#419
"I love the holodeck episodes. They provide such insight into the characters in a generally-guilt-free environment. Janeway dating (and modifying!) a hologram character to deal with loneliness and isolation while Tom Paris is programming cow pranks. Data being called a machine and emotionless, juxtaposed with all his curious compassion against the shallow, murderous Moriarty. The ST: Enterprise crew experiencing the sudden joy of holographic nature scenes after spending years in cramped quarters, alone in space! O'Brien dislocating his arms in repeated white water kayaking holoprograms he does to relax from being the Chief of Engineering while Quark won't stop suggesting kinky orgy programs to every character that walks onto the station.
Whether it's a setting for stakes-free moral quandries, a proxy for sexual experimentation, or a zany story about having aliens from another dimension accessing our world through the holodeck, I love holodeck episodes, no matter how bad. Yes, that one. And the other one, too."
