so what holosuites were used in Deep Space Nine anyway?
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Um, the same stuff as in TNG/VOY?
I thought TNG made it pretty clear that they were used for "sex stuff" as well, Riker's "I'll be in holodeck 4" is pretty much synonymous with Firefly's "I'll be in my bunk".
I thought TNG made it pretty clear that they were used for "sex stuff" as well, Riker's "I'll be in holodeck 4" is pretty much synonymous with Firefly's "I'll be in my bunk".
It's not particularly relevant, but I take every opportunity to point out that Quark's holosuites were shown to be far, far safer and more reliable than the holodecks on board the Federation flagship.
Perhaps holodecks on Starships are supposed to be faulty?
I mean, let's face it. Starfleet promises a life of glamorous discovery, but the reality probably is that most average Starfleet officers end up on ships like the USS Trashcan of the Garbage class, and their main responsibility probably is no more exciting than routine patrol to see whether some people are trying to get away with dumping toxic waste in deep space, or violating the Warp 5 speed limit.
Give such ships holodecks to provide the much needed diversion and relaxation. Give them frequently (and dangerously) malfunctioning holodecks to keep them on their toes.
My math teacher in high school in fact always used that excuse whenever he made an error in a lengthy blackboard calculation . "Just checking if you guys were paying attention".
Except that holodeck malfunctions are often life-threatening. I'm not sure we actually want to kill crewmen as part of a test.
I had a computer science professor who made an error in a line of code fairly early in a snippet he was writing, and once he realized it, fixing it resulting in needed to rewrite multiple other lines. Oops!
Nah, no problem. No-one important ever dies, only redshirts.
(In other words, my response wasn't meant to be taken seriously in the first place.)
It seems that holo-decks went from a ground-breaking, never seen before technology that had everybody amazed in TNG season 1 to something commonplace and entirely ordinary by the time DS9 rolled around.It's not particularly relevant, but I take every opportunity to point out that Quark's holosuites were shown to be far, far safer and more reliable than the holodecks on board the Federation flagship.
It's easy to speculate that a few improvements in safety were done between those two points in time :-P
It doesn't have a number, but it should. I'll talk to the Nagus about it the next time I see him.
anyone else suspect that the "Pleasure Goddess of Rixx" series of Holoprogams was created by Daimon Tog after his abduction of Lwaxana Troi in 2366?
Could be about Captain Rixx.