Re-watching it and after the episode drone, season 5 it gets fused with 7's borg tech, and a few episodes later in episode: "30 days" he's able 2 walk 2 the brig (looks like without anything on his arm) I will keep watching later episodes 2 c if he comes out.
share"Drone"
So the Doctor was back and stuck in Sickbay again, it's happened a few times.
"30 Days"
Your claim is rather nitpicky, as other episodes have shown that the Doctor can place the mobile emitter ANYWHERE on his person, not just his arm, especially if he's disguised as someone else, like in "Renaissance Man".
You're forgetting that they added more emitters throughout the ship after 'The Killing Game.'
shareI think they were removed by the Voyager crew, to be honest. Too much of a drain on the energy reserves, AND it was the Hirogen who forced them to be installed in the first place.
But the point is, they would retain those emitters which made sense e.g the doctor being able to visit those being held in the brig.
shareThe point is, he has his MOBILE emitter, that's more important than fixed emitters.
Besides, they were trying out installed emitters in the first or second season, in key areas like the Bridge and Engineering.
No, it isn't. The mobile emitter can be damaged. Maintaining emitters in vital areas of the ship is a sensible option (especially since they've already been put there). They toyed with this very idea in earlier seasons but found it too complicated (projecting the doctor out of the ship). The work done in Killing Game meant it was halfway done so keeping the technology for vital areas was sensible. The show never satisfactorily dealt with the issue because they clearly didn't want to explain inconsistencies but it's as reasonable as believing he put the emitter under his clothing (which he did in Renaissance Man despite the mind-bending notion of a holo-emitter projecting a leg then clothes over the top of that leg in order to conceal the emitter).
shareBut the Doctor would still be limited to being inside the ship.
The Voyager writers could've established emitters throughout the ship, but it would mean no external portable emitter, meaning no cool reaction shots to seeing the Doctor in a Los Angeles street. So they invented the mobile emitter to give him much more flexibility. How would the crew have dealt with medical matters on away missions otherwise? Rely on Paris? He's a competent medic, but not the genius that the Doctor is.
No reason not to have both. The ship emitters are simply to give him a small degree of maneuverability. In a strange way the mobile emitter was a cheat that gave him far too much maneuverability.
By season five, the Doctor, Janeway, and Seven are the only characters that get any stories.
"the mobile emitter was a cheat"
As you indicated, a precious and vulnerable "cheat"
"By season five, the Doctor, Janeway, and Seven are the only characters that get any stories."
I don't know why people say this: Ensign Kim had his episode "Nightingale" very late in the show when he took command of his own ship, and there was the last Neelix-centric episode when he left Voyager.
If those three were the ONLY characters to appear, almost like something out of fucking "Big Bang Theory", then your statement would hold true, but all the other characters are still supporting them in secondary roles. And to stretch that analogy a bit further, weren't Crusher and Troi in TNG relegated to minor supporting characters as well?
There are exceptions to the rule (Shattered is good Chakotay episode in later seasons) but by and large, Seven, Janeway, and the doctor began to dominate the series.
sharehe show never satisfactorily dealt with the issue because they clearly didn't want to explain inconsistencies but it's as reasonable as believing he put the emitter under his clothing (which he did in Renaissance Man despite the mind-bending notion of a holo-emitter projecting a leg then clothes over the top of that leg in order to conceal the emitter).
The more you think about holo technology, the more it hurts your brain.
shareA few episodes later in nothing human season 5, he also has his mobile emitter back on his arm, I guess they magically fixed it from the fusing of borg tech.
shareWhy would it have to be "magically" fixed? This is a TV show set in the far future, where technology is advanced, after all. It wouldn't be difficult for Seven to remove the nanoprobes or the Borg tech from the emitter, you know!