There Was A Time When I Knew Nothing About What I'm Writing This Post On
The holodeck is pretty cool. Better than the replicator or the phaser.
However, it completely creeps me out when one of the characters ends a program and the room goes to it's basic grid pattern. There is no way in hell I'd stand in that room without a program running.
Admit it, that room looks freaky when not in use. It could be it's representation of endless possibilities, but I'm going with sci-fi, techno sterility.
posted by Vicarious Living @ 9:25 PM
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Thank God I'm not the only one who is freaked out by the grid on the holodeck.
BUT it's not even close to as cool as the replicator, IMHO. I would LOVE to have a replicator. No more cooking dinner or snacks- just go and ASK for whatever you want and it's THERE!!!
How cool is that?(Notice I said it as in it's already here.....wishful thinking on my part but when I go talking trekie I AM there.
Show of hands... who here has uttered out loud, "Computer, end program." just to see if anything would happen?
Ha ha! I definitely have. But have you called for the arch?
I never tried calling for end program.Too scared. Imagine my horror if it actually happened...how would I find the door out of that place if it was just a grid....OMG..I'm claustrophobic people. Help Me!!!
That's another thing......what if the computer didn't END PROGRAM when you told it to? Could you just exit the room without doing that- and if you could- how do they find the door to leave?
Too complicated. Will have nightmares about this now. Thanks Cindy.
(raises hand sheepishly).
That's the most fake thing about star-trek though. You have a room where you can make anything you want happen.
Word uses it to train. Picard uses it to ride horses.
No one uses it for porn.
Just once I'd like to see someone stride in there and say "Run 15 oiled-up lesbians in a hot tub program Alpha One."
Of course, the holodeck breaks down all the time, so at least that's realistic. Do you think Geordie has tried to convince Picard to switch from the Microsoft firmware to Mozilla's?
(I meant to say worf uses it to train, not 'word')
Aww Geez...
You know; for a while there, I wasn't sure whether I was in the right place.
Cindy found my blog and invited me into her world, and therefore all of yours, and well, I just assumed that my overwhelming geekiness would have to stay sequestered.
Until I read that post.
Let it now be known that ye hath unleashed an abomination so terrifying, so horrid, that it would destroy the mind merely to gaze upon its form...
Ahem, sorry.. too much H.P. Lovecraft. Anyways...
Sunny, to answer your question about "what if the computer didn't 'end program' when you told it to.. I refer you to Star Trek:TNG Season 2, Episode 3, "Elementary, My Dear Data" which features the crew on the holodeck with Data as Sherlock Holmes, and for a "challenge" to Data, they have the computer create an original mystery and an opponent that could defeat Data.
The very situation you describe indeed happens, as in the computer's zeal to fulfill the request create a "challenge" for Data, it creates a villian that can "break the rules" and Moriarty almost takes over the entire Enterprise.
Almost... of course. My only beef about Star Trek is that in 95% of the episodes, everything starts out fine, goes to sh*t, everyone almost dies, and then everythings fine again.
I love Star Trek:TNG, but I'm IN love with Farscape.
Damn Sci-Fi Channel and the Hensen people getting into money squabblings... (sniffle)
To coin a Simpsons Comic Book Guy phrase: Best. Sci-Fi show. Ever.
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