Well it’s not my query, but JAQ suggested the following:
It was just whatever was in his imagination; for example, when a scientist comes to examine him and is introduced as such, he is transformed into a “mad scientist” because that is what the kid pictured when he thought about scientists.
A vaguely similar plot can be found in the episode of The Twilight Zone (and in the story by Jerome Bixby that inspired it) called “It’s a Good Life”, which is about a boy that can make things disappear.
Can i ask a question about a Star trek Episode? They are in the holodeck, pretending to be on an old age of sail ship, in the appropriate uniforms (mostly), they then toss someone over the side, explaining to Data “its funny” so then Data does it, and they tell him, “That was a funny once thing”?
Of course you can. Are you asking which episode that happened? Because you don’t actually say what the question is.
It was the movie Star Trek: Generations.
nvm, ninja’d
Geordi was wrong. That was, in fact, funny.
Includling the kidneys.
It was meta-funny in that Data, genuinely innocent of the faux pas he was committing, turned Crusher’s joke back on her.
Thank you, no wonder i couldnt find it.
Hm. So not the one I was thinking of at all.
This TVtrope link might prompt some memories https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EnfantTerrible/Literature
Oh, and the “that was only funny once” is from a completely different explanation of humor to an AI character.
Mike! (also known as Michelle)
Another thing I was thinking is about how shit like that is always funny and “live in the moment” when it’s happening to someone else. She only liked spontaneity when it wasn’t messing her up.
The thing that always got me about the scene is that Crusher and Worf are swimming in the sea well below deck level. But then Picard opens the holodeck door, which is at deck level. That means Crusher and Worf are under the floor. How does that work?
Maybe the floor isn’t actually solid, it’s just a holodeck projection that is consistently on when no program is running. Only thing I can think of.