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Why aren't all rooms holodecks? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It just popped up in my mind.

  • You could decorate any room as you like. You don't even need to step out of it most of the times.
  • Other people can be projected inside it like Voyager's doctor.
  • Also rooms could be much smaller. They only need to be big enough a human(oid) can fit inside.
  • In emergency cases most holograms can be shut off to match increased energy demands by weapons and shields. You only really need seating/bed and a (non-exploding) console screen.
  • Much of the specialized rooms like a bar, med bay, etc. won't be needed anymore as a holodeck can imitate all of them.

It irritated me a bit that a Discovery gets fancy floating warp nacelles but holodecks are... wait, does Discovery has a holodeck? I don't remember seeing one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Wasn't there an episode in Voy? with holographic lifeforms that rebelled against their creators and lived inside a flying holodeck ship?

Yep. But the ship was just projecting the holographic lifeforms and not an entire environment. Probably used a bit less power than a full-blown, ship-wide holodeck. Life support (which seems to require a lot of power in the Trek universe) on the ship may also have been minimal since they didn't need it. It was still online, at least in certain areas, since B'Elanna was able to survive when she was shanghai'd aboard.

And there was that Insurrection movie in which a whole village was teleported into a giant holodeck ship.

Also yep. There was also a TNG episode with the whole village Worf's (human/adopted) brother was embedded into that was was stealth transported into the D's holodeck and moved to a new planet.

I'm not saying it's impossible to make every cabin a holo-suite, just that in most cases, it would seem to be impractical. i.e. Awesome, but Impractical

Edit: If you've seen PIC, they actually do make at least some of the cabins holo-suites. The cabin Picard is assigned is made up to look like a room in his chateau. I think that room is special, though (might even be the captain's quarters that Rios gave up/didn't use) since Raffi's and Rios's cabins seemed standard for a starship of that size/class. I don't think we saw any other cabins aboard La Sirena. That, or they didn't have enough cabins and just stuck Picard in the ship's holodeck lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Came here to mention La Sirena from Picard.

Hologram bridge crew with fully hologram passenger quarters, the introverts starship par excellence ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The holo-crew is a really smart idea for a solo freighter captain.