Well why don't I like Vic? I've been thinking about it and these are some of the conclusions I came up with

- singing - I hate singing in movies. Or TV shows. If I'm at home I always try to find the "fast forward" or "next chapter" buttons on my remote. I have nothing against songs or music in general, I just feel they don't belong into "normal" movies & shows - they belong to musicals

- jazz in general - maybe if he would sing something of the 350 genres I like, I would be able to at least tolerate him.

- his "bar" or what is the correct term - it seems to me like a bad version of Quark's bar. I love Quark's bar, that was a very interesting and funny place. The holographic "jazz club" isn't. Why is it even there?

- why do they have 2 bars? Seriously from a story telling point of view, what sense does it make? There was just one episode I can remember LIKING which had the holographic club in it, and that was the "Ocean's eleven" type of episode where they stole money from the new owner

Some of you have suggested I have something against inteligent holograms. Well I started to think about all intelligent holograms which were in the franchise starting with Minnuet (or whatever the spelling is) in the Bynar episode of TNG, and ending with Robert Picardo's doctor, and I really wanted to write you a list of intelligent holograms I like. And then I realised the list is empty. Yes, I don't like ANY intelligent hologram they used on "modern" Star Trek. I don't really know why, maybe it's a sort of a "professional deformation" - I know what it's possible to program and what not. And if I can't BELIEVE a character, I can't LIKE the character. I can't actually get any emotional involvement with the character, so episodes like when the doctor wanted to fight for rights of other holograms - WTF?