Star Trek Object

[Proteus_MST]

I remember the thing about Wesley.
And it sounds like an able hacker could do everything with you while you´re in the buffer.

OI mean, you get on he transporter and on the other side you suddenly discover that you now have the body of Pamela Anderson or of an Orc, just because one colleague of you was at the transporter controls and played a practical joke on you

[Patroklos]

So what red shirt has to clean the holodeck when your done?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Patroklos
So what red shirt has to clean the holodeck when your done?

Well at least half of the mess disappears when you end the program.

[snoopy369]

According to Voyager (according to my GF), you need exoctic matter (Dilithium, she thought) to use the replicator. You can't just use any old asteroid.

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Flubber
I am sticking with the ship

Assuming that warp capable means you can get to other inhabited planets you can

1. Be a god to some more primitive group
2. Hopefully visit a planet with attitudes like Risa
3. Experiment sexually with a variety of species ( be VERY CAREFUL with this one)
4. Obtain numberous advances beneficial to humanity
5. Obtain great wealth for yourself-- I'm thinking diamonds-- Find an uninhabited South Africa type place

I can do all of that in my holodeck, without the risks and the months of whatever crappy food you can store on your ship.

Except the beneficial to humanity thing. The holodeck only benefits me

Now give me weapons, cloaking, translators, replicators, etc on the ship and it would be a tougher choice.

[Proteus_MST]

But your Holodeck couldn´t nourish you (after all everything you eat there will be illusion)
and all the expensive clothes you have on will disappear as soon as you step outside

Not forgetting that you will get addicted to the Holodeck and will loose your job because you diodn´t go to work for months, only stepping out of the deck to order something from the chinese or pizza taxi and eating, also meaning that your shape will get rounder and rounder due to the fat food

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Garth Vader

Except the beneficial to humanity thing. The holodeck only benefits me

Well, you could rent out time in the holodeck. Then it could benefit others, while benefitting your bank account.

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
But your Holodeck couldn´t nourish you (after all everything you eat there will be illusion)
and all the expensive clothes you have on will disappear as soon as you step outside

Not forgetting that you will get addicted to the Holodeck and will loose your job because you diodn´t go to work for months, only stepping out of the deck to order something from the chinese or pizza taxi and eating, also meaning that your shape will get rounder and rounder due to the fat food

In the episodes it seemed like the holodeck could replicate food but nothing else. Either that or they really liked teasing their bodies with simulated food. If we are assuming this holodeck couldn't do that, then you couldn't totally live in there.

I guess I could rent out time while I was sleeping. As long as I could get somebody to clean it for me

[Lord Avalon]

You would think holodecks would be self-cleaning.

[snoopy369]

YAY high powered lasers.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Garth Vader


In the episodes it seemed like the holodeck could replicate food but nothing else. Either that or they really liked teasing their bodies with simulated food. If we are assuming this holodeck couldn't do that, then you couldn't totally live in there.

I guess I could rent out time while I was sleeping. As long as I could get somebody to clean it for me

Now as you mention it,
I remember at least 2 episodes where they had certain security settings deactivated, meaning that shots in the holodeck could really kill you (in one a supervillain wanted to escape from the holodeck and deactivated the settings in order to try to kill the "real" humans, in the other Picard deliberately deactivated these settings, lured some enemies into the deck and then killed them with machine pistols from a gangster simulation of Chicago in the 30s)

So the holodeck seems to be de facto more than just illusions, maybe some kind of huge replicator.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by snoopy369
YAY high powered lasers.

Or just run the Nomad program.

[Berzerker]

yup, renting out the holodeck with appropriate discounts for poor people would be good. You make enough money to quit your job and bring happiness to a bunch of people.

[SlowwHand]

A transporter.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Berzerker
yup, renting out the holodeck with appropriate discounts for poor people would be good.

Why would you do that?