Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
although it does raise a question of just how bad the Enterprise's computer is when it gets someone's personality so utterly wrong despite being asked to base them on the real person's psychological profile--or maybe Starfleet psychiatrists are just rubbish?
Well I'm pretty sure the computer DOES warn Geordi that it doesn't have enough data to give the hologram the real person's personality. I don't think a psych profile is really enough to recreate anyone's personality by itself anyway.

The more interesting issue, which is also addressed in a Lt Barclay episode, is the implications of creating hologram of a real person and being able to program it to do whatever you want. Star Trek barely brushes on the topic of holographic pornography (mostly in DS9), but in reality this would become squicky really fast. Just imagine Rule 34 in the 24th century.