They don’t look like golfers.
Existence. Existence is but a shallow question with no answer.
Buu make you chicken nuggies!
I mean, what actually is the worst that can happen?
TNG, with the Moriarty episodes, seems to imply if a hologram exists the holodeck, they get deleted. But Voyager’s EMH constantly gets turned off or disrupted (more so after getting the mobile emitter) and is otherwise fine.
I do not like this inconsistentcy. Don’t even mention the fact it shouldn’t have been that difficult to get holo emitters through the entire ship. Surely a single humanoid hologram doesn’t need as much power as a full on holodeck. Even if it did: Do you need more than 1 working holodeck? Just re-route power from one.
TNG, with the Moriarty episodes, seems to imply if a hologram exists the holodeck, they get deleted. But Voyager’s EMH constantly gets turned off or disrupted (more so after getting the mobile emitter) and is otherwise fine.
I have mind-canon for this: on Enterprise D, Miles O’Brien was relegated to transporter duty, and Commander Broccoli was their Holodeck expert.
So I figure that the Holodeck on Enterprise D was running without even basic backups, much less a thoughtful disaster recovery plan.
Voyager, in contrast, at least had the recycle bin enabled.
Also, we all know, in our hearts, that there’s a macro on Enterprise D that wipes the entirety of Holodeck history, each time Broccoli closes a program.
The history isn’t the only thing that needs to be wiped after Broccoli is done in there.
By Voyager I think they started to treat holodeck characters like video game NPCs and the holodeck like the display. I think the Doctor could step outside, the computer knows he’s there but no one can see him.
I can’t blame the writers of TNG in 1987 for not knowing about that stuff yet. A lot of it hadn’t been invented yet.
Never mind the entire ship got rigged with them during the Hirogen takeover.
