I've been of the view that Rules should revisit this one. Hologram should either be regarded as a characteristic, like Augment, and not a species, or should be regarded as an additional species.
That is we have human augments, like
Persis and Klingon augments, like
Marab. And we have
Deanna Troi is regarded as both Betazoid and Human.
The main problem the current version of the rule causes is with
Kolinahr. As it is, I have to discard this card if I play
Revised Tuvok despite him being quite cold-bloodedly logical, or
Sumek -- whose lore actually says he's a hologram based on a Vulcna- because they don't count as a Vulcan. Nor can I use the second function of Holoprogram: 221B Baker Street in such a deck for the same reason -- the copy of T'Pol I put on that card makes my copy of T'Pol in play no longer a Vulcan.
There are only a couple of cards that wouldn't make "trek sense" under this ruling, both from the
era:
Dikironium Cloud Creature and
M-113 Creature. These single out humans because one is a salt sucker and the other loves to eat iron in the blood (although I believe pretty much every species with blood other than Vulcans and Romulans has iron-based blood). A simple fix would be to change these both to "non-
humans."