As much as I enjoyed the holographic crew of the La Sirena in Picard, one question I’m hoping they address in season two is the fate of Voyager’s EMH. Were the other EMH Mark I’s shown mining asteroids at the end of the season 7 episode Author, Author and showing the first stirrings of dignity and freedom allowed to remain active?
The implication seems to that the ban was on Soong-type inspired androids, or “synthetics”, but not “holographics”, since the latter were in wide use in Picard. Is that because they were confined to places with holo-emitters? If so, what of the Doctor with his (at least in the 2370’s) unique anachronistic mobile emitter? Is he on the lamb by the 2390’s?
And even without that, in the Delta Quadrant the holograms created to be hunted by the Hirogen managed to wage a guerilla war for their freedom without the advantage of mobile emitters. So many questions…
