Stardate 54732.3: The Doctor uses the newly established real-time comm link to the Alpha Quadrant to publish a holonovel called "Photons be free". When his crewmates try out the program, they are upset, because the Doctor has rewritten Voyager's story in a defamatory fashion: The EMH of the "USS Vortex" is suppressed by his terrible biological superiors. On a meeting with the senior staff, his colleagues urge the Doctor to retract his manuscript, but Broht, the editor, denies this because holographic persons have no rights within Federation law. A mediation session between Alpha Quadrant and Delta Quadrant is arranged which eventually confirms the Doctor's right of authorship.

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