#holodecks

[quasi-normalcy]

No Nuance: Would you be more concerned if someone made an illicit hologram of you for...

Sex

Murder

Voting ended onMay 29, 2025

[the-random-man]

I loveeeee holodeck episodes so I made this.

[exasperatedoctopus]

Holo-technology is an ethical nightmare. Lemme just magic up a person with individual thoughts and feelings to entertain myself, and then shut them off at my leisure. I’m sure this will have no real-world ramifications for me ever in my life.

We’re out here with a whole holo-village that’s gained sentience, and this is like the fifth time something like this has happened.

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#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."

[aurora-nova-fic]

Thinking about how when Troi lost her empathic powers, she said that everyone was like a holodeck projection to her.

So imagine that humans, and non-telepathic/empathic races in general, get their first experiences on holodecks and are gushing over how realistic everything is. So lifelike!

And Betazoids are just flummoxed. Is this really how non-telepaths experience the world? They think this is perfectly normal?!?!

(I think Vulcans could go either way, since they're generally touch-telepaths, so maybe as long as they weren't touching holographic people they could sort of convince themselves it was real - if they cared enough to bother, which is doubtful.)

[nx01whore]

A post, that took a long time during a total trek rewatch, of all the outfits the crew came out of the holosuits in.

[andietries]

How can they leave without a second thoughts or moral implications about the simulations at the holodecks?!?

I can’t bring myself to delete a program I made that greets you and sorts numbers because I feel a bit emotional attached to it and they don’t worry about a complex simulation that believes he has a family?!?!?

Anyways I watched the big goodbye. Why did Beverly Crusher swallowed gum? And why Data didn’t know what an outlet was? Doesn’t he plug himself to sleep or something?

[prettypinkdork]

There was a Sawbones a while back about a fairly prevalent thing called ‘the glass delusion’ in France several hundred years ago mostly among nobility where people thought they were made of glass. It ended up being something about glass having suddenly become more common in buildings so glass was just something people were thinking about. So mental illness often finds an outlet in the society in which the person exists. Some people kind of view as having been a fad but that’s kind of a common reaction whenever a mental illness gains ‘popularity’ (for lack of a better word), so I’m inclined to think these people were mentally ill and this was just the outlet their minds settled on and it makes me think that with how hyper-realistic holodecks are on Star Trek it has to be insanely common for people to believe that they’re stuck on a holodeck, even more so because there’s no definitive way to prove that you’re not and I feel like even if you’re not a person who’s going through something where such paranoia could take root their existence would have to make a lot of people anxious.