With fast communications it could work just fine. Network all the suites together and people in different holosuites could still all get together. In one suite they’d be real. In the others they’d be controlling their holographic representation by their real actions.
The big limit in that case would be the number of suites in less populous areas.
I just meant the part about socializing with people you could build RL relationships with.
If the holographic representation of the person is indistinguishable from the real person, what difference would it make?
They can’t come home with you.
Turn the holospace into your home.
I thought we were talking about holosuites (Trek) or the simulator (Orville)? You presumably have to take turns using it and can’t just use it indefinitely.
“Hey, don’t Bogart that simulator, man.”
Holospaces presumably use lots of energy, so simply living in one is probably impractical. Maybe it’s not relevant when you have one or two drawing energy from MacGuffin-powered warp cores on a starship, but moreso if you want to have one in every home. Or one *as *every home.
Sure, rent one to set up a date. You could travel anywhere, and then go back to your home. The person doesn’t need to physically be there “in the real world” since the holographic representation is indistinguishable from a real person.
In the early seasons of Voyager that was A Thing. Holodeck access was a limited resource.
Cool to see Marina Sirtis guest starring as the teacher tonight.
I normally don’t like stunt casting that much, but all the Star Trek actors making appearances is pretty nice. I just want them to be original characters, not nudge nudge wink wink repisals of their Star Trek roles. That goes too far into cheesy fan service.
My dream Trek casting is Michael Dorn as Bortus’ father. There are like 8 ways they could go with that, and they’d all be great.
Also, the episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes.
I was kind of hoping that the renegade female colonists would turn out to be bigger badasses with better weapons than the main Moclan from the battle cruiser.
Are we supposed to think the female Moclans can have children by themselves, too?
OTOH, the two (presumably male) parents of the infant girl are on that planet, too, and you’d have to think that other males also came with the girls they are trying to protect.
Yeah, they were vague about that.
After the aggressive way they greeted the landing party, it was disappointing to see them acting so helpless when the Moclan security forces came.
I really liked this episode, and I believe we started discussing this exact scenario ever since the whole “females are forcibly converted to males” episode way back in season 1 - the Union is called upon to defend the rights of female Moclans, but the Moclans are the most militarily formidable members of the Union and cannot be summarily dismissed, even by a majority of the Union.
I thought the Bortus/Klyden/Topa scenes were the most interesting parts of the episode - Bortus examines and admires the differences between Moclus and the rest of the Union, but Klyden resents and loathes them. And now we know what Klyden does all day - sits in the cabin being annoyed about all the females on the ship.
Did it *have *to be Dolly Parton? :mad:
Especially since we’ve seen that there are Moclans who are attracted to females, the planet would seem a natural home for them. But I’m as willing to believe that two females could have children as I am that two males could. (In fact, the children produced by two females would invariably be female themselves, so there’s that.)