TNG s3e21 “Hollow Pursuits”

  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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    It baffles me the lack of privacy in the holodecks. At least on federation ships, I don’t remember the ones from Quark’s being accessed by anybody when in use with the same liberty as on the ships.

    They enter on others personal fantasies while running (or load a personal program from another person, people sometimes load others person programs), imagine enter on on an R-rated Barclay program while it is in use or load Tuvok’s wife program to help him through Pom Farr.

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      15 hours ago

      Considering the lack of privacy and the massive energy expenditure of the holodeck, I feel like a crewmember would be better off heading to sickbay for a hypo full of 23rd century saltpeter. “Turn me off, doc.”

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      Surely, they can just un-replicate it and replenish the replicator protein stocks.

      Edit: Thinking about this problem some more, there’s probably a serious issue figuring out what fluids and tissues are safe to un-replicate.

      Per the technical manual, the personnel transporters have quark-scale resolution, but the cargo transporters and replicators only have molecular-scale resolution. It would be a gross safety violation to put a living being through anything short of a personnel-rated transporter. Meanwhile any kind of bodily fluid that is emitted is going to have a bunch of still living cells, at least for a while. (I’m not even discussing the gametes here yet). So how do you get the computer to safely and reliably make the determination?

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        “I’m not trying to replicate babies anymore.” - The Improvised Star Trek

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        I mean, if the ship is truly self sufficient for long journeys, then this is exactly what they’ve already been doing.

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        I’m sure I recall them using the cargo transporter at least a few times, but it might be enterprise I’m thinking of? I wonder what resolution they had…

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    Porn. Lots… and lots… and LOTS of porn.

    Now the real chestnut observation from days past.

    All of that has to go somewhere. Ships recycle a LOT of stuff. Replicators effecitvly ensure that Stuff gets turned into Stuff you can use. However it’s easier to turn Stuff into Stuff when that Stuff already has the protines, fats, and such that the end product wants to use.

    Ergo ipso…

    When Troi was ordering that chocolate cake, she’s eating riker splooge.

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    I mean, I generally don’t want to know what anyone does alone on the hollow deck.

    and I’m pretty sure that Barclay’s a freak, so… we’ll just leave that right there.

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    I really enjoyed the Oroville’s multiple takes on the hollo-deck, it’s probably not healthy for you or your relations to get addicted to it