I keep imagining an episode where someone was raised from infancy inside a holodeck by an insane parent. They’re so used to thinking that they have Q-like powers that they’re struggling with the very idea of an immutable reality, making Reginald Barclay seem well-adjusted by comparison.
The Holodeck makes much more sense once you realize that it works by summoning fey spirits to entertain the mortals. Except some of them are unseelie…
Damn, that’s a seriously excellent idea for a ST ep.
Future Imperfect part 2, perhaps.
It’s Star Trek, not Xena.
A Space wizard did it.
No no, that’s Star Wars, in Star Trek:
An advanced lifeform (Q, Trelane) did it
In the Animated Series episode “The Practical Joker”, three of the crew are trapped in the then-Recreation room in a blizzard, they are aware enough that it is after all just a room, and if they walk in one direction they’ll get to the wall eventually.
Unless the space-sorcery causes tiny micro fields that turn them in circles continuously.
And the falling into the water thing in Generations was stupid when it was new. Bring back hazing! Maybe they can do a “pinning” ceremony. So much for the enlightened 24th century.
(I have always maintained that the holodeck is not in any way capable of fooling someone into not knowing where they are. (episodes to the contrary be damned) The whole point is fun, and fun requires you not try to recreate the Indy speedway and expect your friends to be 2 miles away. Reg can’t be frolicking with the Goddess of Empathy while Deanna and company are dealing with his other parody characters too far away to see him at the same time. And Dixon Hill can’t send his partner across town and expect them to not know they are really 15 feet away (I can hear you over there!) It’s willing suspension of disbelief, not science foolery.)
I’d say, everyone in the holodeck together is actually in their OWN holodeck. It’s the only way it makes sense. Everyone “Real” is projections in the other person’s experience. Like a space zoom meeting. That way they can be as far away from each other as they need to be.
I’m more worried about the embarrassment factor. If everyone uses the holodeck for what we know they would (wink wink nudge nudge say no more) you REALLY want to door to lock!
And they need to decide if having holosex with a copy of Deanna, for example, is an invasion of her privacy, or even harassment, or a sign of deviancy. Especially judging by Geordi falling for Holo-Leah, the machine can make really accurate copies. Probably anatomically correct copies, using transporter or medical data.
And, not so funny. Worf (Michael Dorn) hurt himself quite badly. If you look carefully, you can see the blood on his pant leg just below his knee.
We’re already in the process of making Deek Fake porn of real people illegal, so this seems like a slam-dunk case to me.
The real question is, will Space Porn Stars licence their image for use in holodeck sex parties?
They’d scour the galaxy for someone who looks enough like Troi to pass and who is willing to license their image cheap.
Not just their images, but their, uh, special skill set. Don’t ask how the holoporn purveyors get that info.
Just hope they don’t give you space syphilis or space aids.
In Brin’s Kiln People there’s an analog to the licensing strategy
Don’t forget the Futurama episode where they do the holographic overlays on sexbots in the real world, but using (with a now very dated Napster reference) pirated celebrity personality files
Charlie X is actually fairly close. It’s just that Charlie was raised by superbeings with reality warping powers (and granted them himself) instead of inside a holodeck.
Except that Charlie really did have reality warping powers - the idea of someone who just thinks they do encountering the real world is what made the idea interesting.
Do you have a cite for that? I can’t see any visible injury in the clip. Where does it happen? And I would think it’s likely that a stuntman did the actual fall. Maybe Worf, the character, was injured in plot, and the blood is make up?
You can see red on his knee when Dr. Crusher falls and knocks him back in the water at 3:45.
But according to the internet, it’s paint. They had borrowed the boat from another movie set and painted it red for this scene. No actual cite, just multiple comments on Reddit, IMDB, etc.
It’s implied on a number of occasions that the holodeck is very much used for such things.
In one of the Babylon 5 movies Lochley discovers that 1) there is a holodeck-ish sex business going on in the station, 2) there is a holo version of her, and 3) its most popular use is for lesbian domination scenarios. She is not thrilled about this revelation.
…is what makes the idea news.