001 - Public Video

[doctornoname]

[The Doctor's very first communique with the rest of the Barge is a video of him, seated at a desk similar to that in sickbay on Voyager. Behind him are a few shelves. However, the rest of the room - or what can be seen of it - is strikingly bare. No bed of any sort, no medical equipment.

He doesn't appear to mind.]

Greetings!

[He's been

Comments

[fuckyoucynthia]

You gotta be kidding me.

[doctornoname]

I beg your pardon?

[fuckyoucynthia]

Let me get this straight: you're actually a hologram, and you actually served on some futuristic starship, and you actually have a mind of your own and no one freaked out about technology developing a life of its own?

[doctornoname]

I-

Freaked out?

[fuckyoucynthia]

You're an AI.

[doctornoname]

That's correct. Well done.

Is it the artificial or the intelligence part that surprises you? I would have guessed the former, but the latter seems to be in short supply around here.

[fuckyoucynthia]

Were you programmed to be sarcastic?

[doctornoname]

[Good question. No one knows for sure. :|

Instead of an answer, have a flat stare.]

[fuckyoucynthia]

[You're getting one back, Doc. :|]

Aren't you supposed to come with a set of three rules or something? You'd except a piece of equipment to answer you. [He's so thinking of Asimov.]

[doctornoname]

A piece of equipment?

I'll have you know I'm a sentient being, and I resent that comparison.

[fuckyoucynthia]

Uh-huh. Take over Earth yet?

[doctornoname]

[Eyeroll.]

That's not on the agenda until next year.

[fuckyoucynthia]

Right.

So how does a computer program become sentient?

[most_feared]

[And someone has to let the cat out of the bag a little bit at a time.]

Sentient AIs generally don't like it when you question their right to exist. They get really touchy on that subject. It's probably not a good idea to do when a good number of them have superior physical or calculative capacities. [Do not piss off a gatbot. It is not fun. I do not recommend this.]

[doctornoname]

Thank you.

I think.

[most_feared]

I mean no offense by it, sir. Aside from being impolite right off the bat it's less than a good idea.