Talk:Emergency Medical Hologram backup module

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One thing I'm curious about: it seems in another Voyager episode (the one where the Doc was being sent through the Hirogen communications array) Tom and Harry were trying to create a replacement for the EMH in the event he was lost...and they were trying to do it from scratch. But why would they make a new doctor from scratch if they could simply restore him from the backup module? This notion that the doctor is irreplaceable carries into other episodes as well, like the one where the EMH is kidnapped and forced to work at the alien medical base. Again, if voyager simply had a backup of the EMH (although he might be out of date by a few days/weeks/months), why would they go to the trouble of retrieving him? The only alternate explanation is that they wouldn't want their technology falling into alien hands. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by PB5K (talk • contribs) .

The Hirogen episode you are referring to is "Message in a Bottle", which aired a few weeks before "Living Witness". The one where The Doctor was kidnapped is "Critical Care", which took place a few years later. Since Living Witness never disclosed a stardate, it's possible the events took place before Message. Thus, the Emergency Medical Hologram backup module could have been lost before Message/Critical Care, and since they couldn't build another one, they had to try to build the EMH from scratch or rescue The Doctor. - Intricated ^{talk page} 00:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

i was just thinking that, perhaps that should put that on the other pages that say about the module