TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Back in the day, Isaac Asimov said that by strict definition, a mousetrap was a 'robot.'

It's a machine that can act without a human controlling it, to perform a specific task.

'The Doctor' was designed to provide a wide variety of functions, with access to a vast array of medical/social/spiritual information, plus the capacity to diagnose new diseases.

On the other hand, the entertainment holograms Reg was dealing with were little better than current day AIs like Siri or Alexa.

imho

Fun Fake Fact: The working title for this episode was originally "D&D 3.5"

You tell that councilor to come down here and say it to my face.

Photons be free!

“Computer, deactivate iguana.”

Three thoughts about Troi.

One is that this is her area of expertise, and she's had a lot of experience with Data, so she shouldn't be so confidently saying something like this, which very likely either leads down the path that Data isn't a person, or that people aren't people.

Two is that as an empath, she may be unconsciously bigoted against those whose emotions she cannot sense.

Three may be her actual defense, which is that she's a counselor who is actively counseling a patient. So, it's possible that a counselor may have to say false things to a patient if those things are the things that will help the patient the most.

My face when someone says photonics aren't people:

(Sorry for the re-run, but I couldn't help myself.)

Considering the fact that her on again off again boyfriend/lover/husband only had one other love of his life, who WAS a hologram, she should know better.