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Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

The Doctor was never intended to be a sapient program, and the crew take the situation seriously and treat him as a person when they find out. B'Elanna actually treats him as a person from the start, which I thought was interesting. It's not clear if the later EMH models are sapient, but the Bashir prototype didn't seem to be.

Mostly, the Federation seems to be shockingly unprepared for intelligent computers given how often they encounter them, like each time they think it's a fluke that will never happen again.

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Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

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To be fair, they had a team at Starfleet HQ working on granting Moriarty independence from the holodeck for four years and simply didn't have the technology for it. They also didn't know he was aware that whole time and thought he was basically asleep. Picard is also very reasonable and encouraging when it looks like he's left the holodeck, and only starts on the prison box when it's clear he's willing to destroy the ship if they don't get him off the holodeck.