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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

Considering how often a single holodeck tries to take over the ship/kill its occupants/malfunctions, the fewer the better.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

What if we use a holodeck to simulate a holodeck so that if one breaks down, they try to kill each other and leave us alone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Like a virtual machine kinda deal?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, exactly. It seems like it would be safer.

[–] apprehensively_human 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Containerized holodeck clusters.

Really this should probably be the norm anyway. Why would a holodeck require root access to any vital ship functions if all it needs to do is simulate entirely fake environments and characters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that's not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I feel like you're right, but what if we need to reverse the polarity and reroute auxiliary power to the main deflectors?

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