# Your holodeck time **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208 "2010-06-06T23:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/121 "2010-06-11T19:17:42Z")
I would pool time with friends for a multi-hour Dungeon crawl. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/122 "2010-06-11T19:50:19Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > I would pool time with friends for a multi-hour Dungeon crawl. That prompts a question–do your hours add together if you use them concurrently? I.e., is the ration to fairly distribute the available holodeck hours (in which case two people with one hour’s ration each get to play for two hours together) or to limit the number of hours you fuck around on the holodeck (in which case two people with one hour’s ration each get to play for one hour together)? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/123 "2010-06-11T20:15:12Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I will \*make \*you like it. Nope. Not gonna happen. I’ll grant **Skald** sanctuary in my Grove. Ain’t no rap music there. And I have lots of…defensive devices…to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/124 "2010-06-11T20:22:13Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > That prompts a question–do your hours add together if you use them concurrently? I.e., is the ration to fairly distribute the available holodeck hours (in which case two people with one hour’s ration each get to play for two hours together) or to limit the number of hours you fuck around on the holodeck (in which case two people with one hour’s ration each get to play for one hour together)? The only I can think of not to let the hours be additive is that it might cut into operational efficiency. That is, if the holodecks need to be offline twelve hours out of every month for maintenance, you can’t let people say, “But that’ll break into the time the twenty-eight of us want to reserve it!” Likewise, you don’t want cadets up all night in the holodeck when they have to be up at 0500 the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/125 "2010-06-11T21:40:38Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Nope. Not gonna happen. I’ll grant **Skald** sanctuary in my Grove. Ain’t no rap music there. Look, just 'cause you guys haven’t ever \*heard \*good hip-hop doesn’t mean there _isn’t_ any. Everyone must like what I like, dammit! > [@](#): > > And I have lots of…defensive devices…to keep it that way. Is that a threat, or a promise? Wink, leer, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/126 "2010-06-11T21:46:19Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Look, just 'cause you guys haven’t ever \*heard \*good hip-hop doesn’t mean there _isn’t_ any. Everyone must like what I like, dammit! Okay, you need to calm down. I’m sending over some hookerbots of various flavors. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/127 "2010-06-11T23:48:48Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Is that a threat, or a promise? Wink, leer, etc. [Kosh] Yes. [/Kosh] 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/128 "2010-06-11T23:53:03Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Okay, you need to calm down. I’m sending over some hookerbots of various flavors. Let him keep the ones you send. They might like rap, and infect the rest of the herd if allowed to return. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/129 "2010-06-11T23:58:47Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Let him keep the ones you send. They might like rap, and infect the rest of the herd if allowed to return. These are the new generation hookerbots. We don’t just wipe the memories between users anymore; each one is melted into a pile of goo and reformed from the molecular level up. That’s why hookerbot fees have gone up 459% since April. Don’t blame me, blame the health department. I mean, you wipe out ONE MIDWESTERN CITY with an epidemic of hyper-mega-syphilis, and people get all pissy. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/130 "2010-06-12T09:11:04Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Let him keep the ones you send. “[Him](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46543.html)”? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/131 "2010-06-12T09:49:01Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > “[Him](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46543.html)”? Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/132 "2010-06-12T15:55:41Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > “[Him](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46543.html)”? Dayum. And yes, I fell for the Shower Pic. Probably deserved to be disappointed, and I was, but it was funny. Then I clicked on another link, and learned that she apparently plays a raid tank. So much is so right. It’s a damn shame she listens to that boom-boom rap stuff, instead of screaming guitars as Karana intended. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/133 "2010-06-12T16:49:41Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > (I know exactly who you’re talking about. 😃 So just as long as you realize that wasn’t my point, we’re good.) We’re good! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/134 "2010-06-12T19:03:59Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > “[Him](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46543.html)”? It’s interesting to me that the 20something white chick likes rap a lot more than the 40ish black dude. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/135 "2010-06-13T08:45:42Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > It’s interesting to me that the 20something white chick likes rap a lot more than the 40ish black dude. Chalk it up to a sign of the rich and diverse times we live in, eh **Skald**? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/136 "2010-06-14T16:09:38Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m sending over some hookerbots of various flavors. Is it too late to divert the hookerbots? I’d rather they just kidnap my boyfriend and bring him here early. (He’s flying in Thursday night, but I want him here _now_, dammit.) > [@Oakminster](#): > > It’s a damn shame she listens to that boom-boom rap stuff, instead of screaming guitars as Karana intended. I actually don’t listen to \*that \*much hip-hop–I just recognize that there’s good stuff out there. If it makes you feel any better, one of my best friends is in a really awesome noise rock band and the album I’ve probably been listening to the most in the past week or two has been Poster Children’s _RTFM_. Oh, and I have \*I Am the Game \*by Bloodsport **on vinyl**. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/137 "2010-06-14T20:28:38Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > They’re “holograms,” I guess, but they aren’t immaterial. If you jizz on a holowhore it’ll stick to her face. This is totally siggable. If I ever used a sig I might steal it. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Er, did you mean that \*everything \*that comes in the door goes out the door? Because otherwise I’m pretty sure we’re in a “Hotel California” situation. > > ETA: Note to self: Remember to use the bathroom \*before \*I go to the holodeck. I’m imagining a line of people waiting to use the holodeck carrying empty buckets and everyone leaving the holodeck carrying buckets of various bodily byproducts. In reality(in the trekverse at least), holodecks are combinations of force fields and focused light. Simulating natural flesh with those tools would not be easy, and it’s entirely possible they use replicator technology to replicate some nice warm lips, in the same way you’d replicate a nice hunk of steak, that they then manipulate with force fields if the person comes into contact with them. When you leave the meatlips attached to focused light behind they’re disintegrated and their energy recaptured to power the holodeck. In fact, since they have matter/antimatter transmutation you might be required to leave a deposit of matter of some sort in the holodeck so it can transform it into energy to replace the power it used during your session. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/138 "2010-06-14T20:52:33Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Simulating natural flesh with those tools would not be easy It’s been done. Remember the \*ST:TNG \*episode with the Binars? They programmed that French chick (well, with a French name, anyway) to keep Riker in the holodeck and he didn’t have any complaints. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/139 "2010-06-14T21:23:56Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Is it too late to divert the hookerbots? I’d rather they just kidnap my boyfriend and bring him here early. (He’s flying in Thursday night, but I want him here _now_, dammit.) They’re hookerbots, dear. Not programmed for that sort of op. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208/140 "2010-06-14T21:27:13Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > They’re hookerbots, dear. Not programmed for that sort of op. What kind of shitty hookerbots can’t be programmed to kidnap someone? What if that had been part of my fantasy?! I want my money back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-holodeck-time/542208.md?page=8)