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Curious what your head canon explanation is
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What I still don't get is how Vic Fontaine is as self-aware as Moriarty and nobody questions it or even gives a shit.
IMO Vic is likely like the EMH and based on a real person.
Bashir mentioned that Vic was created by a programmer called "Felix" - we don't specifically know how he created him, but in a mirror universe episode, "Vic" is there, except he's not a hologram, he's a real guy (who gets killed), and he doesn't respond to being called Vic.
My headcanon is that that was Mirror Felix, and Vic is modelled after his creater a la EMH.
I really like that theory!
That's kinda the point of that one Voyager episode where the EMH writes a holonovel. Starfleet is super callous with holograms.
Yeah Vic has so many worldbuilding implications that they don't ever get into.
Vic Fontaine runs on holosuites owned by Quark and presumably regulated by the Bajorans and/or the Ferengi. Starfleet has nothing to do with it.
Vic Fontaine also experienced the ‘left running constantly with no shutdowns’ that the EMH did, and his actual behaviour didn’t really go that far off base programming.