You can get plant based dino nuggets now. So plants altered into some ungodly simulacrum of an animals flesh, pressed into the form of a different animal, and covered in other plants. Originally to hide the corpse but now it's to laugh in the face of all things natural and whole. I like the spicy ones
I think Barclay giving the Dino nuggies sentience and the ability to feel pain - and this scene is canon - definitely takes it much further than self-providing voices.
Barclay. I'm not one to correct stuff typically but I do for names, funnily enough due to Star Trek. "Day-ta. Dah-ta. What's the difference?" "One is my name. The other is not."
That being said... Yeah. I can 100% see Reg doing this. Dude scares me. His character is really fascinating but didn't get explored near enough. Thankfully we got some more of him on Voyager though where he's still fuckin terrifying.