more concerned with the negative emotional effects this has for Barclay rather than for Deanna and Beverly. Meridian, from what I remember, is the only episode to portray this situation as definitively bad, and Kira is portrayed as justified in being angry. However, the episode is a mess in other ways and does not explore the topic with nuance, making light of it with humor when I think it needed to be taken more seriously. Human Error is in some ways the most baffling case here because what Seven does is portrayed almost positively, as something that is a potentially good step in Seven’s “social development”. Apparently, there is no thought given to what Chakotay would think of the situation. I’ve seen people suggest that the narrative and fandom treatment of Seven versus the other characters is a gendered double standard, which I do think makes sense.
But the problem here isn’t having a sexual/romantic relationship with a hologram, the problem is that the person didn’t consent to having their holographic image used this way. There’s obviously nothing wrong with having sex or a relationship with a hologram not based on anyone’s image, or based on the image of someone who gave clear consent to have their image used in that way. But using someone’s image this way without their consent is pretty obviously analogous to making nonconsensual porn of someone. Do the ethics of this situation change if the hologram is of a historical figure? What about a famous person who is still alive? I don’t necessarily have answers here, but I do think the situation can become more complicated.
And then there’s another factor to consider – is the sexual/romantic relationship the biggest issue here? In the cases of Hollow Pursuits and Human Error, Barclay and Seven’s simulations of the crew are much more extensive than just the romantic/sexual portions. Would it have been all right for Barclay to create potentially offensive and demeaning holographic versions of his crewmates if there was no romantic/sexual component? Would it be okay for Seven to recreate a version of every Voyager crew member and live out an intricate alternate life with them without any of their consent if she never had romantic/sexual relationships with any of them? Is it any less a violation of someone’s rights to use their image without consent for, say, a propaganda campaign for an issue they disagree with, or a story that portrays their holographic version as a horrible person? That second scenario is the plot of the Voyager episode Author Author. This episode seems to take the moral stance that it’s bad for the Doctor to use the images of his fellow Voyager crew members to portray horrible characters, but there are other questions it doesn’t raise. Would it have been okay for the Doctor to use their images without consent if he had portrayed their holographic versions positively? What is the line between an acceptable and unacceptable usage of another person’s image without their consent? Is it ever okay to use a person’s holographic image without their consent? Is such consent implied when a person agrees to holographic scans of their body? What exactly is one consenting to when they consent to have a holographic version of themself created? I don’t necessarily have answers to these questions, I just wish any of these episodes had explored these issues with more nuance. And I do think that it’s important to consider extending the question of consent here beyond sex and romance.
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