Let’s say you equip The Doctor with his Mobile Emitter, and let the two compete it out.
Any sort of competition, not just physical.
Seems to me the EMH Doctor would kick Data’s butt. First, while I’m sure that Dr. Sung (Soong?) guy who invented Data was a genius and all that, Data’s hardware & software have to be out of date. The Doctor on the other hand, has the latest in software running on a mobile emitter from even farther in the future!
The Doctor is surely more intelligent than Data, and a quicker thinker. I also notice that while Data blubbered around like a social and emotional idiot for awhile - and still seems klutzy with the whole social human interaction thing - the Doctor never had any problems with those silly “human emotions.” His personality was a bit prickly at first, but it was a personality, and he was designed as an emergency doctor so you really wouldn’t expect him to act like a Tribble.
Since his technology was far more advanced… seems reasonable that The Doc had more capabilities.
There is one difference. Data was trained/programmed in science & engineering. He often helped Geordi with ship repairs. Wasn’t Data the Science Officer like Spock?
The Doc knew medicine. There were times Voyager broke and he wasn’t much use in fixing it.
Yeah I was a bit confused by the question and was going to ask what a “Mobile Emitter” was. Then realized the OP wasn’t asking about The Doctor, but another doctor.
Same here. I was thinking that maybe a “Mobile Emitter” was something that the current Doctor had. (I haven’t regularly watched since David Tennet left.)
His technology isn’t more advanced, however. The Doc is off the shelf Federation technology. Though his abilities grew during the series, he’s still basically just a program that runs on the ship’s computer. Data, however, runs off tech that the federation does not have the ability to duplicate - Soong developed technology that was beyond anything the Federation has been able to achieve.
So, if Data and the EMH were in a contest, the winner would be…
The Voyager effectively has a snapshot of the entire internet from whenever it last docked. Every Federation ship does. The Doctor has complete, searchable access to that wirelessly.
Data doesn’t seem to have any sort of wireless access to the ship’s computer. He has to either ask, use a console, or jack in. However, it’s entirely possible (and likely) that he has jacked in at least once and has downloaded the entire ship database into his head. I don’t believe that there’s any reason to assume that Data can’t memorize an effectively limitless amount of data.
Since the Voyager is lost in space, its computer database is likely out of date. Data’s is probably more current.
So, really, in the one way in which the Doctor may have had the upper hand, it’s likely that Data still pulls ahead.
In terms of strength, creativity, intellect, etc. Data pulls ahead. The Doctor can simulate human capabilities to some extent, but Data actually has those abilities. And of course, the Doctor is a hologram of a human, so (I believe) he only has human strength. Data has superhuman strength.
The Doctor is probably smarter/more knowledgeable than Data in medical matters, but that’s because that’s his specialty. On anything other than medical, Data almost certainly has him beat. Heck, with both of them being non-biological, Data probably knows more about the Doctor’s functioning than the Doctor knows about himself.
Although, to be fair, Data’s hardware design seems to be at least heavily inspired by biology (“if you prick me, do I not… leak?”), so the Doctor’s knowledge wouldn’t be completely irrelevant when it comes to Data.
