Captain Proton!!

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For some reason I thought of searching for Captain Proton (the Voyager holodeck thing) on youtube, and got some interesting results.

This one's based on Bohemian Rhapsody

And this one on Witch Queen of New Orleans

Enjoy!

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[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of one of my bugaboos about the Holodeck in Next Gen et. al. After the first time it did something like take over the Enterprise, it would be placed under guard, sealed under command orders, and modified so that the sliding doors became manually operated doors that could be blocked. I would then have every program vetted and verified and put in place manual overrides like a big red button that when pushed fired a charge that drove a non-conducting blade into the heart of the Holodeck controllers.

The Holodeck proved just how ignorant the writers for the Franchise were of how computers worked. When the Enterprise computers created Moriarty, he wasn't an independent actor, he was just an avatar for the Enterprise computers. He was the Enterprise. No wonder he could control the ship!

The number of times that thing failed would have prompted me to remove it and put in a botanical garden where it used to be. It couldn't be any more dangerous than if they used protomatter instead of holograms... hmm, maybe protomatter might be safer.

Watch the above videos. The crew members are shown to be completely separated from each other, unable to hear or interact with each other until they "enter" the same scene. Huh? That holodeck is barely 18 meters on a side, yet look at the size of Ming's throne room! How the Hell is the holodeck handling this? I can see it handling one person just fine, maybe two as long as they stay together, but three or four in different areas? What is the holodeck? A TARDIS?

Ignorance, thy name is Hollywood.

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Yup.

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I think there was one Voyager episode where they had the whole crew in the holodeck.

Start fanwanking now: With the right sort of holographic partitioning (since you can't see through holograms) and plebotinum sound proofing every person in the holodeck might be in their very own private holo-bubble, in their own personally VR world. What they think is other people, is just a VR representation of what that other person is doing in their private VR bubble. That way you could pack quite a few people into the holo-deck, and have some of them able to see what the others are doing, while others seem to be somewhere else, doing something else, out of contact. Doing that, you could stack people quite densely, even going to multiple layers, if necessary, or beaming people from one one holodeck chamber to another to make more room.

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I think it's bigger on the inside than the outside (and WHY are the Time Lords letting the Federation use that technology?)