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That freighter was not a Xhosa! It was most definately all-new. The CGI would have to be scratch-built anyway...
And the entire issue of The Doctor's rights wasn't the main point of this episode by a long shot. It was a character study first and foremost and the moral tale harkening back to "Measure..." was more of a side-effect.
Still, it would've been cool if the arbitrator had dropped a line about the precedent set by Data v Maddux.
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Sorry, Tom, I have to disagree with you (about the freighter, I mean ) It was most definitely a reuse of the Xhosa model, only black instead of tan/brown. Although, I don't know if the Xhosa had been CGI'd for DS9, or if it was just another recombination of freighter parts from the original physical model.
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One thing I thought was odd about this ep: the judge, not interpreting the law to define the Doc as a person, instead REWROTE the law to include him. He made a very specific point of this. Do we need any more evidence that the Federation government is totally screwed up?
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As for the Xhosa, I don't know if it was CGI'd for DS9, but it did make an appearance in VOY a while ago. Or at least Pin'a'SoV lists a photo of it as "Telsian starship"... What episode was that?
We have of course seen the basic components of this freighter in Delta quadrant before. "The Chute" used footage from "Final Mission" to depict a small freighter that was said to fit within the Voyager's shuttlebay. Mercifully, that footage lasted for less than a second.
Timo Saloniemi
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He didn't change it--he interpreted it. Basically, he ruled that the spirit of the twelfth guarantee was to protect the artist even though the artist was referred to as a person. This happens all of the time in our (US) legal system.
I too am surprised that nobody cited the precedent of Data v. Maddux. The arbiter acted as if he was the first to have to deal with such a case, but the precedent has already been set (and no its not a different thing--sentient rights for an artificial life form). I would think that the Data case would be the first card they played. Then again, maybe they didn't want to remind us of this episode's striking similarity to "The Measure of a Man."
One thing that I did like about this story is that it kind of deviated from the traditional Voyager story arc. As has been stated above, the first half was very different from the second, and the subplot was nicely wound in instead of weighing the episode down as happens far too frequently. Despite the similarities to the aforementioned ep, I liked "Author Author"--it was a decent, well-rounded episode.
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If there isn't a specific section to the law pertaining to the situation in question then a decision in a court of law becomes the standard by which future cases of this nature are judged. The judge can't write legislation, but the decision does in effect become law.
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Yes, I agree. It was something Guinan mentioned during Measure of a Man to Picard at Ten Foward. I guess Starfleet wanted a race they can turn off so they won't have to see their faces when they feel their morals rise to the surface.
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) It was most definitely a reuse of the Xhosa model, only black instead of tan/brown. Although, I don't know if the Xhosa had been CGI'd for DS9, or if it was just another recombination of freighter parts from the original physical model. 
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