The real question is, will Space Porn Stars licence their image for use in holodeck sex parties?
I certainly hope so.
This is the premise of the pretty good Orville novella Sympathy for the Devil by Seth MacFarlane. It’s not about the person having delusions of grandeur, though.
Exactly. The ‘miniholodeck’ concept would need to be big enough so that you have complete freedom of movement; think Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man. You can stretch all your limbs out to their furthest extent, but no further.
To simulate acceleration, free-fall and so on, you’d need some kind of gravity control, but Star Trek has that already; in the real world you could probably get away with a gimbal rig of some sort, that tilts you backwards and forwards to get a similar effect. A virtual rollercoaster ride is the closest we have at the moment.
And soundproofing, of course - you know how annoying it is in a multiplex cinema when the screen next door is showing a disaster movie during a quiet segment of the film you are watching.
Eh, a large holodeck could produce the same effect; it just wouldn’t have internal physical walls separating the users. Just a bunch of people in the same room all at least an arm’s length away from each other, even if it doesn’t look that way to them.
You’d have to allow for people in physical contact with each other. More than one gaming group has postulated defeating a holodeck by having enough people hold hands and extend out in a line.
I expect that in a sufficiently advanced holodeck all contact would be simulated using haptic interfaces, rather than actually touching. Better than real life, probably. The most advanced holodecks would be more like the Matrix, with all sensations transferred by brain/computer interfaces.
There was also an actual Orville episode where Bortus downloads some sketchy holodeck porn and the resulting malware nearly destroys the ship.
We seem to have drifted away from identifying SF stories though.
Except they also have teleportation. The “door” to the holodeck is actually a teleporter, and each person is sent to their own mini-holodeck as they enter, but it seamlessly simulates all your companions walking with you.
There’s a recent thread trying to ID a scifi story:
I mentioned this thread there, but if any of you fine talents want to help them out but didn’t see the new thread, figured it was worth the time!
I’m on it!
I remember a Star Trek novel which would’ve come out, I think, before 1983. Mr. Spock is somehow seduced or mind-controlled by a scientist visiting the Enterprise, beams down to a planet with her and they have sex. He goes AWOL or refuses to return to the ship, and Kirk and a landing party have to go find him and bring him back. The planet has a primitive society of which (maybe?) he becomes the leader.
Despite some similarities to the plot of the TOS episode “This Side of Paradise,” it is not that.
I just searched on this. I got an suggestion from the search that it’s the 1981 novel The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre. Does that sound right?
Spoilers:
An experiment with giving Starfleet anthropologists direct access to the culture of a primitive planet via implants goes awry, and the female scientist and Spock essentially have their personalities overridden by those of two local sociopaths.
Are you asking a question trying to learn which novel fits that description? I searched and found the answer. Or are you answering the question in a previous post?
Spock: Messiah.
Having checked the Wiki articles for both books, I think it’s Spock, Messiah! (the exact title). Thank you both.
Hey, I’ve got a copy of that in my library, right next to “Spock must die!”
Ok actual story ID question. Very vague.
I’ll describe it as I remember, which may be accurate. 
I think it is a short story or novella,not a novel.
Space ship from earth visits a colony that hasn’t been visited in a while. In the meantime, all the men in the colony have died and only women survive. When the men come they are really crass about how the women will welcome them because they haven’t had “real sex” in a while. I remember that they dialog is crude and innuendo-filled. The narration is from one of the colonists, and she has no idea what they are talking about. I don’t remember how it ends.
I remember that it was from the 70s, probably no later, and by a woman author. I do not think it is Houston Houston Do You Read, which has a similar idea, but…it might be.
…OK, so much for suggesting “probably not what you remember, but a similar vibe”.
“When It Changed” by Joanna Russ, I think