Star Trek: Voyager®, "Lifesigns"

Lifesigns." Star Trek: Voyager®, 26 Feb. 1996. Cliff Bole, dir. Kenneth Biller, script.

To save her life, the Voyager's holographic doctor "used the undamaged chromosomes in . . . [a humanoid woman's] cerebellum to recreate . . . [her] original DNA code, and then programmed the computer to project a holographic template based on that genome"—i.e., he takes the sick and dying humanoid woman and gives her (for a while) an excellent, healthy body. They fall in love, the doctor's programming heuristically working its way toward romance. Features a scene "in which Doc and the holographic Danara are parked in a vintage '50s automobile overlooking a Martian colony . . . . The juxtaposition of two holographic beings experienceing such a quintesssential human moment, in an alien (and equally holographic) environment is worthy of Philip K. Dick." Summarized Cinefantastique 28.4/5 (Nov. 1996): 100-01, which we quote. See for the possibility of love in cybernetic and VR beings, at least in a VR environment.