Val listened...  Wow this hologram did sound like an arrogant one...  He had heard that about the Mark 1 EMH.  He could value the AI as a form of computer life, and a form of life that should have rights...  The same rights that any human being had honestly...  However, that didn't change the fact that he really couldn't see how a hologram could ever have the true passion that a person had.  Maybe the Vulcan would like him, not a shot against Vulcans but they were logical beings and logically there was no difference between algorithms in a computer and synapse pathways in the brain that created consciousness.<br/><br/>Val replied simply, "I think we were going along the same page there Mr. Scott...  I think our efforts should be focused on diversion, however, rather than absorption.  Temporal energy has to go somewhere...  I suggest we set up a few simulations either here, or in the holodeck, and see what the practical impacts on subspace field harmonics are from absorbing temporal energy verses bending it."<br/><br/>Val did smile then, he didn't dislike the hologram and was willing to see if this EEH could really be like a biological person in passion and vigor.  Two qualities very highly valued for an Andorian.