This must have been one of the few DCOMs I actually watched back in the day. Most of the story felt familiar.

Part of that's no doubt due to how it retreads familiar territory from _Star Trek: Voyager_ about the holographic doctor, his status as a person vs. a program, and the idea of holographic life. Disney's take on the subject is unsurprisingly focused less on legal and ethical questions, and sticks to the learning angle: what can this artificial life form teach our young protagonists about the human condition?

More so than most of these TV movies, I think the lesson works just fine. Nitpicking opportunities aren't hard to find—Loretta's gymnastics alone open several cans of physics worms—but we can put that all aside. The "realistic" science fiction approach has obviously been softened in the name of story. Sometimes doing that doesn't work, but I say here it does.