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[Star Trek: Voyager] Why couldn't Harry have done a better job at re-creating Holodoc when he was on Prometheus?

I get it, Holodoc was the result of years of research and programming by Lewis Zimmerman, combined with the unexpected emergent properties of having been left on for 3-4 years with experiences that couldn't easily be replicated by simple programming. Harry Kim could not possibly have recreated Holodoc perfectly. Granted.

But, what he came up with was a Holodoc-lookalike that was incapable of anything more than reciting Grey's Anatomy. The crew of various Starfleet vessels, in cooperation with the ship's computer, create better characters than this all the time. 

- Geordi, with little effort, created a Leah Brahms that was able to help him figure out a technical problem, and was so realistic he started to fall in love with her.
- Geordi created Moriarity simply by saying "Computer, create an opponent capable of defeating Data" or something to that effect.
- Voyager's crew created that Cardassian doctor exobiologist a year or two after the event.
- Voyager already had in its database extremely smart holographic figures like Leonardo da Vinci.

I'm not saying Kim could've wholesale brought back the Doctor, but surely he could have come up with *something* that'd be a lot better than shoving a hypospray into Tom Paris's hands and leaving it at that. What gives? Is Kim just really, really bad at holo-character programming, or what?
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(The "holodoc" is called an EMH, by the way.)

Voyager's computer wasnt at the crazy-high levels of the experimental upgraded Enterprise-D systems. They probably didn't have any pre-made systems with real medical capabilities to draw on, just the equivelent of actors who know how to spout medical-sounding technobabble. And medicine is largely based on skill; just feeding a hologram the relevant text files wasn't enough, because they needed *experience*, not just knowledge (which is available to anyone who knows how to operate a computer terminal properly., these days)

Still, it *is* odd, and I'd be suspicious that Ensign Kim may have simply been incompetent at the task.